by Lynn Price

Someone once observed, “If you gain one pound a year after you’re married, by the time you’ve been married 50 years, you’ll have gained 50 pounds.”

When I married, my husband and I agreed that after the birth of each child, I had to regain my pre-pregnancy weight before I could get pregnant again. This plan worked well for my first four children. And then we moved to Germany.

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by Lori Nawyn

If there’s one thing my sister-in-law says people should stock up on it’s water.” Sharon Cote Merritt, who last fall headed an effort in northern Utah to gather and ship supplies to hurricane victims in Louisiana, is quick to relate what her family learned in the aftermath of the storms. Merritt’s brother and sister-in-law, Jeff and Roxanne Cote of the Alexandria, Louisiana Stake, said that in the days and weeks following both hurricanes Katrina and Rita the most valuable commodity was indeed water.

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