Posted on March 31st, 2011 by mormonwomen
A key to understanding our beliefs of members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is understanding what we call the Restoration of the gospel of Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ organized His church when He was alive, giving priesthood authority to His twelve apostles. Peter, James, and John and other apostles directed the [...]
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Posted on March 30th, 2011 by mormonwomen
If you are familiar with Mormon life, you probably know that the semi-annual General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is this weekend. And it’s a weekend we Mormons get very excited about! It may seem a little strange that eight (or ten) hours of listening to talks from various people [...]
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Filed under: How We Live, Mormon Church Life
Posted on March 29th, 2011 by Janelle
Twice a year I take time to do an inventory on how my food storage and emergency preparations are going. Six months ago I put together 72 hour kits and go bags for all of my family members. I also received a food storage shelf for my birthday that my husband has built and installed [...]
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Filed under: How We Live
Posted on March 28th, 2011 by mormonwomen
~by Michelle You know how sometimes you read a comment that leads you to a blog that leads to another blog? That’s what happened to me last night, and I found this post: Hard Times Don’t Last Forever I only had a few minutes to peruse their blog, but it’s clear this young couple has [...]
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Filed under: Facing Trials with Faith, How We Live
Posted on March 25th, 2011 by Michelle
~by Michelle The video above shows highlights from the 2010 General Young Women Meeting, including counsel from general (world) Church leaders and thoughts from Mormon young women. The General Young Women Meeting is held every year at the end of March. Young women around the world gather to receive instruction from the general leaders of [...]
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Posted on March 24th, 2011 by mormonwomen
~by Michelle A couple of months ago, I sat in a fireside (an LDS spiritual meeting) with our son, who is 12 years old. This meeting was to introduce the LDS youth theme for 2011. Wow. I was reminded of one reason why I love being Mormon. I went through the Young Women program myself [...]
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Filed under: How We Live, LDS Standards and Values, Mormon Church Life
Posted on March 23rd, 2011 by mormonwomen
Kari Huus at MSNBC has written another article that we thought would be interesting to Mormon Women readers. This one is about an LDS missionary and his experience with the earthquake and tsunami. He and dozens of other Mormon missionaries who were in the area have been transferred to other parts of Japan. (You can [...]
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Filed under: Mormons in the News, Who We Are
Posted on March 22nd, 2011 by mormonwomen
One of my callings in the Church is to help with Activity Days for girls who are 10 and 11 years old. At Activity Days, our group is focusing on the Faith in God program. We as leaders (there are two of us) work with the girls to plan activities that correspond with different facets [...]
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Posted on March 21st, 2011 by mormonwomen
Chris Yokoyama [known by his friends as "Beans"] was with two of his friends when their car crashed and Chris died. Darren Haslam, 18, was driving the car and escaped mostly unharmed. The other passenger, Christopher Evanson, 18, received a severe head injury and was in a coma. “When Chris Yokoyama died, it was really [...]
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Filed under: Facing Trials with Faith, How We Live, The Plan of Salvation, What We Believe
Posted on March 20th, 2011 by Janelle
~by Janelle I cannot remember much of my middle school years aside from choir. I lived for choir. My teacher could play the piano like Mozart and could pin point any person in our class of fifty and let them know if they was sharp or flat while we were singing all the parts together. [...]
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Filed under: How We Live, Mormon Church Life
