North America Central Area Trek run a success CITY, IOWA - The first Mormon Trek Commemorative Run, held June 12, drew 300 contestants. They ran the hilly route once followed by Mormon...

In in the 1950s, recalls longtime Swedish leader Arne Lennart Hedberg, Church lesson materials in Sweden were faintly mimeographed, typed in Danish, and local members struggled to grasp the...

After President Gordon B. Hinckley finished speaking to some 2,100 missionaries at the Missionary Training Center on June 22, he was greeted by the missionaries' enthusiastic singing of "Happy...

About 10,000 members of the Church joined in a community clean-up effort of a 39-mile stretch of the Salt River in the Phoenix, Ariz., area May 22. The approximately 20,000 total volunteers...

On Christmas day in 1832, Joseph Smith received a revelation prophesying the war between the Northern States and the Southern States. The prophecy was made nearly three decades before the first...

Before the Hotel Utah closed its doors in 1987, hundreds of people visited to take a "last look." They milled around its great lobby, paid a final visit to its Grand Ballroom, and savored the...

Priesthood holders attend opening exercises together before separating for their quorum or group meetings. A member of the bishopric always conducts opening exercises. An opening hymn and prayer...

A new 500-seat, large-screen theater in the Joseph Smith Memorial Building is among a "smorgasbord of marvelous opportunities" for visitors to Salt Lake City to learn more about the Church, said...

The store-lined corridors of the Bangor Mall hold special memories for Lawrence Lee. As director of maintenance, he makes sure that Maine's second largest mall is clean and comfortable for shop...

Tom Heal and Lee Colvin avoided for nearly 30 years an area in southern Utah where 13 people including six fellow Explorer Scouts died in a truck accident. But a monument they helped build...