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Faith and adventure: A patriarch leads a full life

Deseret News - Not many people would fly more than 1,500 miles for a two-hour interview with a reporter. Then again, there aren't many people who approach life like Robert "Robin" O'Brien. The spur-of-the-moment trip fit O'Brien's track record as a tenacious go-getter. This veteran of the U.S. Army and former Delta Air Lines pilot has traveled the world. He drove his motorcycle from Atlanta to the Arctic Circle on the unpaved ALCAN Highway. He served in multiple church capacities from elders quorum president to temple sealer. And that is just the beginning of his list of accomplishments. "I've had a very exciting life,"...

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Elder Bednar Instructs Members in Caribbean Area

News.lds.org - Visiting the Dominican Republic in mid-February, 2012, Elder David A. Bednar of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles brought a message of love and instruction to priesthood leaders, members, and young single adults. “You are participating in history tonight,” Elder Bednar told young single adults from the Dominican Republic and 28 other countries as he began his address to them from the pulpit of the institute building in Santo Domingo on Saturday, February 18, 2012. ...

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Portland Oregon Temple Visitors’ Center Opens

Newsroom - A new Mormon visitors’ center has been completed and is open to the public. It is located next to the Portland Oregon Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Under the direction of the First Presidency, visitors’ centers exist not only to acquaint people with the Church but also to help them understand its beliefs. The center focuses on Jesus Christ as the Savior of the world, who invites all people to come unto Him and find peace through faith in Him. It also seeks to help visitors understand how the gospel of Jesus Christ answers life’s questions...

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Apostle visits Saints in the Land of the Rising Sun

LDS Church News - Elder Dallin H. Oaks of the Quorum of the Twelve and Elder Donald L. Hallstrom of the Presidency of the Seventy spent 12 days traveling in the Asia North Area during the month of February. Stops on their itinerary included the Japan cities of Fukuoka, Kumamoto, Nagasaki, Tokyo and Sendai, as well as many coastal cities in the Tohoku area devastated by the earthquake and tsunami of March 2011. Accompanying Elder Oaks and Elder Hallstrom during their travels were their wives, Sister Kristen Oaks and Sister Diane Hallstrom. Also joining them for part of their travels were Elder Gary E. Stevenson...

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Senior missionaries bring Mormon message to Wisconsin

Wisconsin Rapids Tribune - Dan and Marie Wilkes are not your typical Mormon missionaries. Many Mormons, especially young men, travel to a new community for a year or two of service and proselytizing when they're in their late teens or early 20s. The couple, married 46 years, with four daughters and 10 grandkids, never got the chance when they were young — despite a lifelong membership in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS for short, though members commonly refer to themselves as "Mormons," after the testament they follow alongside the Bible.) ...

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Official Church Statement: 'All are alike unto God'

LDS Church News - Following is an official statement released by the Church on Feb. 29 titled, "The Church and Race: 'All Are Alike Unto God.' " The gospel of Jesus Christ is for everyone. The Book of Mormon states, "black and white, bond and free, male and female; … all are alike unto God" (2 Nephi 26:33). This is the Church's official teaching. ...

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First Presidency letter: Names submitted for temple ordinances

LDS Church News - The following letter from the First Presidency was mailed to priesthood leaders Feb. 29, 2012, with directions that it is to be read to members during sacrament meeting. Dear Brothers and Sisters: We would like to reiterate the policies first stated in 1995 concerning the submission of names for proxy temple ordinances: ...

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First Presidency Letter: Church asks members to understand policies

LDS Church News - Church leaders are asking Latter-day Saints to learn and better understand the Church's family history policies on submitting names for temple ordinances. The conditions of use for the New.FamilySearch.org website were set in place "for reasons of common sense, reasons of doctrine and reasons of respect," said Dennis C. Brimhall, managing director of the Church's Family History Department. ...

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Mormons need not be such a mystery

Cinncinati Enquirer - Spencer Daems, 9, spends three hours every Sunday morning in Sunday School classes and worship services. He spends 10 minutes every day studying scripture. He sets aside 10 percent of his chore money as a tithe to his church and saves 40 percent for college and the mission work he will undertake as a young adult. ...

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Inside One Mormon Family: Raising Faithful Children

Patheos - A couple of recent articles have Mormons thinking about best practices in teaching our children church history and doctrine, and in particular whether we should deliberately acquaint them with the most challenging issues in Mormon experience—issues like historical polygamy, for instance, that are largely absent from official church discourse. Like other observers, I would welcome a more open approach from the Church itself, and that may be coming. But in my experience there's a lot more to a successful inoculation than the institutional pedagogy children encounter at church. Everyday family life fosters or hinders a child's spiritual growth than any Sunday...