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Anti-Mormon protesters are common at Conference time, but a religious group from Texas took an unexpected approach to targeting Mormons at the Relief Society General Meeting on Saturday. Some 19 people in Sunday dress stood outside the Conference Center in downtown Salt Lake City and handed out small packets of tissues to women going into the meeting. Ministry leader Keith Walker said his group came prepared to distribute 10,000 tissue packets.
The youths and leaders, mostly from Clearfield Community Church, which had experienced a fire last spring just before its annual yard sale, said they were grateful for the experience the resulting event funded. Members of several stakes of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints at that time not only donated untold numbers of items for the sale, but they also held the event on their property and helped man the event.
On the morning of Saturday, July 20, 2013, Elder Josh Burton, age 23, of Leavitt, Alberta, Canada, jumped into the back of a pickup truck with three other missionaries and five members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to help a Guatemalan family move the structure of their home to a safer location. Though the road to the home was sufficiently dangerous that some local medical workers avoided it altogether, as a missionary for the LDS church, Josh had dedicated the last 20 months to serving the people of Guatemala, and he knew this family needed his help.
Two years ago on a cold blue night in Park City, Utah, Elizabeth Smart (Gilmour) saved a teen’s life. But the real miracle? Smart wasn’t even there.
The following is a first-hand account written by a missionary serving near the World Trade Center towers on September 11, 2001.
After building a brand new home and driving it 1,600 miles across the country to help out a family in need, the Slades didn't stop there. They found a way to turn the experience into a sweet missionary opportunity.
How would you answer if someone were to ask you, "Who contributes more to the U.S. economy—corporations like Google and Apple or religious institutions?" With Google and Apple being two of the most successful companies in the world, the real answer may surprise you.
“When something like this happens, we all need one another,” Elder Rasband toldresidents of California as he walked through the ashes that comprised all that was left of their homes. “The old adage ‘no man is an island, no man stands alone’—that thought has come to my mind here this morning as I’ve seen how these wonderful brothers and sisters who have lost every earthly possession have just loved being with each other and look to each other for love and comfort.”