Ashley Hess has been impressing judges since her first moments on American Idol.

A native Virginian, Molly converted to the church her senior year of high school. She met her sweetheart while she was a foreign exchange student through Virginia Tech and he was a missionary in Malta. They reconnected after she transferred to BYU have now been married for almost 27 years. She has four children, and spent many years as a stay at home mom before, becoming an elementary music and later 5th grade teacher. She currently works on the Children and Youth team in the Priesthood and Family Department as a project coordinator for a variety of assignments including the Worldwide Broadcast events and Scriptures Media. She loves good books, movies, music, dancing, playing the piano, singing, and the dramatic arts. She fervently believes in bringing back naptime for the world at large and survives these days through the comfort of coke zero, and knowing that when God gives us a calling he has already factored in our stupidity.

Did you hear that tickets went on sale last week for the new Star Wars VII: The Force Awakens film? Even here at LDS Living we've been hearing all about it! In fact, we didn't want to wait until December to satisfy our Star Wars craving, so we dug up some videos made by Mormon YouTubers with apparently high midichlorian counts to share with you. Check out some of our favorites, from Lindsey Stirling to Studio C.

The Piano Guys recently posted this live performance of "A Thousand Years" at Red Rocks that is simply stunning.

In their festive new CD, husband and wife piano duo - Josh and Lindsey Wright - perform Christmas favorites including "Sleigh Ride", "Away in a Manger", "Silent Night", "Jingle Bells", "Deck the Halls", "What Child Is This?", "O Holy Night", selections from Tchaikovsky's "Nutcracker", and more. Josh and Lindsey both hold doctorate degrees in piano performance and have performed in renowned concert halls throughout the world, including Carnegie Hall and the Kennedy Center. Josh's previous two releases through Deseret Book - "Josh Wright" (a hymns album) and "My Favorite Things" (featuring piano arrangements of film music) - topped the Billboard charts just weeks after their respective releases. In this new release, the dynamic piano duo brings a new flare to the holiday season that is sure to add something special to your family Christmas traditions.

This will definitely get you smiling today. It just might even get you busting moves.

The infatuation with “50 Shades of Grey” is startling proof of where we are at as a society (100 MILLION copies sold??!).

Mormon Moviegoers is a collective of LDS film reviewers helping you to make informed decisions about Hollywood films. It was founded by family counselor Jonathan Decker (of Ask a Mormon Therapist).

Accepted as a group to the prestigious Julliard School of Music, the 5 Browns are proof that piano lessons can pay off and practice does make perfect. Even today, having released three CDs and performed in venues as varied as the Grand National Theater in China and the Rose Bowl arena in Southern California, the 5 Browns still spend their summers practicing up to seven hours a day—five hours as a group and two hours on their own.

Three LDS artists took the cake this week on the "Classical Albums" Billboard chart when they landed the top three spots. Nathan Pacheco’s album Higher landed no. 1 followed by Lindsey Stirling’s album Brave Enough and The Piano Guys’ album Uncharted at the no. 2 and 3 spots, respectively.