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Cultures Unite to Remember Slain LDS Girl

MR says: With purple balloons and candlelight, this community came together to honor a 12-year-old girl who was enticed out of her home by a teenage boy and killed.

Perry Camp's Anti-Mormon Message

Texas Gov. Rick Perry has publicly distanced himself from the anti-Mormon rhetoric of a prominent Baptist minister who has endorsed his presidential campaign. But new evidence suggests that Perry’s team may be quietly advancing the notion that Mitt Romney’s faith should disqualify him from the White House. The Daily Beast has obtained a series of emails that show an influential evangelical activist with close ties to the Perry campaign stressing the political importance of “juxtaposing traditional Christianity to the false God of Mormonism,” and calling for a “clarion call to Evangelical pastors and pews” that will be “the key to the primary” for Perry.

From the Church

Missionary handbook updated to include clarification and FAQs

By Newsroom of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Changes to the missionary handbook address commonly asked questions clarify existing standards for missionaries, prospective missionaries, mission leaders, and families.

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SOM Transcript - S5E30

Latter-day Saint Life

When general conference was canceled + other conference firsts

By Jannalee Sandau

Did you know that general conference was once held outside the US, and April 2020 was not the first time the public was not invited to attend?

SOM Transcript - S6E10

Mother and daughter at MTC together, serve missions at the same time

Many young sisters are having the chance to serve a mission at a younger age since President Thomas S. Monson’s announcement in the October 2012 general conference, but not many can say they are going at the same time as their mother. Andraya Salcido, 20, the youngest of seven children, is serving in the Texas Houston East Mission, Spanish-speaking, and her mother, Sister Yvonne Salcido, is serving in the Illinois Nauvoo Mission.