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The Manhattan New York Temple (LDS.org)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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If you haven\u2019t watched this yet, please take a couple of minutes to do so:<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe Christ Child: A Nativity Story \u2013 Full Trailer\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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\u201cChurch Celebrates Milestone in Vietnam:\u00a0Official certification granted under the Law on Belief and Religion\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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\u201cPresident and Sister Nelson Embark on Weeklong Southeast Asia Ministry:\u00a0Elder and Sister Christofferson traveling with prophet to four countries\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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\u201cHow Angel Moroni Statues Protected Temples During Lightning Strikes\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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\u201cA newsmaking Friday in New York: President Ballard talks Scouts and world peace\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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\u201cApostle Building Bridges of Understanding in New York City:\u00a0President Ballard visits foreign diplomats and Rabbi Soloveichik\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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\u201cWatch: President Ballard Speaks About the Last Sermon His Grandfather Gave as an Apostle\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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\u201cThe following article was originally published on\u00a0LDS Living\u00a0in October 2015.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIn 1884, a mysterious newspaper from England made its way into the hands of President M. Russell Ballard\u2019s great-grandfather. That event can only be described as a miracle that would change the family forever.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe Mysterious Newspaper That Led to a Temple Miracle\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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\u201c25 Rare Photos of President Ballard That Will Make You Love Him Even More\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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We had a meeting of the Interpreter Advisory Council last night at the home of extraordinarily kind and generous neighbors who are themselves members of the Council. \u00a0I spoke to the group, as did the chairman of the Council, Larry Ainsworth, as well as\u00a0Dr. Jeffrey Mark Bradshaw<\/a>, one of the Interpreter Foundation\u2019s four vice presidents; Ed Snow<\/a>, who is in charge of financial development for the Foundation; and Russell Richins<\/a>, the producer of our Witnesses<\/em> film project. \u00a0Professor Noel Reynolds<\/a>, another of the Foundation\u2019s vice presidents, was also in attendance. \u00a0We showed the two clips that we premiered at the cottage meeting last weekend, one showing Joseph Smith trying to transport the golden plates through a forest while evading local money diggers who wanted to steal them, and the other depicting the first meeting between David Whitmer, who would later become one of the Three Witnesses to the Book of Mormon, and the Prophet Joseph Smith.<\/p>\n

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This morning, several of us from the Interpreter Foundation and Book of Mormon Central gathered at the home of a long-time friend and relative of friends to hear a presentation by former military pilot and counterintelligence officer on possible images of Christ in Pre-Columbian Mesoamerican iconography, predominantly from the area of the Yucat\u00e1n Peninsula. \u00a0He has devoted years of study and travel to the subject, and what he had to say was very interesting and stimulating.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0 \u00a0 If you haven\u2019t watched this yet, please take a couple of minutes to do so: \u00a0 \u201cThe Christ Child: A Nativity Story \u2013 Full Trailer\u201d \u00a0 *** \u00a0 \u201cChurch Celebrates Milestone in Vietnam:\u00a0Official certification granted under the Law on Belief and Religion\u201d \u00a0 \u201cPresident and Sister Nelson Embark on Weeklong Southeast Asia Ministry:\u00a0Elder […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[56,1356,1809,114,1812,1815,6657,6663,788,55,2265,1215,6660,6666],"class_list":["post-80229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-book-of-mormon","tag-christ","tag-church-of-jesus-christ-of-latter-day-saints","tag-interpreter-foundation","tag-latter-day-saints","tag-lds","tag-m-russell-ballard","tag-manhattan","tag-mormon","tag-mormonism","tag-new-york","tag-russell-m-nelson","tag-southeast-asia","tag-yucatan"],"yoast_head":"\nSoutheast Asia, Mesoamerica, Manhattan, and Utah Valley<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"    If you haven't watched this yet, please take a couple of minutes to do so:   "The Christ Child: A Nativity Story - 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