Tony Finau, a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, is a 28-year-old professional golf player from Lehi, Utah, where he resides with his wife and four children. He was seven years old when he saw his first golf tournament on television, watching...
Tim Ballard is a former CIA agent and a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Having received a prompting that he “was to do something more” in his line of work, he left his government job. He found his answer as to what his next move was to be in...
If you were to ask members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to name the witnesses to the Book of Mormon, the answer would probably be the names of the men who are most commonly known – Oliver Cowdery, Martin Harris, and David Whitmer – the “Three...
With the help of multiple Utah County dancers, 20-year-old Jensen Arnold, a ballroom dancer from Provo, Utah, advanced to the Season 15 finale of the show, So You Think You Can Dance. Among those who have helped Jensen to reach this point in the competition is her...
The exceptionally talented Utah dancers, Charity Anderson and Andres Peñate of Springville, Utah, and Jaxon Willard of American Fork, Utah, continue to dominate the stage on Season 2 of NBC’s reality show, World of Dance. Both the Springville dance duo and Jaxon are...
Mitch Davis is the LDS film director who brought the book, The Other Side of Heaven, to the big screen. The story is about emeritus general authority, Elder John H. Groberg, and his mission to Tonga at the age of 19. Davis believes that the key to making a good film...
Clark Rich Burbidge, the Utah author of the young adult fantasy series “StarPassage,” looked back to the life of his father to write the series. His father suffered from PTSD after serving in the Korean War. And, the third book in the series, Star Passage: Book 3 —...
Not everyone will wear a black name tag and serve a proselyting mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. However, the Lord has declared that missionary work is the responsibility of all who follow Him (see Matthew 28:19–20; D&C 88:81). And as...
There are perhaps very few people, the world over, both children and adults, who are unfamiliar with A.A. Milne’s Winnie the Pooh stories. Just the mention of the name, Winnie the Pooh, causes the theme song to play in a person’s head on eternal repeat. The stories of...
Perhaps one of the biggest Goliath in life that a lot of people dread coming face-to-face with is the unknown. Someone has astutely observed that “sometimes you find yourself in the middle of nowhere, and sometimes in the middle of nowhere you find yourself.” And...
Theresa Marie Hunter Pitts from Kalispell, Montana, has been dubbed such titles as “the Super Mom,” or “the Flying Mom,” or as “the fastest mom in the world” and rightfully so. On 9 July 2017, in Missoula, Montana, running her first Marathon, she and her little team:...
Marcelino Leonardo is a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He grew up in the Dominican Republic and as a poor, eight-year-old boy, he loved playing baseball. He also enjoyed attending Primary at Church. It was during this impressionable time of...
Mark Rober, a graduate of Brigham Young University, worked as an engineer for NASA. He was given the task by Volkswagen of powering the ID R Pikes Peak, the all-electric supercar that raced in the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb on Sunday, 24 June 2018. With the...
With perhaps the exception of Hawaii, the state considered as the king of unique names, Utah has the highest percent of children that are given names that are least 10 times more common in their home state than any other place in the nation. Names such as Nyler,...
NBC’s reality show, World of Dance, is off to a grand start for its second season as three dynamic acts from Utah County gracefully dance their way across the stage and into the hearts of the judges, studio audience, and television viewers. The three acts include...
Sarah Sellers, a native of Ogden, Utah, and a graduate of Weber State University, made headline news and caused heads to turn in the running world when she accomplished what was deemed improbable. On Monday, 16 April 2018, the 26-year-old Banner-University Medical...
The National Day of Prayer is observed annually on the first Thursday in the month of May. The first National Day of Prayer dates to 1775 when the Continental Congress assigned a daily prayer while they were forming the new nation. Since that time, various Presidents...
On Monday, 23 April 2018, the Athletics Department at Auburn University, a public research university in Auburn, Alabama, honored both individuals and teams for the best athletic and academic achievement during the 2017-2018 season. During its ostentatious AUSPY award...
The Mack brothers, Kimo, 48, and Kalani, 49, are entrepreneurs and self-motivators in the truest sense. The brothers are lifelong members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and hail from Kaneohe on the coast of Oahu, Hawaii. During the Great Recession...
The mayor of Wadsworth, a city in Medina County, Ohio, Robin L. Laubaugh is well-known for her dynamic leadership roles and community service on countless projects. However, she proclaims that the accomplishment that she is proudest of is raising her four children –...
On Friday, 20 April 2018, the Utah State Board of Regents voted unanimously to select Astrid S. Tuminez, a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and Microsoft’s regional director for corporate, external and legal affairs in Southeast Asia, as the...
Ken Leishman, known as the Gentleman Bandit or Flying Bandit, was one of Canada’s most infamous and endearing criminals. He committed and was convicted of crimes ranging from bank robberies to aerial jailbreaks to masterminding the largest gold heist in Canada’s...
Sarah Sellers (nee: Callister), a 26-year-old LDS nurse anesthetist at Banner-University Medical Center in Tucson, Arizona, is a virtual unknown in the world of marathon races, but she crossed the finish line in second place at the prestigious 26.2-mile Boston...
Thirteen years ago, 34-year-old entrepreneur, Trevor Chapman, was a broke college who earned extra money by going door-to-door selling pest control. In time, he was able to launch his own business, installing solar panels, that rapidly expanded across three states....
