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December 11th, 2009 by admin

A World of Opportunities

A World of Opportunities

Karen Bybee

Karen Bybee healed from the death of her first child by throwing herself into the planning of the 1994 Soccer World Cup event. Since then, Karen has developed a career in international sports management, and has been involved with six Olympic Games, four Soccer World Cups, and numerous other international sports events. She is returning to work now after a four year hiatus at home with her teenaged sons.

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Posted in: Personal Challenges, Professional Paths - Tags: BYU, careers, mission, Mormon women, motherhood, mourning, sports, washington DC

December 11th, 2009 by admin

“They Came!”

“They Came!”

Dominique Lam-Yam

A 1983 issue of Reader’s Digest introduced Dominique Lam-Yam to the Church while she was living with an abusive father on the French island of Reunion in the Indian Ocean. She spent the next three years searching for the Church organization, with no success. Finally, two missionaries knocked on her door, launching her on a path of hope and triumph over challenge.

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Posted in: Conversion Stories, Personal Challenges, Sisters Abroad - Tags: conversion, Europe, family, Mormon women, single

December 3rd, 2009 by admin

A Road to Redemption

A Road to Redemption

Brittney Poulsen Carman

For almost four years Brittney has been writing about the 18 months she spent in Venezuela as a missionary. While she was there, her father, who was excommunicated from the Church when she was 14 and from whom she had been estranged for years, began sending her letters, photocopies from the journal he kept as a missionary in Colombia between 1973-75. This began a reconnection and reconciliation of their relationship which, by the end of her time in Venezuela, would become the most poignant and enduring conversion of her mission.

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Posted in: 31 - 40 years old, Conversion Stories, Conversion Stories, English, Married with children, Personal Challenges, Personal Challenges, Professional Paths, Professional Pursuits, United States, Venezuela - Tags: graduate school, Idaho, mission, writing

November 20th, 2009 by admin

A Blog of One’s Own

A Blog of One’s Own

Michelle Glauser

An American student at the University of Leipzig, in Germany, Michelle has spent the last two years studying “mommy blogs” and writing her Masters thesis on the subject. Michelle describes what motivated her to study in Germany, how her church experience is different there, and why Mormon women have special justifications for keeping blogs.

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Posted in: 20 - 30 years old, English, Germany, Professional Paths, Professional Pursuits, Single, Sisters Abroad, Sisters Abroad - Tags: blog, Europe, graduate school, Mormon women, single

November 15th, 2009 by admin

Raising Children in Paradise

Raising Children in Paradise

Rebecca Hendrickson

Over four years ago, Becky Hendrickson moved with her family from bustling San Francisco to a 23,000 acre ranch on the Big Island of Hawai’i. As the mother of five daughters, ages one to twelve, Becky homeschools her girls with a focus on loving nature, developing personal responsibility and limiting the world’s negative influences.

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Posted in: 31 - 40 years old, English, Magnifying Motherhood, Magnifying Motherhood, Married with children, United States - Tags: education, family, Hawaii, home schooling, Mormon women, motherhood, prayer

November 13th, 2009 by admin

The Small World of the Gospel

The Small World of the Gospel

Faustina Otoo

The first time Faustina Otoo went to church, in Nigeria in 1985, the members’ love made her feel like she was in a “wonderland”. Since that day, Faustina’s journey in the church has taken her back to her native land of Ghana where she now serves as the front office receptionist at the Africa West Area office complex at the Accra Ghana temple. As the single mother of two children, Faustina is especially proud that her daughter is about to graduate from college.

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Posted in: 51 - 60 years old, Conversion Stories, Conversion Stories, Divorced, English, Ghana, Magnifying Motherhood, Magnifying Motherhood, Personal Challenges, Sisters Abroad, Sisters Abroad - Tags: Africa, conversion, divorce, Mormon women, temple

November 3rd, 2009 by admin

Lost in Learning

Lost in Learning

Eva Koleva Timothy

As a teenager in Sophia, Bulgaria, Eva sought for truth and found the restored Gospel. Now a mother of three living in the United States, Eva’s passion for learning continues to drive her personal and professional pursuits: “Lost in Learning”, the culmination of her work as a professional photographer, features the original manuscripts and objects used by the world’s great discoverers as they too sought for truth. Eva homeschools her children so that they can share in her search for knowledge.

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Posted in: 31 - 40 years old, Artistic Women, Artistic Women, Bulgaria, Conversion Stories, Conversion Stories, English, Magnifying Motherhood, Married with children, Professional Paths, Professional Pursuits, Sisters Abroad, Sisters Abroad, United States - Tags: careers, conversion, Europe, home schooling, Massachusetts, Mormon women, motherhood, photography

November 3rd, 2009 by admin

Spirit in the Law

Spirit in the Law

Robin Lunt

Robin joined the Church after September 11, 2001, when she reasoned that “if there could be such a force of organized darkness in the world then there has to be an equal opposite force of organized good.” That same year, at age 22, she married a member of the Church and cemented her life to the Gospel. Since attending law school, Robin has worked in energy regulation in Washington D.C. while passionate about resource and environmental issues.

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Posted in: 20 - 30 years old, Conversion Stories, Conversion Stories, English, Married with children, Professional Paths, Professional Pursuits, United States - Tags: careers, convert, legal, washington DC

October 28th, 2009 by admin

From Dancing to Diapers

From Dancing to Diapers

Lisa Hess Jones

Lisa Jones is the mother of two sons, one on a mission and one in high school. But before she was “mom”, she was a solo dancer at the New York City Ballet from 1975 to 1985 and a favorite of the company’s founder George Balanchine. Lisa talks about these two distinct eras in her life and why she was so ready to transition from thinking about herself as a dancer to thinking about someone else as a mother.

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Posted in: 51 - 60 years old, Artistic Women, Artistic Women, English, Married with children, Professional Paths, Professional Pursuits, United States - Tags: ballet, California, careers, Mormon women, motherhood

October 21st, 2009 by admin

Love That Multiplies

Love That Multiplies

Char Weiler

Char Weiler and her husband have chosen to “let the children come,” and at age 27 she recently gave birth to her fifth child. Char consistently makes choices that prioritize her children’s spiritual education and their time together as a family. Her love for her family, the Savior and her divine role as a motherreveal a confident, powerful and beautiful woman.

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Posted in: 20 - 30 years old, English, Magnifying Motherhood, Magnifying Motherhood, Married with children, United States - Tags: Mormon women, motherhood, Oregon

October 19th, 2009 by admin

Beyond This Mortal Coil

Beyond This Mortal Coil

Lynn Anderson

Two of Lynn Anderson’s natural born children carried a rare genetic disease — epidermolysis bullosa (EB) — which prevents a child’s skin from growing with their body. After thirty years of nursing her children and grieving their deaths, Lynn founded an organization that raised money for EB research at Stanford University. Lynn now rejoices in a newly-approved treatment that will save the lives of many EB children.

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Posted in: 61 - 70 years old, 71+, English, Magnifying Motherhood, Magnifying Motherhood, Married with children, Personal Challenges, Personal Challenges, Professional Paths, Professional Pursuits, United States - Tags: California, careers, disease, faith, Mormon women, motherhood

October 17th, 2009 by admin

Choosing Between Two Rights

Choosing Between Two Rights

Chelsea Shields Strayer

In 2001 at age 20, Chelsea Strayer escaped cultural pressure to marry young by following a childhood dream: She bought an airplane ticket and enrolled at the University of Ghana. Chelsea spent the past year living in Ghana again, studying the healing ceremonies of traditional spiritual priests for her PhD dissertation research. She discusses the abundance of divergent but equally good choices in her life and how she’s learned to be true to herself.

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Posted in: 20 - 30 years old, English, Ghana, Married without children, Professional Paths, Professional Pursuits, Sisters Abroad, Sisters Abroad, United States - Tags: Africa, BYU, graduate school, Maryland, Mormon women

October 6th, 2009 by admin

Dare to Dream

Dare to Dream

Whitney Johnson

Whitney Johnson is a co-founder of Rose Park Advisors, an investment firm. She was previously Merrill Lynch’s Senior Telecom and Media analyst for Latin America, receiving the highest industry and peer awards in her field. When she’s not picking stocks, Whitney invests her time on building communities that do good and do well. She is the architect of the Know Your Neighbor and Dare to Dream communities.

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Posted in: 41 - 50 years old, English, Married with children, Professional Paths, Professional Pursuits, United States - Tags: careers, finance, Massachusetts, Mormon women

September 22nd, 2009 by admin

Faith Unto Salvation

Faith Unto Salvation

Patricia Joseph

In December 2004, Patricia’s oldest son was charged with murdering his girlfriend. Tormented with grief and unable to sleep, Patricia saw a late-night infomercial for the Church on television and called for a Book of Mormon. What she has learned about forgiveness, compassion and the warm embrace of the Saints has carried her through the crushing experience.

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Posted in: 61 - 70 years old, Conversion Stories, English, Married with children, Personal Challenges, Personal Challenges, United States - Tags: convert, divorce, faith, Mormon women, New York

September 20th, 2009 by admin

Faith of Our Foremothers

Faith of Our Foremothers

Jenny Reeder

A doctoral student focusing on nineteenth-century Mormon women, Jenny Reeder feels passionate about bringing our foremothers to light and letting their stories inspire women today. Jenny not only studies Mormon women leaders, she’s worked with them: She represented young singles on the Visiting Teaching Curriculum Committee under Bonnie D. Parkin.

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Posted in: 31 - 40 years old, English, Professional Paths, Professional Pursuits, Single, United States - Tags: graduate school, history, Mormon women, pioneers, single

September 17th, 2009 by admin

Nothing Is Impossible

Nothing Is Impossible

Dee Dee Shipley

As the mother of eleven children — ten adopted with special needs– Dee Dee Shipley already has her hands full. But add to that 42 years of diabetes and the fact that in 2002 Dee Dee lost her sight in a heart by-pass surgery. Still, Dee Dee sees miracles every day and unfailingly puts her full trust in the Lord.

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Posted in: 41 - 50 years old, English, Magnifying Motherhood, Magnifying Motherhood, Married with children, Personal Challenges, Personal Challenges, United States - Tags: adoption, blind, faith, Mormon women, motherhood, Wisconsin

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