By Beth Shumway Moore

The Haun’s Mill Massacre is a small part of the history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The little-known event that occurred on October 30, 1838, at Haun’s Mill, Missouri, is perhaps only a foot-note in that larger story, but it looms large in the tumultuous events that shaped the attitudes and beliefs of the nineteenth-century adherents called Mormons, who followed the teachings and revelations of their prophet, Joseph Smith.

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By Pam Ellis

One of the best missionaries I know has never worn a missionary name badge or learned a missionary discussion. She is a grandmother and adoptive “Grandma” to many children whom she has taken in, loved, taught, and with whom she has shared love, life lessons, and the gospel of Jesus Christ. I had to find out the rest of her story.

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by Annette Lyon

I found my son staying up well past his bedtime, a book hidden under his covers. With a stern voice, I reminded him that it was a school night.

“Can I finish this chapter? Pleeeeease?” he begged.

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By Mark Cordner

It’s in the family setting that the furnace of life’s experiences often reveals individuals’ true character…

Lloyd and LaPrele George met while students at BYU and married shortly after LaPrele’s graduation. With the exception of time spent in military service and school, the Georges have lived their entire married life in Las Vegas.

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by Dave Jackson

As a convert to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints there were a few things missing from my Mormon résumé when I joined the Church. Among the missing were my family history and a heritage of pioneers crossing the plains. Obviously I couldn’t do much about the pioneer thing, except stew over it. Which I did. I’ll explain.

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by Annette Lyon

I imagine most children of stay-at-home mothers spend far more time with Mom than they do with Dad. It’s a matter of math and logistics. While I’ve been impacted in enormous ways by my mother, Dad has left a definite mark in spite of the smaller number of hours I spent with him. The older I get—and the older my children get—the more I see his imprint.

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By Lori Nawyn

Since last December, I have celebrated the seventeenth day of each month with gusto. It is a time to remember, reflect, and, most importantly, enjoy life’s journey to the fullest. It is my Stacy Day.

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By Marilyn Richardson

Pale and withered, 78-year-old Orval Bawden lay on the narrow bed in the nursing home. Just six months ago he had been a vigorous man who had continued to work past retirement age as an engineer for the state highway department. Now, diagnosed with inoperable cancer, he had been moved to a nursing home in Pleasant Grove, Utah to make it easier for his daughter, Jodie, the one who lived closest, to visit. In that same facility was a woman, also dying of cancer. The husband of this woman came to visit her daily. One day he stopped to see Orval.

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On any given day at a handful of nursing homes in Salt Lake City a buoyant yet distinguished gentleman can be seen talking, laughing and listening to the residents. Despite his heavy load of religious assignments, Thomas S. Monson, the president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, is the self-appointed chaplain for these facilities.

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By Monica Evans

One of the keys to our lives is the proper understanding of agency. It is a gift from God which gives us the opportunity to make our own choices. Since the course of our lives is determined by the accumulation of daily choices we make, we must choose wisely. The effects of proper choices are needed personally and in our families. When we choose a course for our family, we can think in terms of creating an “intentional family.”

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by Tina Scott

The New Year is here, and with it, the call to reform. I’m talking about New Year’s Resolutions. I have never made many resolutions. I was under the mistaken notion that since I went to church every week, fulfilled my calling, read my scriptures, and honored the Sabbath, I was doing all Heavenly Father required of me.

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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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Henry B. Eyring was named as the new Second Counselor of the three-man First Presidency by President Gordon B. Hinckley, the 97-year-old leader of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

President Hinckley also presented for the traditional “sustaining vote” of the Church membership the name of Quentin L. Cook as a new apostle. Both men were sustained at the Saturday morning session of the 177th Semi-Annual General Conference in Salt Lake City.

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By Anthony E. Larson

Mormon, as the author of the Book of Mormon, was in a truly unique position. He had an intimate knowledge of two cultures that were widely separated in time yet shared the same general geographic location: the Americans and the Nephites. He was a historian and a prophet—a historian because he had custody of the plates that recorded all Nephite history, a prophet because he had been shown the future when people he called “Gentiles” would inhabit the western hemisphere.

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Though his body was crippled, his mind was sharp,” said Gordon B. Hinckley, President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. “His wisdom was deep and profound. It came of long experience in many fields. He brought with him the mind of a lawyer, and the compassion of a church leader. His faith in the truth of the restored gospel was unflagging. There was no doubt in his mind concerning the prophetic calling of Joseph Smith. He had no doubt about the validity of the Book of Mormon. His posterity, whom he loved, was his greatest treasure.”

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