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On November 7, 2018, the First Presidency sent a letter announcing that the dedication dates for the Rome Italy Temple have been changed. The dedication dates will now be Sunday, March 10, 2019 through Tuesday, March 12, 2019. Previously the dedication dates lasted a full week, from Sunday, March 10, 2019, through Sunday, March 17, 2019.

“He's not afraid to do something different," Sister Nelson says of President Nelson. “He is saying, ‘What really is needful?’ If we're really preparing the Church and the world for the Second Coming of the Savior, he is sincere about that. He doesn't want us spending money, time, energy on anything that isn't really focused on that.”

The Washington Post recently featured a touching story of how ward members help one of their neighbors into bed every single night. In 2015, the Mormon Channel created a video about Kathy Felt and all those who are helping to lift her:

Elder Hartman Rector Jr., convert to the Church, emeritus General Authority Seventy, and former member of the Presidency of the Seventy, passed away on Nov. 6, 2018, in Orem, Utah. He was 94.

His wife has lost much of her memory, and President Henry B. Eyring's effort to capture his memories with her makes a surprising new exhibit of his water colors especially poignant.

The Church Historian’s Press recently announced the release of the latest volume of The Joseph Smith Papers. Revelations and Translations, Volume 4: Book of Abraham and Related Manuscriptstracks the development of the Book of Abraham, from the time Joseph Smith and others purchased Egyptian papyri in 1835 through the publication of the Book of Abraham text and its accompanying illustrations in the church newspaper Times and Seasons in 1842.

For members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, it is a paradox that in the four Gospels it does not appear that Jesus spoke about eternal marriage. The idea that marriage in the temple is the ultimate sacrament simply cannot be found. However, this teaching is so central to our understanding of what it means to be saved that it seems like an almost insurmountable contradiction between what Jesus did or did not teach during His earthly ministry and what was clearly revealed to Joseph Smith about eternal marriage.

Hollywood on Broadway is bringing the Angels of the Greatest Showman to Kingsbury Hall February 8th and 9th, 2019. The show involves dancers, singers, and actors from the movie who join local artists to perform during a viewing of the film. BYU Vocal Point has been chosen to sing ensemble with other local professionals who were chosen for their experience and talent.

Now in its 27th consecutive year and performed for more than a million people throughout the world, The Forgotten Carols has grown from a simple idea into a true phenomenon and Holiday tradition. Composer and writer Michael McLean’s original goal was to create a Christmas-themed collection of songs based around the stories of the “forgotten” characters in the Nativity. And from that initial album sprang the beloved story of Nurse Connie Lou and Uncle John, and their amazing spiritual message surrounding Christ’s birth.