Search - LDS Living

Returned Missionary Killed in Carjacking Crash, Friends & Investigators Share How She Touched Their Lives

Jazmyn Jeppson, a former missionary for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who returned in December from serving in Texas, was killed when a carjacker attempting to flee the police slammed into her car.

Latter-day Saint Life

How I've Seen the Church's Policies Protect Children & Converts

MR says: The Church's policies for children living with same-sex parents are the same policies used within the Church in several situations, not just in the case of same-sex marriages. And these policies have and still do protect children in difficult or challenging circumstances. The story below is just one example.

Latter-day Saint Life

College Coach Leaves Dream Job for Mission, Shares Harrowing Experience of Philippines' Earthquake

What they found when they emerged from the doorway changed their missions as they discovered that more than 200 people had been killed and more than 700 were injured.

Fun

Pastry chef meets pumpkin: See this stunning carving of President Nelson on a pumpkin

By Lindsey Williams

When a virtual pumpkin contest was announced as a home evening activity in Hailee Henson’s young single adult ward, she knew just what to do: carve an image of President Russell M. Nelson.

Famous Latter-day Saints

"The Savior Is the Head Coach": How Navy's Challenging Football Season Brought Ken Niumatalolo Closer to Christ

As a seasoned, media-savvy leader of a D1 college football program, Ken Niumatalolo is deft at answering tough questions.

Latter-day Saint Life

Elder Uchtdorf: "Accept Differences, Stand Up for Others. Our Message Should Always Be If You Live Differently, I Love You No Matter What.”

By LDS Living

Latter-day Saints often wonder how we can clearly stand for our faith in our modern world. While it may be tricky to navigate differences we experience in politics, in faith, at work, in our families, and at church, it is important for us to recognize other's agency is just as sacred as our own and to put first and foremost the two great commandments: "And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment. And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these" (Mark 12:30–31).

Lesson Helps

January 2017 First Presidency Message: "Aiming at the Center"

By LDS Living

In this month's First Presidency message, President Dieter F. Uchtdorf shares an insightful analogy about archery and clarifies what the "bull's-eye" of the gospel actually is:

Fun

Mormon Moviegoers: What Parents Need to Know About "The Last Jedi" Before Seeing It with Their Family

By Jonathan Decker, LMFT

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).

Latter-day Saint Life

The Phrase That Sustained One LDS Woman After Losing Her Mother and Later Her Father-in-Law in a Car Accident

By Linsay Jarvis

“Hope has the power to fill our lives with happiness. . . . Hope sustains us through despair. Hope teaches that there is reason to rejoice even when all seems dark around us." —Elder Dieter F. Uchtdorf

SPONSORED: Great New Book from Neal A. Maxwell Institute--Letters to a Young Mormon

By Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship

This book is unlike anything ever written for a young Latter-day Saint audience. Although author Adam S. Miller spends his days teaching philosophy to college students, the most important lessons he has ever prepared have been directed to his own children. He composed this book as a series of letters meant for a young Mormon who is familiar with Mormon life but green in their faith. In simple but profound prose, Miller addresses the real beauty and real costs of trying to live a Mormon life in today’s world. Letters to a Young Mormon encourages Mormons young and old to live in a way that refuses to abandon either life or Mormonism. Most importantly, even while dispensing wisdom, Miller wonders alongside you.