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  • New mission presidents

    Seven new mission presidents and their wives have been called by the First Presidency. They will begin service about July 1.
    Published: Saturday, Feb. 26, 2011

  • United States information: Arizona

    The Mormon Battalion marched through the area that is now Arizona in 1846 on its way to California. The next time Church members entered the area was in 1858 and 1859, when Jacob Hamblin and his companions camped at Pipe Spring in the northwestern part of Arizona while journeying to and from their missions among the Moqui (Hopi) Indians east of the Colorado River.
    Published: Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2010

  • Obituaries

    Colleen Webb Asay, 81, widow of Elder Carlos Egan Asay, passed away June 4, 2009 in Bountiful, Utah. Sister Asay served with her husband as he served in many capacities within the Church — including service in the Presidency of the Seventy from 1980-1989, service in the First Quorum of the Seventy from 1976-1980, and as he presided over the Texas North Mission from 1970-73. Elder Asay died April 10, 1999.
    Published: Wednesday, June 10, 2009

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