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Dave Says: Business and Friendship

Dave Ramsey - Dear Dave, I’m about to buy my first home. My plan is to buy a duplex and rent out the other side to help pay down the mortgage quickly. A friend of mine wants to be my renter, but I’m worried that this could jeopardize our friendship. What do you think? Jerry Dear Jerry, This can work, but the odds aren’t in your favor. When you do business with friends you always face the risk of running into a situation that can damage the relationship. Does this mean you can never do business with friends? Of course not. I do a...

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{Food Dish} Ultimate Guide: Ridiculously Cute Christmas Foods

Kaela Worthen Gardner - I'm really good at making food taste good. What I'm not so good at is making it look pretty. I also happen to be a Pinterest addict, which means I get almost all of my food inspiration from my visual pinboard cookbook. The results usually go something like this: (Thank you, Pinterest, for illustrating my life so well for me.) However, that doesn't mean I can't still enjoy looking at pretty food and wishing I had such skills. And since I know some of you do actually have such skills, I'm going to share with you some of my favorite finds,...

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The Christmas Spirit

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A call for the creative: new LDS website invites sharing of talents

LDS Church News - The Creation is something God's children have marveled about for thousands of years. Animals, flowers, mountains, oceans, starry skies and people have inspired video, music, art, writing and photography. Every child of God is given talents and encouraged to share and develop them. In the 2008 semiannual general conference, President Uchtdorf, second counselor in the First Presidency said, "Creation brings deep satisfaction and fulfillment. We develop ourselves and others when we take unorganized matter into our hands and mold it into something of beauty. … The more you trust and rely upon the Spirit, the greater your capacity to create. That...

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Mitt Romney's speech about Boston temple

Deseret News - (Editor's note: on Oct. 8, 1996, Mitt Romney spoke to the zoning board of Belmont, Mass., in favor of allowing the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to proceed with plans for building a temple in the Boston suburb of Belmont that would include a 139-foot-tall steeple. Below are Romney's words from that occasion, according to an official Belmont document obtained by the Los Angeles Times.) ...

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'Follow the Star' living nativity in California marks 250th historic performance

Deseret News - Sunday, Dec. 4, marked the 250th performance of the 14th annual “Follow the Star" Living Nativity, a community Christmas pageant in Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif., sponsored by the Santa Margarita stake of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The performance is a living re-creation of the events leading up to the birth of Jesus Christ as recorded in the Bible. Live actors, a professional set and even live animals bring the audience back to that “little town of Bethlehem.” ...

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LDS missionaries making headlines

Deseret News - Three native American siblings will serve full-time missions for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints at the same time, starting in December. Siblings Jarom, Sariah and Moroni Harlan, members of the church from Macy, Neb., have all received their mission calls, according to an article by John Quinlan of the Sioux City Journal. ...

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Nathan Gunn brings 'unmistakable star power' to Christmas concerts

Deseret News - When Nathan Gunn steps on stage as a soloist during the Christmas with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square concerts, it will not be his first performance with the choir. In 1999 Gunn sang Brahms’ “German Requiem” with the choir. But that highly acclaimed live recording was made in the choir's home, the Tabernacle on Temple Square, not the 21,000-seat LDS Conference Center. “During the previous concerts, all of the guest artists have commented on how big the hall is and how intimate it feels, so I’m determined not to,” he says with a chuckle. “Maybe I’m going to tell...

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Obituaries

LDS Church News - H. Grant Heaton, 82, who presided over the Southern Far East Mission from 1955-59, died Nov. 19, 2011, in Holladay, Utah. ...

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Teaching is not talking, it is 'observing, listening and discerning'

LDS Church News - In a recent seminar for seminary and institute teachers, Elder David A. Bednar of the Quorum of the Twelve said: "Teaching is not talking and telling. Rather, teaching is observing, listening and discerning so we then know what to say." This simple sentence is packed with meaning for each of us as gospel learners, teachers and parents. If gospel teachers see their role as covering content, they will spend most of their time "talking and telling" and little time "observing, listening and discerning." Our goal as gospel teachers is to help learners uncover the lesson inside of them rather than trying...