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4 topics to discuss with a loved one to help them be ready for the temple

Here are four discussion topics that will help any Latter-day Saint deepen their appreciation for the promises and practices of the temple.

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If we are keeping the commandments, should we be wealthy? The faults in that line of thinking

By Roger Connors

When we long for blessings that seem to come easily to others, we can find peace by better understanding exactly what the Lord has promised.

3 Ways to Navigate Uncertainty, Shared by President Hinckley’s Daughter

By Virginia Pearce Cowley

Virginia Pearce Cowley is the third child of President and Sister Gordon B. Hinckley. She and her late husband, James R. Pearce, are the parents of six children and have twenty-seven grandchildren and one great-grandchild. A published author and former marriage and family therapist, Virginia served as first counselor in the General Young Women Presidency and as a full-time Public Affairs missionary for the Church. She is married to Joseph F. Cowley Jr.

Summer Reading List for Kids

By Holly Newton

Summer is coming! Here’s a list of great kids’ reads to keep the kids busy, beginning with picture books. There are a lot of great and newly published picture books, but I look for inventive, interactive, fun or teachable books when selecting picture books to review.

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One Humiliating Christmas That Taught Me an Important Lesson About Service

By Zandra Vranes

I do not come from money. I come from whatever the opposite of money is. My siblings and I joke with our parents that we are in a first world country living a third world life. Coming from humble means has made me a lot of who I am today, and it makes me grateful for even the smallest of things. But when I was younger, I didn’t have such an appreciation for my family’s meagerness. We were blessed because a lot of people served us and showed kindness, but there are experiences I have had that make it hard for me to accept service. I had a love-hate relationship with the Christmas season when I was younger. I loved focusing on the birth of the Savior, seeing the lights and all the festivity, but Christmastime was always a reminder of how poor I was and of what would not be under my family’s tree.

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.

Young Women Lesson 45: The Value of Work

Manual 1; Excerpt from "Two Principles for Any Economy," by Dieter F. Uchtdorf

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LDS Olympic Medalist Is Helping Girls to Love Their Bodies & Their Size

By LDS Living Staff

The strongest woman in America and one of the strongest women in the world is showing girls everywhere that they can be healthy, successful, and love themselves at every size.

Latter-day Saint Life

My Prayer for My 2 Future Sons-in-Law

What a testament to this father's love for his daughters. It just goes to show how much our Heavenly Father must love each of us.

Latter-day Saint Life

Gordon B. Hinckley's Unfailing Optimism: What You Can Learn & How to Develop It in Your Life

There are many reasons to be excited for 2017, and one of those reasons is that we will be studying President Gordon B. Hinckley in our Relief Societies and Elders Quorums. As 2016 comes to a close and the new year begins, learn from President Hinckley the unfailing power of optimism.