by Andrea Lauritzen

After I bought my first home, I wondered if I’d done the right thing. I soon learned that I was right where the Lord needed me to be, and that I could do what He asked me to do.

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by Dave Ellis

As I mentioned in a recent article we are having baby number five, who now by the way, has a name: Bonnie Sweet Ellis. The first name was picked from a name list, the middle name is my wife’s maiden name. All of the girls (4!) in our family have the middle name ‘Sweet’ but not the boy. His middle name is Michael because I just couldn’t do that to him.

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The holidays are always an exciting and busy time of year. The activities multiply exponentially as the calendar ticks closer to Christmas. For me, this has been already, and will continue to be an extra busy season. Dave and I and the other four kids welcomed our new baby, Bonnie Sweet Ellis, on November 9th. We are all thrilled she’s here safe and sound, and I am thrilled she came a week early!

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By Cheryl Stewart Osborn

When legendary performer Gladys Knight organized a gospel choir in 2002 to perform at a Green Valley Stake fireside, she unknowingly created what would become a worldwide missionary tool for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

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by Anne Bradshaw

This Christmas is lame. Here I am, fifteen years old, and they have me playing Joseph in the Primary Nativity. I mean–at my age–parading with little kids in front of the whole Branch, dressed in an ancient dressing gown?

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