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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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• Lorenzo Snow
  ...ork in bringing the Church out of debt. He was also known for his [[Mormon missionaries|missionary work]] and his profound intelligence. [[Image:Lorenzo_Snow.jpg|f ...s parents were leaders in the community. Snow's father was involved enough in community affairs that the business of the farm was often left to Lorenzo.
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• Nauvoo and the Martyrdom
  ...um of the Twelve Apostles]] led the Church while [[Joseph Smith]] remained in prison on false charges of treason. Finally, on April 16, a friendly guard, ...city. It was a beautiful, though swampy location overlooking a large bend in the Mississippi river. They bought the land and began settling there. The T
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• Mormon history
  ...s. The history of so broad a movement cannot be adequately condensed, but in the pages that follow is an outline of Latter-day Saint history from 1820 t ...[[The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]]. [[Mormon missionaries|Missionaries]] go out and convert many. Persecution follows the Church.
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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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• Boyd K. Packer
  ...f eleven children born to Ira and Emma Packer, he was the first to be born in a hospital. He grew up as a member of [http://comeuntochrist.org The Church ...War II began. Unable to serve a full-time mission, President Packer served in the U.S. Army as a fighter pilot. It was during this time, that Packer read
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• Karl G. Maeser
  ...ch, including serving as the head of the [[Church Educational System]] and in the central leadership of the Sunday school. ...Salt Lake City: Covenant Communications, 2007) p. 62</ref> Maeser arrived in [[Utah]] Territory on September 1, 1860.
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• B.H. Roberts
  ...a member of United States Congress because he valued the covenants he made in the [[Temple|temple]] more than the desires of society. ...er wrote, "My childhood was a nightmare; my boyhood a tragedy."<ref>Quoted in [[Truman G. Madsen]], ''Defender of the Faith: The B. H. Roberts Story'' (S
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• George W. Romney
  ...nal Representative|regional representative]] and a [[Patriarch|patriarch]] in [http://comeuntochrist.org The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints] ...n to American parents in Latter-day Saint [[Settlements in Mexico|Colonies in Mexico]]. His family moved back to the United States when he was a child.
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• George Albert Smith (b. 1817)
  ...hurch from 1854 to 1871. In 1873 he was appointed and sustained as Trustee-in-Trust for the church, which office he held until his death. :George Albert Smith was born in the town of Potsdam, St. Lawrence County, New York, on the 26th day of June
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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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• 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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• 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,
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• 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
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• 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
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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Birmingham England Temple
  ...ple-rendering.jpg|400px|thumb|frame|<span style="color:#0D8ED3">Birmingham England Temple rendering|right]] ...(dedicated in 1958), followed by the [[Preston England Temple]] (dedicated in 1998).
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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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• Deseret Museum
  ...adobe home west of the [[Lion House]]—one of the first homes constructed in the Salt Lake Valley—it was known as the Home Museum. Some of the early d ...]] and Guglielmo Giosue Rosetti Sangiovanni conceived the idea of a museum in the fall of 1867. They believed that a display of some sort would enable vi
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• Sydney Australia Temple
  ...il 2, 1980. Before the building of the Sydney temple members of the Church in Australia had to travel to [[Hamilton New Zealand Temple|New Zealand]] to a ...William Barratt eventually married and lived out the remainder of his life in Australia.
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• M. Russell Ballard: Apostle of the Lord Jesus Christ
  ...called as a counselor in the [[First Presidency]], President Ballard acted in his place. ...ed to the First Quorum of the Seventy in 1976 and the Quorum of the Twelve in 1985.[https://www.deseret.com/2023/11/13/23958812/president-m-russell-balla
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• Church History Library
  ...ed the last historical item on the shelf in the new Church History Library in front of local media. ...McKay and his traveling companion, Hugh J. Cannon, both sitting on camels in front of the famous Sphinx. The scrapbook was the last item but certainly n
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• Joseph Fielding Smith
  ...oseph Smith, Hyrum, and his father, Joseph F. Smith. He was an avid reader in his youth and loved to learn about the gospel. By the time he was ten, he h ...tragically died in March of [[1908]], leaving behind two young daughters. In November, Joseph Fielding Smith married [[Ethel Reynolds Smith|Ethel Georgi
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• Orson F. Whitney
  '''Orson Ferguson Whitney''' (1 July [[1855]] – 16 May [[1931]]) born in [[Salt Lake City, Utah|Salt Lake City]], [[Utah]] Territory, was a member o ...Jesus Christ, in May 1843, when she was 14 years old. After Smith's death in 1844, Helen Kimball "married for time" to Horace Whitney with Whitney servi
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• Brisbane Australia Temple
  ...ble number in such a short time reflects how quickly the Church is growing in Australia. ...uickly and soon became the site of the first Latter-day Saint meetinghouse in Australia.
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• Bruce R. McConkie
  ...t first reluctant to republish it in any form. New editions were released in 1966 (with a more moderate tone) and 1978 (after the [[Priesthood]] was giv ...ote the words to the hymn "I Believe in Christ" (#134), which was included in the 1985 [[Hymns of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (1985 b
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• Jorge Cocco Santangelo: Mormon Artist
  ...also is skilled in washi zokey, art created with handmade paper. He paints in a new artistic style he calls "Sacrocubism," which he says portrays sacred ...North and South America as well as Europe and Asia and has shown his work in fifty group shows worldwide.
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• Jared Garrett: Mormon Author
  ...e is also the author of ''Beyond the Cabin'', ''The Seer'' (which appeared in a multiauthor series titled The Thirty-Six), and The Guide and the Sword se ...the world to burn. Jared was born into the Chicago community of this sect in 1974.
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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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• Kay Whitmore: Mormon Businessman
  ...on a fellowship for one year and earned a master’s degree in management in 1975. ...n and chief executive officer in June 1990. He came under intense pressure in April 1993 when Christopher Steffen, hired months earlier from outside the
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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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• Mormon Population
  ...a temple there), the Middle-East, and Cuba. The Church is growing fastest in Africa, Latin America, and east Asia. ...1.5 million members. In Idaho, fourteen percent of the population are LDS; in Nevada, nine percent; Arizona, six percent; Oregon, four percent; and the r
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• J.W. "Billy" Johnson
  '''Joseph William “Billy” Johnson''' prepared a large number of people in Ghana for baptism into [http://comeuntochrist.org The Church of Jesus Chris ...phet [[Joseph Smith]]. Mensah had received Church literature when visiting England.
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• Perpetual Education Fund
  ...pg|right|frame|alt=Mormon PEF Recepient|Silvia O. H. Parra earned a degree in business administration with help from a PEF loan.]] ...(PEF). The purpose of the fund was to provide money for Latter-day Saints in poor countries so they can obtain an education. At this occasion, President
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• Emmanuel Abu Kissi
  ...and manager of a hospital he renamed [[Deseret]] Hospital. He is a leader in [http://comeuntochrist.org The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints] ...in London, he converted to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in February 1979, a few months after the Church lifted the restriction of prie
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• Lorus Pratt: Mormon Artist
  ...als in the temples and provide any other art services the Church may need. In June 1890, President [[George Q. Cannon]] told them their proposal had been ...artists who gained new techniques and greater sophistication and accuracy in perspective and proportions. They were influenced by French Impressionism a
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