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'Tis the season for ward chili cook-offs! Wow your friends and neighbors with these five amazing recipes!

Single adults from nine countries in the Middle East gathered in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, to build faith, serve others, and come to know, as a Church, Latter-day Saints are one.

For BYU Commencement Day, BYU Speeches created a remarkable video from a talk Jeffrey R. Holland gave while president of BYU in 1987. Elder Holland told how Alfred Kelly, a student graduation speaker, was given not only the task of speaking at commencement but of helping convince community leaders in attendance to donate money to save the university.

Satan really likes to keep us from praying. He tries to make us feel inadequate or unworthy in order to stop us from communicating with Heavenly Father. He can also make us feel like our prayers will go unanswered and that there isn't any point to getting down on our knees. When Satan tries to convince you these lies are true, you can find motivation and strength to pray in the following quotes.

For those who are the ward choir director, getting volunteers to participate in the choir can often be quite the challenge. Many times ward members don't usually see how they can add value to or benefit from the choir.

When do “flowers of grace appear” in our lives? We would probably expect to feel God’s love and grace in holy places like temples or Church buildings or during sacred events like hearing the words of inspired Church leaders or in private prayer. But sometimes God’s grace comes in unexpected places—like a cramped flight from Denver to Salt Lake City.

Knowing the LDS Church helped me to know God and feel pure and undefiled love. But knowing God and knowing what I’d been through, made me question Him, even though I knew of His mercy, grace, and love for me. How could a supposedly “loving” Heavenly Father do this to me? Where was He in my hour of need? Why didn’t He protect me when it was my own family who hurt me so badly? Where was He when my mother’s girlfriend was emotionally and physically abusing me during my adolescent years? Did He not see the pain I went through? Did He even care? It took me a long time to forgive Him. Over the years, I learned that despite the pain I went through, He allowed us agency and to choose between good and bad, even at the expense of my pain. I still struggle with that concept, but through some miracle, I forgave the God I once believed forsook me. I became aware of the fact that my God was always there for me. He had continuously provided me with blessings and assured me of His love. I knew it all along, but it took some time for me to see. I partially attribute it to this scripture from 2 Nephi 1:15, But Behold, the Lord hath redeemed my soul from hell; I have beheld his glory, and I am encircled about eternally in the arms of his love.

With the construction of a brand new temple scheduled to begin this spring, Penn’s devoted Mormon community continues to extend its place and presence on campus. The Latter-day Saints Student Association, which became an official student group on campus last December, obtained formal recognition by the Students Activities Council at that time and will soon begin to receive funding for events and programs.

Richard Shuté might just seem like a giving Latter-day Saint who spends his days baking and crocheting to bless missionaries. But, the trials he faces in his life and his incredible conversion to the Church show there is much more to Shuté than meets the eye.