This LDS father and husband found the best way he could grieve and remember his wife was by trying to ensure others don't have to experience what his family did.

A deadly combination of intense summer heat and dry terrain has resulted in a massive outbreak of wildfires throughout the American West threatening land, homes and lives of people in the endangered areas. According to firewhat.com, each state in the Western region, with the exception of Washington and Oregon, is suffering from at least one wildfire, some with as many as nine fires burning within state boundaries.

Many have read the words of Proverbs chapter 29, verse 18, which says, "Where there is no vision, the people perish." "But what happens where there is vision?" J. Douglas LeCheminant asked the class of a few hundred seated in the N. Eldon Tanner Building during Brigham Young University's Campus Education Week. "Where there is vision, the people flourish."

Check out this amazing cover of "Yorktown (The World Turned Upside Down)" from the Tony, Pulitzer, and Grammy-winning play Hamilton performed by BYU young ambassadors.

Wilford Woodruff Emery (1889-1954) was president of Samoan Mission at the outbreak of World War II. He wrote of a harrowing wartime experience in the South Pacific: While in the Samoan Mission Sister Emery and I had been over to the island of Tutuila for a visit. We had completed our work and prepared to return to Upolu, our headquarters. We were late leaving the harbor of Pago Pago and it got dark on us almost as soon as we reached the open sea. We headed westward for our destination and then made ourselves as comfortable as possible. We lay on the hatchway in preference to the small, ill-smelling bunks inside the cabin. If it should rain we would take to the cabin to keep from getting wet. It was a beautiful night, although pitch dark. The few passengers and two or three of the crew also made themselves comfortable on the hatchway, using their lifebelts as pillows for their heads.

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Consider the following names: John the Baptist; 1000+ Anti-Nephi-Lehies; Abinadi; Joseph Smith. What do these have in common? They were martyred because of their commitment to the truth. Can you identify other martyrs from scriptural and church history? (Answers might include Abel (Moses 5:32), Zacharias (the father of John the Baptist—Matthew 23:35), Stephen (Acts 7:56-60), James (the brother of John—Acts 12:2)), Hyrum Smith (D&C 135:1, etc) According to D&C 135:3, why do so many of “the Lord’s anointed” die at the hands of their enemies? (See also D&C 136:5, 6)

The gospel of Jesus Christ is more than a set of teachings. It’s a community of real people living in real places.

Mormon intellectualism is sometimes half-humorously dismissed as an oxymoron. Nothing could be farther from the truth. Although the relationship can be rocky, Mormonism has always championed critical thinking. “We are not so much concerned with whether your thoughts are orthodox or heterodox as we are that you shall have thoughts,” a member of the LDS Church’s First Presidency stated in 1969.

Velvet ropes and bright lights lined the red carpet that was rolled out for 870 students from 16 stakes of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on Friday, May 3, all celebrating the 7th annual LDS prom at the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach, Calif. Mock-paparazzi photographers snapped welcoming shots of each couple or solo attendee who walked the red carpet. Large, multi-screen displays of those photos flashed on the interior walls of the venue throughout the entire evening as the 16- to 18-year-old attendees danced to current hits.