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• Conner Mantz
  ...egiate champions and Utah natives—qualified for the 2024 Olympics hosted in Paris, France. ...-2, respectively, in the nationally televised U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials in Orlando, Florida. Mantz finished the fourth marathon of his life with a tim
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• Francis M. Lyman
  ...tochrist.org The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints] was settling in [[Nauvoo]], Illinois, and its surrounding townships. ...drove a yoke of cattle on that trek until they reached [[Salt Lake City]] in October of 1848.
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• London England Temple
  ...ick masonry walls faced with cut Portland limestone. The spire is sheathed in copper. ...e [[Book of Mormon]] [[Prophets|prophet]] to the temple’s 189-foot spire in 2008 as part of a Jubilee of Thanksgiving celebration to commemorate the te
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• Famous Mormons
  * [[Tom Holdman]]: Creator of stained glass, which appears in temples and buildings throughout the world. *[[Glenn Beck]]: New York Times Best seller in fiction, nonfiction, self-help, and children's.
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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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• Stake
  ...multiple congregations, or [[wards]]. A stake may be compared to a diocese in the Roman Catholic Church. The name "stake" derives from the metaphor emplo ...d abandoned later that year due to the events of the so-called Mormon War. In 1839, the Church's central stake was established at [[Nauvoo and the Martyr
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• Eric Weddle
  ...also be undergoing surgery for a ruptured pectoral muscle sustained early in the Super Bowl game. ...played baseball, basketball, and football, lettering in all three sports. In high school, he was already showing his versatility on the football field.
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• Hamilton New Zealand Temple
  .... With its completion in 1958, it was the first temple built by the Church in the Southern Hemisphere. Located in Temple View, a suburb outside of Hamilton, New Zealand, the Hamilton temple
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• Post-Civil War Persecution
  ...They campaigned for women’s rights and established the first hospitals in Utah. ...plural marriage. Mormons often referred to polygamy as "The Principle." In 1862, the Morrill anti-bigamy bill was passed, which made it illegal to hav
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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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• Richard Holzapfel
  ...s at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. Dr. Holzapfel taught classes in ancient and modern scripture—including the New Testament and the [[Doctri ...ssionary for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for two years in Italy and Switzerland.
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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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• 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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• Richard Lloyd Anderson
  ...Anderson. He grew up in Salt Lake, Provo, and Ogden, [[Utah]], and briefly in Pocatello, Idaho. He remembered being bossy to his two sisters and brother. ...hing unless we can get to a meeting on time.” Later I became a counselor in a stake presidency, but he became a stake president and a regional represen
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• McAllen Texas Temple
  ...rown in and around McAllen, as well as Spanish colonial architecture found in the area. Among the patterns featured are citrus blossoms, barbed quatrefoi ...arly as the 1920s. In 1990, there were more than 154,000 Latter-day Saints in the state. Today, Texas is home to over 385,000 members of the Church.
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• Rob Gardner: Mormon Composer
  ...instrument from fifth grade through high school. He played the trumpet and in eighth grade, started singing. His seven-member a capella group, Two Five N ..., he translated it into English and performed it numerous times at BYU and in Provo with volunteer orchestras and choirs. From this effort, he and others
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• Newport Beach California Temple
  ...e:newport_beach_california_temple2.jpg|450px|thumb|right|alt=Newport Beach California Mormon Temple|frame|<span style="color:#0D8ED3"> Newport Beach California Temple]]
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• David A. Bednar
  ...home, his father called on a Wednesday to ask if Elder Bednar could be in California by Saturday to baptize him. Elder Bednar baptized, confirmed, and ordained ...ity of Arkansas. He was also Associate Dean at the University of Arkansas. In 1997 accepted a job as the president of [[Ricks College]] where he served u
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• Levi W. Hancock
  ...of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]. His brother, Alvah, told him about missionaries who had brought a book with them that was a record of the people from the a ...I gathered faith and … [i]t seemed like a wash of something warm took me in the face and ran over my body which gave me a feeling I cannot describe. Th
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• Anti-Mormon Acts
  ...their rights, imprisoned their fathers and husbands, and even sent an army in an effort to destroy the Church. Prophet Wilford Woodruff [http://modernpr ...t or slander could never be said about Jews or Moslems or any racial group in these modern times.
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• Daniel W. Jones
  ...d at [[Devil's Gate]] during the rescue of the stranded handcart companies in 1856. ...r something. When a sheepherding expedition bound for California departed in 1850, he left with them.
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• Susan Easton Black: Mormon Scholar
  ...s were affluent and she lived a debutante’s life. She also modeled while in college at BYU. When she was 19, she went to Hollywood to model shoes. She ...te at home, so she obtained her EdD in educational psychology with a minor in Church history from BYU. Before she finished this degree, BYU hired her for
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• Los Angeles California Temple
  ...les California Mormon Temple|frame|<span style="color:#0D8ED3">Los Angeles California Temple]] The '''Los Angeles California Temple''' is the 10th operating temple of [http://comeuntochrist.org The Ch
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• BYU-Idaho
  ...became a full-fledged university, allied with [[Brigham Young University]] in Provo under the [[Church Educational System]] of [http://comeuntochrist.org ...sponsible members of the school. Students are expected to behave and dress in a way that will honorably represent the school (and the Church, for members
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• LeGrand Richards
  ...[[George F. Richards]], would become a member of the Quorum of the Twelve in 1906. ...ards married Ina Jane Ashton. He was employed in various business ventures in Salt Lake City. From 1914 to 1916 Richards served as president of the Nethe
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• Henry D. Moyle
  Raised in [http://comeuntochrist.org The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints] ...pensation/henry-dinwoodey-moyle] The Church originally bought 54,000 acres in 1950, and the ranch grew to over 312,000 acres. The ranch was known as Dese
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• Deuce Lutui
  ...ith the NFL. He is a cousin of Vai Sikahema, the first Tongan ever to play in the NFL. ...mother became the bread-winner in the family, and all the children pitched in to provide basic support. Lutui was six years old when the accident occurr
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• John H. Groberg
  Groberg was born in Idaho Falls, Idaho, in 1934 and was reared there after the Great Depression. After a year at [[Bri ...es, Samoa, and Fiji while waiting to get to Tonga. When he finally arrived in Tonga, his first assignment was on a remote isolated island called Niuatopu
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• Bearing a Testimony
  ...of the gospel, as it has been restored through [[Mormon prophet|prophets]] in these last days. ...by the bearing of testimonies, sometimes in Church meetings, and sometimes in more intimate settings, that people come to be touched by the spirit.
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• Joe J. Christensen
  ...aho|Ricks College]] from 1985 to 1989 and was president of the [[San Diego California Temple]] from 1999 to 2002. ...bride, Barbara Kohler, who was also serving as a missionary. They married in 1952 and had six children.
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• Patrick Kearon
  ...to serve in the First Quorum of the [[Seventy]] at [[General Conference]] in April 2010. ...ng assistant ward [[Clerk|clerk]], ward [[Young Men]] president, counselor in a bishopric, branch president, stake president, and [[Area Seventy]].
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• Karl Tilleman: Mormon Athlete
  ...n of sixteen three-point shots, and scoring 21 points in a row for Canada, in a game against Spain during the Seoul Games. His record has been tied twice ...missionary]] in the California Arcadia Mission in between his particpation in the two Olympic Games.
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• Old Las Vegas Mormon Fort
  ...veral settlements were established in the 1850s between Salt Lake City and California along what is sometimes called the Mormon Corridor. The '''Old Las Vegas Mo In general conference of April 1855, several men were called on a mission to s
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• Shay Carl
  ...se YouTube channel, [https://www.youtube.com/user/TheStation The Station]. In addition to The Station, the studio manages many of the top YouTube channel ...fe, including owning a custom granite countertop company called Rock Tops. In his free time, Shay became enthralled with watching videos. He said that th
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• Richard L. Bushman
  ...y a historian of the intelectual and cultural history of the United States in the Colonial and Early-Republican period, with Joseph Smith living at the v ...= |coauthors= |title=Richard L. Bushman named as Hunter Visiting Professor in Mormon Studies at Claremont |url=http://www.meridianmagazine.com/churchupd
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• Shawn Stevens: Mormon Actor
  ...in Morristown, New Jersey, on April 5, 1958. His family moved to Burbank, California, when he was ten years old, which he believed was just for him because he l
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• Mexico City Mexico Temple
  ...er temples have been built in the country. Plans to build the first temple in Mexico, however, were not easy. ...anged in encouraging ways and the necessary building permits were approved in 1979.
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• Bob Turner
  ...ob Turner stands behind Masters champion Hideki Matsuyama, April 11, 2021, in Augusta, Georgia.]] ...the champion has been a native of a country other than the United States. In 2021, that champion happened to be Hideki Matsuyama, a Japanese professiona
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• Jordan Vajda
  In a [[General Conference]] talk in 2008, Elder [[Quentin L. Cook]] told of Vajda’s conversion. ...the Catholic Church. As he prepared to be a priest, he remained interested in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
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• Eric B. Shumway
  Shumway was born in Holbrook, Arizona.<ref>''Church News'', 2007-02-03.</ref> ...1962 Shumway served as a [[Mormon Missionaries|missionary]] for the Church in Tonga. After his mission Shumway married Carolyn Merrill, and they became t
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• Utah War
  ...bbed, driven, and suffering the physical trials of starting over in Utah. In 1857, their isolation ended. ...ates at the time; [[polygamy]], practiced largely by the [[Mormon Church]] in far-off Utah territory, made a much softer target. Thus, it posed an inviti
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• Edwin Evans: Mormon Artist
  ...the five artists who were set apart as art missionaries and sent to study in Paris. He was a member of [http://comeuntochrist.org The Church of Jesus Ch ...was near age 30. While he worked as a railroad telegrapher, he would fill in his quiet working moments by sketching. Alonzo E. Hyde watched him sketch a
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• Charles C. Rich
  ...Latter-day Saints] (often inadvertently called the Mormon Church) in 1832. In 1838 he married Sarah D. Pea. ...to have survived. After the Saints' expulsion from Missouri, Rich settled in [[Nauvoo]].
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• Vancouver Washington Temple
  ...n state, located in the Pacific Northwestern United States, and the second in the Portland metropolitan area. ...s Lake Washington Temple]]. The [[Tacoma Washington Temple]] was announced in October 2022.
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• William Weeks
  ...was raised a Quaker and converted to the Church. He married Caroline Allen in Quincy, Illinois. ...hew, F. M. Weeks, recalled William telling him that “when [William] went in and showed his plans, Joseph Smith grabbed him, hugged him and said ‘you
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• Ammon M. Tenney
  ...stablish a Latter-day Saint colony in the area that is now San Bernardino, California, where they stayed until 1857. After the threat of an invasion by the Unite Ammon had learned to speak Spanish while in California and at the age of 14, was called to accompany [[Jacob Hamblin]] to serve as
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• Dale T. Tingey
  ...y]]. In 1989, BYU decided to retire its Indian Institute so Tingey stepped in to direct the program voluntarily and independently. The name was changed t Tingey built the organization in an “understated, tireless way”[http://www.deseretnews.com/article/76558
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• James A. Toronto
  ...igration in Europe, History of the LDS Church in Italy, and LDS missiology in the Ottoman Empire. ....</ref> As a young man, Toronto also served as a [[Missionary|missionary]] in Italy.
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• Quentin L. Cook
  ...had served In the First Quorum of the [[Seventy]]. He was called to serve in the Second Quorum of the Seventy on April 6, 1996. Prior to that he was an ...a law firm in the San Francisco area. He then went on to serve as CEO of a California healthcare system and vice chairman of Sutter Health System.
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• Thomas G. Alexander
  ...rofessor of Western History Emeritus at [[Brigham Young University]] (BYU) in [[Provo, Utah]]. He is the former director of the Charles Redd Center for ...n use the methodology of classical physical and biological sciences which, in fact, many scientists have rejected). They however try to write truthful h
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• Louisa Barnes Pratt
  ...n Warwick, Massachusetts. She attended school as a young girl and excelled in her studies. At the age of five, she was sent to a neighbor’s home on an ...ized a member of the Episcopal Church. She then went to live with a sister-in-law who taught her tailoring.
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• Jack Wheatley
  ...en months there, they moved to the Army Corps of Engineers District Office in Kansas City, Missouri, where he served for one year before he resigned. ...te University. He joined with Jacobsen Construction to build the [[Oakland California Temple]].
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• Nicholas G. Smith
  .../comeuntochrist.org The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]. Born in [[Salt Lake City]], [[Utah]] Territory, Smith was the son of Church [[Apost .../ref> From 1902 to 1905 Smith served as a [[Missionary|Church missionary]] in the Netherlands. During part of the time he was on his mission he was presi
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• G. William Richards
  ...s]]: "From Homes of Saints Glad Songs Arise" (# 297) and "'Twas Witnessed in the Morning Sky" (#12). He was also a member of the Hymnbook Executive Comm ...ionary]] in the Eastern States Mission. He was, however, transfered to the California Mission to serve as organist of the Church's exhibit at the San Francisco W
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• Mary Ellen Edmunds
  ...s, California, on March 3, 1940. Her family moved to Cedar City, [[Utah]], in 1943. Her father was a family doctor and her mother was a nurse. She is the ...attended Brigham Young High School and graduated in 1958. She was a writer in high school, contributing to the Y’ld Cat student newspaper, the Wildcat
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• George Ottinger: Mormon Artist
  ...d and within three years he had circumnavigated the globe. He also went to California to prospect for gold. ...en studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. He painted miniatures in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, for two years. His next move was to Kentucky where
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• Mary Lois Sharp Wheatley
  ...r’s degree in fine art from the University of Utah. She also studied art in New York City at the Art Students League of New York. She was a portrait ar ...Virginia, Missouri, and Utah, then settled in California, where they lived in Palo Alto and Carmel. Together they had six children.
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• SIX
  ...Knudsen brothers spent some time in Los Angeles and Las Vegas performing. In those locations, they went from being totally unknown to performing for som ...ity events. They premiered professionally on the ''Donny and Marie Show'' in 1978.
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• Giovanna Raccosta:Mormon Artist
  ...acclaimed portrait artist. She was born and raised in Italy. She now lives in the United States. ...ated with top honors and continued her studies at the Architecture College in Italy.
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• Michael Flynn
  ...lara Arena Theater in California and later founded Starlite Summer Theater in Utah. ...|missionaries]] of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints serving in the Netherlands. He had the role of the mission president.
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• Wendell B. Mendenhall
  ...He was also the building supervisor for the [[Oakland California Temple]] in the 1960s. ...all was born on September 26, 1907, in Mapleton, Utah. He served a mission in New Zealand from 1927 to 1930.
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• Matthew Cowley, Mormon Apostle
  ..., Idaho, to [[Matthias F. Cowley]] and Abbie Hyde Cowley. After his birth, in the same year, Cowley's father was called to the [[Quorum of the Twelve Apo ...e]] assisted by Wiremu Duncan and Stuart Meha. These translations appeared in 1919.
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• Joseph W. McMurrin
  ...er 5, 1897, until his death on October 24, 1932. He also presided over the California Mission of the Church from 1919 until his death. ...n was born in Tooele, Utah Territory, on September 5, 1858, and was reared in Salt Lake City. He learned the stone-cutting trade and worked as a stone cu
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• Clate W. Mask Jr.
  ...olonies in Mexico]]. His maternal grandmother, Minnie Spencer, had settled in the colonies. His father was not a member of the Church while Mask was youn ...helped establish [[Institute]] classes in Spanish in Arizona and Southern California.
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• Charles R. Smart
  ..., and was raised on sheep ranches in Wyoming and California. After serving in the U.S. Army during World War II, he served a full-time mission for [http: ...ical residency at the University of Pennsylvania. He received a fellowship in surgical oncology at UCLA Medical Center where he became a staff member.
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• Gale Sears: Mormon Author
  ...torical Fiction; ''Upon the Mountains'' was a finalist for a Whitney Award in Best Novel of the Year and Best Historical Fiction. ''The Silence of God'' ...e Sister Preachers'', which is based on the true story of the first sister missionaries—[[Amanda Inez Knight]] and [[Lucy Jane "Jennie" Brimhall]]—for [http://
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• Visitors' Centers
  ...s, audiovisual presentations and interactive kiosks. There are also Church missionaries available at each center to answer questions. Visitors can spend as much or ...Hawaii Temple|Laie, Hawaii]]; [[Los Angeles California Temple|Los Angeles, California]]; [[London England Temple|London, England]]; [[Mexico City Mexico Temple|M
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• Ed J. Pinegar
  ...red dentist who also spent much of his life teaching, writing, and leading in [http://comeuntochrist.org The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints] ...vo. After one year, he was asked to put his practice to serve as a captain in the United States Army from 1962 to 1964.
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• Jim Engebretsen
  ...ter-day Saints] from 1998 to 2001. During this time he encountered several missionaries who had investigators turn against the Church because of falsehoods they ha ...sors, Divvypay, Canary Speech, Emmersion Learning and XIO Group, a PE fund in London.
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• Hartman Rector Jr.
  ...1968, and served there until October 3, 1975, when he was called to serve in the [[Presidency of the Seventy]]. On October 1, 1976, the First Quorum of ...weeks, returned to San Diego, then was sent on a ship to Japan. He served in the Navy for twenty-six years.
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• Arthur Kane: Arthur "Killer" Kane
  ...s last years serving in the [[Family History]] Center of the [[Los Angeles California Temple]]. ...oncert in 2004. He died twenty-two days later, on July 13, in Los Angeles, California. He had been suffering with leukemia but did not know it until he went to t
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• Carol Louise Foley McConkie
  ...of a member of the Young Women General Board, which assists the presidency in the work of the auxiliary. ...ionaries within a certain geographical area. She has a bachelor’s degree in English from Arizona State University. She and her husband have seven child
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• Mack Wilberg
  ...he was part of ''New Horizons'' a vocal group made up of Latter-day Saint missionaries.<ref>''Church News'', November 29th, 2008, p. 6</ref> ...ctoral degrees from the Thornton School of Music at University of Southern California.
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• 1898
  [[image:Mormon Missionaries.jpg|thumb|right|300px|alt=Mormon Missionaries]]{{Decade1890}} * April 1 - First sister [[missionaries]] (Inez Knight and Lucy Brimhall) set apart.
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• Hoyt W. Brewster
  ...of Utah, his M.A. from BYU, and his Ph.D. from the University of Southern California. ...tment and chaired several general Church committees. He retired as manager in the Church Temple Department. From 1996 to 1999 he was president of the Net
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• Bela Petsco
  ...llection dealing with the world of Mormon missionaries in France, Southern California, and Arizona. His was the first view of missionary life from someone born a
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