Prophet’s Graves at the Salt Lake City Cemetery
If you find yourself in Salt Lake City with a couple hours to spare, take some time to check out the Salt Lake City Cemetery. It feels like you are surrounded by history everywhere in the cemetery. Get the maps and look for the prophets grave stones and while looking for the prophets gravestones, look […]
10 Facts about President Russell M. Nelson
President Nelson was set apart as the 17th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints at age 93. President Nelson served in the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles for 34 years before becoming Prophet. President Nelson was born in Salt Lake City to Marion C. and Edna Anderson Nelson on September 9, […]
President Thomas S. Monson
Thomas S. Monson is the sixteenth president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Thomas was born in Salt Lake City Utah to Spencer and Gladys Monson on August 21, 1927. Thomas spent most of July and August every year at Vivian Park up Provo Canyon. From this time in the canyon he […]
Ezra Taft Benson
Ezra Taft Benson is the 13th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. August 4, 1899, President Ezra Taft Benson was born in Whitney Idaho to George T. and Sarah Dunkley Benson. He was the oldest of eleven children. When Ezra was only twelve years old his father left on a mission. […]
Get to know Howard W. Hunter
Howard W. Hunter is the fourteenth president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Howard was born in Boise, Idaho on November 14, 1907. Howards father was not a member of the Church and when it became time for Howard to get baptized his father said “no”. After much pleading from his mother […]
Get to know Prophet Spencer W. Kimball
Spencer W. Kimball is the 12th Prophet of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Spencer was born in Salt Lake City on the twenty-eighth of March 1895. His parents were Andrew and Olive Kimball. President Spencer W. Kimball is the grandson of Heber C. Kimball, an early member of the Twelve Apostles. Spencer […]
Prophet George Albert Smith
George Albert Smith was born in 1870 to John Henry Smith and Sarah Farr Smith in Salt Lake City Utah. George Albert Smith was the fourth generation of his family to serve as a General Authority! He and his father, John Henry Smith, served in the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles at the same time! […]
Brigham Young’s Birthplace Monument
President Brigham Young, the second Prophet of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints was born in Whitingham, Vermont on June 1,1801. Read more about Brigham Young here. The monument was erected in the 1950’s and President George Albert Smith dedicated the monument. At the unveiling a member representing the township said this about […]