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• Hyrum M. Smith
  ...hey could go at all times, and pour out the inmost secrets of their hearts in full confidence. ...Even years later, whenever father and son met, in the home, on the street, in the office, it mattered not where, they met with an affectionate and holy k
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• Eugene England
  ...ated belief, peace, poverty, race, gender, community, and academic freedom in his personal essays, his preferred genre. He was also a sought-after teache ...Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]. He then served as a captain in the US Air Force for a time.
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• Frankfurt Germany Temple
  ...n 149 congregations. The temple mainly serves members of the Church living in West Germany, Austria, Bahrain, United Arab Emirates, Croatia, Serbia, and ...the blessings of the temple. But they were promised once in 1968 and again in 1975, that "if they remained true and faithful to the commandments of God,
  10 KB (1,465 words) - 17:16, 31 December 2023
• Donny Osmond
  ...urch of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]. He was born on 9 December 1957 in Ogden, Utah. He is the seventh child of the late Olive May Davis Osmond and ...e world. His popularity and hit singles vaulted him to international fame. In the mid-'70s he co-hosted ''The Donny and Marie Show'' with Marie. They rec
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• George Teasdale Mormon Apostle
  ...learned the upholstering business. His mother was devoted to the Church of England (Anglican Church), but George could never fully commit himself. However, h ...e was treated with disdain by most, but he still invested much of his time in preaching, relying on the [[Holy Ghost]] to overcome his natural difficulti
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• Orson Pratt
  ..._Pratt.JPG|frame|alt=Mormon Apostle Orson Pratt|Orson Pratt was an apostle in the early [[Mormon Church]].]] ...ew York. Several months later, Orson Pratt was ordained an [[Elder|elder]] in the Church on April 26, 1831, by the Prophet [[Joseph Smith]]. He set out
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• Missionary Training Center
  ...g a foreign language) to eight weeks in training before departing to serve in one of the Church’s 411 [[Mission|missions]] (number of missions as of Ju Missionaries generally arrive at an MTC with a basic, foundational knowledge of religion
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• Sunday School
  ...imes casually called the Mormon Church, that provides instruction to youth in each age group starting at 12 years old, as well as to adults. Until Januar ...ve become accustomed to thinking of “church” as something that happens in our meetinghouses, supported by what happens at home. We need an adjustment
  11 KB (1,761 words) - 12:01, 28 September 2023
• Willie and Martin Handcart Companies
  ...companies''' was caused by a series of missteps that cumulatively resulted in the suffering and death of many British and Scandinavian members of [http:/ ...e plains to the Salt Lake Valley. Those traveling by handcart were limited in what they could carry. Only 10 of the more than 350 emigrating companies tr
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• Joseph Fielding
  '''Joseph Fielding''' was an early missionary in [http://comeuntochrist.org The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints] ...n]], accompanied by two of his sisters, Mary and Martha, where he preached in the Semi-Episcopalian and Primitive Episcopalian churches.
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• Wilford Woodruff
  Wilford Woodruff was born on March 1, [[1807]], in Farmington, Connecticut. His mother died when he was only fifteen months ol ...ence, whose hand has been stretched out to rescue me from death when I was in the presence of the most threatening dangers."[https://www.churchofjesuschr
  13 KB (2,121 words) - 19:01, 14 August 2023
• The Icelandic Memorial
  [[Image:iceland2.jpg|300px|thumb|right|frame|The Icelandic Memorial in Spanish Fork, Utah]] ...settled in Spanish Fork, Utah, the oldest continuous Icelandic settlement in North America.
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• Cumorah
  [[Image:Cumorah.jpg|frame|The hill Cumorah in Palmyra, New York, where the gold plates were recovered, later translated a ...es he and his father [[Mormon]] had compiled. Fourteen hundred years later in 1827, that same Moroni directed young [[Joseph Smith]] to retrieve the reco
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• Preston England Temple
  ...lt=Preston England Mormon Temple|frame|<span style="color:#0D8ED3">Preston England Temple]] The '''Preston England Temple''' is the 52nd operating temple of [http://comeuntochrist.org The Ch
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• Ezra Taft Benson
  ...welve Apostles]]. When he was a youth, his father was called on a [[Mormon missionaries|mission]]. The family worked hard to keep up the farm while he was gone, bu ...raduated with honors. He and his brother Orval also bought the family farm in Whitney and alternated running it.
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• Elizabeth Claridge McCune
  ...other to nine children, and she cared for her family in the McCune Mansion in Salt Lake City. But her influence was felt beyond her home life. ...n Nephi, Utah, and Elizabeth found many ways to serve in the community and in the Church.
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• Thomas Bullock
  He was born at Leek, Staffordshire, England on December 23, 1816. At the age of thirteen, he clerked at a law office. A .... . night, when ice was on the canal, and the keen frosty air was blowing in all its severity.”[https://rsc.byu.edu/salt-lake-city-place-which-god-pre
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• Orson Spencer
  ...e of [[Joseph Smith, Jr.]]<ref>Mulder, William. "Mormonism and Literature" in Cracroft, Richard H. and Neal E. Lambert, ed. ''A Believing People: Literat ...to finance Spencer's education. That same year he entered Lenox Academy. In 1824, Spencer graduated with honors from Union College at Schenectady, New
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• Don Lind: Mormon Astronaut
  ...n the Naval Reserve. He logged more than 4,500 hours as a pilot, primarily in high-performance jet aircraft. ...ity for graduate studies and earned his PhD in high-energy nuclear physics in 1964. He later did postdoctoral study at the Geophysical Institute of the U
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• Joseph Toronto
  ...http://comeuntochrist.org The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints] in Italy. ...y Saints|Latter-day Saint]] missionaries, read the ''[[Book of Mormon]]'' (in English), and was [[Baptism|baptized]] by George B. Wallace.
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