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"My Heart Is Still Hurting": How to Find Peace When Your Adult Child Leaves the Church

Having a family member leave the Church can be an emotionally painful experience. However, that doesn't mean this experience is void of being able to teach us Christlike attributes.

Latter-day Saint Life

One Humiliating Christmas That Taught Me an Important Lesson About Service

By Zandra Vranes

I do not come from money. I come from whatever the opposite of money is. My siblings and I joke with our parents that we are in a first world country living a third world life. Coming from humble means has made me a lot of who I am today, and it makes me grateful for even the smallest of things. But when I was younger, I didn’t have such an appreciation for my family’s meagerness. We were blessed because a lot of people served us and showed kindness, but there are experiences I have had that make it hard for me to accept service. I had a love-hate relationship with the Christmas season when I was younger. I loved focusing on the birth of the Savior, seeing the lights and all the festivity, but Christmastime was always a reminder of how poor I was and of what would not be under my family’s tree.

Latter-day Saint Life

Host of ‘Sunday on Monday’ podcast discusses the ‘strange land’ of becoming a stepmom

Marrying and becoming an insta-mom to two little girls was a lot harder than Tammy Uzelac Hall thought it would be.

Lesson Helps

How to Write a Primary Sacrament Meeting Program

I don't know why, but sisters need to chill out. Every year, around the time to write the Primary Sacrament Meeting program aspirin sales go through the roof and nervous ticks develop at an alarming rate. The primary program is not a production. It's not something that needs to be cutesy perfect. But in all honesty, I don't think that's the main reason people stress out. I think/hope it's because we love Heavenly Father. We want the spirit to be felt. We want the children to have a good experience.

Fun

How an LDS 18-Year-Old and His Family Are Getting National Attention for Running in Crocs

By Katie Lambert

Avid runner Benjamin Pachev gets a lot of looks when he shows up at starting lines—particularly looks directed at his feet.

Latter-day Saint Life

How Allowing Herself to Grieve Helped This Latter-day Saint Heal After a Paralyzing Fall (+ Video)

By Morgan Pearson

Author's note: This article was originally published by the Deseret News in January 2015. It has been updated and republished here with permission.

Latter-day Saint Life

My Mission and Depression: It Wasn't a Cop-Out

“Why, in my right mind would I ever want to kill myself?” That was my thought as I walked down the dirt streets of Nicargua. I remember getting hit by an avalanche of thoughts telling me to take my own life. It was heavy and no matter how hard I tried I couldn’t lift it off of me. “Everyone feels this way, right?” “It will pass.” “I’m not praying enough, I’m not studying efficaciously enough.” “I just have to work harder and be more obedient.” I wasn’t good enough. I mentioned to my dad (who was in prison) in an email the thoughts that I was struggling with and he said that sometimes he felt down too but he just had to keep his chin up and things got better as he pressed forward in faith. Ok dad, if you say so.

Latter-day Saint Life

3 Things God's Plan for Each of Us Is Not

When it comes to expectations, we should stop fearing that we aren't living up to what we were meant to be and instead find joy in realizing we have a divine potential and that God doesn't expect perfection now.

How to help a less-active person return to church

Dear Angela, I’ve been less active in the church for a couple of years now. I’m not ready — or want — to go back right away, but I was wondering if you could suggest some things I could do as I contemplate the possibility of returning to church. Please keep in mind that I don’t want to meet with the missionaries and I don’t want the Relief Society president visiting me or anything like that.

How the New Gospel Living App Is Changing My Young Women and Changing Me

By Haley Lundberg

I’m currently serving as a Young Women adviser in my ward. When the new Children and Youth program was first announced, I was both nervous and excited. How different would this be from Personal Progress, Duty to God, Activity Days, or Scouts? Would our youth feel like this was one more thing they had to add to their busy schedules, or would this new program easily integrate into their current extracurricular activities? Would it be flexible for our small youth program?