Sjon Trent Johnson, 24, of Richmond, Texas, drowned after his canoe capsized and he was trapped on a log jam on the Henrys Fork of the Snake River, according to a news release.

There is an email being forwarded around that claims that there is a baptismal font deep inside the Basilica of St. Paul that was used for the purposes of baptism for the dead. Here is the text of the original email: This photo was taken by Kevin Barton, grandson of Keith Barton, a Stake Patriarch, when Kevin was on his mission to Italy in 2001. These pictures were taken in Rome at St. Paul’s Cathedral which is centuries old. Kevin found a chained off area of the Cathedral, which he shouldn’t have entered but did, and discovered this old unused, I’m sure for hundreds of years, baptismal font with a mosaic inscription above it indicating it was used for baptisms for the dead.. There are probably more old Cathedrals in Italy (If they haven’t been remodeled) that still have these closed off fonts that were used centuries ago.. I wonder why they stopped ? This is truly profound and amazing.

When President Dieter F. Uchtdorf went to see the Rome Italy Temple last week, he didn't just see it--he climbed it.

President Barack Obama’s outline for immigration reform matches the values of the Mormon faith, according to Dieter F. Uchtdorf, second counselor in the LDS Church’s governing First Presidency. Uchtdorf joined other faith leaders in a meeting with Obama on Friday, where the president asked them to support a reform effort that would streamline the legal immigration system and create a pathway to citizenship for the 11 million undocumented immigrants in the country.

"Faith in God includes faith in His timing, and for me, that took 18 years—18 years of crying myself to sleep," says Rachel Clark in an emotional and raw new video from the Mormon Channel.

With President-elect Donald Trump considering Mitt Romney for secretary of state, I began thinking of all of the Latter-day Saints who currently hold important political positions in the United States, not to mention those in the past who have played an influential role in government.

Manual 3; Supplement from "What Have I Done for Someone Else Today?" by President Thomas S. Monson

Today is World Refugee Day, during which we pause to consider the upended lives of some 60 million people around the world. These refugees—half of whom are children—have fled war-ravaged areas, leaving behind familiar schools, jobs, and homes to enter foreign countries, many with only the clothes they are wearing.

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