Four Westboro protesters show up to protest funeral
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Lonnie Pursifull already was planning early Saturday morning, long before funeral services began for LDS Church President Gordon B. Hinckley, to meet with Kansas-based Westboro Baptist Church leaders, specifically Westboro founder Fred Phelps Sr.
“So, when he gets here at 10 o’clock, I’m going to preach [...]
He has gone home #151; Service full of fond memories
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With millions of Latter-day Saints worldwide watching and listening live, LDS Church President Gordon B. Hinckley was eulogized Saturday his red chair on the Conference Center dais empty and his casket resting in front of the pulpit handcrafted from a tree he planted decades ago.
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Church group plans protest at Pres. Hinckleys funeral
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The tens of thousands of people expected to flock downtown for President Gordon B. Hinckley’s funeral Saturday likely will want to avoid the southwest corner of North Temple and State Street.
Salt Lake City officials said the Westboro Baptist Church has applied for a permit for [...]
President Hinckley remembered by family friends church leaders
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With millions of Latter-day Saints worldwide watching and listening live, LDS Church President Gordon B. Hinckley was eulogized Saturday his red chair on the Conference Center dais empty and his casket resting in front of the pulpit handcrafted from a tree he planted decades ago.
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President Eyring remembers President Hinckleys optimism
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An unfailing attitude of optimism often led President Hinckley to say, when faced with a challenge, “Oh, things will work out,” said President Henry B. Eyring, who served with the deceased prophet in the First Presidency.
“Some of that (optimism) came from his great personal capacities. [...]
President Monson President Hinckley was your friend and my friend
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President Gordon B. Hinckley was so attuned to the sacred nature of LDS temples that he regularly removed his hat when passing beneath the Salt Lake Temple in the underground complex beneath Temple Square.
The story was one of several remembrances shared by President Thomas S. [...]
UVSC Orem institute celebrate friendship
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OREM Utah Valley State College and the Orem Institute of Religion, which stands on the school’s Orem campus, celebrated another year of close-knit friendship Friday.
“You guys are phenomenal contributors to the school and we appreciate you being a part of the university,” said UVSC President [...]
Cane was tool not crutch for Pres. Hinckley
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Of all the photographs of President Gordon B. Hinckley, my favorite is the one where he is “knighting” President Henry B. Eyring with his cane. The gesture is playful, affectionate and like so many things the man did it contains a lesson.
In the hands of [...]
A vote of thanks for a powerful individual
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Because our prophets, seers and revelators are released from office only by death, we don’t get to raise our hands to thank them.
So as President Gordon B. Hinckley finally has been released from his lifelong calling as the consummate servant in the kingdom of God, [...]
BYU students honor Pres. Hinckley in their own ways
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PROVO While flags on campus flew at half-staff, students at Brigham Young University on Monday memorialized LDS Church President Gordon B. Hinckley in their own special, personal ways.
“It’s like everybody has lost a friend,” said Chris Mortorff, 21, of Atascadero, Calif., a sophomore majoring in [...]
