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Video of the Day: American Idol star announces her mission call

June 14, 2024 12:00 AM
(Instagram / @kenedianderson_)
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Former service missionaries share their experiences

April 01, 2024 12:00 AM
When Church members think of missionary service, they often think of riding bikes, knocking doors and handing out copies of the Book of Mormon. However, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is giving young missionaries increased opportunities to serve.
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The Soccer Sisters

May 19, 2023 12:00 AM
The Soccer Sisters
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New study identifies benefits, drawbacks of missionary service gap time for Utah women

February 07, 2023 12:00 AM
The Utah Women in Leadership Project released a brief from research conducted by two BYU employees about the benefits and drawbacks that gap time for missionary service has on women attending college in Utah.
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Trials, lacrosse lead to BYU senior's lasting conversion

March 12, 2021 12:00 AM
Natalie Giles' path to baptism began with lacrosse and her older brother's death.
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Called to serve in a pandemic: ‘We bawled our eyes out’

June 02, 2020 12:00 AM
Editor’s note: Thousands of missionaries across the world are facing upended plans during the pandemic. Some are returning home before completing their missions, others are serving in quarantine and many are receiving new calls. The Daily Universe is looking at how these missionaries are grappling with challenges in a series of stories.
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Called to serve in a pandemic: Quarantining as a missionary

May 21, 2020 12:00 AM
Editor's note: Thousands of missionaries across the world are facing upended plans during the pandemic. Some are returning home before completing their missions, others are serving in quarantine and many are receiving new calls. The Daily Universe is looking at how these missionaries are grappling with challenges in a series of stories.
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Called to serve in a pandemic: Coming home for a second time

May 06, 2020 12:00 AM
Editor’s note: Thousands of missionaries across the world are facing upended plans during the pandemic. Some are returning home before completing their missions, others are serving in quarantine and many are receiving new calls. The Daily Universe is looking at how these missionaries are grappling with challenges in a series of stories.
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Called to serve in a pandemic: Missionary enrolls in BYU classes while waiting for reassignment

April 29, 2020 12:00 AM
Editor’s note: Thousands of missionaries across the world are facing upended plans during the pandemic. Some are returning home before completing their missions, others are serving in quarantine, and many are receiving new calls. The Daily Universe is looking at how these missionaries are grappling with challenges in a series of stories.
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Non-Latter-day Saint students talk about BYU experience

December 05, 2019 12:00 AM
Laith Habahbeh walked around BYU and was baffled. The environment was not what he expected.
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Tips and tricks for keeping a mission language fluent

August 22, 2019 12:00 AM
Listen to the full audio story here, including interviews with students and professors. (Joe Carson)
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Readers' Forum: 1/29/19

January 29, 2019 12:00 AM
Pen and paper
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Students cheer on mission countries in World Cup

June 12, 2018 12:00 AM
From left: BYU study abroad students Quin Daly, Ben Marker, Sam Heywood and Trevor McKenzie attend a Real Madrid match. With the USA absent from this year's World Cup, American soccer fans such as these students will cheer on other countries. (Quin Daly)
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Missionary letters returned after 50 years a 'miracle'

October 13, 2017 12:00 AM
BYU students and alumni Austin and Elise Taylor had no idea they would be part of a miracle when they moved into their Provo, Utah house four months ago.
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Tweet Beat March 28

March 28, 2017 12:00 AM
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Voice of early-returned LDS missionaries

December 07, 2016 12:00 AM
Missionaries for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints enter the mission field anticipating to serve the full time of 24-months for men or 18-months for women. However, some missionaries find themselves back home before that time period. Many people, both inside and outside of the LDS Church, don't understand an early-returned missionary's experience. While this topic is explored in-depth in an accompanying article, this piece highlights seven early-returned missionaries' experiences in their own words. In order to guide them, each was given a series of questions.
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Trolls drive blog traffic, affect blogger mentality

November 28, 2016 12:00 AM
Maddy Low, like many bloggers, deals regularly with trolls. Low mainly writes about her personal life in her blog. (Randy Low)
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Missionaries set goals, use My Plan before coming home

September 30, 2016 12:00 AM
Jake Hunter studies while serving in the Canada Montreal Mission. During the last six weeks of his mission, Hunter used a new program called My Plan which was created to help missionaries set goals and prepare for post-mission life. (Jake Hunter)
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