A Book with a Promise

(How to Download Video – Direct Video URL = http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9cVyTbX1kM) I remember when I was in high school I had an amazing teacher who challenged me to take Moroni’s challenge to heart and begin an earnest study of the Book of Mormon to find out for myself that it was true.  I began reading every [...]

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He’s My Son

Taken from the album “Mark Shultz” (Amazon MP3 Download, Website) I’m down on my knees again tonight I’m hoping this prayer will turn out right You see there is a boy that needs your help His mother is tired I’m sure you can understand I’ve done all that I can do myself Each night as [...]

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Our Decision to Have Kids

When we first got married we talked about having kids and decided it would be best to wait until the Husband and the Wife were out of school.  We moved off to college and began our new lives together.  It wasn’t but a couple of months when we found ourselves in a joint priesthood/RS lesson [...]

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Our Influence

“We can’t do everything for everyone everywhere, but we can do something for someone somewhere.”  Richard L. Evans We can often get bogged down by all that is required of us.  Some of the greatest advice I got from my mom is to get on your knees first thing in the morning.  Figure out what [...]

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Exciting Times!

President Gordon B. Hinckley, fifteenth President of the Church, “A Prophet’s Counsel and Prayer for Youth.”  Ensign, Jan. 2001, 2 “Once upon a time, a very long time ago, I was your age. . . . I worried about school and where it would lead. It was the season of the terrible economic depression. I [...]

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Have Times Changed?

Thomas S. Monson, “Come Unto Him in Prayer and Faith.”  Ensign, March 2009, pg. 7. “Now, the skeptic may say that these mighty accounts of faith occurred long ago, that times have changed. Have times really changed? Don’t we today, as always, love our children and want them to live righteously? Don’t we today, as [...]

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Have you Tried Prayer?

Thomas S. Monson, “Come Unto Him in Prayer and Faith.”  Ensign, March 2009, pg. 6. “As we offer unto the Lord our family prayers and our personal prayers, let us do so with faith and trust in Him. Let us remember the injunction of Paul to the Hebrews: “For he that cometh to God must [...]

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