
Dec 2007 Issue
LAS VEGAS, NV – The Las Vegas Nevada South Stake hosted an open house on Saturday, Nov. 10, for its new stake center located in the growing southwest area of Las Vegas. Approximately 500 people visited the new church building and stations set up in rooms displaying The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints auxiliary programs.
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Dec 2007 Issue
by Dave Ellis
You wouldn’t know by looking at me that I like desserts (OK, you would).
Throw in the magical Christmas time and all hopes of losing weight go out the window. Or maybe sliding glass door; it’s bigger.
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Dec 2007 Issue
Amazingly, it’s Christmastime again. I never imagined that I would be this young and repeating clichés about the speed of time. Yet I am!
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Dec 2007 Issue
By Anthony E. Larson
The first three parts of this article series is available in our online archive at www.DesertSaintsMagazine.com. They ran in the September, October and November 2007 issues.
The thesis presented in this 4-part series has stood the test of time. It affirms that Nephite history is predictive, to one degree or another, of events yet to come in our time. Events and conditions that were once speculation on this author’s part nearly two decades ago in 1989, when Parallel Histories: The Nephites and the Americans was first published, have now become historic fact: The two histories mirror one another to a remarkable degree.
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Dec 2007 Issue
by Danielle Ellis
After receiving our family’s Christmas letter last year, a friend confided that she never knew what to write. She asked me to write an article on writing good Christmas letters, so here is my best advice.
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