“We assume so many things that aren’t so,” said Karen Ihrig. Ihrig has lived in Nauvoo for 50 years and she’s been engaged in civic involvement for the last 30 years. “It’s not what you know that ain’t so,” said Ihrig. “It’s what you think you know that ain’t so.” Originally from Chicago, Ihrig came […]
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I’ve experienced some defining moments in my life—discovering my testimony of the Book of Mormon, meeting my husband for the first time, experiencing the deaths of my beloved mother and grandmother—the list goes on. Joseph Smith also had many defining moments, but it all began with what has come to be known as his “first
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180 years ago today a group of twenty women gathered with the Prophet Joseph Smith in the upper room of the Red Brick Store in Nauvoo, Illinois.1 Three of them would later become Presidents of the Relief Society.2 “I now turn the key to you in the name of God,” the Prophet said.3 “We are
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