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This is so interesting -- to learn what our Church is doing around the world, and how to get the news from different countries.   Mormons Around the World: Peru, Ghana, Indonesia, Australia By The LDS Newsroom  · April 18, 2017 Sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please  CLICK HERE MormonNewsroom.org features stories from its international Newsroom websites to share what members and leaders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints around the world are doing to better the communities in which they live. Peru: Mormon Helping Hands Answer the Call in Local Disaster Latter-day Saints, wearing their familiar  Mormon Helping Hands  yellow shirts and vests, and themselves suffering from the effects of flooding rainfall, left their homes to help their neighbors. “I could not stay home watching what was happening in my country; I had to do something,” said Jose. Such were the thoughts of many Mormons who try to follow t...

These are great ideas if we start feeling our prayers aren't heard, or that we are not as close to the Spirit as we were in the past. ​3 Habits That Could Make You Lose Your Testimony Without Realizing It by Zack Oates Mormon Life It was a blistering hot day in NYC. I was 23 and had graduated from BYU two months earlier. Now I was nearing the end of my summer internship at a very fast-paced advertising agency. From my apartment window, I looked out over the Hudson River where a city that shimmered with opportunity lay before me. The whole world was looking bright, but inside, I felt…cloudy. I had doubts. I wasn’t sure where to live after my internship, what to do for work, and worst of all, I went from having a huge support system in Utah where everyone encouraged me to choose the right and where gospel conversations were a norm, to a bustling city where my thoughts rarely fell on the gospel. And when they did, it was mainly questions abo...

This article expresses thoughts I have had most of my life.  We all know dear family members or friends who have passed on, and what an impact on all our lives they were.  Are we living our own lives so we will be a blessing to many others day by day?  Today is all we have. This morning, my dear daughter-in-law Julie asked what I was going to do today.  I really didn't have a plan, but I do have several choice things I can do any given day.  Just deciding which is the challenge!  Yesterday we had the wonderful experience of being at the last Tabernacle Choir broadcast that my son Wayne will sing in live.  I'm sure there will be quite a few re-runs of when he sang in it, and the re-runs of this last General Conference will be especially precious to us as he was in the Choir then.  The ceremony after was very special, and I will do a blog on that in a day or two when I collect the photos several others took there.  A dear granddaughter has ...

We have had several changes in our family recently!  I moved from St. George to Bountiful, Utah, 2 weeks ago today.  My son, Wayne Miles Eckman, will sing in the Tabernacle Choir for the last time, tomorrow April 23, 2017, as he turned 60 last summer.  He was able to go with the Choir to Europe last summer, and also sing in the Inauguration.  You can read about him at:   http://grandmapalspocket.blogspot.com/search/label/Eckman%20Wayne%20M   Our daughter Delsy wil be retiring from teaching school in Santa Clara, Utah, and move to Ogden, Utah, in June.  I'll do a blog about her for her birthday on May 16th.  Several family members are graduating, moving away to college, etc. April 22, 2017 Great Mission SCRIPTURE OF THE DAY Mosiah  3:19 "For the natural man is an enemy to God, and has been from the fall of Adam, and will be, forever and ever, unless he yields to the enticings of the Holy Spiri...

This article was written by Jeremy Goff, on his website:  mylifebygogogoff.com 8 Anti-Mormon Tactics That Satan Uses To Attack The Latter-day Saints Satan is the father of lies and deception. He has many titles including the cunning one. Satan is master of language and convincing. After all, he was able to sway a third of the host of heaven to follow him. Whereas we do not normally study Satan it is wise to learn the tactics he is using against the Saints! President Ezra Taft Benson taught in General Conference: “A study of Satan’s methods can alert us to his seductions.” Ezra Taft Benson With that as the context, let’s take a look 8 Anti-Mormon tactics that Satan uses to attack the Latter-day Saints so that we can resist them! But before we continue I’d like to invite you to like my facebook page. 1st. Half truths. One of the biggest misconceptions about Satan is that he always tells bald face lies. Lies that are 100% untrue. But Sa...