Elder Earl C. Tingey To Speak at Fireside
Elder Earl C. Tingey of the First Quorum of the Seventy of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (commonly known as the "Mormons") will address young adults of the Church on Sunday, January 13, 2008, at 6:00 P.M. Mountain Time. The fireside will be available...
Try, Try Again
It's been about a week since I last wrote on this topic and when I last wrote we talked about the importance of being kind to ourselves, forgiving our shortcomings and celebrating the small progress we make. Now that a week has passed and New Year resolutions are...
Duty to God Program for Deacons
The first calling in the Aaronic Priesthood is that of a Deacon in the Young Men Program. In the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, or Mormon Church, a Deacon is a young man of the age 12 and 13. If raised in the Church, he has already begun the practice of...
An Outline of the Mormon Duty to God Program
The Duty to God program is intended to help the young men of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (or Mormon Church) to achieve the purposes of the Aaronic Priesthood. There are several different areas of development to aid the young men in accomplishing...
Mormon Young Men Duty to God Program
The Duty to God program was set up several years ago as a guide for the Young Men Program (boys age 12-17) of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (also known as the Mormon Church) to help in their spiritual progression. Specifically its purpose is to...
Making Men of God
My beautiful wife and I are preparing for the birth of our first child in May. We recently found out that we will have a boy. As I ponder the responsibility of raising a son, my mind often returns to the story from the Book of Mormon about an army of two thousand...
Planning a Family Reunion
“I suppose all of us have our own favorite reason for having family reunions. In a way, they are extensions of family home evenings. Family reunions are an opportunity to gather our larger, eternal families together to learn to understand and love one another, and to...
Improving Extended Family Relationships
As a Genealogist there really are times where I feel closer to my kindred dead than to my living relatives. It’s often easy to bury myself in the discovering of facts about people I wish I had known and forget to forge deeper relationships with those in the here and...
2008 Theme: I Am a Child of God
Every year the general (worldwide) leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (otherwise known by the nickname “Mormons”) put together a theme to help bring Primary children (age 3-11) closer to Heavenly Father and Jesus. For 2008 the theme is “I Am a...
Book of Mormon Keystone of the Religion
Joseph Smith, the prophet of the restoration of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, said of the Book of Mormon during a meeting with the twelve apostles: . . . the Book of Mormon was the most correct of any book on earth, and the keystone of our religion, and a man would get...
Why Didn’t My Trials End With Baptism?
We’re promised many blessings when we join the church. Sometimes we expect that to mean that all our problems will go away if we are living properly. The scriptures show us this isn’t true. Even the Savior faced trials in His lifetime, not due to anything He did...
Young, Single Adults: Are You Dating or Just Hanging Out?
I’ve been thinking a lot lately of dating as a young, single adult, not because I am one (at least no longer single, nor as young as I used to be). It’s more because some of the young teen girls I’ve taught over the years are now becoming these young, single adults...
Firesides Inspire And Motivate
One of my fondest memories of being a Young Adult member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was attending firesides with friends. A fireside is a "meeting in which members gather for religious instruction outside of regular Sunday meetings. Firesides...
Faith, Hope and Charity
We are coming to the end of Paul’s message on charity. We’ve pondered his direction and tried to find ways to develop more charity within our lives. Now comes what is probably the most important message Paul could leave us with. Charity: “Believes all things, hopes...
The Young Women Value of Integrity
“I will have the moral courage to make my actions consistent with my knowledge of right and wrong” (Young Women Personal Progress, p.54). I have to admit it hasn’t been easy putting something together for Integrity. As a youth and member of the Young Women...
Celebrate Life
Have you ever taken a walk with a child, either to school, around the block, or just for a little saunter down the street? Have you noticed they have to stop and look at every single weed, rock, and bug you pass? While most of us as adults would rather get to our...
Changing Your Reputation
A few years before I joined the church, I mistakenly chose as friends some teenagers who were popular, but not well-behaved. I was naïve, and had no idea what they were really like. One day, at a school party, they decided to go for a “walk.” I foolishly thought...
What It Means To Be A Latter-day Saint
In the spring of 1838 Joseph Smith received a revelation that is now recorded in the Doctrine and Covenants section 115. It contained specific instructions regarding the Savior’s newly reorganized church. Included in these instructions was the official name of the...
January’s Treasures
The 13th Article of Faith of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (also known as the Mormon Church) reads: We believe in being honest, true, chaste, benevolent, virtuous, and in doing good to all men; indeed, we may say that we follow the admonition of...
Near Drownings
The Preparedness blog here at LDSBlogs.com is meant to cover all kinds of preparedness issues and topics. As I cast my mind about thinking of what might be useful to you, I am mindful of something one of the Mormon leaders recently told the general church (officially...
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