Search

Filters
There are 32,879 results that match your search. 32,879 results
Within Mormon culture, we seem to have difficulty understanding mental health and depression and knowing how to approach the issue, especially when thinking about the contrast of our mortality and spirituality.
What will you remember about “This Mormon Moment”? wonders this blogger. She explains “Maybe what it has changed is my view of myself. Regardless of whether or not I tend to lean more Mitt Romney or more Harry Reid with my politics, having prominent Mormons in both parties and having countless articles written about what I believe has caused a shift in my thinking. I’m freer now. I can stop worrying that everyone who hears me say, 'I’m a Mormon' is going to think that I’m a member of a cult or repressed or whatever."
So as a returned missionary, I often think of things I wish I had learned, or was taught before I went on my mission, or even earlier on my mission. These things would have changed how I taught, and my approach to my missionary work.
Elder Ronald A. Rasband—accompanied by Elder Craig C. Christensen of the Presidency of the Seventy and Bishop Dean M. Davies, first counselor in the Presiding Bishopric—recently returned from a 12-day trip to Central America. There he had the chance to meet with members as well as share LDS beliefs with the Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega, who called the apostle and general authorities "ministers of peace."
INTRODUCTION: Life is a test. Richard G. Scott said,
On June 20, 2010, Rick Vellinga made a choice that would not only change his belief in God but that would eventually help his family cope with tragedy.
We've all experienced that moment when we see someone and just have a gut feeling we've found a fellow Mormon. It could be at Disneyland, on the train, while traveling in obscure corners of the world, or in so many other places.
Many of us dream of jetting off to Bombay or Rome. Unfortunately, exciting excursions like these don’t often fit within the budget. But some friends in my ward have devised a way to get a taste of the exotic—literally—by forming an international dinner club.
When I served my mission in Australia in the early 70‘s, one of the standard jokes among the missionaries was that “one day” someone would find an inscription, “I, Nephi, was here” or something like that, left by Nephi himself. We relished the thought that something like this would be discovered, something that would virtually force the Gentile world to take the Book of Mormon seriously. Then we would have some serious baptizing to do as hordes of people joined the church.
What an incredible story that shows how even the most fleeting promptings can make a world of difference.