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Tuesday, Dec. 23, will be the 209th anniversary of the birth of the Prophet Joseph Smith. Appropriately, this year as every year, that anniversary will be vastly overshadowed by celebrations of Christmas, the traditional birthday of the master he sought to serve.

LDS man among the 19 firefighters killed in Arizona fire

YARNELL, Ariz. — The fire that swept through Yarnell, Ariz., on Sunday claimed the life of Andrew Ashcraft of Prescott, Ariz., a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and one of 19 firefighters who died fighting the blaze.

Missionaries got talent: Elders and sisters share musical humor, inspiration on YouTube

Mormon dream: These elders sing and dance to "Mormon Dream," a spoof on Katy Perry's "Teenage Dream." Featuring lyrics such as "Ima get your faith racing with my testimony," this video was published on Dec. 3, 2010, and has more than 157,000 hits.]

Viral Letter from Deceased 12-year-old Inspires Trust in God

The letter a 12-year-old girl intended only for herself gained national recognition when her parents found it in her belongings and shared its inspiring message online.

From the Church

Church leaders visit with heads of state

Elder Ronald A. Rasband, Senior President of the Quorums of the Seventy, and Elder Kent F. Richards, second counselor in the Europe Area Presidency, met with heads of state in Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina during their recent three-day visit to those countries.On Sept. 10, Elder Rasband and Elder Richards met with Croatia's President Ivo Josipovic in Zagreb. They were accompanied by President Edward B. Rowe of the Adriatic North Mission; Miljenko Babic, Croatia District president; and Fatima Hamsic, Croatia District Relief Society president.

From the Church

Elder Ballard, Elder Oaks Organize Stakes in Rome and Paris

Two Apostles visited five European countries this September—addressing members and missionaries, creating stakes in two major cities, holding an area review, presiding at a seminar for 32 European mission presidents and their wives, meeting with government and faith leaders, and checking on the status of temples under construction in Rome and Paris.

Remembering the Old Ogden Temple

Tina Halverson of Ogden said her dad, Phil Halverson, who owned Halverson Plumbing, was the mechanical contractor on the original building and chose to actually do the work with his own hands along side his crew.

Family celebrates LDS missionary who booked—then canceled—passage on Titanic

This week, people everywhere will remember the voyagers aboard the ill-fated RMS Titanic, the ship that, on its maiden voyage from Southampton, England to New York City, United States, disastrously struck an iceberg on April 14, 1912, and sank early the next morning, resulting in the deaths of more than 1,500 of its passengers. As the world marks the 100th anniversary of that tragic event, the descendants of Alma Sonne—a former assistant to the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles—will also remember the legacy of faith that their progenitor left behind in not being aboard the Titanic.

Romney on Israel: More GOP Than LDS

When Mitt Romney claimed “culture” and the “hand of Providence” led to Israel’s economic superiority over the Palestinians at a Jerusalem fundraiser this morning, he was hardly reading from a Mormon script. Daniel C. Peterson, professor of Islamic Studies and Arabic in the Department of Asian and Near Eastern Languages at Brigham Young University, editor in chief of the BYU Middle Eastern Texts Initiative, and author of the book Abraham Divided: An LDS Perspective on the Middle East, said in an interview that growing up as a Mormon in California in the 1960s, most Latter-Day Saints were “very militantly pro-Israeli.”

Latter-day Saint Life

Why Doctrine and Covenants 76 is So Significant

Of Joseph Smith’s many revelations, his vision of the three degrees of glory recorded in Doctrine and Covenants 76 was surely among the most significant and spectacular.