Search - LDS Living

There are 32,848 results that match your search. 32,848 results

"Does Everyone Have Their Seat Belt On?" What an Ignored Prompting Taught One Woman About Revelation

Some dates burn themselves clearly into your mind. For me, one of those memorable moments in my life came on December 26, 1987. I was twelve years old. My mother, two of my older brothers, and I had left the house early to drive the many miles from Phoenix, Arizona, to Logan, Utah, to visit my oldest brother and his family.

Latter-day Saint Life

Joseph Smith's Last Letter to Emma +More Important Documents from the Last Month of His Life

By Angela Thompson of the Joseph Smith Papers staff

This month, the Joseph Smith Papers Project reached an important milestone on the josephsmithpapers.org website. The site was updated to include more than one hundred new documents, including discourses, sermons, letters, and meeting minutes dating from June 1844, the final month of Joseph Smith’s life. Among these documents are items dealing with Joseph Smith’s arrest and imprisonment in Carthage, Illinois, and letters to and from his family members, friends, fellow church members, lawyers, and the governor of Illinois.

The Mormon plot that wasn’t

Mitt Romney’s Mormonism will be an issue in the general election, if he gets there as widely expected. The media have focused on skepticism among conservative evangelicals, who regard Mormonism as a cult, but secularists also have worries, fearing that Romney is the tool of Mormon theocracy. Such concerns, however, misunderstand the lessons of Mormon history — mistaking century-old church conflicts for modern Mormon beliefs.

The Church in New Zealand

By Jenny Spencer Hunt

Members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints have been in New Zealand for nearly as long as members have been in Utah—believe it or not. The first members in New Zealand were baptized in 1854, only seven years after Brigham Young arrived in the Salt Lake Valley.

16 Craziest Foods Eaten By LDS Missionaries

Imagine eating a meal made up of tarantula, goat brain, monkey, raccoon, worms and a hairy cow tongue. While you’d likely never see them all together in one meal, if you visited all the LDS missions around the world, you might be served each of these foods and more!

Mormons bid farewell to Sister Frances J. Monson, who left a 'legacy of love'

The life and legacy of Frances J. Monson — "a legacy of humility, service, faithfulness and love," according to her daughter, Ann M. Dibb — was celebrated during funeral services Thursday in the Salt Lake Tabernacle of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Sister Monson's husband, LDS Church President Thomas S. Monson, was seated with his family on red chairs that formed the Tabernacle's front row, just a few feet from his beloved wife's flower-bedecked casket and close to Dibb, her brothers Thomas and Clark and their respective spouses.

3 Things You Should Do When You Feel Stuck

Remember to take a few minutes to step back and thank your Heavenly Father for the testimony and the blessings you do have. Then begin to try and build from where you are now, remembering to have patience with yourself.

Close Quote

Q&A with inventive string trio Simply Three

Of their latest album, bass player Nick Villalobos says, “We presented hymns [with] a much more cinematic feel . . . I never would have thought a hymns album would be my favorite album Simply Three has done, and yet here we are.”

Former LDS Chapel May Become Haunted House

Some people think old, abandoned buildings have ghosts haunting the halls.

Latter-day Saint Life

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

By Anthony Sweat

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