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The Juggling Act: Balancing Womanhood and Motherhood

Connie Sokol - You can balance the roles of woman, wife, and mother by actively and daily choosing who will do what and what won’t get done. Try a few of these suggestions to decrease the stress in your life while helping your children prepare for adulthood.  Get More Done in Less Time.  Reduce your stress with EDA: Abbreviate, Delegate, and Eliminate. Consider your top three busiest to-dos—is it cleaning, laundry, carpools? Then apply each of the formula steps to create change.  Always begin with eliminate, as there’s nothing quicker than not having to do it at all. A friend of mine, fed up...

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FHE: Perspective

Shauna Gibby - Conference Talk: For more information on this topic read “Forget Me Not,” by President Dieter F. Uchtdorf, Ensign,  Nov. 2011, 120. Thought: If we spend our days waiting for fabulous roses, we could miss the beauty and wonder of the tiny forget-me-nots that are all around us. (President Dieter F. Uchtdorf, “Forget Me Not,” Ensign , Nov. 2011, 120.)  Song: “My Heavenly Father Loves Me,” Children’s Songbook, p. 229. Scripture: When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained; What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of...

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New Bible Video: The Last Supper

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Elder Christofferson meets with members in Central Europe

News.lds.org - Elder D. Todd Christofferson of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles visited members, missionaries, and investigators in Austria, the Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, and Poland during his visit to Central Europe from March 3 to 12, 2012. Also in attendance was Elder Gérald J. Caussé of the Seventy, who serves in the Europe Area Presidency. Both leaders were accompanied by their wives. Many of those who met with Elder Christofferson traveled 8 to 10 hours to get to their country’s capitals, where the meetings were held. ...

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LDS Church email reminds members to follow proxy baptism policies

Deseret News - Continuing its effort to encourage all church members to comply with established policies for the submission of names for proxy baptisms, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints sent an email Tuesday to users of its New FamilySearch genealogical website reminding them that the conditions for use of the website "require compliance to the policies before you can submit names to the temple." ...

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Provo panel recommends closing 100 South for temple

Salt Lake Tribune - The Planning Commission gave its blessing Tuesday to plans to close a street for the city’s second Mormon temple. The commission unanimously voted to recommend the Municipal Council approve vacating 100 South between University Avenue and 100 West. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints announced in February that it wanted to buy the street — and Nu Skin Enterprises’ parking deck — as part of its plans to convert the fire-gutted Provo Tabernacle into the Provo City Center Temple. ...

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Sharing stories from family history: Robert Crookston's testimony of the Prophet

Deseret News - Growing up as a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, I knew of the church's pioneer legacy and had some idea of my own pioneer ancestry, although I wasn't sure on a lot of the specifics. During family trips to Salt Lake City or church history sites in Missouri and Illinois, and later Ohio and New York, we would pass by a place and my parents were ready to share "you know you had an ancestor who …. " ...

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Pres. Uchtdorf takes VIP flight with Blue Angels

KSL - In anticipation of this weekend's "Thunder Over Utah" Air Show in St. George, the United States Navy Blue Angles hosted a few VIP riders. Among them, Dieter F. Uchtdorf, second counselor in the First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. An experienced pilot himself, for President Uchtdorf it was an opportunity to fly the skies once again. ...

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It's unjust to say LDS Church is anti-Semitic

Deseret News - One of the charges leveled in the recent controversy over vicarious baptisms for the dead is that Mormonism is anti-Semitic. Nothing could be further from the truth. Latter-day Saints are, for example, the only religious group of which I'm aware whose canonical scripture expressly denounces anti-Jewish bigotry. ...

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Following in Romney's footsteps: A Mormon missionary in France

FRANCE 24 - At age 19, Mormon men typically leave home to do voluntary mission work for two years. France24.com caught up with one young Mormon, Taylor Johnsnon (pictured), who is doing his mission in France, as Mitt Romney did nearly 50 years ago. Taylor Johnson is a 20-year-old Mormon from Orem, Utah, currently doing two years of volunteer missionary work in France, as per Mormon tradition. First placed in Vannes (in the Western coastal region of Brittany) and then closer to Paris (in Torcy and Antony), Johnson had never previously met the other Mormon missionaries – an international group including other Americans, French,...