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Ellen Gives LDS Woman Incredible Award: "No One Has Ever Been That Bad. I Was Crying Laughing"

LDS Living Staff - "I don't think anyone has ever played as poorly as you. I was crying laughing," Ellen DeGeneres says of Mallory Willyerd. "Instead of showing people how to play, we show people how not to play using you as an example." After we ran a compilation of our favorite moments with Mormons on the Ellen DeGeneres show , Kim Willis wrote in letting us know about when she and her sister appeared on the show, and it was too hilarious not to share. Willis's sister, Mallory Millyerd, appeared on the Ellen DeGeneres show back in 2015 when she competed in the game Sorry...

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Why Everyone Loves This LDS Dad's Perfect Response to 6-Year-Old Daughter's Accident

Katie Lambert - Few things are as mortifying as having an accident at school, as Ben Sowards's 6-year-old daughter had the misfortune of finding out. Ben's wife, Connie Sowards, told him about the accident after his daughter had called home crying and asked to go home. A father of 11 children, four of whom were adopted into the family on Monday, Ben told Buzzfeed ,  "My heart kind of just broke," when he found out one of his daughters was in such distress. But rather than become simply sympathetic, Ben, an LDS artist and professor at Southern Utah University, decided to pick up his daughter...

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First Presidency Announces 8 New Mission Presidents

LDS.org - From Tahiti to Mozambique and Michigan to Ecuador, the First Presidency has called eight new mission presidents to serve around the world. Ecuador Guayaquil North Mission Angel Herberth Alarcón Villar, 49, and Rosa Luz Zavala de Alarcón, four children, Pro Ward, Lima Perú Los Olivos Stake: Ecuador Guayaquil North Mission, succeeding President William J. Riggins and Sister Bonnie L. Riggins. Brother Alarcón serves as an Area Seventy and is a former stake president, stake presidency counselor, bishopric counselor, and stake Young Men presidency counselor. Area operations and maintenance manager, Corporation of the Presiding Bishop. Born in Huamanga, Peru, to Armando Alarcón...

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Utah Woman Injured in London Terrorist Attack Returns Home

LDS Living Staff - Melissa Cochran is returning home to Utah nearly a month after a deadly terrorist attack that left five people dead, including her husband.  According to the Deseret News , Cochran's brother, Clint Payne, said doctors approved Cochran's flight home last week and that she is healing faster than expected.  Cochran suffered a broken leg during the attack when an SUV struck a crowd that included her and her husband, Kurt Cochran, while they were on Westminster Bridge.  The couple was visiting Melissa's parents, who are temple missionaries in London, on their last day of a European trip to celebrate their 25th wedding anniversary...

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Hilarious Video: After Surgery, LDS Man Cries at the Thought of Going to Pack Meeting

LDS Living Staff - After his knee surgery, Spencer Anderson got fairly emotional at the idea of having to go to a pack meeting that night. While still under the effects of an anesthetic, Anderson shares feelings many of us may have felt on a bad day. "I don't want to go. It's the worst. It's so boring, unless it's the pinewood derby—that's okay. But the other stuff is so boring and I hate the chairs too; they're the worst. I can't even stand up because my leg hurts so I can't do the chairs," Anderson says. "I'm not sad about it. I just can't...

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"We Need Your Help": Smart Family Joins Family of Vanished Returned Missionary to Continue Search

Deseret News - Two years ago, recently returned missionary Elizabeth Salgado left classes at the Nomen Global Language Center in Provo, Utah, and no one ever saw her again. She had arrived in Provo just three weeks earlier to study English. Salgado's family is still searching for their missing daughter and sister, along with the family of Elizabeth Smart. Two years after a young woman vanished in broad daylight from Provo's quiet city center, her family is calling on Utahns not to stop looking for her. Smiling out from photos that have been continually shared since she disappeared, Elizabeth Elena Laguna-Salgado's image continues to...

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When Evil Spirits Attacked Early Missionaries in England (+ Joseph Smith's Surprising Response)

Casey Paul Griffiths, Susan Easton Black, and Mary Jane Woodger; Adapted from "What You Don't Know About the 100 Most Important Events in Church History" - Whether you’re a history buff or simply curious, you have probably collected a decent store of knowledge about important events in Church history. But no matter how well you thought you knew these stories, there are a surprising number of fascinating facts that you might have overlooked. Here is an interesting story from a time when evil spirits tried to scare missionaries in Great Britain in the early days of the Church. A Vision of Evil Spirits Early success for the missionaries in Great Britain was plentiful, but opposition to the work also began to increase, including direct attacks by the...

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BYU Cast Pulls Off Most Epic Flash Mob Proposal

Utah Valley 360 - What a creative proposal! Disney has played an important role in Andrew Justvig’s life. A Disney aficionado, the BYU theatre student dreams of working for the entertainment beast. He has worked for Walt Disney World. And now Disney has brought him to his fiancee, Carrie Ostler. And their romance is a Disney movie in the making. The “once upon a time” started in January while the “happily ever after” began on April 10, 2017 when Justvig proposed and Ostler said yes. Justvig and Ostler met at South End Market, just south of the BYU campus, where Justvig asked Ostler to help...

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"You Will Never Give Birth": The Unexpectedly Hopeful Revelation One Woman Received in the Temple

Rachel J. Trotter - Hope and infertility. Two words that don’t always go together in this world. But, for one couple, hope came at the end of a long struggle with the dark cloud of infertility. And for them, it brought with it peace and a strengthened testimony of Jesus Christ and the hope He gives to all who seek it. It was the kind of hope that gave Sally and Ryan Paskins new life, literally and figuratively. Sally lives just a couple of blocks away from me and I have known her for a few years, but I went to high school with her husband,...

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Gain New Insights Into the Book of Mormon

Troy J. Smith (Sponsored) - GAIN NEW INSIGHTS INTO THE BOOK OF MORMON! EXPERIENCE AN ENLIGHTENING AND INSPIRATIONAL JOURNEY THROUGH NEPHITE HISTORY! EXPLORE THE VARIOUS RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN BOOK OF MORMON CULTURES! TRAVERSE THE LANDS OF THE NEPHITE WORLD! The War Against Christianity , History and Geography of Ancient America in the Book of Mormon—600-51 BC ( Deseret Book , Seagull Book, BYU Book, Barnes & Noble and various online sites: $18.99) is the first book of a four-book series that closely examines Nephite history and geography, as contained in the Book of Mormon.  As described by Kent Ponder for the Association for Mormon Letters, this book...