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Especially for Latter-day Saint Missionaries: How to Transition to Post-Mission Life

Every month, about 2,800 LDS missionaries come home. The returning missionary or couple appears at the airport, at the front door, or in the chapel. Loved ones and old friends offer joyful congratulations and comment on changes they see: a brighter glow of faith, a more confident demeanor, a deeper tan, or a newly acquired accent.

Feature Stories

Ping’s inspired dream: How an unlikely friend helped open the Philippines for missionary work

By Mason J. Cameron

The Church couldn’t get past all the government red tape—until a well-connected local woman had a remarkably specific dream.

Latter-day Saint Life

One Powerful Insight That Helped Me Overcome My Concerns About Gender Equality in the Church

By Lucy Stevenson

As an English major, I have enjoyed taking several classes on ethics and social justice that address issues like implicit bias, racism, and sexism. I love the way these classes opened my eyes to things I had never noticed before about the world around me. While I had always known that equal rights were important, I became more sensitive to the importance of these issues in a way I never had before. I felt that gaining this wisdom was invaluable—that it would make me a stronger, more sensitive voice, both in my career and in my service in the Church.

Lesson Helps

11 Items to Simplify Family Home Evening

By LDS Living

Family Home Evening isn't always easy, but any attempt to gather your family will surely have long-term benefits. Here are some things that can make your FHE simple and engaging.

Help for Life Challenges

Trusting God’s ability to rescue our loved ones

By Camille Fronk Olson

Sometimes God does indeed intercede, and other times it feels like no help is coming. These are among the conundrums we navigate in mortality.

Lesson Helps

New Testament Lesson 23: "As I Have Loved You, Love One Another"

By Ted L. Gibbons

INTRODUCTION: Nephi wrote of the Lord in his remarkable psalm of praise and awe, “He hath filled me with his love even unto the consuming of my flesh” (2 Nephi 4:21). Nephi had just written “O wretched man that I am” and “My heart sorroweth because of my flesh” (2 Nephi 4:17) and “my soul grieveth because of mine iniquities, and I am encompassed about because of the temptations and the sins which do so easily beset me” (2 Nephi 4:18). But even so he was secure in the witness he had of the Lord’s improbable and immeasurable love. Paul wrote:

Latter-day Saint Life

Sister Missionary Searches for the Good Samaritan Who Helped Her After She Was Hit by a Car

By Jason F. Wright

McKenna Grover desperately wants to thank a good Samaritan from her past—if only she knew where to find him.

Latter-day Saint Life

3 Ways to Survive Your Mormon Quarter-Life Crisis

By Katie Lambert

After graduating college, I realized I hadn't hit nearly as many checkboxes as I wanted on the five-year plan I made when I was a Mia Maid.

Returned Missionary Britain Covey Talks How the Faith of His Ute Teammates, Chaplain Makes Him Better + More

By Trent Toone

More than a year has passed since University of Utah receiver and return specialist Britain Covey returned from his mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Rancagua, Chile.

Latter-day Saint Life

Should Mormons Give Money to Panhandlers?

By LDS Living Staff

We’ve all read, or at least heard something similar to the words of King Benajmin in Mosiah 4, reminding us that we are all beggars in the sight of God and telling us “ye will not suffer that the beggar putteth up his petition to you in vain, and turn him out to perish” (Mosiah 4: 16). He also tells us not to judge these people and say to ourselves, “The man has brought upon himself his misery; therefore I will stay my hand, and will not give unto him of my food, nor impart unto him of my substance that he may not suffer, for his punishments are just” (Mosiah 4:17).