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102-Year-Old Earns Young Women Medallion, Honored by General YW Presidency

Ninety years ago, Ella Hoskins turned 12 years old and joined the Young Women. She would have been a Beehive, but that designation would not exist for another 25 years. There was also no Personal Progress program or Young Women Medallion.

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Religious Leaders, Politicians from Around the World Pay Tribute to President Monson

The following tributes were shared recently by Mormon Newsroom.

Why Mormons Love NBA Legend John Stockton

By Jamie Armstrong

Why do Mormons love NBA legend John Stockton? Yes, he demonstrated incredible skill while playing for the Utah Jazz, which was owned by Church member Larry Miller. But beyond that, here are three reasons LDS faithful admire this Hall of Famer.

Latter-day Saint Life

How a Small Chapel in a Run-Down Neighborhood Helped Open Missionary Work in a Country Half a World Away

By John H. Groberg

The following is an excerpt from Elder John H. Groberg’s book Fire of Faith, which details his experiences as he served as a mission president and later as a general authority.

Latter-day Saint Life

When Missionaries Followed a Prompting to Return to the Home of a Man Who Had Threatened Them

By John H. Groberg

The following is an excerpt from Elder John H. Groberg’s book Fire of Faith, which details his experiences with his family as he served as a mission president in Tonga. During his service, Elder Groberg helped plan a jubilee celebration for the Saints in Tonga and promised the missionaries that, leading up to the jubilee, 500 people would be baptized into the Church in one month. The number seemed impossible. In 1966, the total number of members baptized into the Church for the entire year was 604. In 1967, the number rose to 833, but Elder Groberg understood the Lord was working miracles to move His work forward in Tonga. Below is one of those miracles that helped bring 507 people into the Church in one month in Tonga.

Latter-day Saint Life

How practicing yoga helps one Latter-day Saint strengthen and share her faith

By Katie Lambert

Millions of people practice yoga, including many Latter-day Saint members. But what spiritual benefits can members of the Church gain from this form of exercise?

Lesson Helps

FHE: Priesthood Blessings

By Shauna Gibby

Conference Talk: For more information on this topic read "Healing the Sick," by Dallin H. Oaks, Ensign, May 2010, 47-50.

Lesson Helps

FHE: Role of the Priesthood

By Shauna Gibby

Conference Talk:

Latter-day Saint Life

President Ballard to Women: "We Should Not Question Each Other’s Choices or Inspiration"

By Danielle B. Wagner

"Women have remarkable influence," President M. Russell Ballard recently posted on Instagram. "You sisters have been divinely endowed with a unique kind of discernment and strength that differs in some ways from the gifts our Heavenly Father gave His sons. These differences are intentional and eternal. They don’t make you better than a man, nor do they make you inferior to him. They just make you different—wonderfully, deliberately, everlastingly so."

Davis and Asialene Smith: On a Mission to ‘Do Good’

Description: Davis and Asialene Smith, founders of the outdoor gear company Cotopaxi, were raised under very different circumstances, but their ties to parts of the world experiencing poverty are the same. What they witnessed in those struggling countries planted in them a desire to do what they can to alleviate suffering. On this episode, we talk with the Smiths about what makes their company unique and how it has allowed them make good on the promise they made to their younger selves to create change.