Dare to Stand Alone

MR says: President Thomas S. Monson shares an experience he had in the Navy when he had to stand alone and reminds us that "we are never alone when we stand with our Father in Heaven."

Young Men: 'Leaders enjoy a sacred privilege'

Leaders of young men throughout the Church enjoy a sacred privilege and opportunity to help the boys they serve to realize and fulfill their duty to God. That was the message emphasized at the May 10 spring training for Young Men adult leaders. The annual training originated from the Bountiful...

Mary, the Mother of Jesus

MR says: One last tribute to Mother's Day (even if it's a day late).

Love Her Mother

MR says: You might need a tissue for this beautiful Mormon Messages video.

LDS Church Explains Political Neutrality with Animation

New Presiding Bishop has witnessed faith in action

Witnessing the death, damage and destruction caused by last year's historic natural disaster in Japan was a life-altering experience for Bishop Gary E. Stevenson and his wife, Sister Lesa Stevenson. The Stevensons were, at once, terribly saddened by the heavy toll that was exacted by such...

Elder Marlin K. Jensen addresses young adults at CES fireside

Nearly 200 years after Joseph Smith’s First Vision occurred in the Sacred Grove in upstate New York, individuals can still look to the patterns and structure of that holy place as a teacher of important life lessons, Elder Marlin K. Jensen said during a Church Educational System Devotional on May...

Cabo Verde, Land of Light

MR says: I didn't know the history of the Cabo Verde Mission. It's beautiful.

Deacons quorum president is representative of the 'good fruit'

The Punta Arenas Chile Stake is the southernmost stake of the Church in the world. Nicolás Reyes lives there. Bishop David Oyarce of the Ovejero Ward called Nicolás to be the president of the deacons quorum not only because he was worthy but because he was the only active deacon in the whole...

I Choose to Be Pure

MR says: Young adults from six different faiths share why they choose to be sexually pure.

'We need not fear,' Elder Andersen says at BYU Women's Conference

After two days of instruction, service and a little bit of entertainment, thousands of women from all over the world left the Brigham Young University campus "recharged" and "renewed" Friday afternoon. For Julie Cropper of southern Utah, being at Women's Conference is a "treat" she looks forward...

Elder Scott D. Whiting: Wise decisions prepared him for service

Making the right decisions in life is what Elder Scott D. Whiting believes helped prepare him later to serve the Lord in various capacities. Born in April of 1961 to Duane and Beverly Whiting, he grew up in Salt Lake City, Utah, the second of six children. "We were and still are a very close...

Trusting in the Lord’s timetable during trials

The waiting game — it may be one of the most difficult things to swallow during our sojourn in mortality. Yesterday, Women’s Conference participants had the opportunity to listen to the uplifting words of Michelle Brown and Janie Penfield who spoke on the issue of “Trusting in the Lord’s...

Mormon Parenting: King Benjamin's fantastic promises to parents

Would you like your kids to “never transgress the laws of God?” Would you like your children not to “fight and quarrel one with another?” What most parents wouldn’t give for those two promises! Well, in fact, they are two of the 10 promises listed by King Benjamin — promises...

'A gospel of deliverance' has defined their lives

In speaking assignments as a Church leader, Elder Robert Christopher Gay is apt to refer to the message of Jesus Christ as "a gospel of deliverance." "That's what we've seen and lived all our lives," Elder Gay said, referring to himself and his wife, Sister Lynette Nielsen Gay, in an interview on...