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What the Bacolod Temple Announcement Meant to One Family Who Lost Everything for the Church

"Having the knowledge of all my own mother endured, and being a part of that legacy, is why I cried when I heard the announcement. It’s why my mom gasped out loud — sitting in the Conference Center and hearing the announcement in person — and was flooded with emotion."

Fun

Joseph Smith, Donny and Marie + Other Famous Latter-day Saints Who Appeared in DC and Marvel Comics

By LDS Living Staff

Imagine you're trying to kill some time before the midnight showing of the latest Avengers installment, so you and your friends decide to brush up on your superhero trivia by skimming through the classic comics you love just as much now as when you were 7 years old.

Latter-day Saint Life

From Bountiful to Barcelona: How missionary service took a food blogger halfway around the world

By Morgan Pearson

To understand what led Si and Grant foster to formally put on black nametags, you have to understand where they’ve been.

From the Church

The Joseph Smith Papers: The First 10 Years

By Kurt Manwaring

The Joseph Smith Papers recently published its17th volume associated with the life and works of Joseph Smith. The project, which began with the work of a single individual, has grown in scope and influence over its first decade. Along the way, the project has changed in numerous ways, overcome challenges, garnered unprecedented popularity, secured academic prestige, and set the stage for a new era of Mormon history.

Latter-day Saint Life

How to Let Go of Anxiety When Making Hard Decisions + 4 Steps to Replace Fear with Faith

By Yvonne Liu

After changing my major three times in college, I was sold on journalism as my career goal. However, while I was looking at the job salary for journalists, I realized that I would not be able to save much money in my newly chosen career. My anxiety rose and my mind started spinning. “Should I change my career goal? Is it too late to become a nurse or engineer?” While my brain was filled with fearful thoughts about the future, the advice I’d received from my therapist reminded me that I need to calm down and realize that it was my fear that was creating these doubts in my mind.

Latter-day Saint Life

What We Almost Always Forget About Forgiveness

By S. Michael Wilcox

Forgiveness can be difficult not only to give but also to receive. Once we have repented, sometimes the only person left to forgive us is ourselves. But as we learn to put away our past sins and do them no more, we can enjoy both the gift of forgiveness from our Heavenly Father and from ourselves.

Mormon Church Wants to Stay One Step Ahead of the Conspiracy Theorists

Two of the most prominent Republican candidates for president happen to be Mormon, but that doesn't mean the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has some sort of political agenda, it would like everyone to know. The Wall Street Journal reports that the Mormon Church is going out of its way to discourage the idea that it somehow is mysteriously pulling strings for Mitt Romney and Jon Huntsman (who are both "Running for Grown-up," as John Heilemann put it in New York this week). The Church has formally banned its 400 or so employees from contributing to political campaigns, for instance. And yet combating the idea of the church-as-political-puppeteer means some aggressive promotion of the faith itself.

Fun

Watch: The Piano Guys’ Steven Nelson shares his love story, performs ‘Rewrite the Stars’ with his wife

Nelson recounts the story of how he met his wife, Julie, shares a touching, heartfelt message of love, and then introduces Julie as his guest artist.

Latter-day Saint Life

Harvard Study Finds Teens Who Attend Church, Pray Have a Better Well-Being

A recent Harvard study shows that teens who pray or meditate and attend religious services are more likely to maintain a healthy well-being in their young adult years.

Mitt Romney answers the question "What went wrong in the presidential election?"

SALT LAKE CITY — For Spencer Zwick, the realization that the man he’d worked for since the 2002 Winter Olympics would not be president didn’t hit until the morning after the election, when he started to introduce Mitt Romney at an event for donors. “One of the hardest things was standing up there,” Zwick recalled. “To just say, ‘Welcome Mitt and Ann Romney,’ this is the moment it struck me that, ‘Oh my goodness, he’s not going to be the president and he should be.’″