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On our trips to Khor Kharfot, the best candidate for Bountiful, we used to wonder, did Nephi and his family leave anything behind here, and, of course, the immediate answer was, ‘no.’ How could it, in any way, be likely? They perhaps lived here only three or four years while they built a ship. This place was a way station …

In his speech from the University of Utah, former presidential candidate Mitt Romney blasted both Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton while giving an impassioned plea for Americans to choose correctly. “I’m convinced America has greatness ahead and this is a time for choosing. God bless us to choose a nominee who will make that vision a reality,” Romney urged at …

Photo: CHARLES DHARAPAK/ASSOCIATED PRESS Multiple news sources, including Fox News, the Washington Post, and NBC News, are reporting former Massachusetts governor and presidential hopeful Mitt Romney will deliver a speech Thursday about the 2016 presidential race. Though Romney considered running again in 2015, he decided against it. For most of the current election season, which seems to have throw the GOP into …

The aroma of fresh, warm bread fills Richard Dean Shuté’s small apartment as he lifts five loaves out of the hot oven and carefully dumps them out of their pans onto his kitchen counter. Known as “The Bread Man” to hundreds of young men and women serving their two-year missions for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in …

Once every four years, a Leap Day or Leap Year occurs. For the Earth to make once complete rotation around the sun, it takes approximately 365 days and 6 hours. In order to keep the calendar year and the seasons in conjunction, an extra day is added to make up the time. Here four events from LDS history that occurred …

Here at LDSDaily.com, we know that members of the church sure love temples. However, I would only hear about the status of a temple when it was announced,  during the groundbreaking ceremony, the open house, the placement of the Angel Moroni, and the dedication. However, there is so much more going on with these sacred buildings that we just never hear about. So, we …

News Release from Mormon Newsroom. United States Vice President Joe Biden met with leaders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints during a brief visit to Temple Square in Salt Lake City Friday, February 26, 2016. Elder D. Todd Christofferson and Elder Ronald A. Rasband, both of the Church’s governing Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, and former U.S. …

Photo: RD/Kabik/Retna Ltd./Corbis for NYMag.com For the most part, 2012 presidential nominee Mitt Romney has remained quiet during the frenzy of opinion during the 2016 presidential race. This past week, however, Romney opened up and found himself in a tweet war with business mogul and presidential hopeful Donald Trump. In an appearance at Babson College in Massachusetts, Romney made his …

Sister Rosie Johnson, matron of the Pennsylvania Pittsburgh Mission, recently shared memories of Sister Sadie Wells, who was killed in a car accident earlier this month. “Have you ever heard it said that when good people leave good things continue to happen?” Sister Johnson wrote on the blog she keeps for the mission. She talked of the transfer that placed …

News release from Mormon Newsroom.  As Cyclone Winston pummelled the Tongan islands of Vava’u late last week, 1,850 people took shelter in Latter-day Saint (Mormon) church buildings. The category 4 storm hit the Pacific Island Group twice before it moved west, rising to a category 5 cyclone by the time it hit Fiji Saturday. Garrick Parr, Tonga Service Centre manager …