With more wins than any other football team in the state, the Cokeville, Wyo. high school football team clinched their 17th state championship last November. Running on a dynasty of only one losing season in the last 30 years, Cokeville shut down the Niobrara County Tigers 26-6. Their secret? Living LDS standards, according to the coaches.

Hundreds of pages of documents from the early years of Latter-day Saint history as well as helpful reference material have been added to the Joseph Smith Papers website to enable casual readers and serious scholars to read and better understand the papers of Joseph Smith.

The city approved an application Tuesday that will allow the Mormon Church to build a chapel that exceeds zoning regulations on 33rd Avenue in Flushing, much to the dismay of civic organizations and Community Board 7.The city Board of Standards and Appeals voted unanimously to approve the application, which would allow the chapel to have a larger floor area than what is allowed in the zoning code, according to the BSA.

“What the Church did to come in and help the community was incredible. . . because if they hadn’t, I can tell you thousands of people would have been put back for months and months, not only financially, but with a place to live," Astros senior vice president over corporate partnerships Matt Brand said at the June 18 game honoring Mormon Helping Hands volunteers.

Now this is the way to make education engaging for kids.

Elder M. Russell Ballard was the first apostles to write a Tweet back in May, and shortly after, the other apostles (with the exception of President Monson) joined Twitter.

In May, we held a handover for our bee project in Bulawayo. This is the project where we are helping young people who are heads of family. These young people are between the ages of 14 and 17 and have complete responsibility for their younger siblings due to the death of both parents and do not have any relatives to help. Among other donations, the Church provided wood, wire, screens and paint and the kids constructed 20 beehives. They also constructed tables and benches for their classrooms and built platforms to hold the beehives. Along with the building of the hives and physical aspects of the project, they attend training classes on the care and nature of bee keeping as well as training in starting and managing a business. The leaders in the community were invited to the handover and several people from America were in attendance. The completed hives were all placed in rows for the handover and when we lifted the lids, they had baited the interior wood slats and screens with honey and sweets, so as to entice the bees to select their hives. The next step is to take the hives and place them in several fields to start the process of luring bees to their hives. They are hoping that the bees will like the look of their hives and select them for their homes and manufacturing plant. If a queen bee doesn’t select their hives within a few weeks, then there are places to purchase bees. Who knew?

When I arrived at my little flat in Lilongwe, Malawi as a new missionary with new shoes and a fresh-out-of-the-MTC-let’s-get-to-work attitude, I curiously peered down at the rugged, hole-strewn shoes of the more experienced sisters and thought my shoes would never get to that point. I thought perhaps I was impervious to wear or I came a bit more prepared with the sturdiest shoes available.

Coming in second is not an easy place for anyone to be in. Coming close but not quite living up to expectations—it's a feeling we are all familiar with and something gymnast Shawn Johnson had to grapple with in front of the entire world as she competed in the 2008 Bejing Olympic Games.

In addition to her faith, Carrie Underwood shared the one thing that's a priority in her life: her family.