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  • New mission presidents

    Fourteen new mission presidents and their wives have been called by the First Presidency. They will begin their service in July. Their mission assignments will be announced at a later date.
    Published: Saturday, Feb. 2, 2013

  • Returning to Tohoku

    Editor's note: Sister Kristen McMain Oaks, wife of Elder Dallin H. Oaks of the Quorum of the Twelve, served a mission in the Japan Sendai Mission. Last month, almost one year after a March 11, 2011, earthquake and tsunami devastated much of the area where she served in Northern Japan, she returned with Elder Oaks to Tohoku. There they surveyed the damage and recovery efforts and offered comfort and hope to Church members and missionaries.
    Published: Sunday, March 18, 2012

  • Apostle visits Saints in the Land of the Rising Sun

    Elder Dallin H. Oaks of the Quorum of the Twelve and Elder Donald L. Hallstrom of the Presidency of the Seventy spent 12 days traveling in the Asia North Area during the month of February.
    Published: Thursday, March 1, 2012

  • New mission presidents

    Seven new mission presidents and their wives have been called by the First Presidency to begin their service about July 1. Their mission assignments will be announced later.
    Published: Saturday, Feb. 4, 2012

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