There is a difference between a convert who is built on the rock of Christ through the Book of Mormon and stays hold of that iron rod, and one who is not.
I’ve seen everything from ‘Wicked’ to ‘The Book Of Mormon,’ and I don’t make any bones of the fact that I love both. But ‘Les Mis’ is not only my favorite musical, but it’s also my favorite story. I love the book, which I read as a kid, and I identified so much with Jean Valjean.
My mom had grown up in the South. Louisiana and Georgia. She had been deeply religious. Baptist, then Mormon. She had worked for the U.S. military. She had voted for Ronald Reagan and Bush Senior.
The only social rule you recognized in high school was that Mormon girls don’t date non-Mormons.
Well, my father’s people were Mormon, and had immigrated not long after Brigham Young had settled Utah.
I grew up and had a lot of friends who were gay and Mormon. They couldn’t come out to their parents. They couldn’t even come out to me because we just wouldn’t talk about it.
How do you top ‘Mormon?’ I get sent scripts all the time and I don’t know what I would do next. What do you do after that? So I think if you do see me onstage, you’ll see me in something dramatic, maybe, or you’ll see me try my hand at something else. Perhaps fail, terribly, but try.
I love cranberry juice, but I’m not a coffee drinker – as a Mormon, I avoid caffeine.
As a member of the Mormon church, Romney is instructed to tithe 10 percent of his income. That’s in keeping with most charitable giving: Religious institutions get about one-third of all contributions, according to ‘The American’ magazine.
I challenge the homes of Israel to display on their walls great quotations and scenes from the Book of Mormon.
Nobody realizes that Mormons were the first Americans to settle Las Vegas.
In Mormon society and culture, highest values are placed on hard work, thrift, clean living, obedience to the elders and, above all, on the importance of the family.
I was doing research on the Mormon handcart tragedy when I came across information about Brigham Young sending out missions to the Indians in 1855.
We were now, as I before mentioned, upon this St. Joseph’s trail. It was evident, by the traces, that large parties were a few days in advance of us; and as we too supposed them to be Mormons, we had some apprehension of interruption.
I’d been raised Mormon, but there comes a time where you are not following what you’ve been taught, but discovering for yourself if it’s true.
A whole lot of Americans have never met a Mormon.
Indeed, the Lord has not forgotten! He has blessed us and others throughout the world with the Book of Mormon.
I believe in my Mormon faith, and I endeavor to live by it. My faith is the faith of my fathers – I will be true to them and to my beliefs.
I do feel a need as a Mormon to speak out against things that are hurting people.
I grew up quite poor, and the Mormon church was always there for us as a family.
In this age of the electronic media and the mass distribution of the printed word, God will hold us accountable if we do not now move the Book of Mormon in a monumental way.
A Mormon knows that the promises of God are true, and He said that all will be tried; realizing these things the Latter-day Saints will acknowledge their Maker not only in blessings but also in tribulations.
You’re either Mormon or Southern Baptist in my family. They’re incredibly conservative and I love my family.
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