The Person over the Program

This Sunday morning, while eating breakfast, Grasshopper (7yo) told me that she was going to ask the Primary President if they could learn a pioneer song. Knowing that the music leader is working at the very edge of her abilities and that the Primary is struggling to...

Children and Covenants

My husband, the youngest of eight, grew up in a less active family. Each time a child approached his eighth birthday, his father would start attending church so that he would be able to baptize the child. Afterward, he would return to his less active status....

Living in “the Mission Field”

I have always lived well outside the Western U.S. where there are church buildings in every neighborhood. I have heard Church members refer to anywhere outside Utah as “the mission field.” Many years ago, when I lived in another ward, I had a conversation...

According to Their Infirmities

I arrived at church on Sunday and went to Relief Society. (Our ward follows a reversed schedule which starts with RS/PH and ends with Sacrament Meeting.) They made announcements and started immediately with testimonies. I was so very confused, because somehow I had it...

Sharing the Gospel through Music

In our last Sacrament Meeting, we sang the hymn, How Great Thou Art (Hymn #86), and it brought me back to a time over 20 years ago when I was on my mission in Georgia Atlanta Mission. I was assigned to Cedartown, a very small town in northern Georgia. My companion,...