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FamilySearch indexing app now available

News.lds.org - Released just in time for the April 2 launch of the United States 1940 census, the free FamilySearch Indexing app users now helps individuals preserve and share precious genealogical records from around the world on mobile devices. The new mobile indexing app is available for download for from the Apple App Store (iOS devices) or Google Play (Android version). ...

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Helpings Hands Program Opens Way for Missionary Work, New Stake in Amapa, Brazil

News.lds.org - On Saturday, March 10, 2012, 21 people—including both families and individuals—entered the waters of baptism. This is the largest number of people in recent years in the Brazilian states of Para and Amapá, both part of the Brazil Belém Mission, to receive the ordinance of baptism on the same day and to become “fellowcitizens” with the Saints (Ephesians 2:19), and walk “in newness of life” (Romans 6:4). ...

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Family celebrates LDS missionary who booked—then canceled—passage on Titanic

News.lds.org - This week, people everywhere will remember the voyagers aboard the ill-fated RMS Titanic, the ship that, on its maiden voyage from Southampton, England to New York City, United States, disastrously struck an iceberg on April 14, 1912, and sank early the next morning, resulting in the deaths of more than 1,500 of its passengers. As the world marks the 100th anniversary of that tragic event, the descendants of Alma Sonne—a former assistant to the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles—will also remember the legacy of faith that their progenitor left behind in not being aboard the Titanic. ...

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Open house dates are extended for Kansas City Missouri Temple

LDS Church News - The open house dates for the Kansas City Missouri Temple have been extended a week, from the original concluding date of April 21 to April 28. ...

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LDS youths bring Mormon Battalion to life

Deseret News - The Mormon Battalion’s original trek through Yuma, Ariz., took place in January of 1847. Those who attended Yuma’s 2012 Silver Spur Rodeo Parade in February were treated to a trip back in time and a lesson in history. More than a dozen young men and young women from Yuma’s 9th Ward, in period clothing with authentic equipment (including a reproduction U.S. Army wagon), walked the parade route to bring alive a part of the history of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.. The Silver Parade is the largest local event of this type, and the Arizona Centennial brought additional...

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The 'Mormon moment-um'

Deseret News - I was recently asked by a Brazilian reporter from Istoe Independente, a weekly magazine, to share my thoughts on the media focus on Mormons in light of the Mitt Romney presidential campaign and related flashes of high-profile Latter-day Saints in news venues. After thanking Brazilian reporters for their collective history of positive and accurate reporting, I submitted this response (Read the full article, "A forÇa dos mÓrmons"). As a convert and lay member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, I've always wanted to write a "Dear World" letter to speak personally, and in one fell swoop, to anyone...

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Post-Civil War enmity between Southerners and Mormons now erased, mostly

Salt Lake Tribune - A Mormon missionary in the South in 1879 wrote that, "A person traveling among the Southern people realizes that though they have been whipped by the North, yet there is a feeling of enmity existing in their bosoms, which only needs a little breeze to inflame their passions to deeds of carnage and strife." In "Last Letter Home From Elder Joseph Standing" printed in the Deseret News, that same missionary said that "The 4th [of July] is not much cared for in the South." ...

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Kansas City Temple provides "healing moment"

LDS Church News - The doors of the newly completed Kansas City Temple were opened on Thursday, April 5 as hundreds of VIP special guests toured the 137th temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Guests included Missouri Governor Jay Nixon and his wife, Georganne, Kansas Governor Sam Brownback, Supreme Court justices and government officials from both states, religious, education, civic, business and entertainment leaders and members of local, regional and national media. ...

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Billy Casper tells of golf, fishing, Mormons

Deseret News - First of four excerpts from "The Big Three and Me," the autobiography of golf legend and Utah resident Billy Casper, who wrote the book with Deseret News columnist Lee Benson. My reaction when I was first contacted by Billy Casper in late 2010 to help assist him in writing his life story was one of surprise. This hasn't been written before? Casper was about to celebrate his 80th birthday. His golf career could hardly be considered "in progress." It had long been entrenched in the record books, where the numbers testify that few who have ever attempted the maddening game —...

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RS/MP Lesson 7: “The Immortality of the Soul” (George Albert Smith Manual)

Feast Upon the Word - In sports, sometimes a team is said to be playing not to lose, rather than playing to win. What does that mean, and how can it be applied to thinking about immortality? I don’t think immortality in this lesson is referring just to the absence of death, as we usually think of it. Rather, I think it’s about death’s power. The way that fears, in a larger sense, distract us from actually living. Pres. Smith writes: ...