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The day I hit the mission field, it was February 5th and the snow was going sideways instead of straight down. Three weeks before that I was surfing North side Pier in Oceanside wondering how I was going to pull off serving a mission. I never dreamed my first step into the mission field would be into a full blown blizzard.

Jabari Parker to decide on LDS mission or NBA

The basketball future of Chicago Simeon Career Academy forward Jabari Parker, the nation's No. 1-ranked senior, could be affected by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints' recent decision to lower the age minimum for men to serve a mission, his father said Monday. ...Parker, who is Mormon and will turn 18 in March, had planned on attending college for at least one year, then deciding whether to go on a mission or enter the NBA draft. Parker told Sports Illustrated he was torn between heading on a mission and his dream of playing in the NBA.

Famous Latter-day Saints

Sports Illustrated Explores how a Mission Changed Jeremy Guthrie's Major League Baseball Prospects

He left everything behind. His family, his friends, his girlfriend, his glove. He packed his bags for Europe, walked away from the game, and was prepared to never come back. It was 1999, and Jeremy Guthrie, having just finished his freshman year at BYU, was off to Spain to serve a mission for the Mormon Church, and over the next two years, he did not pick up a baseball—he barely even thought about baseball. “It wasn’t one of those things where I prayed one night and said, ‘Lord, if I do this, you promise [to do this for me],” Guthrie recalled last week during the World Series. “It was not that way. It was: ‘I'm going to give this up, and I know whatever happens will be the best for me.’”

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Why Halloween Is the Most Charitable Day of the Year (and Other Reasons I Can't Hate It)

I’ve tried. I have really tried. I have marshalled all my self-righteous bluster and vast knowledge, and I still can’t do it. I’m pretty orthodox, as orthodoxy goes, so it seems I should be able to – it kind of makes sense. My brain tells me I should be able to… but I just can’t bring myself to do it. Believe me, I’ve tried, but I can’t. I can’t hate Halloween. I’m sorry to disappoint some of you.

Latter-day Saint Life

LDS Church Vandalized in Utah, Suspect in Custody

A Layton, Utah, LDS church house was vandalized Monday night.

Lesson Helps

Gospel Principles Chapter 44: The Second Coming of Jesus Christ

Supplement from "Preparing the World for the Second Coming" by Neil L. Andersen

Why Is My Wife Always So Down On Herself?

By Robert Jones

These husbands care about their wives, but don’t know what to do when their wife constantly berates herself or feels low self-worth. These women constantly compare themselves to other women and just don’t measure up. We refer to it as “Comparison Sickness.”

Mormonism in Arizona

The temple, its sandstone-colored walls forming a series of massive, overlapping rectangles, looks like something out of a Cecil B. DeMille biblical epic. It rises at a Gilbert intersection, just off a freeway, dwarfing the warehouse supermarket and strip malls around it in both size and stature. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is building a place of reverence, and its imposing architecture -- 82 feet tall plus a 113-foot spire topped with a golden statue of an angel blowing a trumpet -- is a physical manifestation of the religion's success in Arizona.

Former NFL player Chad Lewis' 'I'm a Mormon' video