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LDS Hot Rod Builder Creates Custom-Made Cart For Disabled Boy On Trek

MR says: This story truly shows the pioneer spirit of people coming together and using their talents and resources to create life-changing experiences.

Why Jane Austen appeals to LDS women

By Angela Lankford

When author Howard F. Clarke published a re-formatted version of the Jane Austen biography, Jane Austen: Her Life and Letters, a Family Record, he discovered that book sales in Salt Lake City, Utah surpassed sales in all the other U.S. cities by a ratio of 8 to 1.

{LDSL Blog} What Is the Best Advice You Have Ever Received?

By LDS Living

Many of us have mottos we live our lives by and pieces of advice shared by others that have changed the way we think and act on a daily basis. Others have discovered the secret to success in some area of our lives. (One my mother taught me: 1 tsp salt per cup of rice and DO NOT remove the lid from the pot until after it's finished cooking no matter what – one of the best cooking tips I've ever received. I had friends in college beg me to know how I made something as boring and bleh as rice be so delicious.)

Relief Society President Legacy Matching Game

Since the birthday of the Relief Society is March 17, let’s take a moment to remember its presidents. Some are very well known, while others may be less so. All contributed mightily to the history and purpose of the Relief Society of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. See if you can guess the president whose legacy is described in each section.

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Human Remains Accidentally Discovered in Iowa Likely from Several Mormon Pioneers

By LDS Living Staff

While digging at a construction site at Council Bluffs, Iowa, workers have discovered something that could shed light on our pioneer heritage.

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Elizabeth Smart Joins The 5 Browns' Deondra Brown to "Make Noise" About Sexual Abuse

"We’re here and we’re talking about big, dark, scary issues, issues that we don’t want to talk about," Elizabeth Smart said as she joined Deondra Brown from The 5 Browns to share their stories of sexual abuse and survival.

BYU Students Making Sharing the Gospel Easier on Social Media

What began as a way to connect with friends has become a tool for companies to sell their products, organizations to extend their reach and people to make significant differences in the world around them. The LDS Church has worked to use social media by creating Facebook pages, blogs, Pinterest boards and more. Members of the Quorum of the Twelve have even provided people with a new way to “follow” the prophets by getting their own Twitter accounts. According to Robert Walz, a professor in the Communications Department at BYU, this is all good, but it’s not enough.

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A New Way of Looking at Addiction

By Mountain Peak Recovery (Sponsored)

The word “addict” or “addiction” conjures up images for almost everyone. A person would have to search far to find someone that had lived life unaffected by addiction either directly or indirectly. Most people know an addict. Many of us are, or have been, addicts. Those of us that have been there never thought we would be. Most of us are still bewildered over how it happened and enormously frustrated in our attempts to remedy our situations. No one ever sets out to be an addict. Some happen upon it accidentally, others mistakenly through immature or poor decisions early on. However it happened, it is certain that the havoc wrought by addiction was not and is not the intent of the person ensnared by this deadly malady.

Dave Says: Why only a 15-year Mortgage?

Dear Dave,

Alaskan missionary writes to local paper

My name is Elder Nelson Elias Witt. Elder Witt is what my name tag says and that’s just what people in Alaska call me. I am a missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. We are sometimes called ‘LDS’ for short or “Mormon” by most. I have been in Alaska for almost 15 months, and I have about nine months left. A mission lasts two years, in which we do not see our families, but we talk to them on the phone twice a year. We do not get money for our service as missionaries; in fact we pay in order to do what we are doing.