My companion and I were in a dangerous part of town and it was well past dark. My companion and I always took the same route back to our apartment, but I had the strongest...

I served in the Jakarta, Indonesia mission. To give you an idea of the country, it’s 90% Muslim. The other 10% consisted of Buddhist, Hindu, Christianity, etc. So needless to say, it was hard to...

One of the most remarkable experiences that I had was to meetwith a less active member each week for the six months that I served inan area. With each meeting our relationship grew stronger as...

A woman named Shona had been meeting with missionaries for two years when my companion and I met her. Shona loved the gospel and was fully involved in her ward, but something was keeping her...

You're probably waiting excitedly to enter the MTC. Sometimes those weeks before entering can feel like years so why not take advantage of the time and get a head start on memorizing useful things you...

I was always a little nervous to tell people the story of Joseph Smith’s firs vision because I didn’t know if they would see it as a believable story. It meant so much to me...

One summer day, my companion and I found ourselves lost in the middle of a small city in Japan. No matter how we turned the map, neither the map nor the Japanese characters on it...

With so many missionaries serving in missions with biking areas we thought it was important to help educate missionaries on basic bicycle maintenance and bike repairs that may happen to them while in the field....

I’m a little bit different. Most prospective missionaries hope to be called to an exotic foreign country—or at least to learn a new language.  As a teenager, both of those ideas terrified me. I remember...