Why I’m so grateful someone pushed through awkwardness to serve

Retirement can be difficult to navigate—planning when to retire and making sure you’ll have enough money are just the tip of the iceberg. Meet key deadlines and avoid penalties to maximize your retirement benefits. Here are important milestones to add to your plan:

Drs. Gregggory DeVore, and Douglas Pratt, two of the founders of 4everMints, wanted to develop a long-lasting breath mint unique to the Mormon culture to combat bad breath associated with those who work in close contact with individuals such as temple workers, missionaries, and ecclesiastical leaders.

Pioneer magazine—the official publication of the National Society of the Sons of Utah Pioneers—is one of the oldest continually-published periodicals in the state of Utah. Now in its eighty-sixth year of publication, Pioneer was inaugurated in June 1936 as the self-published newsmagazine and “official organ of the Sons of Utah Pioneers.”

How do you hold true to the doctrine of Jesus Christ while trying to love those who believe differently than you do? Elder Soares has some advice.

Cotopaxi’s eyepopping color-blocked jacket and “ugly-cute” slippers are favorites of CNN’s editors this month. Find out how the company’s Latter-day Saint founder created the company to make good on a promise he made to himself as a boy growing up in Latin America.

General Church leaders addressed members in Utah, Canada, and Papua New Guinea this week and shared inspiring messages on social media. Here are some highlights from the pulpit from the last few days.

All three men shared emotion-filled stories and testimonies as they’ve visited the land where they had so many powerful witnesses to the truth of the gospel and where their spiritual roots began to deepen as young men.

150 Latter-day Saint youth and leaders will be wearing the standard pioneer bonnets, bandannas, and wide-brimmed hats and pulling the usual handcarts. But the location of this trek perhaps isn’t what first comes to mind: it's a 5,000-acre Church-owned farm in Argentina.

The opportunities for senior missionaries are vast, and more missionaries are needed. Still, there are a lot of misconceptions about this important volunteer work.