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...
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...
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...
Returned LDS Missionaries Worldwide to Participate in #MyMissionChristmas
All returned LDS missionaries are asked to join in a worldwide mission reunion by sharing a Christmas memory from their mission on social media, along with a picture, and using the hashtag #MyMissionChristmas. My Mission Christmas is a mission reunion of sorts, where...
Christmas Gift Idea: LDS Missionary Mailbag
If you know someone who is soon leaving (or already) on an LDS mission, here’s an idea for a Christmas gift. MissionaryMailbag.com is a system that lets missionaries and their families save, share, and cherish mission experiences in an easy, automated...100+ Olympus High School Graduates Return from LDS Missions
A little over two years ago, I shared a video that showed over 80 students from the Olympus High School (Salt Lake City) graduating class of 2012 opening their calls to serve as missionaries for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Now, those fine young...
MissionaryLeaders.org Helps LDS Ward Missionary Work
MissionaryLeaders.org is a website that helps ward mission leaders succeed in their calling. It can also help ward missionaries and other leaders and members of the Church to share the gospel successfully. It has the following sections: New Ward Mission Leaders...Follow on social media