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In a powerful and life-impacting family history product, students at the BYU Center for Family History and Genealogy are working alongside the United States Army to locate families of missing servicemen so their remains can be brought home. The students have been assigned 65 cases and have solved 48 of them so far. After the students come up with the …

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Sarah Cook is an LDS author, speaker, and business owner. She is also a creative artist and nothing shows this more than her latest post. In the videos, Cook shows off one of her pieces of the Sacramento California Temple. The twist? It was “painted” entirely out of makeup! Check it out below.

Make no mistake, Dan Reynolds is still a Mormon. The lead singer for the mega-hit band Imagine Dragons is on a mission to help LGBTQ youth, especially within the Church. However, his bold and raw message has not always endeared him to his faith community. Now, Reynolds is preparing to speak out in a new documentary released tonight on HBO. …

FamilySearch.org released a statement yesterday announcing the start of a website redesign that will allow users to record same-sex relationships on their family tree. The system updates will require time and are expected to be launched in 2019. The full statement reads: The goal of FamilySearch.org is to capture, store, and provide records and an accurate genealogy that represents past, …

In spite of end-stage renal failure, an LDS woman and her husband are holding on to hope and their faith. “I understand we are eternal companions. I want eternity here and there as well. She means everything, she is my everything,” Michael Leonard told his local news station. His wife Terri, 52, was diagnosed with end-stage renal failure and now completes …

Latter-day Saint volunteers are helping with relief efforts in Central America following Sunday’s eruption of Guatemala’s Fuego Volcano, located 25 miles southwest of Guatemala City. All missionaries are safe, but hundreds of people were evacuated as ash was dispersed over a nine-mile radius. More than 60 people were killed, with additional people missing. Two members of the Church are among …

“You were a tough one, I have to tell you,” said U.S. President Donald Trump of working to free Josh Holt from the Venezuelan prison he’d been incarcerated in for nearly two years. “That was a tough situation.”   In June 2016, Holt traveled to Caracas, Venezuela, to marry an LDS girl, Thamara “Thamy” Caleño, he had met online while looking for …

UPDATE, May 24, 2018, 10 am MDT: A press conference has been held. Watch it below. On April 16, 2015, Elizabeth Elena Laguna Salgado, a 26-year-old Provo student from Mexico, was walking the two miles home from her language class in the middle of the afternoon. Some of her classmates saw her walking home. After that, Elizabeth seemed to vanished into …

  There are so many wonders in this world. However, sometimes when we have them constantly before our eyes, we take them for granted. We look, but we don’t really see; we hear, but we don’t really listen…To marvel at the wonders of the gospel is a sign of faith. It is to recognize the hand of the Lord in …