by Denise Mastrocola | Apr 30, 2016 | Denise Brandell Mastrocola- To Your Health
**Disclaimer** While the word of wisdom gives us basic guidelines for health, it leaves the interpretation of those guideline up to the individual members. This blog is not intended to replace your medical professional or the divine revelation of the Word of Wisdom,...
by Nicolette Alger | Apr 29, 2016 | Discipleship: Follow the Savior, Finding Happiness
This article was previously published on faithfamilyandfinance.com. Is debt bad? Leverage debt, use debt, debt is bad, debt is good, debt is a tool, etc., etc. Some financial gurus tell us “Don’t borrow, debt is bad.” Others tell us to leverage our debt. Some say...
by Jane Thurston | Apr 28, 2016 | Jane Thurston: Down Syndrome Days
Traveling in the car with my college age son who was home on a break, we passed a friend going in the opposite direction. I’d been catching him up on folks and so I mentioned some of the things she had been going through in the last couple of years. I said “She has a...
by Walter Penning | Apr 27, 2016 | Walter Penning: Arise and Be Men
My wife and I taught the 13 and 14-year-old class a short time ago—Maddy and Tristan and Eliza and Shaun, two Sydnees and Josh and Trevor. We heard a story about a Sunday School teacher that told each student “I love you” every week. We adopted that strategy and our...
by Kelly P. Merrill | Apr 26, 2016 | Kelly P. Merrill: Prophets and Their Teachings
Sometimes we look at someone and marvel at how much faith they have. Sometimes we wonder how someone can have so little faith. Faith is not like a talent where some can develop it and some cannot. It is more like a trait that anyone can develop if they are willing to...
by Rachel Wagner | Apr 25, 2016 | Home and Family
As an animation fan I love finding little gems that are much better than you expect. I can honestly say the Barbie movies fit into this category. They are easy dismiss as direct to dvd films made solely to sell toys to little girls but that is doing them a disservice....
by Terrie Lynn Bittner | Apr 24, 2016 | Terrie Lynn Bittner: Mormonism
This article was previously published on latterdaysaintwoman.com A couple of years ago I was teaching some very bright senior Primary students as a long-term sub. The new youth program, “Come, Follow Me” had just been released and we decided to try using some of those...
by Denise Mastrocola | Apr 23, 2016 | Denise Brandell Mastrocola- To Your Health
**Disclaimer** While the word of wisdom gives us basic guidelines for health, it leaves the interpretation of those guideline up to the individual members. This blog is not intended to replace your medical professional or the divine revelation of the Word of Wisdom,...
by Jen Narra | Apr 22, 2016 | Jen Narra- Living by Faith
There’s a saying that goes, “You can’t start the next chapter of your life if you keep re-reading the last one”. We all can agree on how true that is. But it seems so difficult to do just that- to keep moving forward and reading and creating...
by Delisa Hargrove | Apr 21, 2016 | Delisa Hargrove: Applying Gospel Principles
I watched the priests as they took their places at the Sacrament table. They were smiling and talking. I enjoyed their mutual friendliness. I could tell the tall one in the middle was a jokester. Everything from his mop of curly red hair to his Scooby Doo tie to...