In Japan, New Year is more celebrated than Christmas. There is no holiday for Christmas and Christmas Day is another ordinary working day.

INTRODUCTION: If I were teaching this lesson, I might begin by pouring water into several different shaped containers and asking class members to comment on what we can learn from that activity about the qualities of water. Someone will probably say that water takes the shape of its environment. If you then ask for words that describe water, you might get words like these: Flimsy, unsound, mercurial, capricious, changeable, wobbly, fickle, erratic, unreliable, undependable, vacillating, untrustworthy, variable, mutable, impermanent, unsteady, uncertain, transitory, ephemeral, inconsistent, precarious, and unstable. I am amazed at how many words the English language has to describe this rather undesirable characteristic. But this lesson will require us to think about them, because we are going to talk about three people who were much like water (one was even compared to water), and one young man who was as unlike water as it is possible to be.

The Vietnamese government has officially recognized what is known as the Interim Representative Committee of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Vietnam. This Interim Representative Committee consists of three Vietnamese Church leaders (the Hanoi district president and the two Ho Chi Minh City branch presidents). Vietnam’s government has given this Interim Representative Committee national recognized legal standing to represent the Church in Vietnam.

Most 16 year olds are focused on getting their driver license.

Whether or not you've struggled with a sexual addiction, chances are someone you love will face a challenge like this in their life. Here are some things you should know about sexual addictions and pornography use.

Though we might annoy, insult, or anger each other on occasion, there's no doubt that when times are tough, Mormons are willing to serve, they stick together, and they will be there to support you through anything.

On Thanksgiving Day, elders and sisters at missionary training centers around the world feasted spiritually on words of counsel from an Apostle and his wife. Later that day, at the Provo MTC, missionaries helped nourish others physically as they packed ingredients for 350,000 meals to be distributed to the needy through the Utah Food Bank. “Teaching and baptizing lead to thanksgiving that never ends,” declared Elder Russell M. Nelson of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles in the live broadcast emanating from the missionary training center in Provo. His talk followed one given by his wife, Sister Wendy Nelson, who counseled the missionaries to put away childish things.

Have you ever wondered if The Book of Mormon Musical has led curious people to learn more about the Church? Well, Joey Macasieb, a former devoted Catholic, is one of these people. He never would have known that it would be him. He found himself at The Book of Mormon Musical with his mom.

Melissa Cochran is returning home to Utah nearly a month after a deadly terrorist attack that left five people dead, including her husband.