By Beth Shumway Moore

The Haun’s Mill Massacre is a small part of the history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The little-known event that occurred on October 30, 1838, at Haun’s Mill, Missouri, is perhaps only a foot-note in that larger story, but it looms large in the tumultuous events that shaped the attitudes and beliefs of the nineteenth-century adherents called Mormons, who followed the teachings and revelations of their prophet, Joseph Smith.

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by Pam Ellis

There was a time, not so very long ago, that faithful Latter-day Saints traveled to St. George to go to the Temple. Some even served there as ordinance workers. It was a sacrifice, but a sacrifice given freely. Then in 1984, it was announced Las Vegas would be getting its own temple, which was dedicated on December 16-18, 1989.

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