Find Early LDS Missionaries in Your Family Tree
A new collaboration from the Church History Department and FamilySearch can help you discover if there are any early LDS missionaries in your family tree. You can also see their mission journals, letters, reports, and photos. The experience is made up of two parts:...
Mormon.org Pages About Family
Mormon.org has published some new articles about family, parenting, and family history. They are written especially to explain what the Church believes about the family, so they are great to share with your nonmember friends. What Is Family? Parenting Family History...
Video: How & When First Mormon Sister Missionaries Were Called
A new video produced by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints tells the story of how the first full-time proselytizing female Mormon missionaries came to be called in 1898. The video is part of an ongoing series by the Church History Department highlighting...
Elder Stevenson Urges Use of Technology to Spread Gospel
“May each of you have the courage to blog, pin, like, share, post, friend, tweet, snap, and swipe up in a way that will glorify, honor, and respect the will of our loving Heavenly Father and bring a knowledge of the Savior to your family, loved ones, and friends,”...
LDS Booklet Adjusting to Missionary Life
A new booklet from the Church can help missionaries deal with stress. The booklet Adjusting to Missionary Life is available online, in the Gospel Library mobile app, or in print from store.lds.org. Challenges in adjusting to missionary life are real—especially in the...
Super Elder Mobile App
It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s Super Elder! The free mobile app Super Elder is a fun and engaging app for children of any age. Help Super Elder fly around collecting coins to buy food for the bishop’s storehouse. Find special power-ups like hot peppers that provide...
Latin Sitcom “Retornados” Highlights Life After LDS Missions
The YouTube series “Retornados,” or “returnees” in English, is a Spanish web series that features four friends experiencing life after their LDS missions. Below is the pilot video: The sketches cover the different challenges and triumphs that returned...
#ShareGoodness with #PokemonGO
The game Pokémon GO has only been available for 6 days in a few countries. Already, it has been downloaded more than 7.5 million times in the USA alone and it is about to surpass Twitter in daily active users. Pokémon GO is a new game that you play using a smartphone....
Love What You Share, Share What You Love
Kristen Walker has just written a blog post titled “Love What You Share, Share What You Love.” She offers 5 simple tips about sharing goodness online. I summarize them below, but read the whole article for more help. 1. Use your own voice and your own life...
9 Ways to Use Technology to Share Your Beliefs
An article on youth.lds.org lists these 9 ways that you can use technology to share your beliefs: Find ideas, examples, and cool content to share on the #ShareGoodness website. Share one of your favorite videos, a general conference talk, a song, or a scripture with a...
Easter Invitation 2016: Follow Him and Find New Life
This Easter, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints invites you to follow Jesus Christ and find new life. The Church has produced new videos and images for your family to enjoy and to share with others. You can find them at FollowHim.mormon.org. When you...
New Church History Database Lists Early LDS Missionaries,1830 to 1930
A new database titled “Early Mormon Missionaries” features information about all known full-time proselytizing Mormon missionaries who served between 1830 and 1930. In addition to basic information such as names, dates of service, and mission locations, it includes...
Share Goodness One Hashtag at a Time
Latter-day Saints of all ages have been sharing goodness on social media by posting uplifting, inspirational images and messages. During his keynote address at Brigham Young University’s Campus Education Week in August of 2014, Elder David A. Bednar invited Church...
Video: Good Things to Share
Share with others what matters most to you. Watch this video “Good Things to Share.” What good things will you share? For more ideas on what and how to share: Read articles about #ShareGoodness on LDS365.com. Read 101 Ways to Hasten the Work...Follow on social media