When Irene Maximova joined the Church in September 1990 she had never heard of the visiting teaching or compassionate service programs. Today, as Relief Society president in the St. Petersburg...

It was time for filing income taxes again and Fred Wehrhahn was at the home of some non-member friends, George and Sandra Schneider, gathering information in order to assist in preparing their...

LDS young single adults experience unique challenges and transitions in their lives, such as leaving home for the first time, seeking an education, serving missions, choosing careers and preparing...

Edna Rudd was a spunky lady of 87 when my husband, Joe, and I were asked by the bishop in 1990 to regularly visit her at a retirement center. She had joined the Church at age 79, the only...

The Book of Mormon is the message and the method of salvation for the day, according to John L. Fowles, director of the LDS institute adjacent to the University of Missouri at Columbia. "As...

Sensing a mutual desire and sacred responsibility to follow a vital theme from the Book of Mormon, Elder Russell M. Nelson of the Council of the Twelve quoted: " `We talk of Christ, we rejoice in...

The First Presidency has announced the call of six more mission presidents. The new presidents and their wives will be assigned to specific missions later and will begin their service about July...

A circus performer once demonstrated to a group of youngsters some simple stunts on a trapeze, and gave them a chance to try out the swing, which had been lowered near the ground. A young boy,...

The Church's welfare plan provides a role model for welfare reform, according to statements made by the Heritage Foundation in its journal Policy Review. In a Feb. 11 article in the Deseret...

A HAPPY REUNION I WAS VERY HAPPY WHEN MY DAUGHTER, DORIS, RECEIVED HER MISSION CALL TO THE GERMANY HAMBURG MISSION IN THE LATE 1980S. THIS WAS THE SAME AREA IN WHICH I WAS A MISSIONARY 31...