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Theme Park Survival Guide

LDS Living - Getting In Before you can start running around the park, the first thing you'll have to do is figure out how you're going to get in. With skyrocketing ticket prices (Disneyland tickets have raised more than $15 dollars in less than 10 years), anyone could use a break, so here are a few ways to make getting in a little easier on your wallet. Buy your tickets ahead of time. A ticket line is just one more line that you can eliminate completely by buying tickets early. Online tickets are often cheaper than buying tickets at the gate, and tickets bought...

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Young Men Lesson 28: Withstanding Temptation

LDS Living - My dear brothers and sisters, both within my view and assembled throughout the world, I seek an interest in your prayers and your faith as I respond to the assignment and privilege to speak to you. I begin by expressing commendation to all of you. In this challenging world, the youth of the Church are the very best ever. The faith, the service, and the actions of our members are praiseworthy. We are a prayerful and faith-filled people, ever striving to be decent and honest. We take care of each other. We try to show love to our neighbors. However, lest...

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Young Women Lesson 28: Consecration and Sacrifice

LDS Living - There has never been a better time to live on the earth than this. These are "days never to be forgotten." 1 These are your days, and they are amazing. You are amazing! As I look into your eyes and see your shining faces, I marvel that you can be so good, so strong, and so pure in a world that is so challenging. I am reminded of a poem my grandfather used to say to me when I was about your age. He said: You don't have to tell how you live each day; You don't have to tell if...

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Lesson 28: The Word is in Christ unto Salvation

Ted L. Gibbons - Quote of the Week: "I[I mean only to] say what so many have said before: that if Joseph Smith-or anyone else, for that matter-created the Book of Mormon out of whole cloth, that to me is a far greater miracle than the proposition that he translated the book from ancient records with an endowment of divine power to do so. "Has anyone here ever tried to write anything? Have you ever, with your degrees and libraries and computers and research assistants, ever tried to write anything anyone could stand to read? "Even if you have my guess is you haven't succeeded...

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Joseph Smith Lesson 14: Words of Hope and Consolation at the Time of Death

LDS Living - I am grateful to be with you today and to draw strength from your testimonies. More than words can express, I am grateful for your kind words of support, your expressions of love, and your prayers. Today I would like to indulge in a few personal memories. I was born of goodly parents. From my father, Joseph L. Wirthlin, I learned the values of hard work and compassion. He was bishop of our ward during the Great Depression. He possessed a genuine concern for those in distress. He reached out to those in need not because it was his duty but...

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Our Advisor is Confusing Us!

Dave Ramsey - Dear Dave, We've completed the first three Baby Steps, and we're ready to start investing. Our friends recommended an advisor, and after a few meetings with him we're very confused. He seems to be pushing us toward certain things we don't understand. Is this unusual, and will things become clearer over time? Troy Dear Troy, Here's the deal on advisors - they advise, YOU make the decisions. This is very important. If this "advisor" is being really pushy or not making things understandable for you, then you need to find someone else. When you go to a financial advisor you're paying...

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Preventing Summer Brain Drain

Kim Grant - According to Sylvan Learning Center, students often forget new concepts within 24 to 48 hours after learning them unless the information is reinforced or applied immediately. And the Journal of Educational Research found that the average child loses 2.6 months of grade-level math skills alone during summer break! Everything around you can be used to reinforce critical thinking concepts. Here are a few ideas to incorporate into your summer fun that will help prevent that dreaded summer brain drain. Your child will be off to a great start come fall. Stories in Space Create a space themed room as you go...

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Joseph Smith Teachings Lesson 13: Obedience: "When the Lord Commands, Do It."

LDS Living - Most of us have thought about how to prepare for storms. We have seen and felt the suffering of women, men, and children, and of the aged and the weak, caught in hurricanes, tsunamis, wars, and droughts. One reaction is to ask, "How can I be prepared?" And there is a rush to buy and put away whatever people think they might need for the day they might face such calamities. But there is another even more important preparation we must make for tests that are certain to come to each of us. That preparation must be started far in advance...

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Young Women Lesson 27: Forgiving Ourselves

LDS Living - Children in pure faith proclaim, "We believe in God, the Eternal Father, and in His Son, Jesus Christ, and in the Holy Ghost."1 But sometimes youth and adults do not feel the power of this simple declaration. Satan is the "enemy to all righteousness";2 thus he plants doubts about the nature of the Godhead and our relationship with Them. Jesus Christ prophesied that in the last days even the very elect would be deceived.3 Consider three examples of how Lucifer is "laying traps and snares to catch the holy ones of God."4 The snare of false inadequacy. A faithful young person...

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Single Stocks and Bonds?

Dave Ramsey - Dear Dave, My father in-law swears by single stock picks and CDs. He says he'd made lots of money this way over the years. What do you think of this strategy? Norm Dear Norm, I guess that depends on what you call "lots of money." Single stocks and Certificates of Deposit - I like to call them Certificates of Depression - are not the route I'd use for investing. There are much better ways to handle your money! I don't own single stocks, and I won't suggest them as part of a good investment plan. The fact is that single stock...