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At Your Service: Pleasant surprises at Mormon meeting

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Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Meetinghouse, 912 Wicks Lane
Meeting: 9 a.m., Sunday, May 4, 2014
Length of meeting: 1 hour, 12 minutes. Length of testimony: 32 minutes

I entered the Mormons’ meetinghouse with a heavy load of stereotypes and old prejudices on my shoulders. (more…) Continue Reading →

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LDS Church pulls plans for meetinghouse near temple

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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has withdrawn its proposal to build a new meetinghouse near its temple on the West End of Billings. In a letter from the church delivered to the city-county Planning Department on Monday, a spokesman said the church was honoring verbal statements it made nearly 20 years ago, promising to build “no additional religious facilities” in the Rim Point Subdivision. (more…) Continue Reading →

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Guilty conscience prompts return of Scouts’ trailer, gear

After the news got out last week that a Billings Boy Scout troop had had a trailer full of camping gear stolen, community members responded with donations of money and gear. The publicity also rattled the conscience of the thief, apparently. Scoutmaster Rick Lindholm of Troop 373 said a member of the Billings Stake Center of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, at 2929 Belvedere Drive, left a meeting at the center Sunday night to find an anonymous letter on her windshield. The trailer was believed to have been stolen from the church parking lot, just off Grand Avenue and 30th Street West, on Jan. 12. Continue Reading →

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