2+ day, 4+ hour ago   (800+ words) On the night of Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001, the Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra at Temple Square were scheduled to perform a private concert. Mack Wilberg, the choir and orchestra director, said: “The question was, ‘Are we going to go ahead?’ … It was…...

3+ day, 9+ hour ago   (722+ words) The first batch of Salt Lake Temple open house reservations for next year became available Sept. 1 — and all 1 million were claimed within 24 hours. Now two more batches of free tickets are scheduled to be released within the next month, according…...

3+ day, 16+ hour ago   (248+ words) The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints supported the opening of a new women’s clinic at the Carlos Roberto Huembes Teaching Hospital of the Nicaraguan National Police in Managua by donating advanced screening technology designed to detect breast cancer…...

4+ day, 19+ hour ago   (541+ words) Elder Quentin L. Cook of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles was born on Sept. 8, 1940, in Logan, Utah. He has served as an Apostle since Oct. 6, 2007, when he was called to fill the vacancy in the Quorum created when President Henry…...

5+ day, 4+ hour ago   (536+ words) Today begins the open-house phase for Nicaragua’s first temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. After a Sept. 7 media day and Sept. 8-9 invited-guest tours, the Managua Nicaragua Temple will be open to the public from Sept. 10 to…...

6+ day, 3+ hour ago   (754+ words) The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints made a $1.2 million donation to strengthen maternal and newborn health services in Pakistan. It will help launch and sustain a new two-year initiative with UNICEF. The Church is also partnering with UNICEF…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (1163+ words) Leaders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints announced the theme for the upcoming Salt Lake Temple Celebration on the same day reservations were made available for open house tickets. Speaking from the new temple entrance building north…...

2+ week, 6+ hour ago   (401+ words) Editor’s note: “The Spoken Word” is shared by Derrick Porter each Sunday during the weekly Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square broadcast. This will be given Sunday, Aug. 30, 2026. This week is No. 5,059 of the broadcast. Please note: Reservations are needed to…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (786+ words) Kenneth Udy’s desire to play the organ started as a young boy when he would see the organ in the Salt Lake Tabernacle during general conference broadcasts. “We would watch general conference, and I was totally mesmerized by the organ,…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (1030+ words) This week on social media, Church leaders shared experiences from ministering to members following disastrous fires and an earthquake, teachings about temples and more. President D. Todd Christofferson, second counselor in the First Presidency, taught that the words at the door…...