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Is There Life Before Sixteen? On Your Mark, Get Ready, Get Set, Date PART 3

By: Michael Allred From the book: Serving With Strength Throughout the World Let’s do some reasoning. If Satan has been hanging around the earth for more than six thousand years, and we’ve been hanging around for fewer than twenty, who do you think knows the most about temptation? I think you can probably figure that […]

Is There Life Before Sixteen? On Your Mark, Get Ready, Get Set, Date PART 1

By: Michael W. Allred From the book: Serving With Strength Throughout the World After returning from my mission, I began looking up old friends that I had not seen for two years. I went to the house of a friend who was already married and met his wife. I also learned that his wife’s younger […]

Gambling, Where is the Wisdom?

By: Stephen L. Richards Now I have been just a little bit concerned about the subject for this occasion, and I thought I would take the chance of choosing for my subject, “Gambling,” which I suppose is a real chance on the maintenance of your interest. The reason that I choose this subject is because […]

Modest Is Always In Style

By: Joy Saunders Lundberg At last I was sixteen years old and ready to date. The prom was coming up, and I just had to go! But no one else seemed to notice. I kept waiting to be asked and praying that my dream guy would be the one. Well, he was the one . […]

How Many Kisses?

By: Rand H. Packer From the book: Why Say No When The World Says  Yes? Resisting Temptation in an Immoral World When I was thirteen, my friend who was fourteen asked me, “Rand, you kissed a girl yet?” “Are you kidding?” I responded with a mixture of pride and embarrassment. “I haven’t even been out […]

How Does the Spirit Speak to Us?

By: John Bytheway From the book What I Wish I’d Known in High School: Second Semester As a junior in high school, I found myself one afternoon at the bowling alley with some friends. I rented a pair of lovely, high-fashion bowling shoes, chose a bowling ball, and waited for my turn. As I stood […]

Is There Life Before SixteenIs There Life Before Sixteen? On Your Mark, Get Ready, Get Set, Date PART 2

By: Michael W. Allread From the book: Serving With Strength Throughout The World Some young people wonder why we develop the desire to date before we are old enough to date. Maybe an example from sports will help. Many coaches feel the purpose of practice is to drill so much that in a game a […]

How to Help LDS Youth Have Social Opportunities

LDS Church News A few months ago we learned we were moving to a very small branch in eastern Alabama. Having grown up in a small branch, I knew the blessings and challenges that our family would be facing. There are five things we can do when our youth are few in number: Support and […]

A Message To The Youth of the Church

THERE IS NOTHING IN MY POWER THAT I CAN POSSIBLY DO FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE YOUTH OF ZION BUT THAT I PROPOSE TO DO. I BELIEVE IN YOU. I LOVE YOU. I RESPECT YOU. I THINK YOU ARE THE FINEST YOUNG MEN AND WOMEN TO BE FOUND IN ANY PART OF THE WORLD.

Why do Some People Have More Trials than Others?

From LDSWHY.com One of the most difficult aspects of mortality is that we experience trials. We know that the purpose of these trials is to help us become more like God. More refined. More pure. If God is patient, then I need to learn patience; and the primary way to learn patience is to not […]