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...
14 Surprising, Heartwarming Videos of LDS Mission Calls, Homecomings
For young men and women preparing to serve LDS missions, opening their calls is an exciting experience. I have posted many videos that document the memorable moment when they learn where they will spend the next 18 months or 2 years. Similarly, many videos have...
Serve an LDS Technology Mission
The spread of technology around the world is creating a greater need for technology lovers to serve LDS full-time missions. You can enjoy this unique opportunity to serve as an Area Technology Specialist (ATS) missionary. ATS missionaries work with Information and...
My Plan: Resources for Returning LDS Missionaries
My Plan is a new resource to help LDS missionaries create a post-mission plan and set goals for how they will continue to live the gospel after their missions. They will begin this plan before and during their missions. Then, they will be invited to share their goals...
LDS Missionaries in Some Countries No Longer Required to Purchase Suit Coats
Mormon male missionaries, or “elders,” are recognized in many parts of the world by their suits and black name tags. However, in some parts of world with hot climates, suit coats are impractical. To reduce the financial burden on missionaries and their families,...Follow on social media