Why Andy Reid says conducting the Tabernacle Choir was one of the highlights of his life

When the coast-to-coast telegraph was completed in Salt Lake City in October 1861, Brigham Young sent a clear signal to President Abraham Lincoln: “Utah has not seceded but is firm for the Constitution and laws of our once happy country.” Less than eight years later, on May 10, 1869, hundreds gathered at Promontory, Utah, to witness another coast-to-coast completion. The driving of the last spike of the transcontinental railroad reverberated continuity to a once broken nation.1

Having grown up in the Church, as an adult Brooke began to question her beliefs, drifting away from the faith of her childhood. "For seven years I put my faith on a shelf, and I didn't touch it. I didn't think about it," she explains in a new LDS Living Converted Unto the Lord video.

For much of her life, Brittany Fisher was a cross-country athlete whose identity was tied to physical activity and competition, but after an 80 to 100-foot fall while repelling left her paralyzed from the waist down in 2012, Fisher was forced to ask herself:

In A. J. Russell's iconic photograph of the celebration following the driving of the golden spike, Samuel S. Montague, chief engineer of the Central Pacific Railroad, is shaking hands with Grenville M. Dodge, chief engineer of the Union Pacific Railroad. Somewhere in the crowd is Leland Stanford, who first missed and then tapped the golden spike into a pre-drilled hole in a special railroad tie made of polished California laurel.

Everyone will experience death, but what happens after we leave our mortal lives behind? Do we live again? What does that life look like?

For Mother's Day, the Church has released an uplifting message for mothers everywhere. "You are loved, exactly the way you are," a new Church video states. "You are a child of God."

At first, I didn’t really understand that she was slowly slipping away. My father had died suddenly just as he was turning 65. He had been the stabilizing influence in our family, and without him, I remember feeling as though I was trying to balance my life on a two-legged stool. In addition, after he died I became aware of how much he had encouraged and supported our mother. He was the one who calmed her when she was anxious or fearful.

News outlets across California have been reporting on the Oakland California Temple open house, a house of the Lord the East Bay Times notes "might be the city’s most recognizable house of worship."

A Latter-day Saint teen was shot twice while helping fellow students subdue a gunman in Tuesday’s school shooting in Highlands Ranch, Colorado.