by | Dec 7, 2010 | Blog, Friends, Jesus Christ, Mormon, Mormonism, Teen Life, Understanding Your Mormon Friend, Youth
You’re a nice person and you like to respect the standards and beliefs of all your friends. So now you have a Mormon friend and you can see she belongs to a strict religion, but you’re not sure what the rules are. Christmas is coming and you’re wondering if you can...
by | Sep 1, 2010 | Blog, Encouragement, Jesus Christ, Mormon, Mormonism, Obedience, Repentance, Teen Life, Understanding Your Mormon Friend, Youth
Kenda Creasy Dean, author of a book on teens and religion, is not a Mormon, but she found, while interviewing hundreds of teens, that Mormon teens had something other teens did not. One thing she found is that Mormonism gives its teenagers hope for the future. Mormon...
by | Jun 1, 2010 | Friends, Humility, Jesus Christ, Service, Teen Life
In our last post, we talked about a study showing that teens today are less empathetic than they were in the past. Empathy means to be able to see things from another person’s point of view and to be able to understand their trials and challenges. Being empathetic is...
by | May 31, 2010 | Blog, Friends, Jesus Christ, Service, Teen Life
A study in the news these days says that teens today are less empathetic. Empathy means to be able to put yourself in someone else’s shoes and imagine what things must be like for them. Being able to do this helps us to be kinder and more Christ-like. It also makes us...
by | May 6, 2010 | Blog, Encouragement, Jesus Christ, Mormon, Mormon Women
Stephanie Nielson did something very few people ever do. She survived a plane crash. She and her husband both lived, but she was in a coma for a long time. Today her face shows the many scars of the terrible accident and she suffers a great deal of pain. She sometimes...
by brady | May 2, 2007 | Agency, Blog, Encouragement, Jesus Christ, Mormonism, Obedience, Repentance, Service
Growing up is hard. Being a teenager is often awkward, but in youth and young adulthood we make crucial decisions that determine what adults we will become. Deciding whether to stay morally clean, who and when to date, whether to have a Temple marriage, what college...
