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Oneita Sumsion, age 90, has proven that it’s never too late to graduate.

When Stephen Dunham noticed his wife Kay was having memory lapses and often repeating herself, he grew concerned and they eventually began visiting doctors. As Kay was still young, the couple received many diagnoses before eventually confirming she had Alzheimer’s disease. The Liahona magazine shares that Stephen cared for Kay until she passed away from complication with the disease.

Last Saturday, a 7.2-magnitude earthquake struck the country of Haiti, leaving devastation and rubble in many cities and towns in the southern part of the country.

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I walked into the ER and saw my husband in a wheelchair, slumped over, one eye drooping. I could tell immediately that he was having a stroke.

It isn’t every day that the pope and an actor playing Jesus Christ meet in Rome. But that very thing happened on Wednesday, August 11, when Jonathan Roumie spoke with the pope in St. Peter’s Square.

In a unique decision from the Church, the Tonga Nuku’alofa Mission was recently divided to enable local missionaries to serve in Tonga while overseas assignments are not possible due to the pandemic.

When 97-year-old Ida Gigger told her kidney specialist, Dr. Fahim Rahim, that she hoped to live long enough to see the opening of the new Pocatello Idaho Temple, he felt it would take a miracle. Gigger had been diagnosed with kidney cancer and it seemed likely she would pass as a result of the illness.

Early next month, Elder David A. Bednar of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles and his wife, Sister Susan Bednar, will be the featured guests at a Face to Face for young adults. The theme for this special Face to Face event will be “Ask, Seek, Knock.”