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Alex Boye Builds Refugee Awareness with Upcoming Concert

Teaming up with BRIDGES and Real Salt Lake, Alex Boye is putting on a benefit concert at the Rio Tinto Stadium for the 60,000 refugees in the Salt Lake community.

{Lifestyle} My Travel Tales of Sharing the Gospel

By Ashley Bardsley

Over the past couple of years I have had the super unique opportunity to travel for my job—a jobby, I like to call it (cross between job and hobby. Are we all on the same page? Good). After countless airplane rides, layovers, slices of airport pizza, movies on the plane, and airport security lines, I have made it to 10 countries and 22 cities. This may not sound like very much to some of you—and that is because you are well traveled—but for this cautious Utah girl, it has been life changing.

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3 Crucial Reasons You Have the Church Calling That You Do

By Zack Oates

It was my first week in a BYU singles ward and I was called as Elders Quorum President. First item of business: fill all the callings.

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New Research Reveals: Women Who Go to Church Are Less Likely to Commit Suicide

A new study showed that weekly attendance at worship services may reduce the risk of suicide for women.

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3 Ways the Restoration Actually Started Before the Sacred Grove

By Trevan G. Hatch

As Latter-day Saints, we tend to assume that the heavens were sealed until the Sacred Grove appearance in 1820 and that the Restoration didn't really begin until Moroni tutored Joseph and subsequently gave him the plates in 1827. But that isn't entirely true.

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Donald Trump Tells Utahns We Need to Protect Our Religious Freedom

Note: LDS Living does not endorse any political candidates but merely reports on current news.

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7 Dangerous Myths We Tell Ourselves About Mental Illness

By Alexander B. Morrison

Mental illness, in its various causes, forms, and manifestations, ranks high on any list of the ailments that try and torment mankind. In its publication The Global Burden of Disease, the World Health Organization (WHO) estimated, for example, that one form of mental illness, depression, was the fourth most important reported health problem in the developing world in 1990. The WHO predicts that by 2020, depression may rank as the number one health problem in that portion of the globe.

Aussie Mormon mother gets ahead on her motor bike

Most picture Mormon missionaries in suits, spurning tea and coffee. But as the ''stormin' Mormon'' Mitt Romney makes a bid for the White House, there is renewed interest in the faith, which has been linked with polygamy and proselytising. Darrylin Galanos defies stereotypes. She lives in Ivanhoe with her husband and three children, studies social work at Melbourne University, votes for the Greens, and rides a Triumph motorbike. And like thousands of Australians she is part of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (LDS).

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LDS YouTubers Become Millionaires, Featured on ABC's "Nightline"

MR says: For more about the Butlers, check out how their YouTube channel helped convert a man in Hollandand another in Britain. Or, check out this list of 9 Mormons who have over one million YouTude followers.

Wife of LDS apostle reaching out to people of Japan

For the wife of an apostle of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the devastation in Japan feels personal. "They have such respect for Americans and they are such friends to us that I feel that I personally have an obligation to do anything I can to help them," said Kristen Oaks.