JalShalley Lynch first met the missionaries while on a smoke break at work, and she asked them so many questions that the elders missed their next appointment. In March 2004, she joined the LDS Church. Strong-minded, honest, and ready to laugh, Shalley—sometimes known on the streets as Pooh—was born and raised in Washington D.C. She [...]
A Conversation with JalShalley Lynch
by Johanna Buchert Smith
Faces of Latter-day Saint Women: A Conversation with Mary Fredericks
by Johanna Buchert Smith
Mary was an elite child gymnast and is now a massage therapist for BYU athletes and Real Salt Lake. In that man’s world of professional soccer, she is known as “the little mother.” She lives in Spring Lake, Utah with her husband and four children: Anikin, Ren, Max, and Trinity. You were trained to be [...]
Becoming We
by Johanna Buchert Smith
AFTER A LONG seventy-two-hour flight, we landed in Addis Ababa at four o’clock in the morning. Mudgy with fatigue, we hired a taxi and careened through the desolate streets to our guest-house. Our loud knocking roused the elderly guard to the gate, and we made our way through the drive, up the stairs, and to our [...]