You’re Not Alone
Discouragement is a tool of the adversary. It has no redeeming qualities. It serves only to perpetuate hopelessness and goes against everything rooted in the Gospel of Jesus Christ. We should be the happiest people in the world. We can be. I know we all still...
Pure Religion
This is a repost of an article previously posted on Mormonbasics.com. Yes, I'm going to talk about pure religion, but first I need to discuss a matter of semantics or words we use when we talk about religion. Most people belong to one kind of social club or another....
Family Movie Night: Holes
Please welcome our newest blogger Rachel. She will be reviewing a different movie every Monday, for Family Movie Night. Welcome to this week’s Family Movie Night. Each week I will be presenting a movie that is available on Netflix Instant Stream that you can watch...
Family
My nephew’s high school football coach was a great motivator. He used an abbreviation to rally the team together during practices and for each game. The abbreviation was F.A.M.I.L.Y. It stood for, “Forget about me. I love you.” The letters spell family—the highest and...
Researching Family Lineage: A Fun Family Activity
What do I do for fun? I search genealogical indexes for family names. When I am bored, when I have a few minutes to spare, when I am depressed; I get online and log into ancestry.com and familysearch.org and start typing in names. I am driven to find them. One thing...
Wanting To Be Like King David
I’ve never really liked King David. The king that united Israel. The king that defeated Goliath as a young boy with a slingshot and faith. The king, chosen by God, that waited patiently as Saul wanted to kill him. The king who wrote most of the psalms. I have a very...
The Furnace Of Adversity
Our character has been forged in the furnace of adversity. We know what pain feels like. We cannot change the past. However, we can choose to use these reference points as a rich resource to assist us in better understanding and connecting with people. When we use our...
“Goodbye” Doesn’t Make You A Failure
“You haven’t failed until you quit trying.”- Gordon B. Hinckley As another relationship ended this week, and as I said goodbye, President Hinckley’s counsel brings added peace to my mind. It sounds silly, but sometimes as a single adult you really hope that you have...
Getting Your Fitness Back On Track
Are you looking in the mirror or at the scale in dismay? Maybe your New Year’s resolutions fizzled out over the year or like me your routine got lost somewhere on vacation. I ache all over today from too many good workouts all in a row. I’m tired. I laugh at myself...
Growth Of My Soul
When I was in college I began collecting quotes that meant a lot to me. I began when I was at BYU Idaho and had an amazing and inspirational professor. His name is David Christensen, and he had a favorite poem. He recited it often and encouraged us all to memorize...
Answered Prayers
As I sat “studying” my scriptures the other day, hidden in my locked closet away from all the noise, I stumbled upon one of my favorite stories. Not very long, it is the account of Nephi building his boat. It is one that I have grown to love because of the lesson...
Following The Fallible – Sustain Church Leaders
The subject of how we follow the prophet is sometimes like discussing politics. You may be getting along famously until you accidentally touch on a sensitive subject and the whole conversation deteriorates into harsh words and wounded feelings. I will be covering...
Rise Up- Taking the Family History Challenge
Remember back in 2005 when President Hinckley encouraged all members to read the Book of Mormon by the end of the year? I'd like to share what has become one of my favorite memories from that time. After the Prophet's request our Utah neighborhoods, schools, many...
The Power of Hymns
It is easy, in church, to find myself singing the hymns without really giving them any thought. However, I started a project this past December that is causing me to think about the words to the hymns I sing each week. My husband bought me a keyboard because I’ve...
Staying Healthy: One Women’s Journey of Exercise and Diet
When my two sons and I took a walk on the Brigham Young University Provo campus 4,500 feet up in the mountains a couple of months ago, I found myself running out of air. As we walked from the north side of campus to the south side then back to the very tip of the...
No Exception to God’s Love
This week in a conversation with a friend it came up that the blessings of the gospel applied fully to everyone else, but not to him. Or at least that was his perception. As we talked about why he would be the exception to the rule so many thoughts flooded my mind. I...
What Do You Really Want?
Don’t talk yourself out of what you really want. If you can’t stop thinking about it, don’t stop working for it. —Dr. Steve Maraboli Most of us have dreams, or at least goals. Aiming for a specific target is good. It gives us something to work towards. We all need to...
Take A Vacation
“Take a break.” I paid eighty dollars to hear that advice. Do you know what kind of break I could have had for eighty dollars? I thought of all the reasons I couldn’t. I thought of all the hassles, costs and necessary arrangements. It just didn’t seem worth it....
Celebrate Dad
I’m going to do something this week I swore I would never do. I’m going to toot my horn. Well, not my horn exactly…dads in general. In this day of multimedia, videos portray thoughts, feelings, and sentiments better than words alone. Not sure exactly why, but I love...
I Love To See The Temple
A few weeks ago, I wrote about the Plan of Salvation. I touched on the different things we could do in our mortal life that would keep us on the “path”. Baptism, Service, Missionary Work, and Church attendance were a few examples. But there was one aspect that...
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