"We loved sharing and visiting with the residents and staff at the Parkway Health Center," Firefly Music wrote on Youtube. "They taught us all the true meaning of Christmas is to love and serve one another as Jesus Christ has loved us. We hope you enjoy the magical wonderful season and #LIGHTtheWORLD with love and kindness."

Conference months can be a bit tricky when constructing a message to share with the women you visit teach. In my experience, most visiting teachers just relay the admonition to read or listen to all of conference. Well, if you can’t tell by now, I am not that kind of girl. I like to think about the messages I am sharing. I like to pray for the sisters I visit teach. I do my best to avoid rattling off a sterile, stock message which would then mean nothing to me or the recipient. Sometimes I put together a series of quotes that I liked best from conference, but most often, I select a talk that strikes me. So, for this month, I have chosen the awkwardly-titled, More Than Conquerors through Him That Loved Us by Elder Paul V. Johnson. In this message, Johnson targets those who are going through trials. I am going through a relatively trial-free period in my life (knock on wood), but I am well aware that the appearance of being trial-free is often powerfully wrong. Even President Henry B. Eyring reminded us in 2004 to treat everyone as though they were in serious trouble. So I would like to include Erying’s advice to treat everyone as though they are going through a personal trial. Although the purpose of Visiting Teaching is so that we can get to know and serve others, some trials are so personal that it may take years before people feel they can trust you enough to not judge with whatever it is they are fighting. Be sensitive to this, and you will be able to serve as an empathetic, listening friend, which is infinitely more valuable than serving as a rote lecturer.

We’re frequently on the run juggling various errands and tasks but we often find that we don’t have the necessary information at hand to complete them. We sometimes drop the ball. We face the daunting challenge of maintaining ever greater amounts of information to keep our households running smoothly. It’s frustrating and time-consuming when we find it necessary to track down information from various sources. And it’s even more frustrating when we can’t find what we need at all.

President Sackley, President of the New Delhi, India mission; Elder Valentine, senior missionary in Nepal; and Elder Funk, Asia Area Presidency visited Nepal along with Elder and Sister Valentine, the senior missionary couple who was stationed there when the quake struck. The photos of their trip tell the story:

Here's one creative way a Mormon mom served the victims of Hurricane Harvey, offering all she could to bring smiles to children's faces. “A lot of people had trucks, they had boats, and they were going around rescuing people,” Mary Mecham said. “I don’t have a truck, I don’t have a boat and I was trying to figure out . . . ‘What can I do?"

Returned missionary Josh Holt has been held in a Venezuelan jail for nearly two years while his health steadily deteriorates. The 7-year-old daughter of Holt's wife, who he married shortly before being arrested in June 2016, recently made her way to Utah in February of this year, where she is staying with Holt's family. Both Joshua Holt and his wife, Thamara Candelo, are jailed and fighting for their freedom.

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