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Little-Known Stories & What You Should Look for Inside the Provo City Center Temple

Walking through the doors of the Provo City Center Temple, time seems to ripple in on itself, transporting you to a well-loved past even as it turns hearts to the future. The smell of rich mahogany and walnut envelopes you immediately after opening the doors, and remnants of the temple's history glimmer from unexpected corners.

Meet the Sweet Tooth Fairy

By Ashley Evanson

What’s it like baking 1,000 cupcakes in only two hours for celebrity rock stars? Piece of cake. Well, at least it was for LDS businesswoman and cupcake extraordinaire Megan Faulkner Brown. Brown is the founder of The Sweet Tooth Fairy gourmet bakeshops, as well as winner of Food Network’s TV show Cupcake Wars.

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LDS Rugby Player Who Turned Down $1 Million for a Mission Now Refusing to Play on Sundays

“It really isn’t a sacrifice because the blessings we receive are greater than anything given up,” William Hopoate said, sharing his incredible testimony through his actions. Hopoate is a professional rugby player and his decision not to play on Sundays could seriously impact his future career.

Just Let Go: One LDS Man's Story of Tragedy and the Power of Forgiveness

By Chris Williams

When half his family was killed in a drunk-driving accident, Chris Williams made the most important decision of his life: to forgive. The results impacted him, his family, the driver, and their whole community. This is his story. You can also watch Chris's story as told in the new movie Just Let Go. Now available on DVD at Deseret Book stores and deseretbook.com.

53 Conference Activities Ideas for Kids

By Kelsey Berteaux

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19 Shocking Moments of the BYU-Idaho Flood

By LDS Living

Some people didn't let the floodwaters deter them from getting around.

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What Mark Twain Really Thought About Mormons

By Kathryn Jenkins Gordon

Mark Twain—author of popular classics like The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn—was celebrated in his New York Time obituary as the “greatest American humorist of his age.”

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What Single Mormon Girls Wish Guys Knew

By Trina Boice

Men and women think differently, but they do agree on one thing: finding the right person to marry is hard, exciting, scary, and a true desire. There are a lot of “chick flicks” and romance novels out there that attempt to describe true love and how to find it, but I know a lot of really terrific single women who are still wondering where their “knight in shining armor” is.

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What Do You Get When a Catholic and a Mormon Husband and Wife Make a Movie?

What happened when an LDS journalist got so curious about a movie he decided to interview the husband and wife who created it? He discovered quite a few interesting behind-the-scenes stories.

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Why Is There So Much War and So Few Women in the Book of Mormon?

Here are a few lessons one author learned while struggling with the questions why is there so much war and yet there are so few women in the Book of Mormon? The remarkable insights she gained taught her that she might have been wrong about these assumptions all along.