When the Mind is Willing, but the Body is Not

There are those moments in life when people have aspirations (whether daily or life-changing) which they are more than determined to achieve, but due to certain physical afflictions, it makes it nearly impossible for them to accomplish. For some, those afflictions can...

Eve: The Mother of All Living

Eve: The Mother of All Living

Mormons honor Mother Eve for the sacrifices she made, along with her husband, Adam, to bring forward the plan of salvation as laid out by our Heavenly Father in premortality. Elder John A. Widtsoe perhaps says it best when he describes the choice made in the Garden of...

The USGenWeb Project

The USGenWeb Project

Most genealogists have this in common - The excitement they feel from finding a new ancestor is so exhilarating and empowering that they want to share that feeling. Thus there are many genealogists doing volunteer work, hoping to help others find out more about their...

Sharing Talents

My daughter went with a group of her friends to sing carols at a local nursing home this evening. I appreciate her willingness to serve others in this manner. I also appreciate that not every one of us can do exactly what she is doing. Perhaps there is one girl in the...

The Gift of Charity

The Savior Himself has declared that if we wish to be recognized as His disciples we must have a love of our fellow man. If that is what He desires for us, what is this love and how do we obtain it? It is feeling the love the Savior has for each of us and returning...

Children and Christmas Traditions

Children and Christmas Traditions

During this Christmas season one particular word repeatedly pops up: tradition. Christmas traditions vary from family to family. Some have been passed down for generations while others are brand new. Righteous traditions are ones that strengthen and uplift family...

Singles: Don’t Fear Marriage

Singles: Don’t Fear Marriage

Mega-stars of today (I choose not to mention any names) have declared marriage to be old-fashioned and outdated. In one or two instances I can understand why they carry this perception. During their growing up years every experience with marriage they were exposed to...

Start Your Own Christmas Traditions

Start Your Own Christmas Traditions

It’s not the easiest thing being single during the Christmas Season. As one friend pointed out, “If I don’t have any family to visit on Christmas, or no plans with friends that day, I get these looks from people that show just how sad they are for me.” This friend has...

Easing the Transition from Teen to Adult

Easing the Transition from Teen to Adult

So you’re eighteen, you’ve graduated from high school, and now you’re an adult. Right? Not exactly. Throwing off our teenage self doesn’t automatically happen the day after we’ve left school or turned twenty. Becoming an adult is a process, sometimes painful. Yet...

Where Do My Young Children Go While I Attend Relief Society?

Where Do My Young Children Go While I Attend Relief Society?

During the time that the adults are in Sunday School and Relief Society (for women) or Priesthood (for men), children over 18 months old will be in their own classes. Children 18 months to 3 years participate in Nursery. This classroom will have a few to several...

What Should I Expect From a Relief Society Meeting?

What Should I Expect From a Relief Society Meeting?

There are three different meetings that members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints participate in during regular Sabbath observance. Sacrament Meeting is the most important meeting of all and is where we partake of the emblems of the body and blood of...

Devotionals: They’re Not Just For BYU Students

Life as a college student anywhere can be both challenging and stimulating. As a student you will have your share of positive experiences and a few painful ones. Actually, this is true of life anywhere, on a college campus and everywhere else. Hopefully, the positive...

Thoughts on Raising the Christ Child

There’s always been a part of me that’s wondered exactly what it must have been like to raise Jesus as a child. We don't have a lot of information on his childhood, or even his teens years for that matter. Matt Moody, one of the writers here at LDSBlogs, discusses...

The Nativity Story for Children

The Nativity Story for Children

We don’t have enough members in our family to put together a reenactment, but we have plenty of hands to help hold up lots of pictures. If you don’t have any on hand to help tell the story, I’d like to recommend some pictures you can print off of the official website...

The Art of Giving

The Art of Giving

During the Christmas season we are often inspired to the virtue of giving. In the midst of packages and wrapping and shiny ribbons, we desire for something more, something of more lasting value. At a time that should be all happiness and sweet memories, many of us...

Lion of the Lord

Lion of the Lord

As of late, I have begun to aspire to be called the Lioness of the Lord. I am a fierce defender of Jesus Christ, this is probably very evident by all the posts I've written on this site thus far. However, I digress, let me just show you why I admire Brigham Young so...

Mormons Believe in Testifying of Truth

Mormons Believe in Testifying of Truth

From the time Joseph Smith, Jr. began receiving revelation, as the prophet of the restoration, he kept a record. Soon, the collection of these revelations, and those added by subsequent modern day prophets, comprised the book of modern-day scripture known as the...

Music And The Spoken Word

Music And The Spoken Word

My husband was first exposed to Mormons as a young boy. He remembers that every Sunday his father would make it a point to always turn the TV on in time to catch the Music And The Spoken Word. Usually my husband would sit and watch the program with his father as there...

The Holiday Blues

Christmas is right around the corner. It is supposed to be a time of joy, peace, and happiness for everyone. It is a time to remember and reflect upon the amazing miracle of the birth of our Savior, Jesus Christ. It is a time to reopen in our hearts the glorious gift...

Preserving Old Photographs

Preserving Old Photographs

“Not one of my children has any recollection of my grandparents. If I want my children and grandchildren to know those who still live in my memory, then I must build the bridge between them. I alone am the link to the generations that stand on either side of me. It is...

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