Speaking from personal experience, one LDS sister missionary shares the six things that helped her the most when she returned home from her mission early as well as the five things she wishes other people knew.

President George Albert Smith noted that as the Church becomes more well known, “its members are esteemed for their virtues,” and critics “are quickly divested of their unjustified prejudices, by coming in direct contact with the Latter-day Saints in their daily lives. … They then judge us by our fruits, from personal observation, and such information, as they impart it, can have but one effect, and that most favorable to us.”1 Smith observed that actually knowing members of our church dispels prejudice about the church. People who know us drop their misconceptions and instead judge us by our fruits—what we actually do. This seems logical to me but I question Smith’s assertion that knowing a Mormon “can have but one effect.” Depending on which Mormon you know, and how that particular Mormon behaves, you might draw different conclusions about the church. Sometimes, we Mormons, like anyone else, can be guilty of producing sour fruit.

With the presidential race in full swing, immigration reform has been a popular and controversial topic. But one congressman has decided to pull the LDS Church into the debate, and he mischaracterized the Church's stance on immigration in doing so.

What happens when suddenly your hope of an eternal family suddenly becomes uncertain? One LDS mother shares her incredible story of finding hope again.

Both Elder Neil L. Andersen and Mitt Romney served missions to France and traveled to celebrated the newly completed Paris France Temple.

In Sante Fe, Texas, kindergartener Royce Thompson was rushing into school, late for class. Suddenly, Royce stopped, and his mother, Heather Nelson, kept prodding him to go inside with the rest of the kids hurrying past him.

“There are some things the Book of Mormon is not,” President Nelson told the new mission presidents and their wives gathered for the 2016 Seminar for New Mission Presidents.

MR says: Read the experience of a convert who personally understands how the Church's policy changesaffect those living in a family with same-sex parents and why she still stands behind our Church leaders and her faith.

Speaking during the 2016 Seminar for New Mission Presidents, Elder David A. Bednar emphasized: “Please do not fear technology. Please do not take counsel from your fears. Embrace these inspired tools. Learn to use them to proclaim the gospel." Though he was speaking to mission presidents, this counsel powerfully applies to all of us.

I recently had a conversation with a good friend about dating. Among other things, we talked about how rejection affects men and women on a personal level. He then confessed that because of recent events in his dating life he felt inadequate; he felt like he wasn’t good enough. My friend goes to church every Sunday without fail, he serves faithfully in the priesthood, and he does his home teaching diligently. So why is he struggling to find a good companion?