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Listen: Nathan Pacheco Reveals the Elder Holland Quote That Led Him to Pursue a Career in Music

On September 12, 2004, Nathan Pacheco wasn’t a Billboard chart-topping artist. He hadn’t yet been on tour with Yanni or performed with the Tabernacle Choir on Temple Square. In 2004, he was just a senior at Brigham Young University who had a dream of pursuing a career in music. The classically trained tenor was sitting in the nosebleeds of the Marriott Center at a Church Educational System fireside when Elder Jeffrey R. Holland made a statement that served as the catalyst Pacheco needed to have faith to chase his dreams.

LDS church tax exemption affects Nauvoo, school district

Checks to Nauvoo property owners from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints will provide a partial refund on higher taxes paid this year after a change in the church's tax status on its holdings in Nauvoo. Some church properties -- the temple, meeting house and temple president's home -- had been exempt from property taxes. But the church since the 1960s has paid taxes on its other properties in the Nauvoo area even though churches are exempt from paying property tax on religious properties.

Have Hope in the Youth

In a recent sacrament meeting talk, a ward Young Men president recalled having taught the lesson in the ward’s priests quorum not long before.

Lesson Helps

FHE: Holy Ghost

By Shauna Gibby

Conference Talk:

7 Experiences from Worldwide Fast Participants You Don't Want to Miss

After President Russell M. Nelson’s invitation to participate in two worldwide fasts, people of other faiths joined together with members of our Church—both those who haven’t stepped foot in a church for years and those who attend every Sunday—to plead with heaven for relief from COVID-19. And while the coronavirus pandemic is still ongoing, miracles have undoubtedly taken place.

LDS Youth Earns National Award for Eagle Scout Project

When Forrest Bernhardt began work on his Eagle Scout leadership service project, he never dreamed it would be nominated for a national award. He didn’t even know there was one. In May, Forrest’s project—obtaining and installing a specially designed swing for people with disabilities—was chosen from among 57,976 Eagle Scout projects as one of the top four in the United States.

Lesson Helps

January 2014 Home Teaching Message: The Best Time to Plant a Tree

In ancient Rome, Janus was the god of beginnings. He was often depicted with two faces—one looking back on the past, the other looking forward to the future. Some languages name the month of January after him because the beginning of the year was a time for reflection as well as planning.

6 Ways to Rescue a Time-starved Marriage

By Brent L. Top and Michael A. Goodman

This post comes from the new book, By Divine Design, which discusses best practices for family success and happiness, from LDS leaders to supporting academic research.

Can I Really Forgive and Forget?

By Jonathan Swinton

How do I forgive when it still hurts so much? How do I get back to how it was before he/she lost my trust? I want to move on, but how do I know if I am ready? How do I control all my thoughts that make me question if I can trust her/him again?

Latter-day Saint Life

This mission leader had a baby on her mission—what she realized about serving God

By Paige Sommer

Jenny couldn’t get out of bed for the first three months of her pregnancy. She felt inadequate until she realized what God was really asking of her.