The four movies are, Love Comes Softly, Love's Enduring Promise, Love's Long Journey, and Love's Abiding Joy.

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All four focus on the Davis/Lahaye family who live somewhat out west. It's set in the 1850s-1880s.

Here are the storylines.
Love Comes Softly
A young woman's dream to forge a new life for herself on the great American plains becomes a test of her pioneering spirit, her inner strength, and her undying faith and courage. By covered wagon, Marty (and Aaron Calridge have come west in search of fortune and a new life. But an unexpected tragedy leaves Marty a widow facing bleak prospects for the future. With a bitter winter season approaching and no safe passage back home, she finds herself stranded yet befriended by settlers Ben Graham and his wife Sarah. They encourage her to take up the recently widowed Clark Davis on his unusual offer--join him in a temporary marriage of convenience. Marty will have a roof over her head until the spring thaw when she can return home. In the meantime, Clark's nine-year-old daughter Missie will have a teacher. As promised, the arrangement is strictly business. However, teaching Missie, who's still mourning for her mother, becomes as challenging as living with Clark, a young man cut off from his emotions. For three similar people, each grieving for a loved one who they've lost, comfort comes from sharing their pain and hardships. But is it enough to make two lonely spirits recognize what it is that they truely need and want? As the months and seasons pass, and Marty gets closer to the day of her departure, she finally discovers the meaning of courage, her inner faith, a love she never thought possible, and the bittersweet truth in her friend Sarah's sage advice: "Bloom where you're planted." Based on Janette Oke's cherished best-selling series of books, and written and directed by Michael Landon, Jr., this inspiring love story of a more innocent time is illuminated by the same warmth and wisdom that made Little House on the Prairie such enduring family entertainment.

Love's Enduring Promise
A heartwarming tale for the whole family, LOVE'S ENDURING PROMISE is directed by Michael Landon Jr. (LOVE COMES SOFTLY), and is based on the bestselling book series by award-winning author Janette Okes. A makeshift pioneer family is created when a widow and widower come together for the purposes of survival. Their purely business relationship, however, eventually evolves into one of mutual love and respect. Now the whole family thrives on the unity they have achieved, but when patriarch Clark Davis (Dale Midkiff) is injured, they are faced with much hardship as they work to prevent the loss of the crops. Nineteen-year-old daughter Missie, a schoolteacher, has two suitors pursuing her: Thomas (Mackenzie Astin, THE FACTS OF LIFE) is a handsome railroad man; and Nate (Logan Bartholomew, AMERICAN WEDDING) is a mysterious stranger who has been taking care of Clark as well as the farm. But Nate's true identity links Clark to his old friend Zeke, who harbors a dark secret that may change everything.

Love's Long Journey
In the third installment of Janette Oke's popular Love Comes Softly series, Missie and Will LaHaye move westward and settle in Tettsford Junction. Willie rustles up misfit ranch hands to help him, while pregnant Missie befriends their Native American neighbors. Stepping out in faith, the young couple shares faraway dreams---and finds family in unlikely places.

Love's Abiding Joy
Love's Abiding Joy is the fourth installment of Janette Oke's award-winning, best-selling series of Missie and Willie LeHaye and their journey of faith and survival in the frontier. Their family continuing to expand, Missie and Willie are learning to adjust to life on the range. Missie is enjoying teaching, while Willie, with his sons' and daughter's help, keeps their ranch stable and prosperous. But a tragedy in the family puts an emotional wedge between Missie and Willie, and they must endure much hardship, danger, and heartache to discover the true meaning of family and love.

Out of all of them...it's hard to tell which is my favorite. I love all four movies, and the acting is great, and they have Christian meanings in the movies. My favorite character probably is Missie, since she's been in all of the movies, (portrayed by different actors however)

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It's actually the Davis/Lahaye family, but anyway. I recently saw Love's Abiding Joy, and I have to say: it was the deepest of the four. It also seemed more human. I cried along with the characters; it was so emotional and it made you feel for the characters. Love's Enduring Promise is my number one favorite because of its Missie. In Love's Long Journey, I didnt' care for the Missie (played by Erin Cotrell in Love's Long Journey and Love's Abiding Joy) but rather for the younger version of January Jones (Missie in Love's Enduring Promise)

I was (and still am) disappointed in the way they brought the books to the screen. They strayed away from so many important things; changed storyline plots, names, placements, etc.... to the extent where I don't necessarily look forward to the next film.

There, I've ranted enough.

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Well I've never read the books, so I wouldn't know how different they are...but I really like the movies.

Love's Enduring Promise is probably my least favorite, and Love's Abiding Joy's my favorite.

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i haven't seen love's abiding joy yet...

but i loved the other three.

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Ugh, I hated Love's Long Journey. The Missie in LLJ was awful; too old-looking. The Missie in LEP was better; the appropriate age.

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I actuallly prefer Erin Cottrell ((Missie in LLJ and LAJ) over January Jones (LEP) I don't really know why, but I did.

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it made Willie seem a lot younger......

They have two more coming out......I honestly hate the direction they're taking, but as always, I'm curious to see how badly they distorted the books.

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