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• Relief Society
  [[Category: Women in Mormonism]][[Category:Church Callings and Leadership]] ...lt=Mormon Relief Society Seal|The official seal of the Relief Society, the women's organization of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]]
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• International Growth
  ...cuses on the adaptations that accompanied growth and internationalization. In surveying recent developments, it provides an introduction to the contempor ...y Church members and also those of other faiths (Ludlow, ''Encyclopedia of Mormonism'', p. 639).
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• MormonWiki Articles
  ...ed and modified. We sincerely hope the following articles will be helpful in learning about the Church of Jesus Christ. [[Beliefs of Mormonism]] ·
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• Mountain Meadows massacre
  ...history took place on 11 September, [[1857]], when approximately 120 men, women and children, traveling through Utah to California were massacred by a forc ...Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo following the end of the Mexican-American War in early 1848. (The treaty ceded all of what would become California, Nevada,
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• Contemporary Developments
  ...l fastest growing church] in the world, though that applies only to growth in terms of internal percentage, not sheer numerical growth. Nevertheless, t ...ince 1830 and opened up the work in Armenia and Ukraine. Latter-day Saints in Tonga celebrated the 150th anniversary of the Church there.
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• Jesus Christ
  [[Image:Jesus_Christ.jpg|frame|alt=Jesus Christ is the central figure in Mormon doctrine|Jesus Christ is the central figure of Latter-day Saint doct ...he Garden of Gethsemane and on the cross can mortal men and women be saved in the Kingdom of God. Jesus Christ and His teachings are the central focus of
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• Apostasy, Reformation, and Restoration
  [[Image:Adam Eve Altar Mormon.jpg|250px|thumb|alt=Jesus Christ Mormonism|right|Adam and Eve at the altar]] ...scended upon him, and thus he was born of the Spirit, and became quickened in the inner man. And he heard a voice out of heaven, saying: Thou art baptize
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• The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
  ...e Savior during His ministry; relayed through ancient prophets as recorded in scripture; restored through the prophet [[Joseph Smith]]; and continued thr ...em that this Messiah would be the Christ, and that he would live and teach in Judea. The Book of Mormon peoples received signs of His birth and crucifixi
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• Mother in Heaven
  In the 1995 statement “The Family: A Proclamation To The World,” the [[Fir :ALL HUMAN BEINGS—male and female—are created in the image of God. Each is a beloved spirit son or daughter of ''heavenly pa
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• Thomas B. Marsh
  ...esus Christ of Latter-day Saints] in July 16, 1857, but never again served in church leadership positions. ...was James Marsh. His mother was Mary Law. He spent his early life farming in Westmoreland, New Hampshire.
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• John C. Bennett
  ...t, who acted as second-in-command to Joseph Smith, Jr., for a brief period in the early 1840s.” [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_C._Bennett] ...y A. Baker on 9 January 1826. About 1827, he joined Pickaway Masonic Lodge in Circleville, Pickaway County, Ohio. At first he was affiliated with the Met
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• Eliza R. Snow
  ...nt day LDS hymnal and was one of the most celebrated [[Mormon Women|Mormon women]] of the nineteenth century. ...in life when she began submitting her classroom assignments to her teacher in rhyme.
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• Mormons and Memorial Day
  ...celebrate their freedoms, as well as pay honor and tribute to the men and women who have served, and who now valiantly serve to defend those freedoms. ...to clean off Civil War-era headstones at The Union Burial Society Cemetery in Frankfort, Illinois.
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• Lucy Mack Smith
  ...e emotional import of Lucy's original writings, which were severely edited in the 1853 version: ''The Revised and Enhanced History of Joseph Smith by His ...th secular and religious writers were extolling the influence and power of women over the moral direction of society.
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• Finances of the Church of Jesus Christ
  ...de church and the fourth largest religion (at 2 percent of the population) in the United States, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_the_United_St ...owed the prophet, [http://www.prophetjosephsmith.org Joseph Smith] to stay in their homes when necessary for him to work on scriptural translations.
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• Mormon Retrenchment Association
  ...n.<ref> Carol Cornwall Madsen, "Retrenchment Association," Encyclopedia of Mormonism, [1992] 1223-1225. </ref> ...Association for women was similar to the [[Relief Society]]—the official women’s organization of The Church of Jesus Christ—and yet was entirely separ
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• Proclamations and Statements
  ...lamation on the family was a way of reaffirming the doctrine of the family in God's plan." ..., faith, and history; warnings of judgments to come; invitations to assist in the work; and statements of Church growth and progress."
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• African Mormons
  ...ttp://comeuntochrist.org The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]. In fact, one Jewish man commented upon a ''New York Times'' review of the play ...y). This sort of thing happens to those of my faith in countries elsewhere in the world. But I cannot believe that New York, MY New York, where I was bor
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• Mormon Should Mean "More Good"
  ...the world, as well as in your homes. It is a beautiful autumn morning here in the valley of the mountains where almost a century and a half ago, after mu We meet in the name of the Lord [[Jesus Christ]], the [[Savior]] and Redeemer of manki
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• Creation
  ...rist of Latter-day Saints] (sometimes erroneously called Mormons) have a [[Mormonism vs. Christianity|Christian]] view of the '''creation''' of the earth and ma ===A Council in Heaven===
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• Paradise
  ...—teaches that paradise is that part of the [[Spirit World|spirit world]] in which the righteous spirits who have departed this life await the resurrect ...he-faith/plan-of-salvation?lang=eng] It is important to note that the time in paradise or spirit prison is temporary. It is not the final judgment.
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• Young Women2
  ...yourselves unhappy, but to live so you may be truly happy in this life and in the life to come."1 ...e a general [[Young Women]] presidency, which oversees all the Young Women in the world.
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• Anti-Mormon
  ...s, sometimes nicknamed "Mormons." The differentiating factor is that those in the anti-Mormon camp undertake to assault and vilify the Church of Jesus Ch ...f Jesus Christ as either a threat or a cult, and secular humanists who see in the Church a discomfiting paradox of American determination and anti-ration
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• The Latter-day Saint View of Jesus Christ
  ...d, taking upon Himself the sins of all mankind, if they would only believe in Him and repent. Latter-day Saints believe that Christ was the first fruits [[Image:Jesus-fishermen-mormon.jpg|250px|thumb|alt=Jesus Christ Mormonism|left]]
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• Profanity
  ...vain, foul language and bad language are all synonyms for '''profanity'''. In a world where these words are becoming all-too-common, is profanity really [[Image:Mormonism_no_profanity.jpg|350px|thumb|alt=Mormonism no profanity|right]]
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• Jane Manning James
  ...h of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]. She was born on 22 September 1822 in Wilton, Connecticut, one of five children of Isaac and Phyllis Manning, a f ...reach, she embraced the restored gospel of Jesus Christ and spared no time in sharing the Good News with her family. She became a member of the Church no
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• Bonnie D. Parkin
  ...rkin's wish was for every woman in the Church to feel the love of the Lord in their lives every day. ...ntary education and early childhood development from Utah State University in Logan, Utah.
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• Mormon Youth
  [[Image:mormon-education3.jpg|left|350px|alt=Mormon youth in a church seminary class]] ...tors looking worriedly toward the fall, when school-year youth groups kick in....A decade ago teens were coming to church youth group to play, coming for
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• Belle S. Spafford
  ...members, largely in the western United States, to nearly 1 million members in 65 countries. Belle was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, to John Gibson Smith and Hester Sims Smith on 8 Octob
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• Blood Atonement
  In June of 2010 the [[General Authorities]] of [[The Church of Jesus Christ of :"In the mid-19th century, when rhetorical, emotional oratory was common, some c
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• Monument to Women Memorial Garden
  ...tional women’s roles. It is located behind the Nauvoo Visitors’ Center in Nauvoo, Illinois, and owned by [http://comeuntochrist.org The Church of Jes ...oo Temple Square as possible.’”[https://rsc.byu.edu/eye-faith/monument-women-memorial-garden]
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• Sexual Sins
  ...y—are “all sexual relations outside of marriage.”<ref>See "Chastity" in Gospel Topics at churchofjesuschrist.org. </ref> ...deliberately dwelling on sexual thoughts; and talking or texting about sex in an explicit manner with the intent of arousing sexual feelings.<ref>See For
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• Young Women
  [[Category: Women in Mormonism]][[Category: Youth and Children]][[Category:Church Callings and Leadership] ...ntochrist.org The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints] was founded in 1869. All Latter-day Saint females age 12–17 are members of this organiza
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• Mormon Doctrine: The Rapture
  ...caught up to meet Him in the air, and that the graves of the dead who died in Christ will be opened and these elect people will be instantly resurrected [[Image:Second_Coming.jpg|300px|thumb|alt=Second Coming of Christ Mormonism|left]]
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• Sarah Melissa Granger Kimball
  ..., ward [[Relief Society]] president for forty years, and a strong presence in the history of [http://comeuntochrist.org The Church of Jesus Christ of Lat ...age to say what she thought," Sarah Kimball labored for the advancement of women, arguing that "education and agitation are our best weapons of warfare" (Wo
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• Mormon Beliefs: Prophets
  ...ut a prophet's main role is not to foresee the future, but to call men and women to repentance and to preside over God's kingdom on earth. Many people, whe ...eavesdrop on the Book of Mormon prophet, Alma, as he explains resurrection in around 73 B.C:
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• Post-Civil War Persecution
  ===Post Civil War attempts to eradicate Mormonism=== ...They campaigned for women’s rights and established the first hospitals in Utah.
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• Beliefs and rituals of the Restored Gospel of Jesus Christ
  ...inciples and ordinances) intended to bring individuals closer to God, for "In the ordinances thereof, the power of godliness is manifest" (Doctrine and C ...gh one in purpose, in thought, in action, in works, etc. Further, men and women are viewed as His spirit sons and daughters, with the literal ability to be
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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
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• Gladys Knight
  ...our full potential and recognize our common humanity. I join the president in congratulating and thanking them.”[ ...soulfulness that has stood the test of time.”[https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/3568667-u2-george-clooney-gladys-knight-lead-list-of-kennedy-cente
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• Those Beautiful Mormon Girls
  My husband and I have had the opportunity to live for many years abroad in various countries while our children were growing up. Because we are membe ...covenant with Israel not to teach, preach, or even answer questions about Mormonism. Every student who studies at the Center makes this promise anew.
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• Emma Hale Smith
  Emma was born on 10 July 1804, the seventh of nine children, and grew up in Harmony, Pennsylvania. She was well-educated and even had an extra year of Emma met Joseph Smith for the first time in 1825. Joseph was smitten with her, which wasn’t surprising since she had
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• Mormonism and the Christian Creeds
  The history and evolution of Christian creeds began in the discord, divisions, and confusion over doctrines that plagued the ancie ...the fractures within Christianity. Some Christian denominations use creeds in their worship services, some don’t. For others, the adherence to a partic
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• Mary Ann Angell
  ...Young's first wife, [[Miriam Works Young|Miriam Angeline Works]], had died in 1832. ...nce, Rhode Island, when she was young. Her mother left her abusive husband in 1831 and moved with her two children to China, New York. A year after their
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• Emmeline B. Wells
  ...ls. She was born on February 29, 1828, to David and Deiadama Hare Woodward in Petersham, Massachusetts. Emmeline's father died when she was just four ye ...tney Family, Emmeline left Nauvoo and made the trek west to Utah Territory in 1846.
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• Barbara B. Smith
  ...trated sound judgment and tolerance during a time of intense conflict over women’s issues from 1974 to 1984. ...n to be involved in their communities and represent Church attitudes about women without being combative or divisive. She also emphasized homemaker educatio
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• Westward Migration
  ...s from Nauvoo, Illinois on the Mississippi River, to the Salt Lake Valley, in Utah. They were literally driven out of their own country since Utah was t ...adership of [[Samuel Brannan]], bound for Yerba Buena (now San Francisco), in California, from where they would make the trek to Utah. The journey lasted
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• Julie B. Beck
  ...en]] general presidency prior to receiving her call to direct the Church's women's service organization. ...Beck and her husband have two daughters and one son. They currently reside in Alpine, Utah. For a period of about five years, she and her husband served
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• Shannon Hale: Mormon Author
  ...ersity of Montana. Before she published her first book, she pursued acting in television, stage, and improvisational comedy. ...at [[Brigham Young University]] in 2015. She has published two bestsellers in that series entitled ''Princess Academy: Palace of Stone'' and ''Princess A
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• Amy Brown Lyman
  ...Latter-day Saints, often mistakenly called the Mormon Church. She served in this position from 1940 - 1945.''' She was born on February 7, 1872, in Pleasant Grove, Utah, to John and Margaret Zimmerman Brown. Margaret was Jo
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• Jean B. Bingham
  ...time of her calling. On April 1, 2017, she was released as first counselor in the Primary general presidency and sustained as the seventeenth [[Relief So ...helor's and master’s degrees in education from National Louis University in Illinois. She has taught English as a second language and has also worked a
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• Joy D. Jones
  ...[Relief Society]] president and has also served in the Primary and [[Young Women]] auxiliaries. ...oung University]] where she met her husband, Robert B. Jones. They married in 1974 and are the parents of five children.[https://www.churchofjesuschrist.
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• Mormon Beliefs: Salvation
  [[Image:Christ-Healing-Bethesda-mormon.jpg|250px|thumb|alt=Jesus Christ Mormonism|right]] ...n, living things become immortal, and cannot suffer death or disease. Only in the resurrected state can we experience a fulness of joy. Because of the re
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• Missouri Period
  ...The Site of Adam-Ondi Ahman in Missouri Mormon|The Site of Adam-Ondi Ahman in Missouri]] ...the history both of Mormonism and America. The Mormon Church's experience in Missouri tested the American commitment to free exercise of religion, freed
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• Pioneer Temples
  ...e owned by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The temple lot in Independence is owned by the Church of Christ (Temple Lot).[https://en.wiki ...esus Christ; the Nauvoo was destroyed by arson and tornado but was rebuilt in 2002 by the Church of Jesus Christ.
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• Romania B. Pratt Penrose
  ...]] to travel to the East coast of the United States and train in medicine. In the October 1873 [[General Conference]], he said: .... . . or physic . . . The time has come for women to come forth as doctors in these valleys of the mountains.<ref>''Discourses of Brigham Young'', 216–
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• Marjorie Pay Hinckley
  ...she learned her father had lost his job, so that afternoon she took a job in downtown Salt Lake City, and that was the end of college. But she maintaine ...ing fell to her. She quipped once, “Then he'd come home and think he was in charge.”
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• Camilla Eyring Kimball
  ...y when she was almost three years old and the family struggled financially in his absence. She taught [[Primary]] and [[Sunday School]] since she was fif ...yle and climate of Provo—all of which made her unhappy. But she did well in school.
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• Daughters of God
  .... In one sense, we are all literal spirit children of our Heavenly Father. In another sense, God’s sons and daughters are those who have been born agai :All human beings—male and female—are created in the image of God. Each is a beloved spirit son or daughter of heavenly pare
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• Mormons
  ...who lived near the end of this period. He abridged the record to the form in which it was given to Joseph Smith. ...hurch. All of the beliefs found in Latter-day Saint doctrine were central in the early Christian Church.
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• Mormon Beliefs: Grace
  [[Image:Second-Coming-Jesus-Christ-Mormon.jpg|250px|thumb|alt=Jesus Christ Mormonism|left]] ...ft to their own means. This grace is an enabling power that allows men and women to lay hold on eternal life and exaltation after they have expended their o
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• Chieko Okazaki
  ...Okazaki, Mormon Women's leader|left|frame|Chieko Okazaki, Latter-day Saint Women's Leader]] '''Chieko Nisimura Okazaki''' was the first non-Caucasion woman to serve in the general [[Relief Society]] presidency of [http://comeuntochrist.org The
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• Bathsheba W. Smith
  ...Smith''' was the fourth president of the [[Relief Society]], the official women’s auxiliary of [http://comeuntochrist.org The Church of Jesus Christ of L She was born May 3,1822 to Mark and Susannah Ogden Bigler in West Virginia. Her early life was pleasant and uncomplicated, as her family
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• Light of Christ
  ...hat recognizes truth when he or she hears it. The light of Christ is found in every person who has ever lived—or ever will live—on the earth. It is a [[Image:Jesus_Christ.jpg|350px|thumb|alt=Mormonism Light of Christ|left]]
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• Louise Y. Robison
  ...f Society]], meaning that she oversaw the entire worldwide organization of women for [[http://comeuntochrist.org The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Sa ...ey had six children. She studied her children’s school lessons with them in order to continue learning.
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• Beliefs of the Restored Gospel of Jesus Christ
  ...n the Church of Jesus Christ as the Articles of Faith and can now be found in scripture. These thirteen articles briefly outline the basic principles and ...r-day Saints acknowledge [[the Fall]] of Adam and Eve, they do not believe in the idea of [[Original Sin]] (the notion that all mankind is cursed because
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• Emily H. Woodmansee
  ...ch of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]]. More of her hymns were included in previous editions of the Church hymnbook. ...ld, her cousin Miriam invited the family to come to her new church. No one in the family was interested except for Emily, and the family agreed to send h
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• Aurelia Spencer Rogers
  ..., Primary was adopted churchwide as the official organization for children in LDS Church. From 1893 until her death on August 19, 1922, Rogers served on ...dren of the Church raised the funds to publish her book, ''Life Sketches'' in 1898.
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• Mercy R. Thompson
  ...ghter of John Fielding and Rachel Ibbotson. She immigrated to Upper Canada in 1832 with her brother Joseph, and their sister [[Mary Fielding Smith]] join ...r-day Saints] in 1836 by [[Parley P. Pratt]]. She moved to Kirtland, Ohio, in May 1837.
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• Bonnie H. Cordon
  ...gust 1, 2023. At the time of her call, she was serving as second counselor in the [[Primary]] general presidency of [http://comeuntochrist.org The Church ...niversity]]. She met her husband, Derek L. Cordon, at BYU and they married in 1986. They are the parents of four children.
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• Julia Mavimbela
  '''Julia Nompi Mavimbela''' was a schoolteacher, community leader, and leader in her local congregation of [http://comeuntochrist.org The Church of Jesus Ch ...in kindergarten teaching. She became the first woman principal at a school in Boxburg.
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• Sheri L. Dew
  ...]] general board member, [[Stake]] [[Relief Society]] president, counselor in stake Relief Society presidency, ward Relief Society president; vice presid ...ng. She was a star player in basketball-crazy Kansas at a tiny high school in Ulysses (population 4,000), averaging 23 points and 17 rebounds a game. She
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• Donna Packer
  [[Image:Donna-Packer.jpg|300px|thumb|frame|President and Sister Packer in 2013, Courtesy Deseret News|right]] ...packer-center-announced] She graduated with an associate degree of science in 1947.
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• Pioneer Day
  ...f Society General President, was the first woman to serve as grand marshal in the 2022 Days of ’47 Parade. Copyright Intellectual Reserve, Inc.|right]] ...their destination. Some members of the company traveled ahead and arrived in the Salt Lake Valley as early as the July 21, 1847. They immediately began
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• Articles available for use
  * [[Beliefs of Mormonism]] * [[Mormon women]]
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• Mary Elizabeth Rollins Lightner
  ...ner''' saving pages from of [[Joseph Smith]]’s revelations is well-known in [http://comeuntochrist.org The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints] ...Instead, the little community was growing. There was even a printing press in Brother William Phelps’s house, and the whole town knew that he was print
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• Maxine Tate Shields Grimm
  ...the Philippines. She made it possible for missionaries to begin work there in the 1960s. She was a devoted member of [http://Mormon.org The Church of Jes ...[https://www.lds.org/ensign/1997/08/faithful-good-virtuous-true-pioneers-in-the-philippines?lang=eng&media=audio]
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• 2012 Pew Report:Mormons in America, Part 3 — Religious Devotion
  ...America Christians Pew|left|Mormon Missionaries help prepare for flooding in Quincy, Illinois.]] ...an additional 17 percent are unsure of LDS Christianity. Mormons believe in Jesus Christ, and they consider themselves to be Christian.
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• Vilate Kimball
  ...e Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints] two weeks after her husband in April 1832. Three weeks before they had heard about the message of the Rest ...d Clarissa Young took a freezing, 125-mile sleigh ride to visit the branch in Columbia, Pennsylvania. Vilate Kimball stayed at home and cared for all the
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• The Mormon Moment
  ...ly is the Church and its members presented fairly or in a favorable light, in spite of the amazing humanitarian aid outreach of the LDS Church, its remar ...n (and God), and yet seems to be acceptable to pretty much everyone. Anti-Mormonism has therefore been called "the last acceptable bigotry" by the very few jou
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• Kate Holbrook
  '''Kate Holbrook''' was the managing historian for women’s history at the Church History Department of [http://comeuntochrist.org ...ry needs to be told in a way that integrates what men were doing with what women were doing."
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• Lucy Jane "Jennie" Brimhall
  ...had previously served missions; however, none of these sisters was called in a strictly proselyting capacity, and none is listed on the official mission ...announced: “‘It has been decided to call some of our wise and prudent women into the missionary field.’[https://www.lds.org/ensign/1980/07/the-first-
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• Patricia Terry Holland
  ...um of the Twelve Apostles]]. She also served as a counselor in the [[Young Women]] general presidency of [http://comeuntochrist.org The Church of Jesus Chri Sister Holland was born on February 16, 1942, and was raised on a farm in Enterprise, Utah, a small pioneer-founded community located 40 miles northw
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• Hannah Tapfield King
  ..., essays, and biographies, and she found it hard to associate with pioneer women who were not intellectually inclined. She found a kinship and friendship wi Hannah was born on March 16, 1808, in Cambridgeshire, England. Her childhood in Cambridge influenced her already keen mind and her father encouraged her to
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• Clarissa S. Williams
  ...amed Mormons. The General Relief Society president oversees the world-wide women’s auxiliary for the Church. ...private school, because she strongly believed education, particularly for women, was essential for a successful adult life.
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• Drusilla Hendricks
  ...rs of [http://Mormon.org The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]. In the April 1996 General Conference, Elder [[Jeffrey R. Holland]] told her st ...e of Crooked River, arrived with their children at a hastily shaped dugout in Quincy, Illinois, to live out the spring of that harrowing year.
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• Belle Harris
  ...her plural marriage to a former husband. She spent more than three months in 1883 at the Utah Territorial Penitentiary with her son Horace Merrill. Isabelle Maria Harris was born on April 15, 1861, in Willard, Box Elder County, Utah Territory. Her paternal grandfather, Emer H
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• Linda K. Burton
  [[Image:Linda_K._Burton.jpg|300px|thumb|alt=Mormon women Linda K. Burton|left]] ...]], Primary, and [[Sunday School]] organizations. She returned to [[Utah]] in 2010 after serving with her husband, Craig, who was the president of the Ko
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• Jeanette Evans McKay
  ...hey accumulated provisions for the trek to Utah in 1859. When they arrived in Utah, they moved to Ogden. ...f rheumatic fever in March 1880. Jeanette and David also maintained a home in Ogden so that their children could go to school during the winter months. E
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• Amanda Inez Knight
  ...me, more than 200 women had served, but they were either married or served in other capacities, such as genealogical or mission school teachers. ...night served as a delegate to the 1899 International Council of Women held in London.
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• Claudia Bushman: Mormon historian
  '''Claudia Lauper Bushman''' is a historian specializing in the history of [http://Mormon.org The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day ...the parents of six children. She was New York State’s mother of the year in 2000.
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• Kathleen Johnson Eyring
  ...nia, Berkeley. She also attended the University of Vienna and the Sorbonne in Paris where she learned to speak German and French, respectively. ...d to school at Berkeley in California. They were married on July 19, 1962, in the [[Logan Utah Temple]] and are the parents of six children, four sons an
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• Mary Ellen W. Smoot
  ...of their children, grew their own food and raised animals. She also worked in her grandfather’s canning factory. She developed a strong love of genealo ...and held a number of volunteer church positions, which gave her experience in leadership. When she and her family attended a local Church conference, [[H
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• Ella Young Empey
  ...August 31, 1847, in Winter Quarters, Nebraska, and married Nelson A. Empey in 1865. She died on September 7, 1890. ...hurchnewsarchive.com/articles/25366/Improve-in-everything-beautiful--Young-women-forerunner-organized-among-Brigham-Youngs-daughters.html]
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• Phebe Whittemore Carter Woodruff
  ...]]. She was born on March 8, 1807, in Scarborough, Maine. She was baptized in 1834 and moved to [[Kirtland]], Ohio, around 1835. ...r third birthday. She joined her husband on his mission to the Fox Islands in Maine from 1837 to 1838. She also accompanied him on missions to England (1
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• Elaine L. Jack
  ...e Low Jack''' was the twelfth general president of the [[Relief Society]] (women's organization) of [http://comeuntochrist.org The Church of Jesus Christ of ...e Church of Jesus Christ. She grew up steeped in Latter-day Saint culture in a family dedicated to living the gospel. She lived only a block from the [[
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• Personal Progress
  ...ess.jpg|350px|right|alt=Mormon Young Women Personal Progress| Mormon Young Women Personal Progress]] ...en was a program designed to help them "come unto Christ" by participating in value experiences and projects. The program was replaced effective January
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• Agnes Taylor
  ...oronto area of Canada in 1830. In 1833 they left Canada to join the Saints in Kirtland, Ohio, then on to Far West, Missouri. ...by wagon to the Salt Lake Valley, arriving in September 1847. They settled in Salt Lake.
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• Mary Fielding Smith
  ...o the Church in May 1836. She moved to Kirtland, Ohio, the following year. In Kirtland, she became a governess and teacher for many families. ...ry was married to him less than a year when he was arrested and imprisoned in Liberty Jail with other church leaders. While he was incarcerated, she gave
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• Ardeth Greene Kapp: Mormon Leader
  ...ization (1984–1992) and counselor in the general presidency of the Young Women (1972–1978). ...n elementary education from the University of Utah and a master’s degree in curriculum development from [[Brigham Young University]].
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