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The Ten Virgins - Save 20%

In this beautifully illustrated volume, featuring all-new art by Simon Dewey each of the Ten Virgins from the biblical account is given an identity and an individual story. Each is portrayed with a positive quality or virtue that would be characteristic of a wise virgin. But as their stories unfold and the struggles of their daily lives are revealed, each woman makes choices that ultimately determine whether she will be one of the five who are prepared with lamps trimmed and burning at the coming of the Bridegroom.

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Operation Modesty: Ten Tips to Keep You Covered

In the late 80's, girls wore peg-legged pants and ridiculously baggy tops with shoulder pads. The biggest modesty challenge at the time was if those pegged pants were too tight. No one had trouble finding shirts that covered the midriff—we all figured that the bigger and baggier the shirt, the better.

"Instead of continuing a fruitless search, you can buy what almost works and fix it. Sometimes an alteration can be as simple as adding a panel of another fabric to raise the neckline."

Fast forward to 2007 where fashions have morphed into short shirts, low-rise pants, and tight clothing on both top and bottom. At times, dressing yourself in something you actually like and that fits properly feels like a Herculean task.

For youth, it’s even tougher—they get pressure on so many fronts to look and dress a certain way. They feel additional urgency to bend their standards “just for prom” or because “there’s nothing else out there.”

But the counsel to us is clear: “Never lower your dress standards for any occasion. Doing so sends the message that you are using your body to get attention and approval and that modesty is important only when it is convenient” (For the Strength of Youth, page 14).

What can today’s women and young women do in a marketplace where revealing clothing is the norm and modest clothing is—at best—hard to find?

Follow these ten tips to take control of your wardrobe.

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LDSLiving Magazine Jan/Feb Issue

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Six More Weeks of Winter?

The average groundhog weighs from twelve to fifteen pounds and is twenty inches long. Famous Punxsutawney Phil weighs twenty pounds and is twenty-two inches long.

Groundhogs have short ears, a short tail, and are surprisingly quick. They have exceptionally strong jaws.

Groundhogs whistle when they are alarmed. They also whistle during the springtime, the courting season.

Groundhogs are one of few animals that actually hibernate. Hibernation is not a deep sleep; rather it is a coma in which the heart hardly beats, the blood barely flows, the body temperature drops to a few degrees above freezing, and breathing almost stops.

The normal life span for a groundhog is six to eight years.

Fast Fact:
Don’t bet on it. Statistics show that Punxsutawney Phil has only been right 39% of the time.

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Daily Thought

"Whatever God requires is right, no matter what it is, although we may not see the reason thereof until all of the events transpire."

—Joseph Smith (HC, 5:135.)