English | Portuguese My name is Oakli Wright, and in July of 2015 I entered the Missionary Training Center in Provo, Utah, to begin my service as a missionary for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. I felt unprepared, but ready Read more [...]

This is the story of how a tiny evergreen branch reminded me that God lives, that he loves us, and that Christmas miracles are real. On Christmas night I was blessed to visit a fellow church member in jail in a neighboring county. His family Read more [...]

Larry and Sharon Corsini began their 54-year love affair in 1962 at a movie theater in Idaho Falls, Idaho. Sharon was selling tickets when the handsome Larry, a Massachusetts transplant, caught her eye and her heart. They were married that same Read more [...]

On Thanksgiving day, Kayden Carlos stepped off a plane in Salt Lake City after completing a two-year assignment for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the Maryland Baltimore Mission. For some, his tearful and cheerful family reunion Read more [...]

Emily Farmer and McEwan “Mac” Voorhees don’t have much in common. Voorhees turns 100 on Thursday, Oct. 27. Farmer just turned 25. Farmer is a magician at the piano. Voorhees prefers his beloved harmonica. Voorhees saves his days at Read more [...]

This weekend, members and friends of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints will have the opportunity to learn from Church leaders at the 186th Semiannual General Conference. Together with the already completed general women's session, the 12 Read more [...]

Last Sunday I had the pleasure of attending An Evening with Broadway singer Sandra Turley and Family. Sandra, her husband Josh, and their four children visited our humble town of Woodstock, Virginia, and the whole gang participated in the program. Sandra Read more [...]

Miki Ogao lies on the table for yet another outpatient medical procedure. Doctors are performing a Swan-Ganz catheterization to check the health of her finicky heart. She feels nothing, but she’s wide awake. She hears the doctors and nurses discussing Read more [...]

Pamela Rae Solomon had a keen eye. She saw people others didn’t. She saw teachable moments the rest of us might roll right by. She saw opportunities to serve God with all her heart, might, mind and strength. Oh, and she took a pretty good photo, too. On Read more [...]

My friend slides the slender white box across the table at a quiet Mexican restaurant. “I brought you something.” I’m rarely surprised by a gift, but this one drops my jaw and pries my eyes wide open. It’s a gorgeous pen from his personal collection. But Read more [...]