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How a Series of 'Coincidences' Led Me to Serve a Mission

So much of life can be chalked up to “coincidence”, but I recently had an experience that can’t be explained by any other way than the fact that Heavenly Father is in charge, has prepared a way for me, and knows all.

God Will Give You More Than You Can Handle: I Guarantee It.

“God will never give you more than you can handle” is the phrase I’m referring to.

Latter-day Saint Life

This Message from President Monson Will Warm Your Heart, Snow or No Snow

By LDS Living

As winter approaches and the weather turns chilly, this experience President Monson had on a cold, winter night is sure to warm your heart and remind us of the meaning of Christlike service.

Fun

The "Holy War" Resumes: Utes to Play BYU for Mendenhall's Last Game

For Mendenhall's last game with BYU, he will get to play the school's biggest rivals: the University of Utah. Mendenhall said in a news release that this gives the game "some historic significance, as well [as] being a great matchup between two teams that have had outstanding seasons."

Latter-day Saint Life

How To Love Going To Church Every Week

“You go to church services for 3 hours every week?” I was asked incredulously by a dental patient the other day. He knew I was a Mormon and asked about our Sunday services. “I sure do,” I answered with a smile “and those 3 hours are some of the best of the entire week“. He rolled his eyes and smiled. I could see him holding back a skeptical or sarcastic reply. He also probably didn’t want to antagonize the guy who was getting ready to do some work on his teeth.

Famous Latter-day Saints

9 Highly Wealthy & Influential Returned Missionaries

Business Week wrote an article called “God’s MBAs: Why Mormon Missions Produce Leaders,” (see link below) and we thought that we would just highlight a few of these amazing (and wealthy) influencer-leaders who have served full-time LDS missions.

Podcasts

VIDEO: After Losing a Loved One, House, and Job, We’re Right Where We Should Be

By LDS Living

One stressful event right after another—that's how Tennisa and her family experienced life for about two years.

LDS Convert Reunites with Influential Friend after 55 Years

Having been born into a family void of religious instruction, I didn't know the love of my Father in Heaven and his keen awareness of me a young man. This knowledge came as a result of joining the Army as an 18 year old, fresh out of high school.

Responding to — and explaining — LDS baptisms for the dead

Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel, a Holocaust survivor whose name was inappropriately submitted to a genealogical database from which names are extracted for proxy baptisms in temples of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, is outraged. "I think it's scandalous," Wiesel told the Huffington Post after the story broke earlier this week that his name, along with his father's and maternal grandfather's, appeared on the database. "Not only objectionable, it's scandalous."

LDS Pianist Josh Wright Meets Josh Groban at Carnegie Hall Debut

By Kelsey Berteaux

The setting was regal, to be sure.