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9 Book of Mormon-Themed Games Your Family Will Love

LDS Living Staff - Does your family love playing games together? Are you looking for some new family home evening activity ideas? Check out these entertaining and unique Book of Mormon-themed games, which will help your family to better understand scripture stories while also having fun together! Book of Mormon: Big Dig Game The scriptures are full of treasures and artifacts, and now it's your job to find them! In Book of Mormon: Big Dig , set out on the ultimate archaeological hunt across 20 Book of Mormon locations, from Zarahemla to the Hill Cumorah and more! Roll the dice and choose which direction you'll...

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Returned Missionaries Star in Popular Discovery Channel Reality TV Show "Diesel Brothers"

Madeleine Tolk - LDS entrepreneurs David Sparks and David Kiley are not exactly what you might think of as stereotypical returned missionaries. Better known as "Heavy D" and "Diesel Dave," these two friends own and operate DieselSellerz—the world's largest marketplace related to anything diesel. In January 2016, Discovery Channel aired the hit reality TV show, Diesel Brothers , which highlights the friends' custom vehicle builds, crazy stunts, and elaborate pranks. It's almost time. New epsiodes begin Mon Jan 16th at 10|9c. #diesel #trucks #dieselbrothers #stunts #pickup A post shared by Diesel Brothers (@diesel.brothers) on Jan 10, 2017 at 10:55am PST "Heavy D" and "Diesel...

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Motherhood Stretches Us to the Point of Really Needing God

Mormon Woman - "Motherhood matters in ways that I think our mortal selves can’t really comprehend. It’s not just for the joy that can be there, but for the challenge of it all that stretches us to the point of really needing God." I love my children with a fierceness that hurts. My oldest just graduated high school, and my momma heart hardly knows how to wrap itself around the fact that my babies are leaving our nest. There is nothing in the world except my connection with God that brings me more deep joy than being a mom. But just yesterday, I saw...

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What We Can Learn from Lucy Mack Smith About Enduring to the End

Susan Evans McCloud, excerpted from "Stories of Lucy Mack Smith: Mother of the Restoration" - The following is an excerpt from Stories of Lucy Mack Smith: Mother of the Restoration by Susan Evans McCloud. After the martyrdom of Joseph and Hyrum Smith, the Saints were, as Lucy Mack Smith says , “in a state of gloomy suspense.” What would the actions of the mob be now? And what were the Saints to do without Joseph to lead them? But Lucy had yet another personal anguish on her mind. Samuel Smith, riding alone into Carthage on the day of the martyrdom, did not realize that his two older brothers lay dead. But some of the very mobsters who...

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Sariah, Laman, Lemuel + More Actors in New Church Videos Share What It's Like Portraying Lesser-Known Characters in the Book of Mormon

Katie Lambert - Past the gravel roads, a dairy farm, and a street sign with the name Cumorah Drive near Goshen, Utah, lies something straight out of 1 Nephi—the Church's Book of Mormon video set.  As part of the Church's video series, the site in Goshen reuses the backdrop of the Jerusalem set used in the New Testament videos to portray the life of Nephi, Sam, Laman, Lemuel, Lehi, Sariah, and others in 1 Nephi 1–18, the first segment of videos.  "It just blows my mind to think Nephi is the character I'm going to play and make him relatable to the everyday person," 17-year-old Jackson VanDerwerken says,...

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One Lie About Happiness Satan Wants Us to Believe

Mormon Women Stand - “Adam fell that men might be; and men are, that they might have joy.” (2 Nephi 2:25) “Life is to be enjoyed, not just endured.” (President Gordon B. Hinckley) I recently came across an opinion that believed that enduring to the end contradicts happiness. This opinion believed that one can’t be happy while enduring; therefore, one must choose, and happiness (the world’s definition of happiness) is the better choice. Sentiments like this one are quite common today. Happiness has been redefined to meet the world’s standards. And according to the world, happiness redefined trumps following the Lord’s commandments. I’m sure that...

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How We Can Overcome Obstacles That Interfere with Our Communication with Heaven

Ted Gibbons - What an interesting look at how we can move beyond saying our prayers to genuinely praying to our Father in Heaven. Joseph Smith spoke a great deal about effective prayer. On one occasion he made this observation: “It is the first principle of the Gospel to know for a certainty the Character of God, and to know that we may converse with him as one man converses with another…” (Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, pp. 345.) That the Prophet Joseph should place on this knowledge so high a priority tells us much about the importance of our personal communication with...

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Watch: Beautiful Primary Song Medley of "A Child's Prayer" and "Faith"

LDS Living Staff - Three LDS friends recently arranged, performed, and uploaded a music video to complete a Young Women Personal Progress project for the value of Faith. The arrangement is a Primary song medley that features "A Child's Prayer" and "Faith." Both the director and composer of this beautiful piece will be leaving on missions this summer. Check out the beautiful music video below: ...

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FHE: Valuing Women

Shauna Gibby - Conference Talk: For more information on this topic read “Love Her Mother,” by Elaine S. Dalton, Ensign , Nov. 2011, 77. Thought: "Heavenly Father’s royal daughters . . . are virtuous and elect. It is my prayer that you will watch over them, strengthen them . . . and teach them to follow in the Savior’s every footstep." (Elaine S. Dalton, “Love Her Mother,” Ensign , Nov. 2011, 77) Song: “As Sisters in Zion,” Hymns , #309. Scripture: "Nevertheless neither is the man without the woman, neither the woman without the man, in the Lord." ( 1 Corinthians 11:11 ) Lesson:...

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Church Begins Filming New Book of Mormon Videos

Newsroom - Stories from the Book of Mormon are coming to life in a new live-action video series being produced by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Filming is underway in Utah on the project and is expected to take up to six years to complete. Church leaders hope the Book of Mormon visual library will bring people closer to God and Jesus Christ, help them understand the doctrines taught in this book of scripture and inspire people to live better lives. “The Book of Mormon is indeed another testament of Jesus Christ and therefore at the very center, even the...