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LDS Mom Gives Birth to Baby Inside Pants at Hospital Parking Lot

KSL - While in the midst of painful contractions, Shamika Hayes experienced one of the worst possible trips to the hospital. “Every single light that we hit was red. It was horrible,” she said. As if giving birth isn’t difficult enough, some women are left with no other option than to give birth wherever they are at the moment. Shamika Hayes is one of those women. Hayes gave birth to her fourth child in the parking lot of Utah Valley Hospital on July 6 after contractions started at around 4 a.m. Lead image from KSL ...

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The Perfect Thing My Husband Did When He Discovered Pornography on Our Child’s Device

N. Beth Cavanaugh - While it's important for your child to know how to act if they see pornography, it's just as important for you to know how to react when you find out they did. The summer we took our kids to a big East Coast city for a vacation, our then 11–year-old was full of tween swagger. He was mortified when handed a kids menu at restaurants and brazenly declared in the middle of crowded city streets that he would "be right back" while wandering out of our sight. As his parents, we vacillated between a desire to let him explore his independence...

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Elder Ballard Shares Touching Story of Blessing His Baby Granddaughter Before She Passed Away: “It’s All Right, Grandpa. I’ll Be Waiting for You”

LDS Living Staff - Life, death, pain, laughter, heartache, and beautiful moments of joy fill every person's experience here on this earth. None of us are exceptions, even those who serve the Lord.  As Elder M. Russell Ballard noted on Facebook: We’re on a journey. We left the spirit world. We left the presence of our Heavenly Parents. Life is not simple. It wasn’t intended to be. People think the Apostles don’t have any trials. We’ve had our problems and challenges. Years ago, a granddaughter was born with a chromosome imbalance, and we knew she would not live long. My son and I went to...

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Is Your Energy “Crashing”?

Dr. Robert Jones (Sponsored) - Emily consulted me for what she called her “personal energy crisis.” She was 39 years old, and she felt that with each passing year she was getting more tired. Some days she said she just wanted to stay in bed, but she has little ones, so she has to get up. She went to her doctor and she ran the regular tests but found nothing wrong. She refused to take the offered antidepressant and left the clinic somewhere between angry and confused. “If everything is normal, why am I so tired?” she asked me. She resorted to self-medication by drinking caffeine...

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New Church Video Shows Side of Mary's Relationship with Jesus We Don't Always Think About

LDS Living Staff - Often when we think of Mary, we think of the young woman willing to trust in God entirely and the mother willing to protect her infant son at all costs. But rarely do we think of the humility and faith Mary had to follow her Son and come to rely on Him as her Savior. "She knew more about Jesus than anyone else on earth. She knew that He was sinless. Mary knew of His extraordinary capacity to solve problems," Elder Whitney L. Clayton says. "She had unshakable confidence in Him and His divine power." Just like Mary, our lives are...

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People: Imagine Dragons, Neon Trees, + More Team Up to Help LDS Musician Save Man’s Life

People - “I was dying,” says Corey Fox. “I was on that verge, because when your kidneys are gone—you are dead.” Imagine Dragons, Neon Trees, and The Moth and The Flame teamed up to save the life of Corey Fox—a Provo, Utah, concert venue owner who helped them all get their start in the music industry. When Fox, owner of Velour Live Music Gallery, had chronic kidney failure and desperately needed a new organ, the bands took time off from their tours to throw a benefit concert in April 2016. They raised funds to assist with the transplant and venue costs during his...

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Ellen's Best Moments with Mormons: 8 Latter-day Saints Who Rocked It on the Show

Danielle B. Wagner - From viral YouTube stars to returned missionaries and famous singers to moms, many Mormons have graced the Ellen Degeneres show. Check out some of their amazing reactions and interviews: 1. Ellen Tells Mallory, "No One Has Ever Been That Bad. I Was Crying Laughing" "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." Mallory Millyerd appeared on the Ellen DeGeneres show back in 2015 when she competed in the game Sorry...

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6 LDS Siblings Make History Competing on "American Ninja Warrior"

Deseret News - What an unusual and exciting family outing! I bet you never thought of American Ninja Warrior for your next family reunion. Six out of the seven siblings in the Souter family, originally from Sandy, competed on American Ninja Warrior , which aired Monday, July 17. Only one sibling, Ryan Souter, advanced to the next round. He failed on the second to last obstacle, but only eight people completed the challenging course in Denver this year. However, he still went far enough and fast enough to qualify for the top 30 contestants who will move on to the city finals. ► You'll...

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The Strangest Prompting I've Ever Received: "Please, Let Me Have One More Day with Him"

Time Out for Women - What a sweet story of a mother's love and how the Spirit can prompt us, even in the most unconventional ways. I was pregnant with our fourth child when something strange started to happen with our family at bedtime. Every night I would carefully tuck in each of our kids. First our oldest son, then our princess, and finally our big, cheeky 18 month-old linebacker, AJ. The routine was predictable, but I found myself doing the oddest thing—as I lay AJ down to sleep, I would inexplicably say out loud, “Please let me have one more day with you.” WHAT A...

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POW Survivor, Convert: I'd Endure It All Again Just to Have the Book of Mormon

Al R. Young - Warning: This article contains some war content that might be disturbing for some readers. When my father, Alfred R. Young, was liberated from a Japanese POW camp at the end of World War II, he weighed 90 pounds—scrawny for any man, but skeletal for someone 6-feet 3-inches tall. His weight, however, was only a shadow of concern compared to his mental and emotional condition after 39 months of wartime captivity. He endured two hellship voyages; physical, mental, and emotional starvation; innumerable beatings; forced labor; disease, psychological abuse; isolation; and six months of Allied bombing raids that eventually obliterated his prison camp, devastated Tokyo and Yokohama, and...