The first sermon preached in the Salt Lake Valley in 1847 was delivered on July 25 by Elder George A. Smith. He spoke from atop a piece of artillery known in Church history as the "Old Sow" cannon....

Leaders of the Church Curriculum Department said the best teaching tools that can be placed in the hands of teachers in the Church are the scriptures - the Bible, Book of Mormon, Doctrine and...

The greatest responsibility for learning the gospel of Jesus Christ falls not entirely upon teachers in the Church but also upon individual members, all of whom should regard themselves as students...

Though well supplied with the scientific instruments of explorers, Brigham Young's 1847 pioneer company charted no new routes to the Great Salt Lake Valley. According to historian Andrew L....

Translators of the Greek version of the scriptures wanted the title of the fourth book in the Old Testament to be descriptive of the book's content, explains Robert L. Millett in Studies in...

On July 9, 1923, a young missionary serving in the British Isles reported in his journal: "Warm. Arrived in Sunderland from Darlington this morning at 11 o'clock and attended to the mail...

Aregional representative here was elected recently as National Deputy in the Uruguayan government - the equivalent to the position of a governor in the United States. Through his new...

Church members in Alabama, Florida and Georgia escaped serious injury and severe damage from heavy rains and flooding, a Church official said March 20, but he added that the worst is not over yet....

Don H. Wall was a 21-year-old farmer helping his father on their large ranch in Raymond, Alberta, when a young "schoolmarm," or teacher, moved in next door. His father told him, "There's a...

"Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our...