by Larry Richman | Jun 12, 2015
The article “But What If … ? Questions about Serving a Mission” gives advice to youth and adults who are contemplating serving a full-time mission. As your time to serve a mission approaches, you may ask yourself, “Can I really do this?” Yes, you can! It...
by Larry Richman | May 10, 2015
A group of LDS missionaries who returned home early from their missions have shared their feelings in a music video “BRAVE: A Message for Early Returning Missionaries.” The video features 14 returned missionaries who ended their service short. Each missionary...
by Larry Richman | Apr 28, 2015
Why do so many young Mormons leave their family and friends behind to serve the Lord on an LDS mission? Find the answer at a new exhibit on Temple Square that highlights the stories of 8 missionaries. There are over 85,000 missionaries serving full-time missions...
by Larry Richman | Apr 23, 2015
The movie Meet The Mormons is now available on DVD and Blu-ray in retail stores, including 3,500 Walmart stores nationwide. It has over an hour of never-before-seen footage and bonus features. One of the bonus features is a new story about “The Artist,” Italian-born...
by Larry Richman | Apr 11, 2015
A post on the Facebook page for the South Africa Mormon Newsroom explains how two LDS missionaries serving in South Africa ended up hosting a weekly radio show talking about the gospel. Here’s the post: Missionaries learn many new things on their mission….but...
by Larry Richman | Mar 18, 2015
Returning from a two-year mission out of shape and overweight, Miles Batty didn’t know if he would ever compete as a runner again. But in February 2012, he broke the indoor collegiate mile record. Watch the video “Going the Extra Mile:” Watch other...
by Larry Richman | Feb 28, 2015
Sister Alena Helzer recently returned from serving an LDS mission in the Germany Berlin Mission and produced a short video of her mission. She compressed her 18-month mission into a 5-minute video, including beautiful vistas, historic monuments, amazing architecture,...
by Larry Richman | Feb 22, 2015
The Blackfoot Idaho Stake created this video for their Standards Night, based on the 2015 Mutual Theme to embark in the service of God. The video is 33 minutes and contains lots of missionary stories. Here is the video “Embark in Service – Blackfoot Stake...
by Larry Richman | Feb 8, 2015
More LDS women than ever are volunteering for full-time missions now that the minimum age of service was lowered. ABC News recently aired a nice report about the effectiveness of sister missionaries (see the video below). Related article: “Sister Missionaries to...
by Larry Richman | Feb 7, 2015
The video “LDS sister missionary~Emily. That’s why I’m going!” is about a young woman who decided to serve an LDS mission, but then had serious feelings of self doubt and fear. Reading Joseph Smith’s history helped her overcome those...
by Larry Richman | Feb 2, 2015
Gabe Guerrero Just finished his LDS mission in the Washington, D.C. North Mission. Every day of his mission, he took a picture of himself and merged them together into the video below, “Missionary Takes Photo of Himself Everyday for 2 Years (smiling)!”...
by Larry Richman | Jan 28, 2015
LDSmissionaries.com has just published a list of “6 Tools to Make You a Stellar Online Missionary.” These are 6 great ideas on how you can encourage others to act on Elder Bednar’s challenge to flood the earth with the message of the gospel. Read the...
by Larry Richman | Jan 23, 2015
Wondering how to teach and encourage others to take Elder Bednar’s charge to flood the earth with the message of the gospel? Several people have asked me if I have any presentations or helps they could use in Sunday meetings or firesides. Here are some good...
by Larry Richman | Jan 21, 2015
MissionaryMailbag.com is a system that lets you save, share, and cherish your mission experiences in an easy, automated way. All you do is sign up for the service and the system does the following: Shares your emails with people in your circle. Whenever you send an...
by Larry Richman | Jan 20, 2015
Kallie Clark found a creative way to explain to people why she is serving an LDS mission. Watch the video “My Mission: Hermana Clark.” Here is a list of other member-created videos I have shared on LDS365.com. If you find other videos you think I should...
