The Money Blog

Many years ago, our family was going on a trip to Florida. My wife had somehow
misplaced her wedding ring and couldn’t find it that morning. We were to be flying out of town later that night for our tr...

As a bishop, my most serious trial came about three years into my calling. I felt—in many ways—like I had been cruising along pretty well when I was abruptly met with a heavy burden. It was a difficul...

I had a fascinating experience recently as I observed a group of men cutting branches from trees and putting them into a tree branch pulverizer that demolished the limbs into smaller parts and shot th...

When my son Blake was about eight, we went to the desert one day to have a paintball gun encounter. It was going to be a great family day with a few friends. My sons and I and a few friends were all t...

The lesson of the Sixty is that God does not continue to punish us for the past, but that He is ready to forget, move on and bless us with the future in mind. Think of those married outside the temple...

The symbolism of the Sixty helps us understand that a loving God knows that sometimes we are not prepared when called the first time or the second time. The symbolism of the Sixty is that a merciful G...

A few years ago, a thirteen-year-old girl came to our dental office with a speech impediment. She could speak satisfactorily, but she slurred some sounds and there were certain letters she could not e...

A pressing question: why did Helaman, Mormon, and Captain
Moroni spend time writing about the sixty young men who enlisted later? In Alma chapter 57 verse 6 we read that “sixty of the sons of the Ammon...

When Helaman took charge of the 2000 stripling warriors, they went to battle filled with faith, and the Lord rewarded their efforts in miraculous ways. The experiences of the stripling warriors are tr...

Many years ago, I was working in a downtown area as a dentist. This was a rougher part of town and some of the patients were a little bit rough as well. One day I was working on a patient with Hepatit...

I vividly recall a young man in my ward growing up, who was never going to go on a
mission. During his high school years, he and his friends were “riotous,” to use a scriptural term lightly (Luke 15:13...

For the past few months our family has been going over to a house we are
building and sweeping and cleaning for our Saturday work projects. While this is
probably not necessary for the progress of the h...