Tag Archive: women in the church

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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Ann M. Dibb – portrait and biography

Ann Dibb was born and raised in Salt Lake City. She earned her bachelor’s degree at BYU in elementary education. She is married to Roger Dibb, and they are the parents of one daughter and three sons. Sister Dibb has had the opportunity to remain at home and be a full-time homemaker. She has served in each of the Church auxiliaries. At the time of her call to the Young…
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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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