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10 Things to Be Grateful For When Everything Seems to Be Going Wrong

Jannalee Sandau - We've all heard the phrase that when life gives us lemons, we should make lemonade. We've also all heard the story of Job in the Bible, who, despite losing all his possessions, family, health, and support from friends, trusted in the Lord and found something to be grateful for—his testimony. Often life does not go the way we planned and fate seems to be against us. But even when jobs, friends, or health fail us, there is always something in our lives that the Lord has blessed us with and that we can be grateful for. If like Job we can...

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The Thanksgiving I Decided to Turn Myself in to Jail

Jason F. Wright - On Thanksgiving night in 2008, Taylor Richards of Sandy, Utah sat in his dark car a few miles from his parents’ home. He was exhausted, cold, 25 years old and a raging alcoholic. He was also alone. This wrong kind of silent night was interrupted by a phone call from his brother Spencer. A few minutes later, they sat together in the front seat of his Subaru wagon and ate turkey and stuffing on paper plates. “I knew I needed to do something,” Richards told me during a recent interview, “but getting and staying sober and happy seemed about as likely...

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4 Important Tips to Help You Forgive Others Daily

Ganel-Lyn Condie - When we talk of forgiveness we often think of those great stories in the paper or inspiring posts on Facebook that bring us to tears. For example, the true story of the humble Amish community that responded with mercy toward the family of a man who tied up ten young girls, killing five of them and then himself. Or there’s the father in my community who just lost his son and son’s girlfriend in a head-on collision. The driver was a family friend, and the grieving father’s Facebook post of forgiveness went viral. But what about the average, every day, less-than-perfect...

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Not a Fan of Turkey? Then You'll Definitely Appreciate What the Utah Pioneers Had for Their First Thanksgiving

LDS.org - When mountain man Jim Bridger offered $1,000 for the first ear of corn grown in the Salt Lake Valley, the pioneers knew they had their work cut out for them. But through their perseverance, they were able to grow raise crops in the valley and even have enough for a Thanksgiving celebration. In 1621 the Pilgrims of Plymouth celebrated America’s first “Thanksgiving.” After months of toil and doubt, the settlers enjoyed their first harvest in a new land, rejoicing in their respite from near starvation and gaining a renewed feeling that God smiled on their efforts. For Latter-day Saints, the 1848...

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Illustrated Video Shows President Uchtdorf's Escape from East Germany & Shares One Life-Changing Lesson

LDS Living Staff - This new Church video illustrates the intense experience President Dieter F. Uchtdorf shared in his general conference talk " Your Wonderful Journey Home " as he and his mother fled East Germany. Though their journey was not easy and full of peril, President Uchtdorf shares how everyone has their own journey in life and how we can all make it safely home to our Heavenly Father when we follow Christ.  Lead image screenshot from video above ...

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Watch: LDS Missionaries Ask Strangers: What Are You Thankful for? and the Answers Are Sure to Warm Your Heart

LDS Living Staff - As Thanksgiving approaches, many are wondering if the turkey will be cooked just right. But these LDS missionaries want to know what the people in Arlington, Virginia, are most thankful for this holiday season.  Watch as these missionaries approach complete strangers and find the heartwarming answers to the question: What are you thankful for? Lead image screenshot from video above ...

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After 60 Years, LDS Convert Finally Reunited with Person Who First Taught Her About the Church

Jason F. Wright - This Thanksgiving, Martha Stevenson of Arlington, Virginia, is thankful for all the usual things. She’s got family, friends, freedom, and a roof over her head. But this year she adds one other thing to her gratitude list. "The question." The year is 1955 and the setting is a Glee Club class at Central High School in High Point, North Carolina. Class hasn’t started yet and naturally the students are squirming in their seats and doing what teenagers do best: chat. Stevenson, a senior, is sitting near her sister when a junior named Rebecca Hiatt turns to her. With a sweet Southern...

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Video: Elder Bednar Shares More About the Church's New Christmas Initiative

Danielle B. Wagner - Beginning November 25 and running through January 1, 2017, the Church will begin a Christmas campaign to help people around the world share the Light of the Savior as we celebrate His birth. “It's the Christmas season,” said Elder David A. Bednar of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. “We have lights—all kinds of lights on our houses, on our trees, on our dining tables. So if we link those wonderful traditions with the source of truth, even Christ as the source of light, it just made great sense to all of us that that would be the theme that we...

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"It Has Given Me Life" Ghanaian Man Says After Receiving Wheelchair from LDS Charities (Video)

Newsroom - It's so touching to see the ways LDS Charities is changing lives throughout the world. LDS Charities and Ghana Health Service recently conducted free week-long medical training to assist clinicians and technicians in Ghana to provide properly-fitted wheelchairs to people with mobility impairments. Needy recipients received an appropriate manual wheelchair, hand-powered trike, or walking aid, consistent with World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines. Prosthetic and orthotic centers working under Ghana Health Service, sent a total of 27 clinicians and technicians to the five-day event. The training was performed by Demoine and Joyce Findlay from Canada who are Wheelchair Specialists with LDS Charities....

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BYU Assistant Football Coach's Daughter Life Flighted After Freak In-Home Accident

KSL - We are praying for the Mahe family and their 3-year-old little girl, Elsie. Tragedy struck a member of the BYU football coaching staff Tuesday. The daughter of Cougar running backs coach Reno Mahe was taken via Life Flight to Primary Children’s Hospital in Salt Lake City following a severe accident in his Utah County home, according to a post from Mahe's Facebook page. Elsie Mahe was found hanging by a drawstring on a blinds unit at the family’s home in Utah County on Tuesday. After being administered CPR, the small child was flown to the hospital, according to a GoFundMe account...