LDS Church members have a responsibility to dedicate their time and talents to helping the poor and building the church.

The The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( LDS Church ) is in the process of building a temple in downtown, which will be the 14th in Utah.

The erection of a new LDS meetinghouse in 1896 inaugurated a twenty-year building boom that saw the completion of many brick homes, schools, and commercial buildings.

The first LDS church building was completed in 1891, serving as the center of church and community activities for fifty-three years until it was destroyed by fire in 1944.

As Harrisville continued to grow, an additional LDS Church building located on 2000 North was completed in 1988, and one at 1650 North 400 West was completed and dedicated February 2000.

The first church building, the Ogden LDS 14th Ward, was erected in 1925.

In 1986 the LDS Church completed the building of its Bedford Chapel / Meetinghouse.

On January 1, 1990, a member of the Church of Christ ( Temple Lot ) who had recently also joined the LDS Church, set fire to the unoccupied church building on the Temple Lot, claiming that his actions were part of a political protest and a prophecy that war was coming to America.

In Salt Lake City, the Relief Society occupies its own headquarters building known as the Relief Society Building, which is separate from the other administrative offices of the LDS Church.

While the Quorum of the Seventy had a building in Nauvoo in the 1840s, the Relief Society is the only auxiliary organization in the LDS Church today which has a completely separate facility.

Cutlerites point to Doctrine and Covenants 124: 31-32 ( LDS ), which commands the building of a temple in Nauvoo, and also refers to a " sufficient time " being granted for its construction, followed by the threat of being " rejected as a church, with your dead " if the structure is not completed within the allotted period.

When a short time later calls were issued to build the Boise LDS Tabernacle, Hunter was the first to pledge money for the building, offering $ 25.

The building of the LDS Church's Laie Hawaii Temple was a key predecessor to the establishment of BYU – Hawaii.

* a multipurpose building used for worship and community centers by the LDS Church ( see Tabernacle ( LDS Church ))

The first LDS official to enter Jerusalem was LDS Apostle Orson Hyde, who came in 1841 and dedicated the land for the gathering of the people of Israel, the creation of a Jewish state, and the building of an LDS temple at some future time.

In 1999, as the building of LDS temples accelerated, the Church announced a formal naming convention for all existing and future temples.

In 1917, an administration building was built on the block east of the temple, to be followed in 1972 by the twenty-eight story LDS Church Office Building, which was, for many years, the tallest building in the state of Utah.

The building itself and land were donated by the city and the LDS Church to the state of Utah.

The LDS Church also underwrote most of the $ 300, 000 cost for dismantling the building exterior into 325 sandstone slabs.

In 1975 the LDS Church sold it to a group of Salt Lake City residents who were seeking to make the building into a cultural center of some sort.

# Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, is about 200 miles northwest of Nauvoo, Illinois and sixty mies south of the Black River, which led to the LDS Church's 1840s lumber mills on the Mississippi river.

Ezra T. Benson organized an LDS Ward ( LDS Church ) there in May 1860.

Former Eisenhower cabinet member Ezra Taft Benson — a leading Mormon — spoke in favor of the John Birch Society, but in January 1963 the LDS church issued a statement distancing itself from the Society.

Ezra Taft Benson ( August 4, 1899 – May 30, 1994 ) was the thirteenth president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( LDS Church ) from 1985 until his death and was United States Secretary of Agriculture for both terms of the presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower.

It was while serving as a missionary, especially an experience in Sheffield that caused Benson to realize how central the Book of Mormon was to the Restored Gospel message and converting people to the LDS Church.

Benson accepted this position with the permission and encouragement of Church President David O. McKay and therefore served simultaneously in the United States Cabinet and in the LDS Church's Quorum of the Twelve Apostles.

In a similar vein, during a 1972 general conference of the LDS Church, Benson recommended that all Mormons read Gary Allen's New World Order tract " None Dare Call it A Conspiracy ".

During his early years as Church President, Benson brought a renewed emphasis to the distribution and reading of the Book of Mormon, reaffirming this LDS scripture's importance as " the keystone of LDS religion.

* A biography of three recent LDS church presidents: Ezra Taft Benson, Howard W. Hunter and Gordon B. Hinckley

Benson is the grandson of former U. S. Secretary of Agriculture and former LDS Church president Ezra Taft Benson.

Benson's criticism stirred controversy among Arizona's Mormon population, leading some LDS church members to seek the intervention of Benson's grandfather in the matter ; Benson was later relieved of his position on a church council.

In 1993 Benson faced further controversy within the LDS church, when he stated that his grandfather, then nearing his 94th birthday, was suffering from senility that was being concealed by church leadership.

Holland was ordained an apostle of the LDS Church on June 23, 1994 by Howard W. Hunter, following the death of Church President Ezra Taft Benson, and was sustained a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles on October 1, 1994.

His father was not a member of the LDS Church at the time, and his mother was marginally active, until the U. S. Secretary of Agriculture in the Eisenhower administration, church apostle Ezra Taft Benson, named Kenneth Scott as Assistant Secretary of Agriculture.

In 1988, as church president, Benson would later call Richard G. Scott to become an apostle in the LDS Church.

' Once Benson became the president of the LDS Church, he refrained from such statements.

Ezra Taft Benson ( February 22, 1811 – September 3, 1869 ) ( commonly referred to as Ezra T. Benson to distinguish him from his great-grandson of the same name ) was as an apostle and a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( LDS Church ).

Benson's great-grandson, also named Ezra Taft Benson, also became an apostle of the LDS Church ; the younger Benson served as U. S. Secretary of Agriculture in the 1950s and president of the LDS Church in the 1980s and 1990s.

The place was known as Hunsaker's Mill until it was organized as an LDS Ward named Honeyville in 1877.

Grow's last important project was the construction of the Deseret Paper Mill for the LDS Church-owned Deseret News newspaper.

LDS Apostle Orson Pratt declared that " Ahman ", part of the name of the settlement " Adam-ondi-Ahman " in Daviess County, Missouri, was the name of God in the Adamic language.

He was the President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( LDS Church ) from 1847 until his death in 1877, he founded Salt Lake City, and he served as the first governor of the Utah Territory, United States.

Though the King James Version ( KJV ) was always commonly used, it was officially adopted in the 1950s when J. Reuben Clark, of the First Presidency, argued extensively that newer translations, such as Revised Standard Version of 1952, were of lower quality and less compatible with LDS tradition.

Although the Apocrypha was part of the 1611 edition of the KJV, the LDS Church does not currently use the Apocrypha as part of its canon.

The history of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( LDS Church ) is typically divided into three broad time periods: ( 1 ) the early history during the lifetime of Joseph Smith, Jr. which is in common with all Latter Day Saint movement churches, ( 2 ) a " pioneer era " under the leadership of Brigham Young and his 19th Century successors, and ( 3 ) a modern era beginning around the turn of the 20th century as the practice of polygamy was discontinued.

It was superseded by section 132 of the modern LDS edition, which contains a revelation received by Joseph Smith on eternal marriage and teaches the doctrine of plural marriage.

He was Patriarch of the LDS Church.

The word Mormon is often associated with polygamy ( or plural marriage ), which was a distinguishing practice of many early Mormons ; however it was renounced by the LDS Church in 1890,

At Young's death in 1877, he was followed by other LDS Presidents, who resisted efforts by the United States Congress to outlaw Mormon polygamous marriages.

Official LDS Church historian B. H. Roberts removed the quote from his History of the Church compilation, saying he found evidence that W. W. Phelps wrote that paragraph and that it was " based on inaccurate premises and was offensively pedantic.

In the United States, the LDS Church has applied for a trademark on " Mormon " as applied to religious services ; however, the United States Patent and Trademark Office rejected the application, stating that the term " Mormon " was too generic, and is popularly understood as referring to a particular kind of church, similar to " Presbyterian " or " Methodist ", rather than a service mark.

The term was initially considered pejorative, but is no longer considered so by Mormons ( although other terms such as Latter-day Saint, or LDS, are generally preferred ).

The LDS Church created a writing scheme called the Deseret Alphabet, which was based, in part, on Hebrew.

According to LDS Church general authority Monte J. Brough, " Mormons who baptized 380, 000 Holocaust victims posthumously were motivated by love and compassion and did not understand their gesture might offend Jews ... they did not realize that what they intended as a ' Christian act of service ' was ' misguided and insensitive .'".

Fundamentalists initially broke from the LDS Church after that doctrine was discontinued around the beginning of the 20th century.

The LDS Church teaches that during the pre-mortal existence, there was a learning process which eventually led to the next necessary step in the pre-mortal spirits ' opportunity to progress.

Janez Drnovšek of the center-left Liberal Democratic Party of Slovenia ( LDS ) was reelected Prime Minister in the 15 October 2000 parliamentary elections.

* March 17 – The Relief Society, a philanthropic and educational women's organization of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( LDS ) was founded.

Bruce R. McConkie, who was later ordained an apostle of the LDS Church, originally wrote his opinion that the Catholic Church was the great and abominable church, but very few in the LDS Church share his view today.