Every December, the First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints gives a Christmas devotional. This year’s devotional was broadcast tonight. In case you missed watching it live, you can still watch it through the Church’s broadcast event page. It is about an hour long, and still a wonderful devotional [...]
Plans to build five new temples were announced Saturday morning by President Thomas S. Monson. With 130 temples currently operating and with another 16 in some phase of planning or construction, these five temples bring the worldwide total to 151 (with 14 in Utah). Monson noted that 83 percent of the faith’s 14 million [...]
Elder Neil Linden Andersen, 57, was named the newest apostle of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The announcement was made by Church President Thomas S. Monson during the morning session of the Church’s 179th Annual General Conference. Elder Andersen will fill the vacancy left in the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles [...]
In a letter to congregations of Spanish-speaking Latter-day Saints, the First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints announced the LDS edition of the Holy Bible in Spanish:
“We are pleased to announce that the LDS edition of the Holy Bible in Spanish will be available through local Church distribution centers beginning in [...]
The First Presidency announced the addition of the new value in a letter dated November 28, 2008. A special eight-page insert for young women to insert into their Personal Progress book contains a scripture, motto, value experience and value project instructions, the color of the value and more.
The scripture chosen to represent virtue [...]
“In 30 minutes you can help people find their ancestors.” That’s the promise prominently displayed on the front page of the familysearchindexing.org website. Since the indexing program began, over 150,000 people have volunteered to help make genealogical research easier for others and thousands more are volunteering each month
Family history indexing is the simple process of [...]

