Your Body: Love It or Loathe It?
We know that our bodies are gifts from God and that we are made in his image. So why is it so hard to love our bodies? In “The Body, a Sacred Gift,” published in the Ensign and Liahona, Diane Spangler reports that 63 percent of women and 50 percent...
Four Ways to Be an Everyday Missionary
By committing to be missionaries for the rest of our lives, we can help others experience the joy and peace of the gospel. Many members of the Church have served missions across the world and know firsthand the blessings of sharing the gospel. But whether you served a full-time mission...
Enduring with Cheer: Aurelia Spencer Rogers, Founder of the Primary
Through trials of faith and heartaches, Aurelia refused to give up, using her love heightened by loss to help the children of the Church. After her mother’s death, Aurelia Spencer Rogers (1834–1922) and her older sister cared for their four younger siblings for two years while their father was on...
Enduring Trials of Our Faith
Trials sometimes cause us to cry, “Why me?” But instead of asking the Lord to remove our trials, we can learn to recognize them as opportunities to become more Christlike. “Whatever the form the test takes, we must be willing to pass it,” said Elder Neal A. Maxwell in a 1974...
Standing in Holy Places outside of Holy Places
Going to the temple and attending sacrament meeting won’t guarantee us eternal life; blessings come when we make all times and all places holy. If I attend the temple once a month and prepare to worthily partake of the sacrament each week, why do I feel like I’m living below...
A Shield from Our Self-Doubts
When constant scrolling on social media leaves us feeling inadequate, the knowledge of our divine identity offers a powerful shield against self-doubt. Social media, while a great resource and tool in the modern day, is also a trap of seemingly endless scrolling and constant comparisons that fills time but leaves...

