C. RENE ALVAREZ, 54, Cuauhtemoc Ward, Tampico Mexico Stake; to serve in the Valle Hermosa Mexico Region; former mission president's counselor, stake president and counselor, high councilor, stake...

"It can be done and it must be done." Often repeating this statement, Bishop John R. Winder, second counselor in the Presiding Bishopric, effectively administrated the herculean task of...

As a young man, Lorenzo Snow's life ambition was to have a long, distinguished military career, and so he sought to better educate himself at Oberlin College, a two-day ride from his birthplace...

The man who cut the first cornerstone for the Salt Lake Temple is also the man who crafted the hemisphere capstone 40 years later. Two months after the capstone was laid, the craftsman, Eugene...

As the membership of the Church began to grow, it became essential for leaders to keep order by knowing who was a baptized member in good standing and who was not. The Lord accomplished this in a...

Hearken, O ye who have given your names to go forth and proclaim my gospel, and to prune my vineyard. Behold, I say unto you that it is my will that you should go forth and not tarry,...

Even outside the temple, Tonga Poteki Malohifo'ou speaks softly. The 80-year-old sealer in the Salt Lake Temple has developed a perennially reverent demeanor, as though carrying with him the...

There are many places where reverence is felt, including within the walls of our homes, our chapels and temples, and within nature. A constant, connecting thread is the spirit of joy and...

Students in the Ricks College agriculture program brought home 12 first-place awards and eight second-place awards from the recent Postsecondary Agricultural Student Organization's (PAS) national...

When the Church acquired a press in Independence, Mo., plans were made to publish in book form the revelations Joseph Smith had received, which numbered more than 60 at that time. That book, the...