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LDS Newlywed Diagnosed with Very Rare Disease: "It’s Just a Little Speed Bump to Eternity"

One week after Henry and Mackenzie Unga were married, Mackenzie Unga was diagnosed with a rare lung disease. The couple rely on their faith and each other as she awaits a transplant.

Famous Latter-day Saints

LDS Reality Show Champions Proudly Declare Their Faith

By Jeff Hampton

In 2007, things were good for Ben and Kasey Kelley. Ben's pressure-washing company was supporting his family of six, and they had a strong financial foundation. But when the recession hit the next year, and a drought demanded water conservation, Ben's business went under. The family, once financially stable, lost their home. They moved into a rental, and Ben often worked 80-hour weeks in order to provide for his young family, including the added expenses of raising a child with autism.

Latter-day Saint Life

BYU QB Taysom Hill Shares Faith & How Marriage Is Like Football

Emily Hill’s stomach dropped as soon as she read the text from her sister.

LDS Church Joins "Friend of Court" Briefs in Transgender Bathroom Case

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints recently joined five other faith groups to "file a 'friend of court' brief with the U.S. Supreme Court opposing a federal ruling that allows transgender students to use bathrooms matching their stated gender identity," according to the Desert News.

How the Church Helps Mormons Who Feel Like Outsiders in Our Faith

Look around the room on any given Sunday in a Latter-day Saint chapel and you'll soon realize you're among a heterogeneous group. Granted, some congregations might look more homogeneous based only on skin color or the number of dark suits and white shirts present. But look closer, with the right lenses, and you'll notice something else.

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LDS Mom Shares Faith, Competes on "Great American Baking Show"

"They would ask me a lot, ‘Why are you being so positive?’ ‘What makes you so happy?’ and it was cool to just be able to say, ‘I definitely am the person I am and the happiness I have is because of my belief in God and the redeeming power of the Atonement,'" LDS mom Bryan McKinnon says about her experience on the Great American Baking Show.

Mormon Water Polo Gold Medalist Talks on Faith

Tumua Anae was born in Hawaii and grew up in Newport Beach. She started her career playing high school water polo at Corona del Mar. Tumua won multiple national championships as USC’s goalie. She ended her career with the most saves in school history. Tumua joined the U.S. National Team in 2010, and was later selected to play in the 2012 London Olympics where she and her teammates won the gold medal. Tumua recently married Futi Tavana, former BYU volleyball standout and current member of the U.S.A. Volleyball Team. And yes, their kids will definitely be able to beat up your kids.

Latter-day Saint Life

With 3 Sons Who Hear and 3 Sons Who Are Deaf, How One Latter-day Saint Family Stays Anchored by Faith

Early on in their marriage, Scott and Lori Featherstone describe themselves as being "dirt poor" — it took years before they fully furnished their home. The reason for this, Scott Featherstone explained, was because every spare dime they had went toward buying new hearing aids.

Romney’s chance at presidency heartens Mormon faithful in Utah

“The story began in 1820,” the voice in the headphones exclaimed. A handful of people taking an audio tour of the Church History Museum here over the weekend followed exhibits, from a stained-glass window depicting the first revelation of “14-year-old farm boy” Joseph Smith, to the printing press that produced the first edition of the Book of Mormon in 1830, to the chair that carpenter Brigham Young built before joining the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1832. A few steps forward, the awed museumgoers listened to the words of Parley Pratt, a pioneer ancestor of Mitt Romney, as he imagined the establishment of Zion in Ohio, only to walk a few more feet to inspect the weapons used to chase Mormons from state to state and the death mask of the religion’s murdered founder.

From the Church

Mission President Passes Away in the Philippines, Family Bears Powerful Testimony

Church spokesman Daniel Woodruff shared with journalists Wednesday this statement about the death of one of the faith’s 399 mission presidents: