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More LDS missionaries planned for Southwest Idaho

The Idaho Statesman - At 23 and 21 years old, Colby Denton and Davis Jones introduce themselves as Elder Denton and Elder Jones. That’s traditional for young men serving as missionaries for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Both are relentlessly cheerful. Both say they wouldn’t trade their two years in the Boise Mission for anything. But that wasn’t how Jones saw his assignment at first. For young men who grow up Mormon, a mission is many things: a rite of passage, a sacred duty. But it’s also seen as the adventure of their life. That’s how it was for Jones growing up...

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Dave Says: How to Pick a Tenant

Dave Ramsey - Dear Dave, I have a townhouse I’m preparing to rent. Do you have any advice for evaluating potential tenants? Chris Dear Chris, The first thing I’d do is pull a credit bureau report. I’m not really worried about their credit score; I just want to see if they have a history of late or missed payments. Talk to some local property management firms and see who they use to pull these reports. I’d also recommend doing a background check on the potential renters. Talk to the owner of the last place they rented as well as the one before. I advise...

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What to Do When You’ve Already Pinched the Penny: 20 Helpful Hints for Raising a Family in Our Economy

Rachelle J. Christensen - Check out this hilarious video of a family that went to extremes--watering down milk, making fake offbrand clothes ("Hoolister," anyone?), bathing with their clothes to clean both at the same time and save on the water bill, etc.--all in the name of saving some money so they could get some nice family photos. (Learn more about Pretty Darn Funny here.) Hopefully you don't have to take canned food storage to school or work for lunch, but you may be looking for other ways to save money. Here’s a great list of ideas--some of which you might be already doing--but we hope...

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Dave Says: What to Do When You're Denied Life Insurance

Dave Ramsey - Dear Dave, My husband was recently denied term life insurance because he has a criminal record from a long time ago. The good news is that, in a year, he’ll be far enough removed from the incident that he’ll be eligible for a policy. He has a whole life policy for $75,000 from before, which he doesn’t plan to cancel. We have two small children, so is there another kind of policy he could get in the interim? Dana Dear Dana, If you can’t get term life insurance, you can’t get whole life. It’s the same underwriting process. I only recommend...

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Living Prophets Lesson 15: Gordon B. Hinckley

Rebecca K. Irvine - Get the entire FHE lesson series on "Living Prophets." Purpose: To teach family members the importance of temples Gospel Principles: Temples, house of the Lord, revelation Scripture: 1 Kgs. 9:3 Music: “High on the Mountain Top” (Hymns, no. 5), “Beauty Everywhere” (CS, 232) Lesson: For the first 150 years of the Church, temple construction was slow and purposeful. Temples were usually built only when membership in an area was able to support or sustain the number of volunteers needed to run the temple as well as provide a sufficient number of patrons. But in 1997, President Gordon B. Hinckley had the...

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"Budget Cuts" - Pretty Darn Funny Season 2 - Ep. 3

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Chicago Tribune: Re-enacting Joseph Smith's court hearings, and a look into Mormons' tolerance

Chicago Tribune - The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has, when you think about it, been a remarkably good sport when it comes to "The Book of Mormon." As that money-spinning, massively irreverent musical lampooning the Mormon religion and many of its sacred tenets enters its final weeks in Chicago, there have been no LDS pickets outside the Bank of America Theatre, no attempts to organize a boycott, no statements of condemnation nor claims of religious persecution. History shows that other religions satirized by the creators of "South Park" have not always been so generous. But the LDS church even took out...

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LDS Church Announces 2014 Curriculum

News.lds.org - Beginning on January 1, Church members worldwide will begin studying new curriculum for 2014. A link to the Instructions for Curriculum 2014 and the list of manuals for Melchizedek Priesthood, Relief Society, Primary, Sunday School, Young Men, and Young Women can be found online at lds.org/manual/2014. Digital Students and teachers are encouraged where possible to use digital versions of these materials, which can be found online at lds.org/manual and in the LDS Gospel Library mobile app. ...

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Hi, I'm not a Mormon: What life can be like for non-LDS at BYU

The Daily Universe - “You’re not just an RM, you’re an LDS RM, who’s trained at the MTC who became a DL a ZL, and an AP, who was promised long ago by his bishop through a PPI after BYC that someday he’d be the EQP. I smell GA!” Vernacular such as this from “The RM” can be confusing, but those familiar with LDS culture can appreciate its comedic value. Movies like “The RM” and “The Singles Ward” riff the idiosyncrasies of LDS culture and BYU’s student body, of which 98 percent is affiliated with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. However, for...

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Mormon Message for Youth: A Secure Anchor

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