Get to know President Heber J. Grant
Heber J. Grant was the 7th Prophet of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Heber was the first prophet of the Church to be born in Utah. He was born in Salt Lake City on November 22, 1856 to Jedediah Morgan Grant and Rachel Ridgeway Ivins Grant. Heber’s father was a counselor to […]
Emmeline B. Wells
”I believe in Women, especially thinking women” -Emmeline B. Wells Emmaline B. Wells became the fifth General Relief Society President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. She is known as one of the greatest voices for Utah’s womens suffrage. Emmeline was born in Petersham Massachusetts in 1828. She is the seventh child […]
Polygamy and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
Monogamy is God’s Law, Polygamy is God’s exception it is only practiced at certain times in History. Beginning of Polygamy in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints “In 1831 Joseph Smith was working on inspired translation of the Old Testament and he read about some of the ancient prophets practicing plural marriage(also called […]
Get to know Emma Hale Smith
Emma Smith was born in Harmony Pennsylvania, in Susquehanna County on July 10, 1804. She is the daughter or Isaac Hale and Elizabeth Lewis. Emma grew up in very prosperous circumstances. Lucy Mack Smith(Joseph’s mother) described Emma’s childhood home as a “mansion” with “every convenient appendage necessary.” Emma was the seventh of nine children of […]