Gilbert Latter-day Saint Temple

Construction continues on the Latter-day Saint Temple in Gilbert on southeast corner of Pecos and Greenfield Roads, shown Friday, August 26, 2011. [Tim Hacker/Tribune]

Gilbert Latter-day Saint Temple

Construction continues on the Latter-day Saint Temple in Gilbert on southeast corner of Pecos and Greenfield Roads, shown Friday, August 26, 2011. [Tim Hacker/Tribune]

Gilbert Latter-day Saint Temple

Construction continues on the Latter-day Saint Temple in Gilbert on southeast corner of Pecos and Greenfield Roads, shown Friday, August 26, 2011. [Tim Hacker/Tribune]

Gilbert Latter-day Saint Temple

Construction continues on the Latter-day Saint Temple in Gilbert on southeast corner of Pecos and Greenfield Roads, shown Friday, August 26, 2011. [Tim Hacker/Tribune]

Gilbert Latter-day Saint Temple

Construction continues on the Latter-day Saint Temple in Gilbert on southeast corner of Pecos and Greenfield Roads, shown Friday, August 26, 2011. [Tim Hacker/Tribune]

Latter-day diversity

Saturday, June 7, 2003 7:56 am

Mormon Church leaders describe it as a shared, simultaneous revelation from God. The moment happened 25 years ago, as the church’s top leaders — the three-man First Presidency and the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles — gathered inside the faith’s Salt Lake City Temple.

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Latter-day Saints face race issue

Saturday, February 26, 2005 6:08 am

February 26, 2005

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Latter-day Saints face race issue

Saturday, February 26, 2005 6:09 am

It’s been almost 27 years since the Mormon Church lifted its ban that had kept black males from the church’s priesthood.

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Latter-day Saints face race issue

Darron Smith, a black Mormon who co-edited \"Black and Mormon,\" is on a book tour.

Latter-day Saints face race issue

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Mesa welcomes more Hispanics

Friday, October 28, 2005 1:20 pm

On Sunday at the Mormon stake near Alma School Road and University Drive in Mesa, five Hispanic boys dressed like missionaries in white shirts and ties fan out through the pews, bearing silver trays of bread chunks and water cups.

Gilbert Ward connects with ancestors by re-enacting Mormon trek

FABRIC OF HISTORY: Janet Justeson of the 9th Ward of the Gilbert Val Vista Stake of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints braids a rug for the re-creation of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints temple in Nauvoo, Ill.

Mormon church history library holds open house

Friday, June 12, 2009 9:14 am

SALT LAKE CITY -- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has unveiled a new church history library.

Mecham honored at funeral for faith, humor

Former Arizona Governor Evan Mecham's casket is loaded into a hearse at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints North Stake Center in Glendale.

Mourners brave cold to pay respects to Hinckley

The general public arrives to pay their respects to Gordon B. Hinckley, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Thursday in Salt Lake City.

On-site investigation of Mormon church fire ends

ATF investigators sift through the rubble of the Lehi Stake building of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1430 N. Grand St. in Mesa.

Portrait of a president-prophet

AN EPIC LIFE: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints President-Prophet David O. McKay is depicted in a 2002 painting by artist Arnold Friberg.

Faith of the pioneers

WESTWARD HEAVE-HO: Young members of the Gilbert Greenfield Stake of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints pull a cart as they retrace the steps of early Mormon pioneers.

Simple ways belie polygamist lifestyle

HOMESPUN: At a gas station in Colorado City, a woman and child wear traditional clothing of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.

Jean A. Stevens

Jean A. Stevens conducts the morning session's closing prayer during the 183rd Annual General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Saturday, April 6, 2013, in Salt Lake City. For the first time in 183 years, a woman has led a prayer at the semi-annual gathering of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

Mormon church to open 58 new missions, including ones in Gilbert, Scottsdale

Friday, February 22, 2013 5:12 pm

SALT LAKE CITY — The Mormon church is creating 58 new missions around the world to accommodate an influx of missionaries triggered by the lowering of the minimum age.

Border Shooting

U.S. Border Patrol agents lift the casket holding slain agent Nicholas Ivie during the funeral at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in Sierra Vista, Ariz., on Monday, Oct. 8, 2012. (AP Photo/Arizona Daily Star,Mike Christy )

Mitt Romney, Ann Romney

Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and his wife Ann, leave the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints after services on Sunday, Sept. 2, 2012 in Wofeboro, N.H. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Mesa LDS stake hosting emergency preparedness fair

Wednesday, July 18, 2012 4:12 pm

Be ready for the next big emergency, thanks to the fine folks at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Mesa South Stake. They’re hosting an emergency preparedness fair on Saturday, July 28 from 9 a.m. to noon. The event is free to the public.

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