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30-Second Time-Lapse of Conference Center Shows Thousands of Saints Coming to General Conference

There's nothing like general conference to bring Latter-day Saints together, quite literally. Check out this 30-second time-lapse video from Mormon Newsroom of Latter-day Saints streaming into the Conference Center ready to hear the counsel of prophets and apostles.

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Inmates Benefiting from FamilySearch Service

David joined a team at the Kane County, Utah, jail that he found surprisingly comforting — the family history indexing team. “Indexing brought the inmates together in teamwork — like a sporting event — and it was really good to see in a setting like this,” the prisoner explained. “Indexing allows us to have a positive interaction with one another.”

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LDS Missionaries Still Healing One Year After Brussels Bombing, Remember the Blessings, Miracles They Experienced

"I don't like a lot of attention with it. I don't really want to relive those emotions," says Richard Norby, a senior missionary injured in a terrorist attack last year. "But it's important to remember the blessings we had that day and the tender mercies that happened."

Mormon 101 Quiz: How much do you know about Mormons?

With Mitt Romney and Jon Huntsman launching their 2012 presidential campaigns and "The Book of Mormon" the Best Musical on Broadway this year, an unprecedented level of public attention has been directed toward the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.

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10 Mormon Tabernacle Choir Songs to Hasten the Work

There are many ways to spread the gospel, and music is a big one. Check out 10 of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir's favorite gospel-spreading songs in the videos below.

Mauled Mormon missionary has new lease on life after lion attack

He's missing a piece of his leg, his arm was recently amputated and the tendons in his thumb were torn from pressing so hard on his attacker's eyeball, but Elder Paul Richard Oakey said he plans to move on from a day that two lions almost took his life. "Accidents happen. We don't plan them. They just happen," said the 20-year-old whose humility is visible from across a room. "I wasn't planning on getting attacked by lions. It happened and I'm just going to move on."

Stunning & Unexpected Photos from Temple Square That Will Make You See It in a New Way

Take a look at these stunning images from around temple square--some of them unexpected--that will make you see it in a whole new way. And can you believe Christmas lights are already up on temple square!

Young Men Lesson 29: The Eternal Family

Manual 1; Excerpt fro "Temple Mirrors of Eternity: A Testimony of Family," by Gerrit W. Gong

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14-Year-Old LDS "The Voice" Contestants Wins Voice Battle, Shares Her Faith

By Phillip Price

One of the three LDS The Voice contestants, Aaliyah Rose, won her voice battle against Savannah Leighton while singing “Treat You Better” by Shawn Mendes as part of the battles premiere yesterday. Still on team Gwen, she will move on to the knockout round. The other LDS contestants have yet to compete in battles.

Joseph F. Smith and the 'Ruffians': 'True Blue, Through and Through' Depending on Who’s Telling the Story

It’s a powerful story. The young Joseph F. Smith, fresh off his mission to the Sandwich Islands, is traveling through Southern California on his way home to Utah in late 1857/early 1858. The Mormons are viewed with mistrust and hostility: rumors surrounding the Mountain Meadows Massacre are fresh on everyone’s lips as Johnston’s Army converges on Utah. Joseph F.’s party is confronted by a band of rough and tumble men on horseback, looking to pick a fight with any Mormons they can find. Joseph F.’s fellow travelers scatter, and when one burly ruffian pointedly asks Joseph F. if he is a Mormon, the young returned missionary responds, “Yes, siree, dyed-in-the-wool; true blue, through and through,” diffusing the tense confrontation by staying true to his identity. But was he really “dyed-in-the-wool, true blue, through and through”?