by Ashley Dewey | Dec 31, 2016 | Ashley Dewey: Single Life
Sometimes the Lord gives us interesting trials to help us learn important lessons. This week I have been blessed to have a nasty bacterial infection all across the bottom half of my face. Dry skin peeling from your face is not the most attractive feature a person can...
by Walter Penning | Dec 30, 2016 | Walter Penning: Arise and Be Men
Maybe I can’t or don’t want to. Perhaps I can, but I shouldn’t. Either way, I will make the right decision and do it for Him. Perhaps that is the only legitimate reason you can come up with at the time. When I was a young man, a boy really, I...
by Britt Kelly | Dec 29, 2016 | Britt Kelly: Learning at Home
When John the Baptist died, Jesus left on a ship to a “desert place apart” (Matthew 14:13). He sought time and space to mourn a friend. Yet he was followed by a large group of people. When he saw them he healed their sick and taught them all day long. At evening He...
by Terrie Lynn Bittner | Dec 27, 2016 | Discipleship: Follow the Savior
When Mary learned she was to have a divine Son, she was instructed to name him Jesus. Long before Mary knew He was to be her child, however, the Savior had been given many names—Jehovah, the Lamb of God, the Savior, the Redeemer, Jesus Christ. In His lifetime, He...
by Delisa Hargrove | Dec 26, 2016 | Delisa Hargrove: Applying Gospel Principles
The 46-foot statue of Mary on a 26-foot base atop Cerro San Cristóbal stands prominently visible from just about everywhere in Santiago. As I stood at the base of the beautiful, white statue, I wondered again about Mary’s life. Was her pregnancy difficult? Did she...
by Ashley Dewey | Dec 25, 2016 | Ashley Dewey: Single Life
What shall we give to the Babe in the manger? What shall we offer the Child in the stall? Incense and spices and gold we’ve aplenty, are these the gifts of the King of us all? What shall we give to the Boy in the temple? What shall we offer the Man by the sea?...
by Valerie Steimle | Dec 24, 2016 | Valerie Steimle: Strengthening Families
We are bombarded by many Christmas messages from Thanksgiving to December 25th. Some messages promote store sales for buying gifts for others and some messages promote the “reason for the season,” remembering our Savior Jesus Christ and His birth. I wanted to...
by Jane Thurston | Dec 23, 2016 | Jane Thurston: Down Syndrome Days
At Christmastime, we remember the reason for all the world’s joy. And celebrate the day He became a small boy. In our church a person’s membership record includes the date he or she was baptized. I’ll never forget the moment I laid eyes on my Down syndrome...
by Valerie Steimle | Dec 22, 2016 | Valerie Steimle: Strengthening Families
During the Christmas season we often think of Mary the mother of Jesus who was the special handmaiden who brought our Savior into the world. We are thankful for her sacrifice as we wouldn’t have had Jesus if it weren’t for Mary. But there were other women on the scene...
by Walter Penning | Dec 21, 2016 | Walter Penning: Arise and Be Men
When I was a small boy in primary, we sang songs about going on our way to grandmother’s house and Give Said the Little Stream. I remember these songs fondly and still carry the tunes and words in my mind many years later. Since I lived in southern Utah as a...
