Today during the Saturday afternoon session of general conference, a new Relief Society General Presidency and a new member of the Primary General Presidency were called and sustained. Learn more about them below!

South Pacific Mormons, proud of their Polynesian heritage as well as their membership in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, recently commemorated the 1844 arrival, from the United States, of the faith’s first missionaries, Addison Pratt, Noah Rogers and Benjamin Grouard, in French Polynesia on 23–24 May 2014.

MR says: Just in time for the new "Star Wars" movie! Check out these nine tips from Darth Vadar on how to give a talk in church.

If Mitt Romney wins the Republican nomination for 2012, President Obama will reportedly have two things to say about him: he's greedy and he's weird. The greed part is based on Romney's work at Bain Capital, which frequently bought struggling companies and laid off workers. The weird part is based on his bad fashion and bad jokes, Politico reports. But Megan Carpentier thinks maybe it's really about Romney being Mormon. Carpentier notes that more than a third of Americans are "somewhat uncomfortable" or "entirely uncomfortable" with voting for Mormons, according to a Quinnipiac poll released in June. Further, Mormonism seems alien to many--the poll found just 25 percent think the religion is very or somewhat similar to their own. Politico's Ben Smith and Jonathan Martin report that Obama's campaign says it's not going after Romney's faith:

Why are Mormons so defensive when questions about their faith arise? And how can we as a Church be more embracing of those who are different than us?

Country music artist and Latter-day Saint Maddie Wilson keeps faith as an essential component of her music. She wrote this beautiful song "Love Like Theirs" for her parents' 27th wedding anniversary, and the music video features Wilson's parents and family.

The LDS Church is studying the impact of a new Russian law that restricts missionary work outside of churches and requires permits for missionaries, but the faith's missionaries will remain in place and abide by the law.

MR says: What a wonderful story of two faiths coming together to focus on their commonalities and create something beautiful.

There's a significant possibility that 2012 will be the year that America confronts the question of whether a Mormon can be president. It seems like a question with an obvious answer ("I don't know. Can he?"). But surveys in recent years have consistently found that a large minority of voters are set against the idea, and the prejudice may be even more deeply rooted among a Republican primary electorate that is, as my colleague puts it, "struggling to decide which it hates most—being a Mormon or being sensible."

A little more than two months after the March 15 mosque shootings in New Zealand, an emotional video was released by Church News showing President Russell M. Nelson presenting Muslim leaders of Christchurch with two $50,000 donations, one for each affected mosque.