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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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• 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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• 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.
  10 KB (1,484 words) - 17:53, 19 April 2023
• 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
  6 KB (880 words) - 14:10, 16 September 2022
• 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.
  9 KB (1,307 words) - 20:35, 10 April 2024
• 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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