“Mormons are all crazy,” said my New York liberal atheist friend. ”They’re nuts!” “Why do you think they’re crazy?” I asked.

A letter dated May 26, 2020, and signed by President M. Russell Ballard, acting president of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, outlined the responsibilities on the ward and stake level for both missionary and temple and family history work. The letter also provides recommendation for how training and coordination might be distributed among stake and ward leaders.

Julie and her husband Dave once thought they would never be able to have children because of fertility issues.

Christopher Jones is a father, husband, and historian. A graduate of Brigham Young University (BA, 2007; MA, 2009) and the College of William & Mary (PhD, 2016), he is currently an assistant professor of history at BYU, where he teaches a variety of courses, including Revolutionary America, African American Family History, Slavery and the Slave Trade, Family and Law in American History, and Missions and Missionaries in American History. His research focuses on religion, race, slavery, and family in early America and the Atlantic World, and his work has been published in Religion & American Culture: A Journal of Interpretation, the Journal of Mormon History, and BYU Studies Quarterly. He is currently completing two book projects - a study of Methodism in Revolutionary America and a co-edited volume on Protestant and Latter-day Saint missions in American History. Christopher lives in South Jordan, Utah with his wife, Karim—a content creator, author, and photographer—and their four children. As a family, they enjoy food (both cooking and eating), hiking, reading, travel, and sports.

Read the Provo Utah Temple dedicatory prayer written by President Joseph Fielding Smith and offered by President Harold B. Lee on February 9, 1972.

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"The divine doctrine of eternal marriage is infused with ennobling and selflessly motivated duties and obligations," Elder Bednar said. "The covenant and responsibilities of marriage provide a sacred context within which we gradually turn from self-centeredness and selfishness to selflessness and service. In marriage, we live not exclusively for ourselves but for our spouses and children and posterity."