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Help your family remember the pioneers by attending the Castle Valley pageant! Discover Castle Valley, Utah, through an elaborate outdoor historical drama that portrays the settling of the frontier. And don't miss the Pioneer Village, where guests learn about the crafts necessary for a pioneer settlement to survive, such as blacksmithing, farming with horse-drawn implements, weaving, and spinning.
A Naples-based hospital chain announced Tuesday night that its president and CEO is retiring at the end of July to head a Mormon mission in South America. Gary D. Newsome will retire from his top post at Health Management Associates Inc. on July 31, and the board of directors already has begun a search for his successor, the company announced in a news release.
Commentators on both the right and left and both secular and religious note with disdain that Mormons (Latter Day Saints, as Mormons refer to themselves) have irrational practices and beliefs. The former, we are told, includes the wearing of sacred undergarments and the latter includes posthumous baptisms and the claims by the prophet of Mormonism to have found and deciphered engraved golden plates in New York State. I read and hear these dismissals of Mormonism with some amusement -- because everyone who makes these charges holds beliefs and/or practices that outsiders consider just as irrational.
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Scouting Magazine recently published its list of how many Eagle Scouts each state produced in 2015. Number one on the list for the seventh straight year in a row was Utah.
John Linford was 43 when he and his wife, Maria, and three of their sons made the decision to leave their home in Gravely, England, to journey thousands of miles to join the Saints in the valley of the Great Salt Lake. They left behind their fourth son, who was serving a mission, sold their belongings, and took passage in Liverpool aboard the ship Thornton.
Excerpt from "'The Light and Life of the World,'" by Dallin H. Oaks
“My advice to you guys is, when your buddy says, ‘Hey, let’s go smoke a joint,’ . . . yeah, it seems real cool at the time; I’ve been there," Max Hall shares. "But please don’t get caught up in that stuff. I can personally tell you it will ruin your life. Maybe not everybody, but if you have an addictive personality like me, it will. Just don’t do it because you just don’t know.”
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At 25 feet by 25 feet wide and 30 feet high, this replica of the Payson Utah Temple was built in one day by the combined efforts of dozens of LDS youth.
There is much to celebrate this time of year as we look back on the day America gained its independence. And for LDS musician and Utah ambassador for refugees Alex Boyé, this season has an extra special meaning.