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Avoiding Church Won't Help Your Anxiety: 3 Crucial Things Mormons with Anxiety Need to Understand

Kari Ferguson - We’ve all felt it—the nervousness, stress, and worry that come with anxiety. Anxiety, after all, is a normal and expected human emotion. In fact, it has become instinctual for us to avoid things that make us feel unsafe or uncomfortable. Evolutionarily, this instinct has protected us from danger and harm. But for some of us, anxiety becomes more than a warning signal of danger or a side effect of a worrisome situation. When anxiety becomes debilitating, unbearable, and begins to affect the way we live our day to day life, it has shifted from a normal human emotion to a mental...

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3 Favorite Conference Recipes from Six Sisters' Stuff

Six Sisters' Stuff - There's something so special about October general conference. It's the beginning of fall, our favorite season, and it holds so many sweet memories for our family. Most of the traditions we shared over these weekends growing up have carried on into our own families, and some we still make sure we do together.  We would wake up every Saturday morning to our mom making batch after batch of her homemade caramel popcorn. It made our whole house smell like delicious caramel. I will always remember sitting around the counter, listening to General Conference, and watching our mom make her famous popcorn. As soon...

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LDS Church Donates Over $11 Mill. to Save Victims of Famine in Africa, Middle East

Newsroom - “Our hearts are filled with compassion … for the many of God’s children who suffer from lack of daily sustenance and who therefore cope with the devastating effects of hunger and malnutrition. … We invite people everywhere to open their hearts and minds to this growing need and make resources available to the effort of eliminating hunger where they live,” said the First Presidency. Mormons are providing an additional $11 million in assistance for victims of famine in eight countries in Africa and the Middle East. The humanitarian effort was recently approved by the First Presidency of The Church of Jesus...

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LDS Missionary Shares the Gospel Through Graffiti

Kaeley Scruggs - One mission in St. Louis is learning to share the gospel in a colorful way. Elder Burgoyne and his companion, Elder Mcintyre, received permission from their mission president to participate in the annual Paint Louis Festival, a yearly art festival held in St. Louis, Missouri. The festival was created back in 1995 by a group of friends who had a love of graffiti. At one point it had more than 300 artists and 1,000 visitors. Elder Burgoyne has been making artwork using paper cutting and stencils even before his mission. But this mural in the festival is the largest piece of...

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LDS Small-Business Owners Become Finalists in National Competition

LDS Living Staff - LDS couple Kristin and Jared Fitzgerald of Nashville, Tennessee, are both woodworkers and small business owners. And they’re in the running to win a national competition. Kristin entered the contest, “The Right Van for the Job” earlier this year, but forgot about it because their business keeps both Kristin and Jared very busy. Neither expected they would be selected as a top four finalist (out of tens of thousands) and that they would eventually be heading to Palm Springs, California, to attend the Inc. 5000 Conference. “It has been an amazing experience to see so many friends and family taking time to...

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Peruvian President Asks to Meet with LDS Apostle

Deseret News - What a positive example of the influence the LDS Church, its service, and its leaders have around the world. It’s not unusual for visiting General Authorities to request a meeting with a nation’s president or other prominent civic leaders. But when Elder Dallin H. Oaks of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles recently visited the Peruvian capital, it was President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski who asked for time together. “The [Peruvian] president asked for a meeting with us to express his personal appreciation to a senior [LDS] leader for the help the Church provided during the floods in Peru last spring,” he...

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How a Friend at Divinity School Taught Me God Truly Is Incomprehensible (and Why That's a Good Thing)

Dr. Taylor Halverson - Some years ago while I was in graduate school, I had a conversation with a friend over lunch that taught me truths about God that I had formerly misunderstood. My friend and I were discussing faith in God. Drawing from statements based on truths endorsed by Joseph Smith via the Lectures on Faith ( see more at Lecture 3 of Lectures on Faith ), I expressed my belief that if we seek to have true faith in God we must have accurate ideas about the characteristics of God. The more clear and truthful our understanding of God is, the more powerful...

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The Most-Referenced Scripture Verse from the Last 19 General Conferences

Utah Valley 360 - What verses of scripture do the prophets and Church leaders reference the most? This list gives us incredible insights into what we should be focusing on as members of the Church. To prepare for general conference, UtahValley360.com looked at the general conference sessions since President Thomas S. Monson became the president of the LDS Church, April 2008 – April 2017. Notating each verse by how many times it has been used, this is the most-reference verse of each session of conference. April 2017 Moses 1:39 – “For behold, this is my work and my glory—to bring to pass the immortality and...

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Mormons Share Hilarious Stories of the Bizarre Things Their Kids Have Actually Prayed For

LDS Living Staff - Kids say the darndest things, and during prayer is no exception. In their innocence they sometimes can pray for unorthadox blessings. From avoiding bedtime to praying "this food will taste better than it looks," you're sure to get a laugh out of these adorable stories. Closing prayer at a girls camp first aid meeting "..please bless that we won't ever have to use anything we learned here tonight!" 😄 — Viki Bailey (@VikiAnnBailey) September 18, 2017 My 5yo prayed that I'd take him to the planetarium the next day after we had already discussed that it wasn't happening, lol. — Mia...

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Artist Recreates Golden Plates for Church Display (+ What It Taught Him About the Book of Mormon)

Deseret News - What an amazing undertaking. Each engraved plate took five hours to create. Imagine the challenge of creating a copy of something you can’t see. But that’s what silversmith Gordon Andrus did in late 2014 when the Church History Museum commissioned him to create a copy of the golden plates from which the Book of Mormon was translated. “Instead of the visual artifact of the golden plates, our curators were able to provide Gordon with several statements of description by eyewitnesses, which are fairly general in nature, and some of which are conflicting,” said his wife, Maryanne, who is supervisor for exhibitions...