First-time visitors to Salt Lake City are generally not disappointed when they get a look at its wedding-cake architecture around Temple Square and the long line at Snelgrove's, where icecream worshippers gather. Brigham Young, who led the Mormons to Utah in 1847, gets the credit, at least...
Bachelors and Masters Degrees in Education from Brigham Young University where I was Young Women President twice, married in the Provo temple, multiple Relief Society, Primary, and Young Women Presidencies amongst a myriad of other callings, and stalwart, dedicated, magnify-my-callings, honest, and...
My next story is about a woman I will call Mary. She was the daughter of faithful pioneer parents who had sacrificed much for the gospel. She had been married in the temple and was the mother of 10 children. She was a talented woman who taught her children how to pray, to work hard...
Temples have always been a part of Heavenly Father’s church on the earth. In fact, the Garden of Eden is considered to be a type of temple, and was the first dwelling place of Adam and Eve – Heavenly Father’s first children. As Adam and Eve walked with God in the garden, He ta...
We can call them on the phone and talk to them or leave voice mail. We cannot make them talk to us. We cannot make force them to return our calls. We can try to get a face-to-face appointment to talk to them. We cannot go camp out at their office and hold a hunger strike unt...
They gave Rachael friendly waves on their way to the elevator while Rachael stayed behind to make her appointment with Ms. Frampton. “Whew, it’s over.” Rachael exhaled herself into the leather armchair she had barely touched an hour before. Ms. Frampton looked surprised again but this ...
a time when I had taken my daughter to a doctor’s appointment and the doctor asked me when her last bowel movement was and I couldn’t answer the question. I cried that night. It’s times like these when you, as a mother, begin to take a step back and reevaluate your priorities....
Our lovely Columbia South Carolina Temple is about in the center of the State. Going to the temple is always an uplifting and rewarding experience. In preparing for a temple trip, reservations have to be made in advance by calling the temple and scheduling an appointment for all temple work....
(1 Nephi 19:23). Today is a day when I’d be nervous to see who in the scriptures I could be likened unto. Perhaps one of the ten virgins who was unprepared, or a Laman or Lemuel murmuring rather than inquiring, or more likely someone who didn’t even make it into a story ...
ll talk it over together every day.” I thought that sounded wonderful. So, I made an appointment with Him every day that I would do that; and I did at first, faithfully. But then sometimes I would forget to come at night. And sometimes days would go by and we never had a talk ...