Tag Archive: women in the church

Julie Bangerter Beck

Julie Bangerter Beck, the new general president of the Relief Society, was serving as the first counselor in the General Young Women Presidency prior to receiving her call to direct the Church’s women’s service organization. As a child she learned to speak Portuguese when she lived in Brazil with her parents and 10 brothers and sisters while her father served as mission president. She is a graduate of Dixie College…
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Vicki F. Matsumori – portrait and biography

Vicki F. Matsumori was sustained as second counselor in the Primary general presidency in general conference on Saturday, 2 April 2005. She earned her bachelor’s degree in journalism and English with a teaching certificate from the University of Utah. She has taught junior high English and was an adjunct instructor at Salt Lake Community College. The Church has benefited from her service as a member of the Primary General Board,…
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Margaret Swenson Lifferth

Margaret S. Lifferth was sustained as first counselor in the Primary general presidency in general conference on Saturday, 2 April 2005. She earned her bachelor’s degree in English from Brigham Young University. Lifferth has served her community on elementary and high school parent-teacher association boards and on the BYU Women’s Conference Committee. She has served the Church as a member of the Primary General Board, counselor in a stake Relief…
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Cheryl C. Lant – portrait and biography

Cheryl C. Lant was sustained as the 11th general president of the Primary in general conference on Saturday, 2 April 2005. Lant studied early childhood development at Brigham Young University and has spent most of her adult life teaching children, both as the mother of nine and as an educator. She is cofounder and co-owner with her husband of Learning Dynamics Academic Preschool and the cofounder and developer of Frontline…
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Saving the Book of Commandments by Clark Kelley Price

Fifteen-year-old Mary Elizabeth Rollins and her thirteen-year-old sister Caroline lived in Independence, Jackson County, Missouri, in 1833. At this time, revelations Joseph Smith had received were being printed by William W. Phelps, who had opened a print shop and newspaper office on the upper floor of his home. The printed revelations were to be bound into a book called the Book of Commandments. By July the non-Mormons in the area…
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Mary Fielding and Joseph F Smith Crossing the Plains by Glen S Hopkinson

Mary Fielding Smith was left a widow when her husband, Hyrum, was killed with his brother the Prophet Joseph. She had to care for not only her own large family but also several other helpless or ill people. Hyrum and Mary’s son, Joseph F. Smith, who would later become the sixth President of the Church, was only five years old at the time. Mary and her family left Nauvoo in…
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Emma Smith by Lee Greene Richards

D&C 25 Hearken unto the voice of the Lord your God, while I speak unto you, Emma Smith, my daughter. D&C 25:1 Emma Hale Smith was the wife of Joseph Smith, prophet of the Restoration. She was born 10 July 1804 to Isaac and Elizabeth Lewis Hale, who were the first permanent settlers in Harmony, Pennsylvania. Emma met Joseph when he boarded at her father’s inn while working near Harmony….
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Choosing the Right and Doing Good Deeds activity

Lesson O how great the plan of our God! (2 Ne. 9:13). Before you were born on earth, you lived with Heavenly Father. While you were there, an important meeting was held and Heavenly Father presented a plan that would enable you to live with him again someday. Part of the plan was that you would receive a physical body and learn to choose the right and to do good….
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