Best-Loved Stories Of The LDS People

by Jack M. Lyon (Editor), Linda Ririe Gundry (Editor), Jay A. Parry (Editor)

Here's an outstanding collection of all those inspiring stories from Church history that you've heard and wanted (but couldn't find) for your class. A companion volume to Best-Loved Poems of the LDS People, Best-Loved Stories of the LDS People includes accounts of everything from Joseph Smith's childhood leg operation to David O. McKay's mission experience of learning "Whate'er Thou Art, Act Well Thy Part." More than 200 other stories are included, such as Joseph F. Smith's encounter with a rough anti-Mormon in "True Blue, Through and Through" and "Fooling a Bulldog," by Parley P. Pratt. You'll find stories about faith, answers to prayer, and revelation, courage, honesty, and many other gospel principles and doctrines. A valuable reference that belongs in every Latter-day Saint home.

Genres: Lds, Religion, Nonfiction, Church

472 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 1997

About the author

Jack M. Lyon, managing editor at Deseret Book Company, helped compile the two-volume Best-Loved Stories of the LDS People and other books in the Best-Loved series. He and his wife, Anne, have four children and have two grandchildren and reside in West Valley City, Utah.

Reviews

[Andre · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is the first in a series of books containing more than 200 favorite stories of members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Stories of courage, hope, faith, and love: such as the story of the crickets and the seagulls, young Joseph Smith's leg operation,and the Savior's appearance to Lorenzo Snow in the salt Lake Temple. There is the humor of J. Golden Kimball and the story of Parley P. Pratt fooling Stu-boy the bulldog. You can read about the remarkable missionaryu labors of Wilford Woodruff who baptized more than 600 souls on John Benbow's farm in central England and of George Q. Cannon's love of the Hawaiian people.

[Etta Mcquade · Rating 5 out of 5]

This would be an excellent reference book for every LDS home.

[Kristy · Rating 4 out of 5]

There were stories I knew but a whole bunch that I didn't. I enjoyed it.