If you want to be happy in life…quit trying to impress other people. It just doesn’t work. It has never worked. It will never work. You might be able to impress a few people. You might even be able to impress a lot of people. But you will never impress everyone. Unfortunately for us, we’re hard…
The first month of your mission will probably be one of the hardest. They say, the days go by like years…and the years go by like days. You’ll probably think about home a lot. You might question your abilities and face lots of failure. You might think about friends, family, dogs, and sports. You’ve probably…
There are days in which you’ll feel like you can’t go on. Not another step. Not another early morning. Not another slammed door. Not another insult. No more. These are the moments when you need to dig down deep. You’ve come so far and these are the moments in which the most growth will occur….
Do you see those little satellite dishes sitting on top of almost every roof? How about those giant wifi and cell towers that basically give anyone immediate access to everyone else across the globe from the comfort of their own home? Yeah…those little devices are allowing prophesies to be fulfilled. We wonder how the gospel…
Over the last few years I’ve been making an effort to share my testimony of the gospel online. I never could have imagined the types of things people would say about me just for doing so. I mean…I grew up in California in a place where there weren’t a ton of Mormons around. Most of…
It is very likely that you will be called into a “leadership position” while you are on your mission or throughout your life. But regardless of when or where you are called to serve, “Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily; even if you had no title or position” says Brian Tracy. …
Way back in the day when I was just a little guy, I used to be really awesome at roller skating. I know that makes me sound like a gigantic dork but hey…it was cool at the time. When I was 13 or 14 years old…I was doing some sweet nerd moves on my skates…
So…what happens when a person gets called to a leadership position and it’s your opinion that this person is not fit to lead? Maybe you’ve know them personally and based on what you’ve witnessed in the past, you can’t believe that the Lord would actually want them to preside over you and others. You’ve never…
There are a lot of reasons why I love the LDS Church but there’s one concept in particular that I love more than any other. This one concept that I’ve fallen in love with in Mormonism is foreign to all other Christian churches and religions. This concept is doctrinally denounced by the Christian leaders of the world. Pastors and…
Millennials in general are the generation that is pushing for an ever more God-less world. That’s not just my opinion. The major research polls on Millennials are telling the story. It seems strange that this is the generation that is surrounded with the greatest access to learning, technological advances, and intelligence that the world has ever seen. Its like…

