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By Peter Twitchell In my boyhood back in the 1950s I was very fortunate to hear the stories of the ancient Yupiat of long ago from hundreds of years ago. Mom and I lived at fish camp in the summer months and winter months but in the summer months there were many elders not far

‘Shortest and surest pathway to happiness’ is through the covenant path, Young Men General President Steven J. Lund told MTC missionaries.

Sarah Jane Weaver shares how sustaining the Prophet is like being wrapped in “a warm, soothing blanket on a freezing cold day” and the upcoming opportunity to sustain President Nelson at the 192nd Semiannual General Conference.

As the Church grows exponentially in Africa, Elder Rasband shared some of his experiences on the continent.

President Russell M. Nelson will rededicate the Washington D.C. Temple on Aug. 14. Here are the connections senior Latter-day Saint leaders have to the iconic edifice.

While many Mormons -- including me -- expected a Nelson presidency to be staid and uneventful, it's been full of pleasant surprises.

Deseret News Share this story Deseret Book The author of a new biography about President Dallin H. Oaks is on a mission to set the record straight about the stern public image of the first counselor in the First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints based in Salt Lake City. Some church members, and even his own family members, don’t always see that in his face when President Oaks, who is 88, delivers serious, doctrinal talks during the faith’s semiannual general conf...

of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. As fast as the blood flows into the right atrium of President Spencer W. Kimball’s stopped heart, a tube pumps it out of his body and into a machine next to the operating table. Dr. Russell M. Nelson peers down into the chest cavity. The room smells of cauterized blood vessels and arteries. Not long ago, this was unthinkable. Operating on a live heart was a medical sin when he entered medical school. The blood streaming into the machine had...

December 16, 2020 Samuel Lee Shockley, 91, of Milford was born Wednesday, Nov. 27, 1929, to Lester Reginald Shockley and Mabel Novella Johnson Shockley, in Snow Hill, Md.  He attended school at Hutt’s Chapel and Mt. Wesley School in Snow Hill and Milford Neck in Milford.   Samuel served in the U.S. Army from Feb. 24, 1954, to Feb. 24, 1956, honorably-discharged after two years and two days of dedicated service for God and his country.  He served during the Korean Conflict and Wo...