Justin Baker lives in the Kirtland, Ohio stake and has a lovely wife and six kids. He has served in the bishopric, the elders quorum presidency, as a stake high councilor, and is currently a primary teacher. He works for a medical device company in Cleveland, over...
Valiant K. Jones grew up in Utah, Indiana, and Idaho, and he attended Brigham Young University where he received a BS degree, summa cum laude with honors, followed by an MS degree, both in chemical engineering. He worked for over thirty-two years in the chemical...
As leaders, it is easy to get caught up in the meetings, classes, councils, and activities that may be required of our callings. However, there is something immensely powerful that we offer our flock when we establish and thrive in habits that reflect the joy, peace,...
In a study of how millennials and the rising generation seek out meaning, it may surprise you to learn what is displacing organized religion in their lives. “How We Gather,” a study by Angie Thurston and Casper ter Kuile, researchers at Harvard Divinity...
Ryan Snarr grew up in Layton, UT. He is a life-long church meeting doodler and has stacks and books of evidence to prove it. He fulfilled his calling as a missionary in the Lima Perú South mission from 1997-1999, and later was called to serve as a musical missionary...
Originally from Idaho Falls, Idaho, Cory served a mission in Santa Maria, Brazil, graduated with a degree in accounting from Idaho State University, and lived in Boise, Idaho before settling in Pocatello, Idaho working as the CFO of a local credit union. The father of...
It doesn’t seem that hard to figure out, but it’s often difficult to learn how to listen with real intent. Why? Because our modern lives have swallowed up the time to care about the details of caring; the time needed to think beyond ourselves and to listen intently...
Robert Cornilles is the author of the just-released Preparing Tomorrow’s Missionaries Today, available on Amazon. Currently serving as the elders quorum president in his Saratoga Springs, Utah, ward, Robert and his wife Allison have three married sons and two...
King Benjamin warns us in Mosiah 4:30, “If ye do not watch yourselves, and your thoughts, and your words, and your deeds, and observe the commandments of God, and continue in the faith of what ye have heard . . . ye must perish.” Most of us want to follow King...
I had an inkling to pay a visit to an old friend who I had not had occasion to visit for many moons. I will call him “Sam.” I arrived at his simple home. He lives in an older area of town. He repairs automobiles from his small garage at his home. His profession has...
