My name is Amber. I am 22 years old. I grew up in the LDS church as the second of ten children. I gave my blood, sweat, and tears to finish my degree at BYU this past August in Marriage, Family, and Human Development. Because I came from a big family, I sacrificed many things [...]
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Filed under: Portraits of Mormon Women
Today’s originally scheduled Sharing Our Voices piece will be shared on Thursday. Today, we wanted to respond to another reader’s recent question: I was wondering what Mormons believe about suicide. Answer by Michelle** The response to this question is going to come in two parts. This week, I will address the question with relation to [...]
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Filed under: Ask a Mormon Woman
We received this question from one of our readers: I am a Mormon woman with three kids and my husband is not a member of the Church. I get sidetracked a lot; I love coffee and I used to smoke. What advice do you have for me? We actually want to turn this question over [...]
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~by Julie I’ve been thinking a lot this week about a quote by President Gordon B. Hinckley from 1998 that was reprinted in the October 2009 Visiting Teaching Message: “Never forget that these little ones are the sons and daughters of God and that yous is a custodial relationship to them, that He was a [...]
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Filed under: We Believe
Have you ever wondered what goes on inside of the meetinghouses of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints? See this LDS Newsroom story that explains more about our buildings and what kinds of meetings we hold in them. As the article explains, our meetinghouses are both places of worship and centers of social [...]
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~by Jenny Life gets so crazy sometimes that the goals we set as families can fall by the wayside. But one goal our family has been able to hold onto is eating dinner together. It doesn’t happen every night, but most nights it does. Don’t get me wrong, it isn’t perfect. We have our share [...]
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Filed under: Mormon Family Life
~by Jennifer I’m living an unexpected life. But aren’t we all? My eight-year-old declaration of my life’s work was: I am going to be a mother. My second grade teacher didn’t like that; she kept insisting that I needed to pick a “profession.” I was adamant. I would be a mother, and that was final. [...]
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Filed under: How We Live, Who We Are
My name is Sylvia. I joined the Church when I was 27 years old, between my return from serving as a Peace Corps volunteer in West Africa and graduate studies in Washington, D.C. I feel privileged to work in international development, as I have an opportunity to serve every single day. I also feel lucky [...]
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~by Heidi It had been a bad day. I was dealing with disappointment over a hoped-for opportunity that had been withdrawn, and pain over a teacher’s unfair and damaging treatment of my young son. As I sat at my computer where so much of my life seems to happen these days, I was feeling lonely [...]
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Filed under: Video and Multimedia
~by Michelle President Uchtdorf talked to young adults in the CES fireside that is held and broadcast the first Sunday of nearly every month. He addressed some important topics. While the audience is primarily LDS, his message could benefit anyone. He started by sharing a summary of Hans Christian Andersen’s The Ugly Duckling. Like the [...]
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