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(Sponsored) Guidelines to Building Your Credit Score

Sharon Cook - Your credit score is a snapshot of your current financial situation, providing creditors important information on your ability to keep up with payments and bills. Developing a good credit history can save you money and provide you with better financial opportunities. Your guide to building a better credit score: Know and manage your credit score: This will give you a plan to improve or maintain your score. Review your credit report quarterly for accuracy. Visit the Experian, TransUnion and Equifax websites for more information. You can also review your credit report for free annually at annualcreditreport.com. Pay on time: Delinquent payments...

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Infographic: How Missionary Work and Missions Have Changed Over the Last 10 Years

Malary Marshall - Did you know that, as of December 31, 2016, the LDS Church had 421 missions and 70,946 LDS missionaries in the field? Of course you do, because every April general conference the Secretary of the First Presidency reads the LDS Church’s annual statistical report from the prior year. However, standing alone, statistical reports can be pretty dry without the right context. It may be interesting because we all love to hear numbers, but ultimately it doesn’t tell us everything we need to know to fully understand the meaning of the numbers read. When you put it in some context, though, suddenly...

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(Sponsored) Count the Ways an Accounting Certificate Could Improve Your Life

LDS Business College - Chances are, you work hard to differentiate yourself at work. You’re dependable. You’re a good team player. Heck, you’re probably the coolest person on the team. But sometimes bosses don’t distribute Miss or Mister Congeniality awards. Sometimes, specific accomplishments or certifications are the best, fastest way to recognition. And that recognition could come in the form of a much needed and wanted raise. Perhaps you are in a bind in your life, in a dead-end job or a major life-changing event that has become an added pressure in your already busy life. If you are looking for a step up, more...

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4 Reasons Mormons Are Always Late

Kelsey Berteaux and Danielle B. Wagner - No matter where you live around the globe, as a Latter-day Saint, you probably know someone who runs on MST. No, I’m not talking “Mountain Standard Time” (which is actually the time zone of Church Headquarters in Salt Lake City, Utah). I’m talking “Mormon Standard Time,” the apparent tendency for some members to arrive late to almost any church function or family event, from sacrament meeting to mutual and more.    Having lived in seven different states and seen this phenomenon in every single one of them, I feel confident in saying this: those who make a habit of running on...

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Elder Oaks, Ballard Tackle Pornography, Doubts in the Church, Homosexuality + Other Tough Topics in Face to Face Broadcast

Deseret News - “We send our love across the oceans, the mountains and the electronics to all the world,” said Elder Oaks. How can I stand up for my standards without offending those who don’t have the same views? How can I differentiate between the Holy Ghost and my own thoughts and feelings? How can I deal with doubts when faced with tough questions from Church history? These are a few of the 16 questions submitted from young people from around the Church and answered by Elder Dallin H. Oaks and Elder M. Russell Ballard of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles Sunday evening,...

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What Is It Like to Be a Mormon in the Largest Muslim Nation? Members Share Their Insights

Salt Lake Tribune - In Indonesia, Mormons are outnumbered 35,000 to one by their Muslim neighbors. Find out what it's like living in a country where Latter-day Saints are such a minority. Mormonism is barely a speck of paint on the tableau of faith in Indonesia, the most populous Muslim nation on the planet. The LDS Church has about 7,300 members in a population that tops 260 million and includes small minorities of Hindus, Buddhists and Christians. But for second-generation Mormon Jemmy Mongan, an LDS public affairs official in Jakarta, that minuscule presence is his whole world — one that fits comfortably within an overwhelmingly...

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An "Immovable Line" to Eternity: President Uchtdorf Dedicates the Meridian Idaho Temple

Deseret News - “The house of the Lord and its values . . . stands in such a wonderful spot in our life . . . where we can focus our celestial navigation way beyond this life,” President Uchtdorf said. In the Treasure Valley in Southwest Idaho runs the Boise Principal Meridian, a longitudinal line that marks the initial point from which other measurements are governed. Established by early Idaho surveyors, the line runs true North with no variation. Like the geographical line, the Church’s 158th temple — built near the Boise Principal Meridian — has been dedicated and now stands as the fixed...

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How a Request from My Dying Father Changed How I Understand Gratitude

Debra Sansing Woods - It was early on a Sunday morning in January and the fifth-floor cancer wing of the East Texas Medical Center was uncharacteristically quiet. I had spent the night on the couch in my father’s hospital room, and before rising, I peeked through the curtains just above my makeshift bed and out into a winter wonderland—the trees and grounds glowing with freshly fallen snow. The peaceful scene before me contrasted sharply with the anxiety I felt over my father’s rapidly deteriorating condition. I crawled from beneath the covers, slipped my shoes on, and tiptoed across the floor so as not to disturb...

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LDS Missionary Dies in Samoa

LDS Living - Church spokesman Eric Hawkins released the following statement Sunday about an LDS missionary who died while serving in Samoa: “With great sadness we announce the death of one of our fulltime missionaries. Elder Aaron Ahkau Matapa Patiole, age 21, was killed when he was struck by a vehicle in Upolou, Samoa as he and his companion were walking together. Elder Patiole has been serving since December 2016 in the Samoa Apia Mission. He is from the Macarthur Australia Stake. We are grieved by his loss and extend our prayers and love to his family and loved ones. We pray they will...

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While My Husband Was Hospitalized, the Heartbreakingly Beautiful Lesson I Learned from One Word Sung in Church

Julieann Selden - This story was originally published on contemplatingcancer.com  and has been republished with permission. When my husband and I started dating, we often went to church together. I was a starry-eyed 18-year-old ready to take on the world, and Ken was just returning to college after spending two years as a missionary. We were both enthusiastic about life and eager to make friends. We were sitting together in the middle of church one day when Ken leaned over and whispered, “Look around. Everyone here is going to sing about me now.” Confused, I asked him what in the world he was talking...