enLIGHTen

Today on the enLIGHTen podcast, I sat down with President Brian Cordray of the Adriatic Mission and our conversation kept returning to this incredible sacred truth from Elder Quentin L. Cook’s conference message: The Lord is hastening His work. HASTENING. ✨ Not rushing. Not racing past. But being moved forward by heaven. We talked about what that word really means for our lives— how this generation of missionaries has been quietly, powerfully prepared… how the gospel is moving into hearts and nations with divine precision… and how this most marvelous work doesn’t belong to “someone else.” It belongs to us. To our voices. To our daily discipleship. If you feel the pull to step in, to lift, to serve, to share— this episode is for you. Let the spark catch. Share His Light! And come be part of the Hastening. ✨

President Nelson once said, “The human body is a MANIFICENT MASTERPIECE.” And this week on enLIGHTen, we explored just how true that is. With my good friend Tanna Fox @live_right_nutrition, we dove into the miracle of the body as a temple for our souls— And vessel of His grace and light and how choosing light in small, everyday ways lifts both the physical and the spiritual. Because it seems that the more we honor this gift, the more we feel and come to know the Giver.

This week's episode of the enLIGHTen podcast took us through the Nativity exhibit at the Kirtland Temple Visitors’ Center— hundreds of symbols, stories, and cultures all pointing us back to Jesus Christ . As we walked and talked, we were reminded that every nativity is a testimony crafted through someone’s gifts . Every artisan adds their piece to the story… just like we can . God magnifies whatever we’re willing to offer . This Christmas season, may every shepherd, every star, and every humble manger pull our hearts back to Him . Because remembering Him we remember ourselves the one God truly knows His own divine, beautiful and magnificent creation!

This week, we’re talking about the power of words— how Christ Himself is the Word, how through words God spoke light into being, and how our own words still hold creative power. . With Yarley Varley and her sweet daughter, Taytum we explored how words can heal or harm, build faith or fear, and how choosing truth and kindness aligns our voice with His. . Heaven and earth may pass away, but God’s words remain. They shape eternity— and when we speak with love, so do ours. . May we remember today that every word carries light— and the closer our words echo His, the brighter our lives will shine.

This week, we’re talking about what it means to honor—both the parents who gave us life on earth, and the Heavenly Parents who gave us eternal life in spirit.

In this week’s enLIGHTen episode with my dear friend, Anna Miller we explored what it truly means to be proved and strengthened in Christ— to walk through refining seasons not alone, but with Him beside us. We talked about how His love doesn’t spare us from the fire— it stays with us in it. Every trial, every “proving,” can polish our hearts the way pressure and heat turn carbon into a diamond. Because in His hands… the proving becomes the shaping. The breaking becomes the brightening. The weight becomes the witness of His strength within us. When we let Him walk with us, He turns what feels impossible into something eternal— something brilliant. 💫 May we trust the process, embrace the proving, and let His light make us shine.

An enLIGHTen conversation with Beth Martineau @saltandhart

In today’s enLIGHTen episode, I sit down with my dear friend Beth Martineau to open our hearts to what it really means to have Christ open our eyes—

We talk about how easy it is to go through life looking but never truly seeing…

When He anoints our eyes with light,

Because SEEING through Christ isn’t about sharper sight—

He helps us notice the unseen miracles,

May we let Him open our eyes again and again,

Today, we looked deeply at God’s goodness with Brandee Sanders and her daughter Ellie  — an hour of lifting truth.

When life feels like you’re sinking, weighed down by the sea-weed of what’s gone wrong, the light of His mercy reaches in. Brother Holland reminds us: “This awe-inspiring mercy … is perfectly suited to you, designed to relieve your individual agonies and heal your particular pains.”

Too often we beat ourselves up over our imperfections, forgetting the One who made mercy for us.

But here’s the promise: Seek Him with your whole heart. Stay the course. Look to His light in His Holy House. And your soul will be buoyed beyond whatever storm you’re riding. Because you are seen. You are known. You are loved. And in Him, you will rise.

Today I got to sit down with Rachelle Chase who just returned from serving as a mission leader in Chicago. We spoke about how we can find rest even in the most crazy and trying times. God doesn't promise "comfortable." But He absolutely promises to comfort us in our afflictions, to walk with us, to lift us and sustain us beyond anything we could do alone. Because of our covenants we can trust those promises and walk in the joy of His light no matter what is going on in our lives and the world around us.