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Gordon B. Hinckley

  • 'The Lord loves me'

    In 1866, Hawaii's King Kamehameha V signed the "Act to Prevent the Spread of Leprosy." Soon thereafter, a peninsula on Molokai was designated as a place of settlement for those who had contracted leprosy, now known as Hansen's disease.
  • Mongolia celebrates 20 years

    On a beautiful, snowy day — Monday, April 15, 2013, at precisely 4 p.m. — more than 300 Latter-day Saints gathered at the top of Zaisan Hill in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, to hear a recording of the prayer Elder Neal A. Maxwell offered as he dedicated the land 20 years earlier on that day, hour and location.
  • Education moments: 'My best efforts'

    Announced during general conference in 2001 as a "bold initiative" by President Gordon B. Hinckley, the Perpetual Education Fund, for more than a decade, has been helping Latter-day Saints throughout the world "rise out of the poverty they and generations before them have known." The PEF program helps young men and young women with meager opportunities to accomplish goals and create a situation through education and training that will better their lives and the lives of their families.
  • An 'others-centered' life: Seventy honored for years of service

    Elder Robert C. Gay of the Seventy is known for his success as a businessman and for his humanitarian efforts that "go to the rescue of the lost."