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• Utah
  ...ht|alt=The Wasatch Front|frame|Part of the Wasatch Range, the western edge of the greater Rocky Mountains]] ...and salt flats in Bonneville Desert. Archaeologists have found a plethora of fossils and dinosaur bones and footprints.
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• Relief Society
  ...the Relief Society, the women's organization of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]] ...18 who are married or are single mothers, are welcomed into the sisterhood of Relief Society.
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• Mountain Meadows massacre
  ...sacre.com/ Mountain Meadow Massacre], as it is known, has remained a topic of interest and controversy as Mormons and historians struggle to understand t ...ed all of what would become California, Nevada, and Utah, as well as parts of modern-day Texas, Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico, and Wyoming.)
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• Responses to Proposition 8
  ...ticle reports a few of the favorable reactions and support that the Church of Jesus Christ received. ...iative that amended the state constitution to define marriage as the union of one man and one woman. In a move that may make gay-rights supporters' heads
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• George Reynolds
  ...was of German descent. George's father was a master tailor in the West End of London. ...discovered, in the ground, some plates which he had translated by the help of the Urim and Thummim. George had been told by someone that the Urim and Thu
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• Famous Mormons
  * [[Brett Helquist]]: Illustrator (illustrated ''A Series of Unfortunate Events'' novels). * [[Tom Holdman]]: Creator of stained glass, which appears in temples and buildings throughout the world.
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• Mormon missionaries
  ...haps the most active missionary program of any world church. As of the end of 2022 the Church had 62,544 full-time teaching missionaries, 27,070 senior c ...w-the-missionary-age-change-announcement-changed-the-work.html] By the end of 2013, the total would be 83,035.[https://www.thechurchnews.com/leaders/2022
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• Rome Italy Temple
  ...g The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints], announced the building of a temple in Rome, Italy. ...on of the colonnades and columns. And that started this very early concept of a curved church, a curved temple, and temple building both on the exterior
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• B.H. Roberts
  ...alued the covenants he made in the [[Temple|temple]] more than the desires of society. ...are; my boyhood a tragedy."<ref>Quoted in [[Truman G. Madsen]], ''Defender of the Faith: The B. H. Roberts Story'' (Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1980),1.</
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• Stability and Growth
  ==A Period of Peace and Growth== ...he end of this period, just after World War II, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was set to become an international church.
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• Mormon jokes
  ...takes him on a tour. They enter a long hall with doors lining either side of it. ...e Buddists reading the The Diamond Sutra. In the next room contains people of various Islamic faiths reading the Qur'an, and the next has Catholics readi
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• Extermination Order
  ...that the members of [http://comeuntochrist.org The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]—known as Mormons—be driven from the state or extermi :"Headquarters of the Militia,"
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• St. George Utah Temple
  ...humb|<center><span style="color:#0D8ED3">St. George Utah Temple. The first of four pioneer-era temples.</span></center>]] ...ter the death of [[Joseph Smith, Jr.]] Located in the city of St. George, Utah, it was the first Latter-day Saint temple built in the Rocky Mountains. It
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• Calgary Alberta Temple
  ...Saints], announced the '''Calgary Alberta Temple''' in the opening session of the 178th Semiannual [[General Conference]] on 4 October 2008. ...adjacent to the Royal Oak Chapel in northwest Calgary. Over 18,000 members of the Church in 6 [[stake]]s will use the temple.
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• George Albert Smith (b. 1817)
  ...urch Historian and Recorder|Church Historian and General Church Recorder]] of the Church from 1854 to 1871. In 1873 he was appointed and sustained as Tru ...google.com/books?id=fNkBAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA2-PA35&as_brr=1#PRA2-PA35,M1 History of Salt Lake City, 1886], by Edward William Tullidge (pp. 35–36).==
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• Cedar City Utah Temple
  ...thumb|<center><span style="color:#0D8ED3">Cedar City Utah Temple (Courtesy of Bobby Valero)</span></center>|right]] ...n]] announced the construction of a Latter-day Saint temple in Cedar City, Utah.
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• George F. Richards
  ...Patriarch]] of the Church from 1937 to 1942 and [[President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles]] from May 25, 1945, until his death. ...s [[President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles|President of the Quorum of the Twelve]] from 1898 to 1899.
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• Rulon S. Wells
  ...de the stone wall just east of the ''Deseret News'' corner. He was the son of President [[Daniel H. Wells]] and Louisa Free. ...ct, Professor Monch and later by Dr. [[Karl G. Maeser]]. Under the tuition of these educators he took a scientific and classical course, such as was at t
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• Neal A. Maxwell
  ...f the Seventy]][[Category:General Authority Seventies]][[Category:Regional representatives]][[Category:Assistants to the Twelve]] ...Twelve Apostles]] of [http://comeuntochrist.org The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints] from July 1981 until his death in July 2004.
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• Jacob Gates
  ...uncil of the Seventy at that time. Later it would be called the Presidency of the Seventy.[https://eom.byu.edu/index.php/Seventy#First_Council_of_the_Sev ...enter and joiner trade, and his education was confined to a limited period of time.
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• Second Manifesto
  ...Wilford Woodruff]] said that he would “use my influence with the members of the Church over which I preside to have them do likewise.”[https://www.ch ...nd of the practice were directed by revelation. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints operates on revelation from God.
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• John Henry Smith
  ...irst Presidency]] of [http://comeuntochrist.org The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]. ...established during the migration westward and is now within the boundaries of Council Bluffs, Iowa.
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• Reed Smoot
  ...of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints], serving as a member of the [[Quorum of the Twelve Apostles]] from 1900 until his death in 1941. ...and the Smoot Investment Company. He also served as a director of ZCMI and of the Deseret Savings Bank in Salt Lake City.
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• Thomas Bullock
  ...and organization of [http://comeuntochrist.org The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]. He was born at Leek, Staffordshire, England on December 23, 1816. At the age of thirteen, he clerked at a law office. After eight years there, he began wor
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• George Q. Cannon
  ...le]] of the Lord for [http://comeuntochrist.org The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints] who earlier in his life, in 1849, was sent on a mission ...n Richelieu" by the press. He was also five-time Territorial Delegate from Utah[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Q._Cannon].
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• Syracuse Utah Temple
  ...|<div align="left"><span style="color:#0D8ED3">A rendering of the Syracuse Utah Temple. ©2021 by Intellectual Reserve, Inc. All rights reserved.</span></d ...is County, following the [[Bountiful Utah Temple]] (1995) and the [[Layton Utah Temple]] (preparing for dedication).
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• Harry Reid
  ...dent and took up boxing. In 2018 he was selected to the Nevada Boxing Hall of Fame. ...as elected in 1982 to the first of two terms in the United States House of Representatives.
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• Joseph Angell Young
  ...''[[Journal of Discourses]]'' '''6''':320 and Heber C. Kimball, ''Journal of Discourses'' '''6''':29.</ref> ...p of [[Pioneers|Mormon pioneers]] from [[Nauvoo]], Illinois, to the [[Utah|Utah Territory]].
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• Robert L. Backman
  ...served as vice president of the Great Salt Lake Council of the Boy Scouts of America. ...nd was a lawyer. He also served two terms as a member of the Utah House of Representatives.
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• Edward H. Anderson
  ...discussed; his close relationship with [[Joseph Smith, Jr.]]; and the rise of his leadership following Smith's death. ...Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]] when he was young, and they came to [[Utah]] Territory in 1864 in [[William B. Preston]]'s [[Pioneers|Mormon pioneer]]
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• Ernest James Istook
  '''Ernest James Istook Jr.''' was a U.S. representative for the state of Oklahoma and held his congressional seat from January 3, 1993 to January 3, ...Warr Acres Chamber of Commerce. In 2006, he ran for governor of the state of Oklahoma.
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• Norman D. Shumway
  ...is a former United States Congressman from the 14th district in the State of California. ...d. In November 1978, he was elected to serve in the United States House of Representatives where he served through January 3, 1991. He had been re-elected five times
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• Richard P. Lindsay
  ...to fight alcohol abuse. He also served in the Church as managing director of Public Affairs, bishop, and stake president. ...s from 1972 to 1976. He was also director of the University of Utah Bureau of Community Development and an adjunct professor at [[Brigham Young Universit
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• Amy Brown Lyman
  ...general president of the [[Relief Society]] of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, often mistakenly called the Mormon Church. She served i ...edical books, since she saw many, including her own mother, suffer because of poor medical care.
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• Alice Merrill Horne
  .... She is best known for her devotion to art and encouraging the artists of Utah. ...t in art. At age fourteen, Alice entered the University of Utah|University of Deseret and pursued classes in art, art education, literature, and writing.
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• Oscar W. McConkie Jr.
  ...including president of the Arizona Tempe Mission, Regional Representative of the Twelve, stake president, bishop, and patriarch. ...a younger brother of [[Bruce R. McConkie]], a past member of the [[Quorum of the Twelve Apostles]].
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• Richard Stallings
  ...on. He also lost in his initial attempt to be elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1982. He was the 1988 nominee for the U.S. Senate. ...ervices and the Pocatello, Idaho, City Council. He also served as chairman of the Idaho Democratic Party.
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• David S. King
  '''David S. King''' was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1959 to 1963, and again from 1965 to 1967, a time when civil rights le ...r three years. He was appointed by U.S. president Jimmy Carter as director of the World Bank.
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• Wayne Owens
  ...of Representatives from 1973 to 1975 and from 1987 to 1993. He represented Utah’s 2nd congressional district. ...e also served as Western states coordinator for the presidential campaigns of both Robert Kennedy (1968) and Edward Kennedy (1980). He was a delegate to
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• Zina D. H. Young
  ..., the Society became incorporated and affiliated with the National Council of Women. ...rsecutions heaped on [http://comeuntochrist.org The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints].
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• Gunn McKay
  .... He was a member of [http://comeuntochrist.org The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]. ...rve gas storage facility, and securing funding for the further development of Capitol Reef National Park, Glen Canyon, Arches, and Zion National Park.
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• Spencer Cox
  ...t the time that Governor Herbert selected him to step into the office. The Utah Senate unanimously confirmed him. ...nth governor of the State of Utah in the November election with 63 percent of the vote.
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• Algie Eggertsen Ballif
  ...daughters’ education equaled that of her sons’, despite the inequality of the era. Their home was often filled with “artists, lecturers, school adm In 1916, [[George H. Brimhall]], president of [[Brigham Young University|Brigham Young Academy]], asked Algie to serve a
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• N. Boyd Tenney
  ...e 22, 1915, in Stanley, Arizona, on the San Carlos Indian Reservation, one of ten children, including brother [[Lyman Tenney]]. He grew up in rural Arizo ...es in Salt Lake City, Utah, on April 10, 1939, and they became the parents of eight children.
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• Jack H. Goaslind
  ...venty]] from October 6, 1985, until August 15, 1987, and in the Presidency of the Seventy from August 15, 1995, until August 15, 1998. ...o 1998. In 1995, he was awarded the Silver Buffalo Award by the Boy Scouts of America for his work to integrate [[Scouting]] into the Church’s Young Me
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• James V. Hansen
  ...presentatives from 1973 to 1980; he was Speaker of the House the last year of his term. Hansen ran for governor of the state of Utah in 2004 but was defeated at the Republican convention by [[Jon Huntsman, Jr
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• Shawn Bradley: Mormon Athlete
  ...March 22, 1972, in Landstuhl, West Germany, and was raised in Castle Dale, Utah. During his high school years, he was named All-State three times and earne ...ttp://comeuntochrist.org The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints], of which he is a member. After his mission to Australia, he decided to enter t
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• William Spry
  ...f [[Utah]], serving from January 4, 1909, to January 1, 1917. He was Chair of the National Governors Association from August 24, 1915, to December 14, 19 ...ilson to reconsider the impending execution of Joe Hill (who was convicted of murder in a controversial trial) and allowed the execution to take place on
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• Ronald T. Halverson
  ...ea Authority, [[Area Seventy]], [[Regional Representative]], and president of the Norway Oslo Mission (1990–1993). He also served a full-time mission t ...den, Utah. When he was ten years old, his father bought a farm in northern Utah and Halverson spent his youth helping with the animals.
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• Ron Packard
  ...job almost requires a marriage. It’s like being married to the House of Representatives, and I want to go back and be a father, grandfather, and husband again.”[ ...he temple: "I learned that when you pray to the Lord and you get some kind of an answer and confirmation, you better believe it. The confirmation I recei
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