Sometimes I tell full time missionaries today that the reason they have so many mission rules is that when I was a missionary 55 years ago, we didn’t! There’s more than a hint of truth to that. For example, on my mission we were on our own to find a place to live. No written guidelines….
Category: Spiritual/Philosophical
Heaven’s tender mercies are everywhere, and certainly the little good we do in one generation comes back to bless us and multiple generations more. (D. Todd Christofferson) Several weeks ago, in an email from our grandson, Nathan Harman, who is serving as a missionary in Liberia (West Africa), he reported that the area president, Elder…
Over 130 years ago, my great-great grandfather Anderson and his family helped settle Idaho’s upper Snake River valley. He was a member of the LDS Church . . . and was an obstinate Swede. His daughter married and, as was the custom, to celebrate the event he provided a wedding dance at his log cabin…
My dear friend Lucia was twenty‐five when she married Richard Cooper in the spring of 1982. They both joined the Mormon Church in 1983 and two years later their daughter, Lisa, was born. In January of 1987, by speaking directly to Richard’s doctor, Lucia discovered her husband had AIDS. Back then that was an immutable…