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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, April 2, 2011

  • United States information: Michigan

    Visiting her relatives in Pontiac, Lucy Mack Smith, mother of Joseph Smith, arrived in Michigan in the spring of 1831. Accompanying her was her niece, Almira Mack, a native of Pontiac. She had been baptized in New York in 1830 and became Michigan's first Church member.
    Published: Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2010

  • 'Children Are Precious to the Lord'

    Members of the Hart Branch, Grand Rapids Michigan Stake, entered a float in the recent National Asparagus Festival Parade, a festival that generates much excitement here each year.
    Published: Saturday, Aug. 17, 2002

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