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Mia Love, Mayor in Saratoga Springs, Utah

ckite — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 00:48:30 +0000

Here is the main article from the Deseret News:

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/705357231/Historic-name-plate-is-in-place.html

St Louis Santa

ckite — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 20:18:57 +0000

See what a new member of Pagedale branch in St. Louis did for a family in need:

http://knowyourneighbor.typepad.com/knowyourneighbor/2009/12/facebook-santa-team.html

Football, racial issues — then understanding

ckite — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 02:25:03 +0000

“… Mel Hamilton was one of 14 Wyoming football players thrown off the team in 1969 for deciding to wear black armbands in a game against BYU to protest The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

… Hamilton is also part of a story about understanding. He is adamant in his position but holds no animosity. He counts Mormons among his friends. His oldest son is now a member of the LDS Church. …

http://www.mormontimes.com/people_news/sports/?id=11320

Gladys Knight Tells Floridians, “This is the Light”

ckite — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 23:40:04 +0000

Gladys Knight Tells Floridians, “This is the Light”
By Geoffrey Biddulph (on or before Sept 30, 2009)

Gladys Knight and her 60-person choir of Latter-day Saints gave four performances for more than 5,000 people in southern Florida last week.

“This is the way, this is the light,” she said in teary testimony regarding The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

http://www.meridianmagazine.com/arts/070115light.html

http://www.ldsgenesisgroup.org/knightflorida.html

Elder Sitati’s Talk: Blessings of the Gospel Available to All

ckite — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 01:21:29 +0000

God’s children on the earth today have the opportunity to understand His plan of happiness for them more fully than at any other time.

A few weeks ago Elder Melvin R. Perkins, who is an Area Seventy serving in Alaska, and I stood at the pulpit in front of the congregation of the Vancouver British Columbia Stake in Canada. In a moving voice he invited the Saints to consider the image before them: a descendant of Mormon handcart pioneers and a pioneer convert of the Church from a faraway African nation serving the Lord side by side. …

http://lds.org/conference/talk/display/0,5232,23-1-1117-33,00.html
(October 2009 General Conference talk by Elder Joseph W. Sitati of the Seventy)

Dedication blesses two African nations

ckite — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 19:19:55 +0000

During a historic 16-day tour of Africa on Aug. 16-31, Elder Jeffrey R. Holland of the Quorum of the Twelve dedicated Cameroon and Rwanda for the preaching of the gospel. In so doing, he became the first known apostle to ever set foot in either nation.
http://www.ldschurchnews.com/gallery/57850/Dedication-blesses-two-African-nations.html

When Mormon hands helped to keep Lagos clean

ckite — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 22:55:42 +0000

If you have visited the Ikeja General Hospital lately, you would have noticed a blocked drainage that could only have been a breeding place for mosquitoes. This is besides some discarded items at the back of Ayinke ward that left the hospital looking unkempt.

Thankfully this unhealthy eyesore has disappeared since a three-hour sanitation exercise was recently carried out there with the result that the hospital now wears a new look. And it was courtesy of the corporate effort of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints which recently mobilised its teeming members for a state-wide environmental sanitation exercise. …

See http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/08/27/when-mormon-hands-helped-to-keep-lagos-clean/

Randall Silas – New Bishop in Hattiesburg MS

ckite — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 20:06:47 +0000

Silas 1st African-American to hold position (in Hattiesburg MS)
Hattiesburg American
August 29, 2009

Randall Silas is the new bishop of a Hattiesburg congregation of The
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints…

…Silas said he hopes his new position will encourage other blacks to
explore the Mormon church, but “I would hope that no one would base
their spiritual …

http://www.hattiesburgamerican.com/article/20090829/LIFESTYLE/908290329

President Monson Visits President Obama, Presents Family History

ckite — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 20:04:32 +0000

On July 20, 2009 when President Thomas S. Monson met with President Barack Obama, it marked only the fourteenth time when an LDS Church president had a meeting in the White House with the President. See …

http://www.ldsmag.com/churchupdate/090721president.html

Family History presented …

http://www.ldsmag.com/churchupdate/090721prophet.html

Electa Briggs Williams – Pioneer from VT to NY to MI to IL & West

ckite — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 02:24:15 +0000

http://www.rutlandherald.com/article/20090607/NEWS01/906070372/0/FEATURES12

… At the age of 18, Electa followed her father to western New York, where he had remarried. Within a year, she married an older man who died before her their first child was born.

Mormon prophet Joseph Smith was one of several religious leaders competing for converts in New York at this time, and Electa heard of him, but did not become involved with the Mormons until later.

That would come at her next stop, in Michigan, where her half-sister introduced her to the religion.

“She’s going to meetings, but she’s not necessarily sold on it yet,” Doran said.

Joseph Smith was nearby visiting his cousin when Electa’s daughter took ill. Electa asked him to lay hands on the girl.

“He shows up and prays and does whatever prophets do,” Doran said. “The little girl becomes better the next day.”

When a “Mr. Williams” proposed marriage to her, Electa wrote she accepted on the condition he bring her to the Mormons.

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