by Danielle Ellis and Harvey Foutz (missionary in the 12-step program)

If we increase our dependence on anything or anyone except the Lord, we will find an immediate decrease in our freedom to act.” – L. Tom Perry

Addiction

What do you depend on? If it is alcohol or some other drug, legal or illegal, you might already think of yourself as an “addict.” But what about those who soothe or ignore their troubles with excess body weight or other disorder towards food or eating, compulsive use of money, or excessive work commitments?

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by Dave Ellis

This November we are having baby number five, which means we have a little over two months to come up with a better name than ‘baby number five.’ That child could never be president: who’d elect ‘Baby Number Five Ellis’ to office?

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At our house we are anxiously awaiting the arrival of our fifth baby, due in November. As we make preparations, consider names and watch my ever-expanding middle, the excitement grows. It is a fun and happy time for our family.

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by Danielle Ellis

If you have watched General Conference for the past few years, read the Ensign, or heard counsel from Church leaders lately, you have no doubt heard counsel on the plague of pornography, how to avoid it, or how to extricate yourself from it if you are already involved.

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by Pamela Smith

Young women who choose to place their out-of-wed-lock babies for adoption, as well as those who decide to single-parent, are who I work with in my church assignment. I am the Green Valley Stake Birth-Parent Representative for LDS Family Services; and so it is my privilege to step into the lives of these girls at a most crucial time.

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