I loved being in a singles ward. I know that there are a lot of people who do not enjoy that experience, but I felt that it was really fun to have so many people together who happened to be in similar places in their lives. However one of the difficulties that could rise…Read more How Do We Put The Savior First Without Putting Down Other People or Their Religions?

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  We as members of the church value niceness, which can lead to some complicated issues. One of these issues is that we are not always the best at expressing ourselves in the ways that we should. When issues arise we can sometimes be a little passive aggressive, instead of simply stating how we feel.…Read more Clear Boundaries For Themselves

  It has been incredible to have the experience of being a father and watching my son change as he has made it through the last 18 months. It has been so fun to see his personality develop and to watch him change from completely helpless to extremely mobile. Although he is on the very…Read more Be spiritually independent

  Don’t get me wrong. I was extremely thrilled to have the opportunity to serve my mission in Brazil. I quickly fell in love with the people, the language, and the food of that wonderful country. However I simultaneous felt various tensions, because I was extremely fond of the United Sates. I had pajama bottoms…Read more An Opportunity For Wonderful Explorations In Diversity

  While proselytizing in Brazil, we were taught to focus out content and approach on families. There are so many wonderful teaching about the family in which leaders want to emphasize how seriously we need to be concerned with these units. I think that much of this is wonderful advise, particularly because the incredible joys…Read more We Must Treat Each Other with Kindness and Respect

  In the beginning of my faith transition at the point where I least understood my place in the church and whether I would be able to continue as a member of the church, one of the problems that I didn’t feel like I belonged. At that point I was question everything, and to make…Read more May We Offer Our Willing Hearts

  I recently attended a conference where topics relating to Mormonism were being discussed. For a different project I decided that I would record myself asking questions to some of the people I met in the halls. One of my questions was “What is one of your favorite aspects of Mormonism?” I was so impressed…Read more We Really and Truly Need Each Other

  Rosemary M. Wixom has shared that “An elderly woman in her 90s has watched her children and grandchildren grow up and her great-grand-children come into the world. Like many of us, she has had a life filled with sorrows, afflictions, and incomprehensible joy. She confesses that if she were rewriting her life story, she…Read more I Just Must Live a Little Longer and See How It All Turns Out

  Obedience is a difficult principle for me to understand, particularly since I have spent so much time learning about blind obedience through psychological research, and to see how this concept can be manipulated by using natural parts of our humanity. There is much research exposing those who perpetuate fraud. In Utah there is sadly…Read more The Passive and Thoughtless Following of the Orders or Dictates of a Higher Authority