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	<title>Desert Saints Magazine</title>
	
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		<title>Sharing With Friends</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 15:54:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Heather B. Moore “Don’t you dare step into that Mormon church. You will go to [bleep]!” Carole’s mother had said more than once. The sentence didn’t need to be finished for my good friend, Carole. She was Catholic and I was Mormon. Yet, we’d become the best of neighbors in a small apartment community [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Letter from the Editor</title>
		<link>http://desertsaintsmagazine.com/2010/09/01/letter-from-the-editor-54/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 15:52:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Prepare ye, prepare ye for that which is to come, for the Lord is nigh;” declared the Lord in 1831. Recorded in Section 1 of the Doctrine and Covenants, this directive was to the saints, who were just a small group of people in an obscure part of Ohio. The eighteen decades which have come [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nursery R US</title>
		<link>http://desertsaintsmagazine.com/2010/09/01/nursery-r-us/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 15:50:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rusty</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Dave Ellis Most Church callings require you to stretch your mind and lengthen your stride. But every so often you find a calling where you just fit right in. For me that calling is nursery. It’s where I really relate to the people I serve; they are all tired, hungry and miss their moms. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Helen J. Stewart Statue Grant Approved</title>
		<link>http://desertsaintsmagazine.com/2010/09/01/helen-j-stewart-statue-grant-approved/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 15:46:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rusty</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Mary Gafford Las Vegas City Council’s Centennial Committee has approved a $99,000 grant for the creation of a life-sized Helen J. Stewart statue. This grant was awarded in what Mayor Oscar Goodman said was the most unusual presentation the committee had ever seen. Phyllis Weaver, dressed as Delphine Squires, a “founding mother of Las [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Set Back to School Goals</title>
		<link>http://desertsaintsmagazine.com/2010/09/01/set-back-to-school-goals/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 15:43:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Lu Ann Brobst Staheli School starts soon for many students. Some of these kids are excited about meeting their teachers and spending time with their friends. Others prefer those long lazy days of summer playtime to the regular schedule classes bring. As most adults will admit, school can be wonderful, or it can be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mormon Tabernacle Choir inducted into National Radio Hall of Fame The Choir’s Music  and the Spoken Word broadcast honored in national pioneer category</title>
		<link>http://desertsaintsmagazine.com/2010/09/01/mormon-tabernacle-choir-inducted-into-national-radio-hall-of-fame-the-choir%e2%80%99s%c2%a0music-and-the-spoken-word%c2%a0broadcast-honored-in-national-pioneer-category/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 15:42:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The National Radio Hall of Fame (NRHOF) announced the results of its national online balloting process for induction into America’s only National Radio Hall of Fame.  The Mormon Tabernacle Choir’s Music and the Spoken Word was selected in the national pioneer category. The program is the longest-running radio broadcast in America, and airs on more than 2,000 TV and radio stations [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Greatest Mission</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 15:39:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Annette Lyon As a preteen, I had a unique view of missionaries and their work because Dad was a mission president. Aside from school, missionaries were pretty much my life. We often fed and housed groups of departing missionaries overnight, then spent the next day prepping to welcome a group of brand-new missionaries from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Missionary Work Goes High Tech</title>
		<link>http://desertsaintsmagazine.com/2010/09/01/missionary-work-goes-high-tech/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 15:37:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Lu Ann Brobst Staheli From the time the LDS church was first established, the thought of serving a mission meant that young men and women must be called in the prime of health, ready to walk from door to door as part of the tracting necessary to find those who might be prepared to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What I Learned from my Non-Member Friends about Sharing the Gospel</title>
		<link>http://desertsaintsmagazine.com/2010/09/01/what-i-learned-from-my-non-member-friends-about-sharing-the-gospel/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 15:34:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Krista Ralston Oakes When my husband and I moved to a new city, it was the first time we lived in a place where we didn’t know anyone. We were both starting new jobs in an area that we had previously known only during temple excursions. Our new ward family quickly embraced us. We [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who is My Neighbor?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 15:32:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://desertsaintsmagazine.com/?p=1397</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Steph McMillan I’m not sure what prompted my moment of complete disclosure. I’m not a blatant liar by nature, but I will admit that usually when the missionaries ask if there are any neighbors they can meet, I usually just shrug and change the subject. But on this particular Monday night, I suddenly found [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MOM: TURNING TABLES</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 15:29:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Nettie H. Francis I’m the second oldest of eleven children. My growing up years were spent taking care of my younger siblings. Changing diapers, feeding babies and entertaining toddlers were all natural activities for me, and I could do many of them almost as well as a mother! It was a pleasant childhood. Serving [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FHE: I Want to Be a Missionary</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 15:26:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Alison Palmer Scripture: D&#038;C 128:22 Song: “I Hope They Call Me on a Mission” Children’s Songbook, 169 Preparation: Gather paper and envelopes for each family member (minus 2 members). Write different missionary scenarios on each paper and seal them inside the envelope. Thoughts might include: baptized a family of six, helped re-activate a young [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In Search of Happy Mothers and Babies</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 15:23:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Jill Lamping When expectant mothers consider their birthing options, many factors are in play. These include financial, scheduling and health realities at the very least. I believe there is another important consideration as well: what will happen immediately after the birth. What should happen immediately after birth is for the baby to be given [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Members to Take Over Weekly Church Building Cleaning</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Aug 2010 14:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Danielle Ellis Church members in the Las Vegas area have been taking more responsibility for weekly building maintenance for several years, but the transition will be complete on August 1, 2010. On that date, the Church Facilities Management will officially turn over all weekly cleaning responsibilities to the members. Weekly housekeeping includes cleaning bathrooms, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Letter from the Editor</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Aug 2010 13:57:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just read a book called Leadership and Self-Deception, written by the Arbinger Institute. (One of the authors is James Ferrell, author of the Peacegiver, The Holy Secret, and The Hidden Christ, some of the most insightful books I have ever read. “Life-changing” is a fair statement.) One of the basic truths taught is that [...]]]></description>
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