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  • Course of study: President George Albert Smith

    George Albert Smith was just 13 years old in January 1884 when Zebedee Coltrin, an ordained patriarch who had been a confidant of the Prophet Joseph Smith during the turbulent days of early Church history, appeared unexpectedly at the Smith family home in Salt Lake City with the intention to bless the boy.
    Published: Saturday, Dec. 24, 2011

  • Eight Witnesses memorialized by new monument

    This city is perhaps best remembered in the Latter-day as the location where Joseph Smith and other Church leaders were jailed in the winter of 1839 and where, in that jail, the revelations now recorded as Sections 121-123 of the Doctrine and Covenants were received.
    Published: Saturday, Nov. 26, 2011

  • Sidney B. Sperry Symposium: 'The hand of Providence'

    There is overwhelming evidence of God's hand in the establishment of the American nation, Kenneth L. Alford, professor of Church History and Doctrine at Brigham Young University, said during the 40th Annual Sidney B. Sperry Symposium held at BYU on Oct. 29. This year's symposium theme was "The Things Which My Father Saw: Approaches to Lehi's Dream and Nephi's Vision."

    Published: Saturday, Nov. 12, 2011

  • Missionary training center presidents

    Eight new Missionary Training Center presidents and their wives have been called by the First Presidency. They will begin service in January.
    Published: Saturday, Nov. 5, 2011

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Students find role models in BYU troupe

Published: Saturday, Feb. 15, 1992

When BYU's Lamanite Generation was on a performing tour here, educators in western Washington seized the opportunity to bring their Native American students in contact with positive role models...