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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints

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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints

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I chose a community that is an essential part of my life. It was fascinating to view this community from a sociological stand point.

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The church has made many changes. Some little and some huge in it's history.

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Inside the rich history of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, changes in policy, practice, and place are not unfamiliar. Updates from the First Presidency and other Church executives, through both revelation and evaluation, are frequently made, and while some changes are more impactful than others, all adjustments are felt by the members involved. Listed below are 100 changes the Church has made over the last 100 years. This list does not include every change the Church has made since 1919, nor does the list act as a ranking system in any way.

1. At the end of 1919, there were five operating temples. At the time of this article, 166 temples are operating around the world.

2. The language of the endowment has changed over time. Significant changes took place between 1919 to 1927, in 1936, throughout the 1960s, the 1970s, and in 1990 and 2019.

3. The endowment session was presented in a language other than English for the first time-it was presented in Spanish in Arizona. (1945)

4. Divorced, endowed members, and single men over 30 were given an opportunity to serve as temple ordinance workers. (2017)

5. Garments with sleeves extending to the elbow and knees, rather than the wrist and ankles, became available for everyday use. (1923)

6. Full-body garments were no longer required for temple worship. (1975)

7. Two-piece garments became available during the 1970s. Later adjustments were made to temple garment styles, the most recent in 2019.

8. Automated temple recording systems were first introduced in the Salt Lake Temple. Prior to this technology, temple workers had to type, proofread, check, file, and report each name, shipping them and storing them as well. (1981)

9. Priests could now baptize and witness baptisms in the temple. (2017)

10. Endowed members of the Church, including women, could now serve as a witness to sealing ordinances, living and proxy. (2019)

11. Proxy baptisms for deceased persons could now be witnessed by anyone holding a current temple recommend, including a limited-use temple recommend. (2019)

12. A civil marriage no longer necessitated a year-long waiting period for a couple to be sealed in a temple. (2019)

13. The first temple was dedicated outside the United States, the Cardston Alberta Temple. (1923)

14. The first temple in Europe was dedicated, the Bern Switzerland Temple. (1955)

15. The Hamilton New Zealand Temple became the first temple dedicated in the Pacific area and the Southern Hemisphere. (1955)

16. The São Paulo Brazil Temple became the first temple built and dedicated in South America. (1975)

17. The Tokyo Japan Temple became the first temple built and dedicated in Asia. (1975)

18. The Johannesburg South Africa Temple became the first temple built and dedicated in Africa. (1981)

19. President Gordon B. Hinckley announced the building of smaller temples to help spread temples throughout the world. (1997)

20. The mission length for elders changed from 24 months to 18 months. (1982)

21. After considering feedback, the First Presidency announced that elders would serve for 24 months once again. (1985)

22. The missionary age changed for both elders and sisters, with elders being able to serve at 18 and sisters at 19. (2013)

23. The role of Sister Training Leaders was created. (2013)

24. The first scripted missionary lessons were introduced and were called "A Systematic Program for Teaching the Gospel." (1953)

25. These scripted missionary lessons were later revised as "A Uniform System for Teaching Investigators" in 1961. They were revised again in 1973 and 1986.

26. New missionary lessons and Preach My Gospel were released, with any new updates available online. (2004, 2019)

27. The Salt Lake Missionary Home was created in 1925 and was subsequently shut down in 1978.

28. The Provo Missionary Training Center was built and replaced the operations of the Salt Lake Mission Home in 1978.

29. Mission calls began to be delivered electronically. (2018)

30. Missionaries were allowed to speak to family members every preparation day over the phone or video chat instead of just twice a year. (2019)

31. It was announced that elders don't have to wear a suit at all times. (2013)

32. Some hats and sunglasses were permitted for missionaries. (2016)

33. Sisters could now wear slacks. (2018)
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34. A Sabbath day schedule was announced that had up to two hours of Sunday School, which included scriptural and hymnal recitations, with sacrament meeting later in the day. (1980)

35. Non-student single adult wards were created. (1982)

36. Elders quorum presidencies were created in every ward, no matter the number of elders. (1974)

37. Stake presidents were given authority to ordain and set apart seventies within their stakes, after First Council of the Seventy approval. (1974)

38. Due to increased meeting attendance seen in a number of pilot programs, a church-wide adoption of the three-hour block was made. (1980)

39. Primary and Relief Society were now held on Sundays instead of during the weekday. (1980)

40. Ward and stake prayer circles were eliminated. (1978)

41. High priests began meeting in elder quorums on Sundays instead of separate high priest groups. (2018)

42. The three-hour church block was changed to two hours. (2018)

43. The Church began incorporating individual sacrament cups for members to drink from instead of one communal cup. (1919)

44. The name Sunday School became official. Before then, it was called the Deseret Sunday School Union. (1971)

45. The Young Men's Mutual Improvement Association and Young Women's Mutual Improvement Association went from two organizations to one, called Aaronic Priesthood MIA Young Women (APMIAYW). (1972)

46. The APMIAWM was short-lived, splitting again into two organizations, this time called Young Men and Young Women. ( 1974)

47. Home, family, and personal enrichment meetings were renamed Relief Society meetings. (2009)

48. The Language Training Mission complex in Provo, Utah, was renamed the Missionary Training Center after changes incorporated English-speaking missionaries. (1978)

49. The international magazine of the Church was first released and named the Liahona. (1995)

50. The names of Primary classes are updated, with ages 18 months to 3 years being called Sunbeams, ages 4 to 7 being called CTR, and ages 8 to 11 being called Valiant. Previously, various ages in the Primary were known as everything from Rainbows, Stars, and Moonbeams to Bluebirds, Targeteers, and Merrihands (1995)

51. Ricks College was renamed BYU-Idaho. (2001)

52. The Mormon Tabernacle Choir changed its name to The Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square.(2018)

53. The Church instituted the new program home teaching, which replaced ward teaching. (1964)

54. Ministering replaced home and visiting teaching. (2018)

55. It was announced that members and nonmembers should drop the Mormon moniker and stress the complete name of the Church, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, where possible. (2018)

56. LDS.org changed to ChurchOfJesusChrist.org. (2019)

57. Mormon Channel changed its name to Latter-day Saints Channel. (2019)

58. Mormon.org changed to ComeUntoChrist.organd LDS Charities changed its name to Latter-day Saint Charities.(2019)

59. The Deseret Book Company was created in 1919 from a merger of the Deseret News Bookstore and the Deseret Sunday School Union Bookstore.

60. LDS.org was created. (1996)

61. General conference was broadcast by radio for the first time. (1924)

62. General conference was first broadcast on TV. (1949)

63. General conference was broadcast on the internet for the first time. (1999)

64. The priesthood session of general conference was televised and became available online. (2013)

65. The Granite Mountain Records Vault was completed. (1963)

66. The Church Office Building was completed. (1972)

67. General conference began being held in the Conference Center. (2000)

68. The Church History Library was completed. (2009)
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69. The Mormon Tabernacle Choir started a weekly network radio broadcast, Music and the Spoken Word, that has become the longest continuing network radio broadcast in history. (1929)

70. Grammatical adjustments were made to the Book of Mormon, the titles of the books of Nephi were standardized to remove ambiguity, and the text was put in a double-column format to match the presentation of the Bible. Chapter summaries were also created for every chapter, a guide for pronouncing names in the Book of Mormon was added along with a table of contents, and the footnotes and the index were revised. (1921)

71. "The Family: A Proclamation to the World" from the First Presidency and Council of the Twelve Apostles was first read at the General Relief Society Meeting. (1995)

72. The First Presidency and Quorum of the Twelve issued the document "The Living Christ." (2000)

73. The Young Woman's Journal, a magazine for young women, was discontinued, and The Juvenile Instructor, a periodical aimed toward Latter-day Saint children and youth, was discontinued. (1929)

74. After 130 years of printing, the Church-owned British periodical The Millennial Star was discontinued, along with The Instructor, a periodical written to assist Sunday School, and The Relief Society Magazine, which had been published for 55 years. ( 1970)

75. The Friend became the standard children's magazine of the Church, the New Era became the standard youth magazine of the Church, and the Ensign became the standard Church periodical. (1971)

76. The international magazine of the Church was introduced, with the English version being named the Tambu li. (1977)

77. The Church published its own version of The King James Version of the Bible. (1979)

78. Two sections were added to the Doctrine and Covenants (sections 137 and 138). (1981)

79. A Bible dictionary, a topical guide, and an index integrating the Book of Mormon, Doctrine and Covenants, and Pearl of Great Price were created. Maps and gazetteers along with select passages from Joseph Smith's translation of the Bible were also made available. (1981)

80. The subtitle "Another Testament of Jesus Christ" was added to the Book of Mormon. (1982)

81. The first edition of For the Strength of Youth was released in 1965.Nine editions of For the Strength of Youth followed, with the most recent in 2011.

82. The current hymnbook was released. ( 1985)

83. The creation of a new hymnbook was announced. ( 2018)

84. The Church announced a new curriculum, Come, Follow Me, that takes a home-centered, Church-supported approach to gospel living, learning, and teaching. (2018)

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85. Priesthood and temple blessings were extended to black members of the Church. (1978)

86. As printed in the November 1978 issue of the Ensign, President Spencer W. Kimball announced at a conference earlier that September that, "The First Presidency and Council of the Twelve have determined that there is no scriptural prohibition against sisters offering prayers in sacrament meetings. It was therefore decided that it is permissible for sisters to offer prayers in any meetings they attend, including sacrament meetings, Sunday School meetings, and stake conferences." (1978)

87. Priesthood and general women's sessions of general conference became annual events instead of semiannual.(2017)

88. The position of presiding patriarch was discontinued. (1979)

89. Area Authorities became ordained as Seventies and a third, fourth, and fifth Quorum of the Seventy was announced. (1997)

90. A sixth Quorum of the Seventy was organized. (2004)

91. It was announced that 11-year-olds could go to the temple and that youth advance in Young Women and the priesthood the year they turn 12, 14, and 16 instead of waiting until their actual birthday. (2018)

92. All Latter-day Saint women became automatically enrolled in Relief Society and the dues were eliminated. (1971)

93. The early-morning seminary program began, in southern California. (1950)

94. Monday nights were designated as family home evening nights. (1970)

95. The current logo of the Church was released, placing greater emphasis on the name of Jesus Christ. (1995)

96. The First Presidency announced that any baptized member of the Church, including women and children, could serve as a witness of a baptism outside the temple. (2019)

97. The three-fold mission of the Church was outlined: to proclaim the gospel, perfect the Saints, and redeem the dead. (1981)

98. FamilySearch.org is first launched. (1999)

99. The Church announced the end of the Scouting program and the discontinuation of Personal Progress and Duty to God beginning in 2020.

100. The Church announced the creation of the new Children and Youth Program to begin in 2020.

Lead image features the Cardston Alberta Temple, completed in 1923. Image courtesy of ComeUntoChrist.org.

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100 Changes in the Church in the Last 100 Years

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https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/history/topics/extermination-order?lang=eng

The church's history has always been influenced by it's environment. Mostly from those around them, and not necessarily the actual earth. They have moved often because they have not been wanted, finally settling in Utah.

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Is living the law of consecration possible?

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Is living the law of consecration possible?

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Orderville was named after the economy it tried to live by, the United Order. The type of economy is socialist. In the church's vocabulary it is called the law of consecration. "Individuals shared property, goods, and profits, receiving these things according to their wants and needs." (Seariac)

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Orderville is a small town in Utah that Brigham Young, then president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, established in 1875.

The town lived what was called the United Order, which came about due to direction from prophets and scripture. The church defines it as, "An organization through which the Saints in the early days of the restored Church sought to live the law of consecration. Individuals shared property, goods, and profits, receiving these things according to their wants and needs."

The town was established for that purpose and people in the town lived communally for several years. On June 1, 1877, Howard Orson Spencer wrote to Charles N. Carroll about the town. Carroll was inquiring about whether he could live in the town. According to Utah Historical Quarterly, Spencer said, "You likely understand we eat together and it takes good people to live in the United Order."

Spencer was referring to how the members of the town ate together at a hall. Orderville established farms, dairies and other businesses necessary for living. Leonard Arrington, a Latter-day Saint historian, described how the establishment of this town helped people to live a more robust and fulfilling life. Other nearby United Order communities included Kanab and St. George.

After a decade, Orderville ceased living consecration in a formal way. According to the Town of Orderville website, after the town ceased living consecration, the economy deteriorated.

The Town of Orderville website said, "In 1885 central church leaders, eager to reduce the range of federal complaints against Mormon peculiarities (the government was hostile to Mormon economic as well as marital practices), counseled the members to disband the Order, which they agreed reluctantly to do. They retained community ownership of the tannery, woolen mill, and sheep ranch until 1889 and finally let the corporation lapse in 1904."

After the dissolution of the United Order, Orderville became a small farming town. According to Britannica, "The village has survived as a small farming community in the Virgin River's Long Valley," and remains a small town today.

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5. Garments with sleeves extending to the elbow and knees, rather than the wrist and ankles, became available for everyday use. (1923)

6. Full-body garments were no longer required for temple worship. (1975)

7. Two-piece garments became available during the 1970s. Later adjustments were made to temple garment styles, the most recent in 2019.

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The Church began incorporating individual sacrament cups for members to drink from instead of one communal cup. (1919). This was brought about because of a petition from the members of the church. Concern for health and hygiene was the driving force for this policy change.

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A hundred years ago when the Church first began, there were no sacrament cups.

There was only a sacrament cup.

When the Church was officially organized in 1830, it was natural for members to drink from a communal cup during sacrament services. But by the early 1900s, many Church members were beginning to question whether a common sacrament cup was sanitary.

At one point, members encouraged parents to not give the sacrament to their dewy-lipped children, according to the article "'All Progressive Wards Are Buying': The Individual Sacrament Cup" from the BYU Religous Studies Center. It was also not uncommon for the cup's contents to be flavored by tobacco, peppermint, or strongly-flavored foods the members had eaten before church services began, and many young women of the time would often refuse to drink out of the sacrament cup after "full-bearded old men."

Curious as to the extent of the sacrament cup's role in spreading diseases, the Murray First Ward finally had the remains of their sacrament cup tested and found evidence of six contagious diseases.

In March 1916, the Murry First Ward members sent a petition to Church headquarters with three pages of signatures saying, "We feel that another Sunday should not pass until we can abolish this most unsanitary practice."

They also attached a receipt of the modern-day equivalent of $1,400-the cost of buying their own individual sacrament cups. But the Murray ward wasn't the only ward that petitioned to abolish the common sacrament cups.

The BYU Religous Studies article reports that Church leaders were initially hesitant to make the switch to individual sacrament cups out of concern that if it didn't take off, tithing money could be wasted. Therefore, between 1912-1918, progress towards wards using individual sacrament cups was slow.

It wasn't until the Spanish influenza epidemic hit Utah in 1918, with more than 1,500 cases and 717 deaths reported in just four weeks, that a mass change in opinions on the sacrament cups occurred. Under the direction of new Church President Heber J. Grant, (former vice president of the Utah Public Health Association), the transition to individual cups was accelerated until it became a widespread practice.

Today, we accept individual sacrament cups as the norm. But whether metal, plastic, or paper, we're grateful to partake of the sacrament each week-in both a sacred and sanitary way.

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Ever wonder how the sacrament cups we use today came to be? The story may surprise you.

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Government (State) Health Care and Safety, social services

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I believe the church is slow to change in regards to gender because of principle's that are believed. The principles believed are not the issue at hand, I think. The issue is how to go about living them in a socially acceptable way. The church moves more slowly at a leadership level than society changes, and therefore some policies, or beliefs that were at one point socially acceptable are no longer that way.

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Peggy Fletcher Stack The Salt Lake Tribune · May 27, 2014 7:39 pm

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Ordain Women launches new push for Mormon priesthood

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Ordain Women has rolled out the next phase of its push for ordination to the all-male LDS pries

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Like many organizations within The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the Young Men organization began in wards and stakes prior to becoming part of the general Church organization. The Young Ladies' Department of the Cooperative Retrenchment Association was formed in 1870 as a way to help the young women in the Church to retrench and focus their thoughts, actions, and dress on the gospel. The organization also advocated for spiritual and intellectual growth. Similarly, the leaders of the Church were finding ways for the young men to improve. Included in these early attempts are the Instructive Association (1873) in the Salt Lake Utah Sixth Ward and the Young Men's Literary Association (1874) in the Salt Lake Utah Tenth Ward. The first Young Men's Association was organized in 1874 with the Salt Lake Utah Thirteenth Ward. ¹

In 1875, Brigham Young tasked Junius F. Wells to create an organization for the young men of the Church. ² This organization's leadership would include a superintendent, first assistant, and second assistant. ³ According to Junius F. Wells, when he was asked to organize the young men, Brigham Young advised him:

We want to have our young men enrolled and organized throughout the Church, so that we shall know who and where they are, so that we can put our hands upon them at any time for any service that may be required. We want them to hold meetings where they will stand up and speak-get into the habit of speaking-and of bearing testimony. These meetings are to be for our young men, to be composed of young men for their improvement-for their mutual improvement-a society of young men for mutual improvement. There is your name: The Young Men's Mutual Improvement Soci - Association. ⁴

As the Young Men's program developed, its leaders found ways to communicate lesson plans, spiritual and intellectual development, and uplifting content through official magazines. The Contributor began to be published in 1879. It ran until 1896, when The Improvement Era began to be published. The Young Woman's Journal was "married" to The Improvement Era in 1929. ⁵ The Improvement Era became the official magazine of all of the youth until 1970 when began to be published. In 2020, a new youth magazine was introduced, For the Strength of Youth, which was designed to better meet the needs of the global Church. ⁶

1. The Improvement era; 1920-1930 (Volumes 24-33); 1924-1925 (Volume 28); 1925 June (No. 8); Church History Library, https://catalog.churchofjesuschrist.org/assets?id=bada5af9-91d6-4efb-82d9-c2f272272c6f&crate=0&index=0 (accessed: December 10, 2020)

3. "The following year [1972], Brother [Russell M.] Nelson discussed with President [Harold B.] Lee the fact that the presiding authorities in priesthood quorums, the Relief Society, the Primary, and the Young Women's Mutual Improvement Association were called 'presidents' and 'counselors.' In the Sunday School and the Young Men's Mutual Improvement Association, however, the leaders were called superintendents and assistant superintendents. Shortly thereafter, the Church decided that the leaders of all Church auxiliaries should uniformly be called presidents and counselors." Condie, Spencer J., Russell M. Nelson: Father, Surgeon, Apostle. Deseret Book, 2013. Pg. 166-67.

4. The Improvement Era; 1920-1930 (Volumes 24-33); 1924-1925 (Volume 28); 1925 June (No. 8); Church History Library, https://catalog.churchofjesuschrist.org/assets?id=bada5af9-91d6-4efb-82d9-c2f272272c6f&crate=0&index=0 (accessed: December 10, 2020)

5. Wedding announcement [Salt Lake City]: [publisher not identified], [1929], https://catalog.churchofjesuschrist.org/assets?id=43361005-9d8e-4ace-a2dc-c133a6690455&crate=0&index=0 (accessed: December 10, 2020)

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This policy strikes me as astonishingly similar to the policy held in the 80's about Black men not being aloud to hold the priesthood. This policy was reversed in 2019. For the church that is very quick.

It was a very devastating policy for all members to learn about and in response many members LGBTQ+ and non LGBTQ+ alike chose to remove their names and records from the church.

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Hundreds Protest Mormon Church's New LGBT Policy

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The church was in financial distress which the Panicof 1893 didn't help. By 1898, the church was $2.3 million in debt. The president of the church during the 50's and 60's eventually let the leader go that made created a $32 million deficit and reigned in spending.

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Like many organizations within The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the Young Men organization began in wards and stakes prior to becoming part of the general Church organization. The Young Ladies' Department of the Cooperative Retrenchment Association was formed in 1870 as a way to help the young women in the Church to retrench and focus their thoughts, actions, and dress on the gospel. The organization also advocated for spiritual and intellectual growth. Similarly, the leaders of the Church were finding ways for the young men to improve. Included in these early attempts are the Instructive Association (1873) in the Salt Lake Utah Sixth Ward and the Young Men's Literary Association (1874) in the Salt Lake Utah Tenth Ward. The first Young Men's Association was organized in 1874 with the Salt Lake Utah Thirteenth Ward. ¹

In 1875, Brigham Young tasked Junius F. Wells to create an organization for the young men of the Church. ² This organization's leadership would include a superintendent, first assistant, and second assistant. ³ According to Junius F. Wells, when he was asked to organize the young men, Brigham Young advised him:

We want to have our young men enrolled and organized throughout the Church, so that we shall know who and where they are, so that we can put our hands upon them at any time for any service that may be required. We want them to hold meetings where they will stand up and speak-get into the habit of speaking-and of bearing testimony. These meetings are to be for our young men, to be composed of young men for their improvement-for their mutual improvement-a society of young men for mutual improvement. There is your name: The Young Men's Mutual Improvement Soci - Association. ⁴

As the Young Men's program developed, its leaders found ways to communicate lesson plans, spiritual and intellectual development, and uplifting content through official magazines. The Contributor began to be published in 1879. It ran until 1896, when The Improvement Era began to be published. The Young Woman's Journal was "married" to The Improvement Era in 1929. ⁵ The Improvement Era became the official magazine of all of the youth until 1970 when began to be published. In 2020, a new youth magazine was introduced, For the Strength of Youth, which was designed to better meet the needs of the global Church. ⁶

1. The Improvement era; 1920-1930 (Volumes 24-33); 1924-1925 (Volume 28); 1925 June (No. 8); Church History Library, https://catalog.churchofjesuschrist.org/assets?id=bada5af9-91d6-4efb-82d9-c2f272272c6f&crate=0&index=0 (accessed: December 10, 2020)

3. "The following year [1972], Brother [Russell M.] Nelson discussed with President [Harold B.] Lee the fact that the presiding authorities in priesthood quorums, the Relief Society, the Primary, and the Young Women's Mutual Improvement Association were called 'presidents' and 'counselors.' In the Sunday School and the Young Men's Mutual Improvement Association, however, the leaders were called superintendents and assistant superintendents. Shortly thereafter, the Church decided that the leaders of all Church auxiliaries should uniformly be called presidents and counselors." Condie, Spencer J., Russell M. Nelson: Father, Surgeon, Apostle. Deseret Book, 2013. Pg. 166-67.

4. The Improvement Era; 1920-1930 (Volumes 24-33); 1924-1925 (Volume 28); 1925 June (No. 8); Church History Library, https://catalog.churchofjesuschrist.org/assets?id=bada5af9-91d6-4efb-82d9-c2f272272c6f&crate=0&index=0 (accessed: December 10, 2020)

5. Wedding announcement [Salt Lake City]: [publisher not identified], [1929], https://catalog.churchofjesuschrist.org/assets?id=43361005-9d8e-4ace-a2dc-c133a6690455&crate=0&index=0 (accessed: December 10, 2020)

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Brigham Young University is a private research university in Provo, Utah, United States. It was founded in 1875 by religious leader Brigham Young and is sponsored by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

There are 3 different BYU locations. One in Idaho, Hawaii, and Utah. BYU also offers online options to try to help address people who don't have access to a University or funding for it.