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This is a very perceptive article!  As the world darkens, there is also light in many unexpected places.  Let's look for the light!   22 MARCH 2017   -   SALT LAKE CITY Choosing Good News Is the world getting worse? Some think our best days have passed; others think they’re just around the corner. But how do we know? By what criteria can we judge such a question? With limitless information at our fingertips, we can find stories and data to support either position. In one measurement or another, the world is always getting worse and always getting better — sometimes both at the same time. If we seek good news, we will find good; if we seek bad news, we will find bad. Perhaps the better question is, what kind of world do we choose to make? It may not be possible to understand the world in its entirety. We all have our blind spots. But any attempt must balance bad news with good news. The daily drumbeat of tragedy, catastrophe, war, folly, c...

March 28, 2017 Service SCRIPTURE OF THE DAY Luke  12:43 "Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing . " QUOTE OF THE DAY Joseph Fielding Smith "Your able service does not go unnoticed by that God whom you serve and in whose work you are engaged" ( Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Joseph Fielding Smith , p. 123 ). March 27, 2017 Life is What We Make It SCRIPTURE OF THE DAY James  1:25 ""But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed . " QUOTE OF THE DAY David O. McKay "Let us ever keep in mind that life is largely what we make it, and that the Savior of men has marked clearly and plainly just how joy and peace may be obtained. It is in the gospel of Jesus Christ and adherence thereto...