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Hank Toy’s Devil

March 16, 2018

A devil came to an old Mormon on an icy winter night when mounds of snow outside, as big as cars, lay black and cold, nearly invisible. Having searched since the beginning of the world,…

For Margene

March 15, 2018

[…] brought her primary stew  A fresh fruit bouquet  Chicken salad, croissants, and raspberry scones  She tried to feed every nurse and janitor on the floor We plastered the antiseptic walls with sticky great grandchildren […]

Jungle Walks

March 14, 2018

[…] of Eden  Long before the Fall,  The green of leaves,  Self-willed,  The darkest green the sun can feed.  To this hill they flee  From offices,  From wheels,  From lists of things  To do,  To […]

Woman: Joint Heiress With Christ

March 14, 2018

I’ve been asked to speak on the topic of women who have inspired me, how they’ve helped me, and how I honor them in my life.

I want to start with a remarkable experience I had in this ward, when a group of Primary girls inspired me in a life-changing way. I was teaching the senior Primary about the stories of Jesus, and they were very squirmy so I decided to harness this energy into a spontaneous form of kinesthetic learning. I said: “Let’s act out things people do to show they are following the Savior’s example!”

Hospitality in the Book of Mormon

March 14, 2018

[…] where he would meet a “holy man,” a person whom he should receive “into [his] house and feed him.” If Amulek did this, he was told twice that the stranger would bless him and […]

Charity on the Rocks

March 14, 2018

My husband grew up backpacking, and it was one of the conditions of our marriage that I would learn to backpack too. I do it now, and occasionally even enjoy it, but it’s definitely a stretch to say that I’m good at it or love it as wholeheartedly as Mike does; backpacking is perpetually a challenge for me, and my favorite part is the end of the day when I collapse in our tent with my Kindle. I say this by way of prefacing a personal story so that you understand the context as I start telling you about a time when nature nearly got the best of me. 

Spring Hill

March 13, 2018

[…] trees at the same time. The animals didn’t talk, but they did let you pet them and feed them. And there weren’t any people at all—unless you counted Obi-Wan.  That wasn’t his real name. […]