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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was so named in 1838. We would appreciate it greatly if everyone would get on board with the name we choose for ourselves rather than using a term that has its origin and some continued hints of mockery of our belief in a prophet named Mormon who wrote a book.That said, we build people.To help us build people, we spread the gospel of Jesus Christ.To spread the gospel of Jesus Christ we provide resources such as meetinghouses for Sunday worship and temples—which are sanctuaries set apart from the world for the performance of sacred ordinances such as eternal marriages.A meetinghouse is typically used by two or three congregations in an area heavily populated by members of the Church. They are built to similar plans in order to save money and improve efficiency of maintenance. See here: Architecture, Engineering & Construction Division, MFD, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day SaintsWe build smaller more flexible buildings in areas with few members, such as our building on Salt Spring Island off of Victoria Island in Canada.Our meetinghouses are used daily—for example, I teach a morning religious education class to high school juniors every morning at 6:15 AM in our meetinghouse here in Laie, Hawaii. It sits on land that is worth millions of dollars—we easily have over 10,000 meetinghouses and we lease facilities for other meetings. Some of these facilities aren’t cheap:There’s a meeting with our Church President Russell M. Nelson in the State Farm stadium in Phoenix—he’s on the jumbotron there if you look closely speaking to 65,000 assembled members. Not cheap, I imagine, to rent out the stadium.Our temples are considered offerings to God—holy places where heaven meets earth. They are built to a standard of construction unknown on the Earth to any other group and, yes, this costs money. But they are Holy places and no amount of effort is spared—the blessings returned to the people far exceed the sacrifices made to build them. Our temple in Salt Lake City consists of hand-carved granite blocks that were moved from Little Cottonwood canyon via oxcart. It took forty years to build.Here’s a more recent effort in San Diego, California:Not only are they expensive in time and material, but we are building temples in countries far from Utah. Here is the new temple in the Democratic Republic of the Congo:Any group of faithful members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints will receive the blessing of a temple when they are prepared to staff it and use it appropriately.Anchorage, Alaska:The meetinghouses and temples are there to help us provide ordinances to our dead ancestors—we do the physical work that they cannot do in the spirit world given that they are now separated from their physical bodies until the resurrection. We do not believe that we are forcing anything upon them, but we make tremendous efforts to gather genealogical records and provide them to the world.Anyone who does family history profits from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints http://familysearch.org libraries, family history centers and website resources. We have millions of pages of microfilmed records that preserved crumbling church registers and other official birth, death and marriage records from all over the world. We’ve been at this work for over 180 years now and now genetic researchers are profiting from that work. God knew what he was doing getting it all on microfilm because data on computers is very hard to make permanent—computers change so rapidly that your storage media have a short life. For example, vital Apollo Program data was almost lost forever but for an engineer who preserved computer tapes that no machine could read. We spend lots of our money on this effort to maintain and protect family history information and we keep those records absolutely secure in a vault:Of course, the temples, meetinghouses and records would be useless if we didn’t have members. So we field tens of thousands of missionaries around the world—67,000 as of the date I wrote this. They are trained in centers built all over the world. In fact, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has the best language training facilities on the Earth. It is said, only half in jest, that two groups of people are capable of learning the Finnish language—babies and missionaries of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.We just expanded the primary Missionary Training Center in Provo, UtahMissionaries are flying all over the world at Church expense, daily, as they move to and from their fields of labor. So many missionaries fly in and out of the Salt Lake City airport that the airport itself built a place to accommodate them: Salt Lake City Airport renovation to accommodate LDS missionaries, families, travelersThe Church has a system where it pays the expenses for missionaries without economic means to do so and where each family that can afford to pay is given a flat rate charge of $500 per month. This evens out the costs—back in the day when you paid whatever the mission required, some families were paying $50 a month for a missionary in South America and others $1,500 a month for a missionary in London, England. Now the Church handles all the costs from a gigantic fund and is able to spread the costs among those families with serving missionaries.As a father of nine, I am very thankful for this assistance. Missionaries need room and board, they often have a car—the Church must own and operate a couple hundred thousand Toyota Corollas—and it is self-insured. Imagine the cost of having inexperienced young men and women, often driving on the other side of the road than they were trained for. I served in Australia and it was tougher than you think to learn to shift gears with your left hand.Most people realize the multi-billion-dollar investments in our temples; however, there are over 400 mission headquarters, each of which has a home large enough to accommodate the mission president’s family and hold large meetings with missionaries who are arriving and leaving the mission—in our mission home we also had regular meetings where our mission president would teach people in his home. In some areas of the world, this home has to have serious security. In most developed nations, these homes were purchased well over 100 years ago and now find themselves inside the most desirable (and pricey) neighborhoods. Our Honolulu Mission President’s family resides for their three years in a home in Portlock—there’s an investment that just keeps growing.I suspect we spend a good deal on keeping our missionaries healthy—medical needs are covered by the Church for all its young missionaries as are costs of treating injuries, costs of mental health professionals (missionary work is emotionally difficult, constant rejection and you are taken from your home and your traditional strategies of coping with tough times and you must stay with a companion 24/7 that you may or may not find compatible). The Church covers any needs. A jet was procured and used to evacuate the 200 or so missionaries serving in Puerto Rico after the big hurricane. Jesus taught Peter that when money was necessary—it would be there. Jesus did this by having Peter cast his hook, catch a fish and then take a gold coin out of the fish’s mouth with which to pay the tax. Never worry that the Lord Jesus Christ doesn’t recognize the needs of His people, whether or not they are members of this Church.And when the world causes trouble for its people or our members, we are there with food and support. We maintain a vast network of farms and food processing centers and are able to feed our people and many others with Bishop’s Storehouses that are located near every congregation. A local leader can call upon those resources and many others.Here’s a typical Bishop’s Storehouse:Anything a family needs—meat, fresh produce, cooking essentials, cleaning and hygiene supplies—anything. No member of the Church goes hungry so long as the bishop knows about it. I was a bishop—I had dozens of men and women checking up on every one of the 300 members in my ward so that I could intervene with professional assistance if necessary at the Church’s expense. Because my ward was well over an hour’s drive from our Bishop’s Storehouse, when necessary, I could simply buy the food with Church funds at a local store and distribute it directly. (Under strict supervision and auditing, of course.)The Church food chain includes a network of farms. We own the world’s largest beef cattle operation in Florida, the Deseret Ranch. Deseret Ranches Of Florida We have our own brand and produce everything from soup to nuts. You can barely make out the “Deseret” brand at the top of the cans.So to those who claim we should be feeding the poor with our money—find me anyone who needs food and isn’t getting it and we’ll make an effort to reach them. The Church contributes heavily to other charities with proven records of low-overhead and successful delivery of food and services. See, e.g. LDS Charities Releases 2018 Annual ReportWe have also repurchased our historical sites—places where our ancestors were attacked and often killed by mobs. Here’s Nauvoo, Illinois where we not only rebuilt our temple but recreated the city itself and staff an attraction that has been visited by millions.We are scripturally bound to reclaim the lands of MIssouri that we once owned—but slowly and in the Lord’s time and under His direction:52 For, behold, verily I say unto you, the Lord willeth that the disciples and the children of men should open their hearts, even to purchase this whole region of country, as soon as time will permit.53 Behold, here is wisdom. Let them do this lest they receive none inheritance, save it be by the shedding of blood.54 And again, inasmuch as there is land obtained, let there be workmen sent forth of all kinds unto this land, to labor for the saints of God.55 Let all these things be done in order; and let the privileges of the lands be made known from time to time, by the bishop or the agent of the church.56 And let the work of the gathering be not in haste, nor by flight; but let it be done as it shall be counseled by the elders of the church at the conferences, according to the knowledge which they receive from time to time. Doctrine and Covenants 58We repurchased and continue to acquire lands in Nauvoo—a City built by our forebears.We repurchased and restored the Joseph Smith family farm and the nearby Hill Cumorah where Joseph Smith was led to the ancient record that became the Book of Mormon.We own the jail where Joseph Smith and his brother Hyrum Smith were martyredWe educate our members as well as feed them. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has a huge educational system with a first-rate research University as the crown jewel. Its newest building—the Life Sciences building—alone has more square footage than the entire campus of Brigham Young University Hawaii, where I work. BYU College of Life Sciences - WikipediaBrigham Young University is widely recognized as among the great universities of the world, a top-rated value for the money because the Church heavily subsidizes tuition for its members. We even won the United States National College Football Championship in 1984 and field first-rate athletic teams that compete at the highest levels of collegiate sports. BYU No. 1 in new Wall Street Journal ranking of colleges 'worth the cost'I attended the Marriott School of Management and have an undergraduate in accounting—our School of Accounting at BYU is one of the top three in the nation. Accounting students land BYU another No. 1 rankingI attended the J. Reuben Clark School of Law at BYU and received a legal education that was the equal of any law school you could name. It’s founding dean, Rex Lee, was a United States Solicitor General who I believe is among the attorneys who have argued the most cases before the United States Supreme Court. BYU Law’s pipeline to the U.S. Supreme Court continuesBYU is staggeringly expensive to operate and maintain—top-rate professors do not come cheaply. But, the Church has learned that the more educated its members are, the more faithful and devoted they are—dollar for dollar, investment in education is the best dollars we spend in terms of the return we get. Five of my children, so far, have attended Brigham Young University.We have sister universities in Idaho and Hawaii. I work at BYU-Hawaii where the Church bought a significant chunk of Oahu in 1865 and presently runs the state’s number-one cash attraction, the Polynesian Cultural Center. www.polynesia.comI’m typing this answer right now inside the building at the lower right hand margin of this photograph—on a Saturday, i.e. my own time.BYU-Hawaii isn’t cheap, but we are educating young Church members from over 70 different countries and sending them back to build a strong middle-class in their communities in developing countries. The Church invests in its young people—that is why it continues. Its leaders know and appreciate the value of education.My accounting students work at the Polynesian Cultural Center in demanding and responsible positions dealing with millions of dollars of cash—they get amazing jobs and are welcomed by many graduate schools where they excel and bring honor to our school.BYU has study abroad centers all over the world. I attended our center in Jerusalem, Israel.Here’s the view from the auditorium—that is the Dome of the Rock shrine on the Temple Mount in the backgroundThe entire center is an amazing facility.My daughter attended BYU’s London Center in Kensington at 27 Palace Court:In addition to our universities, we maintain Institutes of Education adjacent to most Universities and colleges. There are a total of 324,537 students enrolled in these institutes of religion at present.Here is the one at Yale University:The Church itself has sixteen million members, about 400 missions, 11 missionary training centers, and 30,536 congregations. See, Statistics and Church Facts | Total Church MembershipWe also have a state-of-the-art publishing facility that prints, among other things, The Book of Mormon, which is currently printed in over 90 languages and which reached a total publication of 150 million volumes in 2011.We will give you a copy for free: The Book of Mormon brings you closer to Jesus. | ComeUntoChrist.orgWe also print the Bible and other scriptures and there is a regular monthly periodical available in many languages—all of which are supplemented by an amazing website and mobile apps. Our former president Gordon B. Hinckley prophetically understood the value of the internet and we are all over the internet with advertising and resources for Church members. www.churchofjesuschrist.orgWe have a state-of-the-art media production facility and team that produce amazing work. Recently, the Church funded a series of video representations of the New Testament. Watch Scenes from the BibleHere’s my favorite one:Peter and John Heal a Man Crippled Since BirthObviously, an operation the size of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints needs a headquarters and has thousands of employees who make their careers working to administer and run the Church’s operations—myself, for example, here at BYU-Hawaii:One of the office buildings above and our Administration Building below:A facility fit to receive Presidents and world leaders who come to pay respects:We have a new Church History library that provides resources to researchers, even our critics, regarding our historical records. It is all out there and public. See, The Joseph Smith Papers: A comprehensive digital collection of the papers of Joseph SmithThis is the library, Utah State Capital dome visible in background.Finally, we have our humanitarian projects. We have facilities with the materials necessary to clean up after disasters. Governments have studied our supply chain. We can field tens of thousands of workers within hours and we can equip them with generators, lighting, chainsaws, tools, cold storage, food—we can turn any of our meetinghouses into a shelter capable of housing hundreds temporarily in the case of natural disasters.We are widely recognized for expertise in this area and are usually the first on the ground with aid.Mormon humanitarian donations quadruple in response to disastersNews excerpts:The church provided mattresses, shelter, food and water in Sierra Leone and food and emergency items in Nepal during August and September.In response to hurricanes, it has shipped about 90 truckloads of food, water, clothing and other relief supplies to Texas and Florida and more than 40 ocean containers of food, water, building materials, hygiene kits and cleaning supplies to Caribbean islands. Two planes each delivered 80,000 pounds of food, water and tarps to Puerto Rico.The church sent nearly 15,000 food boxes and hundreds of hygiene kits and tents to Mexico to support government relief efforts. Mormon Helping Hands also provided thousands of hours of volunteer work.In recent years, the church has provided annual reports about its emergency response efforts.In 2016, the church provided aid to 119 emergency response projects in 49 countries.In 2015, it responded to 177 emergency situations in 56 countries.In 2014, the church helped people amid 132 disasters in 60 countries.Those numbers are an incomplete picture of the church's overall efforts. For example, in 2016, LDS Charities worked on 488 refugee aid projects in 54 countries, according to its annual report.And, we fund all of this from the income.We reinvest a large portion of our income every year.We have built up a reserve that allows us to provide services in perpetuity, that means forever. We don’t believe in just giving out money—one and done cannot solve the problems the world faces.So we are slowly increasing our outreach as our investments grow in their ability to fund the mission of the Church. The Mormon Church Amassed $100 Billion. It Was the Best-Kept Secret in the Investment World.Those who criticize the Church for investing its money simply fail to understand the power of relying solely upon the income or interest from investments. This means that the resources will always be there. We are not at the mercy of economic cycles.By not overspending our resources and maintaining steady growth, the Church of Jesus Christ will be able to fulfill its prophesied mission of filling the earth:44 And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever.45 Forasmuch as thou sawest that the stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it brake in pieces the iron, the brass, the clay, the silver, and the gold; the great God hath made known to the king what shall come to pass hereafter: and the dream is certain, and the interpretation thereof sure.Daniel 2Come and see. Meetinghouse Locator | LDS Maps You are welcome to visit our Sunday meetings. You will feel most comfortable in “Sunday-Best” dress, i.e. dresses for women and white shirts with tie for men; however, we are happy to host you as you come, so long as your manner of dress is not outright disrespectful to a Church service.Come and serve with us. Help us build people by bringing the message of Christ to the world. The best information you can receive about the Church will come from your own personal observations of its members and practices.JustServe

Katharine of Aragon's wedding to Arthur Tudor was a boon for the fledgling Tudor dynasty when the Catholic Kings, Isabella and Ferdinand, agreed to join their houses through a marriage between their daughter, the Infanta Catalina, and Henry VII's son.The union with the ancient and noble House Trastámara conferred legitimacy on Henry's rule in the eyes of Europe. Catalina - or Katharine, as she'd be called in England - had a bloodline claim to the throne of England through her mother's Lancastrian blood. Katharine was a descendant of John of Gaunt, which made her Henry's third cousin.Katharine was a wonderful choice of a bride for Arthur. Isabella had always regretted her own lack of education as a young girl and seen to it that her daughter was raised to be a ruler, educated as a prince in the classics, law, languages, and religious studies. (Katharine would later serve as the first female ambassador in Europe, putting that education to good use.) She was trained in etiquette, dance, and music.... Every attribute a queen should have, and more. From a young age, Katharine was taught it was her destiny to be England's queen, and it was a destiny she refused to surrender until her dying day.Though some later authors asserted that Arthur was sickly or had fragile health, the records don’t support it. His contemporaries described him as a fine young man, tall for his age, and quite handsome, too with his auburn hair and high-bridged nose. Though never as enthusiastically athletic as his younger brother, Arthur may have been a skilled archer. His father’s expense records note the purchase of a costly bow for him.Arthur’s education was intensive compared to modern education. The children of Tudor nobility started very early with their tutors, and learned multiple languages before most children have graduated from primary school today. Arthur’s tutor Bernard André was very proud of his pupil’s progress and later bragged that Arthur had mastered the works of twenty-four classical and humanist authors before the age of fifteen. This may have been an exaggeration, because some of the works he described Arthur studying were very rare and only available in Greek. Furthermore, André made this statement after Arthur’s death, when he wasn’t around to confirm it.Katharine and Arthur exchanged polite love letters until the time of their marriage. The only language they had in common was Latin, and so that was the language they used to communicate. Oddly, Isabella never had Katharine taught English.When Katharine arrived, the English saw that reports of her beauty had not been exaggerated. Katharine was simply knock-out gorgeous. She had strawberry blonde hair and blue eyes, and a peaches-and-cream complexion. She charmed everyone she encountered.Arthur and Katharine met for the first time on November 7, 1501. They discovered, to their dismay, that they could no longer communicate in Latin, since they had both been taught different pronunciations and accents. They had to rely on translators, but apparently, they got on swimmingly.On the 12th of November, Katharine entered the city of London, riding on a mule. The people performed six pageants for her along the way, full of allegory and symbolism she may not have grasped, considering she didn't understand what they were saying, but she surely understood their welcoming intent. She listened politely to speeches given to her by characters dressed as Honor and Policy, and one who portrayed King Alfonso the Wise of Castile. She was escorted to St. Paul's Cathedral, where she was given gifts by the Lord Mayor while a choir sang. There, she made an offering to St. Erkenwald before heading to the archbishop's palace to rest for the night.The wedding was held on the 14th, and nothing like this pageantry would be seen for another fifty years. It was a holiday for the English people. The fountains ran with free wine. Church bells clanged, and the city streets were hung with fluttering banners.Katharine walked from the archbishop's palace to the church on a blue carpet that had been laid down for her. She wore a white satin gown - an unusual color choice for a wedding gown in that era. Beneath it she wore a Spanish farthingale, similar to what we'd call a hoop skirt, a fashion that had not yet been seen in England. Her red-gold hair hung loose under a silk veil, edged with gold and precious stones.A raised walkway, hundreds of feet long, had been built so all the people could see the bride and the nobles as the procession went inside the cathedral. It was carpeted with a rich red cloth, tacked down with gilded nails. Her soon-to-be brother-in-law, Prince Henry, escorted Katharine down the walkway and handed her over to Arthur at the stage built before the high altar. Arthur was as splendidly dressed as his bride. He wore an outfit of silver tissue, a light, gauzy cloth made by weaving real silver with fine thread, embroidered with roses.The nuptial mass lasted for three hours, and at the end, the bride and groom remained kneeling so they could be blessed by Arthur's parents. They rose and walked back down the platform to greet the people as husband and wife. At the end of the platform, a mountain had been built, covered with precious metal and jewels. It was meant to symbolize the "rich mound (Richmond)" title that Henry VII had held before he became king. On it, King Arthur of legend was featured, flanked by Spanish knights and a tree of Tudor roses. Wine spouted from the top down into a fountain, from which the crowd filled their goblets and toasted the newly married pair.There was a sumptuous feast afterward at Lambeth Palace. The celebrations would continue for another two weeks, and would include jousts, banquets, archery competitions, and masques. It truly had been "the wedding of the century" a splendid spectacle that most of the people present would never see again. The next king, Henry VIII, always had his weddings in private. There wouldn't be another public royal wedding until Katharine's daughter Mary married Phillip of Spain in 1554.Henry VII was uncertain the young couple should live together. In that era, it was thought to be unhealthy for young people to have intercourse — both male and female. Unless there were pressing political concerns, Tudor nobility preferred to wait until the couple was in their late teens or early twenties for marriage. Henry’s own mother, Margaret Beaufort, was believed to have been physically damaged when she gave birth at thirteen. She never had another child despite being married again several times. But Henry ultimately decided to send the young couple to live together at Arthur’s castle of Ludlow on the Welsh border. This move proves Arthur was of excellent health - he never would have attempted a journey like this in the dead of winter to an area thought to have an unhealthy climate if the prince was sickly.What happened next would be a subject of debate for centuries. Katharine insisted until her dying day that she and Arthur never consummated their marriage. The couple spent about half a dozen nights in the same bed, but — she said — chastely. Why did nothing happen? They were both healthy, attractive teenagers, an age group that’s not famed for its restraint.Speculation has led to people pointing at Arthur’s supposed fragile constitution, but that doesn’t have any evidence to support it. Isabella and Ferdinand investigated Arthur thoroughly before deciding on the marriage and would not have sent their daughter to wed a man of uncertain health.Arthur was known to be a bit formal and awkward in personal interaction, so it could be that he was just shy. Or it could be that he was refraining until he and his young wife got to know one another better. He wouldn’t be the only king to do this— James of Scotland held off consummating his marriage to Margaret Tudor for three years or more.Perhaps Arthur was a romantic. He saw how his own parents’ marriage had blossomed into deep affection over the years. Maybe he hoped for the same thing before they consummated their union. Or perhaps Arthur was just trying to be considerate of his new wife, who had just left homeland and everyone she loved to come to a country where she couldn’t speak the language nor drink the water. Katharine was prepared to “lie back and think of England,” as they say, but Arthur decided to spare her that for the time being.They were both young. They both thought they had a lifetime together ahead of them, and there was no rush. I’ve pictured them spending those evenings sitting on the bed and writing notes to one another, communicating in written Latin since it was the only way.Later, when Henry VIII was trying to prove the marriage had been consummated, he found men who claimed Arthur had made jokes about being in “the midst of Spain” the night before. But we can’t be certain these stories were true. Even if Arthur did say it—and that’s a very big “if” — he might have been trying to spare himself or his bride from any uncomfortable interrogations as to why they hadn’t had sex.But the lifetime together Arthur had envisioned was not to be. Only a few months after their marriage, Katharine and Arthur both fell ill. It’s unknown what afflicted them. It could have been the plague, influenza or the Sweating Sickness. Whatever it was, it was sudden and brutal. Despite speculation that Arthur may have had tuberculosis, cancer, or any number of other ailments, the fact remains that both he and Katharine were stricken by it, so Arthur’s death does not seem to be the culmination of a life of poor health, but rather an infectious disease that swept through the area.Arthur, whose father had hoped he would usher in a new age of glory for England, died on April 2, 1502. Katharine recovered, albeit slowly. Arthur’s mother and father were stunned and deeply grieved by his death. They delayed conferring the Prince of Wales title on their younger son, Henry, hoping Katharine might prove to be pregnant, and something of Arthur might remain. Katharine never spoke up at this point to say the marriage had been unconsummated, of if she did, no one paid attention to her protestations. When Katharine next menstruated, they had to accept that Arthur was truly gone.Arthur’s body was conveyed to Worcester Cathedral. There, he was laid to rest in a carved chest tomb in a chantry chapel, surrounded by beautifully carved stone arches. They bear heraldic symbols of his family, and Katharine’s symbol of the pomegranate. The carved figures of the kings that surround him were later defaced by Protestants who took them for “idolatrous” depictions of saints and hacked off the heads, but the tomb remains intact. Henry spared the cathedral during the Dissolution, likely because his brother rested there.Katharine always swore she came to the bed of Henry VIII as a virgin. Confronted directly by his wife in public, Henry remained silent, but he directed his servants to gather testimony to disprove her claim, and wrote as if it were an establish fact the marriage had been consummated. (It was later proven by his marriage to Katheryn Howard that Henry couldn’t tell a virgin from an experienced woman in his bed.)At the very end of her life, Imperial Ambassador Eustace Chapuys arranged with Katharine that she would swear during her last rites that she had been a virgin when she married Henry, helping to secure her daughter’s claim on the throne by undercutting Henry’s claim their marriage had been invalid. But for some reason, she didn’t do it. Did it not seem important during the last moments of her life, or was she reluctant to meet her God with a lie on her lips?Part of this answer comes from an article I wrote for The History Geeks.

Gordon B. Hinckley was President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1995 until his death in 2008 at age 97. He was a graduate of the University of Utah, and gave up plans to attend journalism school at Columbia University to serve as a missionary in England. He then pioneered the Church’s publicity efforts until being called as a General Authority. During the Second World War the Navy turned him down due to allergies, so he worked on the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad. As President of the Church, he was regarded as a special witness of Jesus Christ and as a prophet.I think it will take a generation to recognize his most lasting contribution. He had many contributions that stemmed from his career as a writer and publicity man. He helped start to bring the the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints out of obscurity with more media interaction.He was the right man at the right time for the “Mormon Moment” from the Salt Lake City Olympics, the “i’m a mormon”campaign, and the beginning of the Romney presidential campaign. (The Church follows a strict policy of Political Neutrality, but benefited from the attention of having one of its members run for President of the United States.) Here is the former candidate taking time out of the 2008 presidential primaries to attend President Hinckley’s funeral.President Hinckley also thought outside of the box in bringing the temple closer to the people, with a smaller version of a fully-functioning temple that could be built for a lower cost in remote areas. He sketched out the original design on his desk.Concerned about the growing numbers of eager, able-bodied young people in developing countries stuck in unemployment and underemployment, he drew on the 19th-century pioneer experience of the Perpetual Emigration Fund, which helped poor converts from Europe afford to join the saints in Salt Lake Valley. Using that as a model, he instituted the The Perpetual Education Fund, which provides financial education and low-interest loans to members of the Church in developing countries for vocational training, helping them break out of poverty and build the Kingdom of God in their own countries.But 50 or 100 years from now, what I think will matter most, in the big picture, is not something even most members of the Church will ever know about because he almost never talked about it explicitly. He alluded to it in this sermon, “The Times in Which We Live” delivered during the General Conference about three weeks after 9/11. The only time I know of when he addressed this directly and in public was at a priesthood meeting before he became President of the Church, in April 1991. With reference to Church finances, he said, “[A] fixed percentage of the [Church’s] income will be set aside to build reserves against what might be called a ‘rainy day.’” In this speech he shared his memory of the Great Depression and its lessons.President Hinckley started the long process of making the Church independent of the ups and downs of the economy. In our lifetime, when the faithful members earn more, the Church’s tithing receipts go up, and the program can expand. In an economic downturn, tithing revenues go down and the Church’s finances stagnate. President Hinckley was inspired to break that connection. Making the Church practice what it preaches, the Church itself is moving away from operating on current income to living off a permanent endowment. He already did it for Brigham Young University, and I think over the coming decades it will happen to the whole Church. In other words, tithing will go into a huge investment fund, then the Church will live off only the interest earned by that fund. This way the work will be able to continue moving forward through global economic shocks to come.This will better support the growth of the Church as it expands into more parts of the world. The fastest-growing areas, like West Africa, the Philippines, and soon India, are areas where the tithing of the faithful cannot fund the rapid construction necessary to house all the new congregations. The growth of the Church in higher-income countries is very slow.President Lorenzo Snow, by emphasis of the principle of tithing brought the Church out of debt. President Hinckley took the next big step forward in financing the Church in preparation for the Second Coming of Jesus Christ.I could be wrong, but I think that could be the most important legacy of Gordon B. Hinckley.In the last nine minutes of this 1997 video President Hinckley gave an account of his administration thus far and gave a glimpse of where he thought the Church was in its history 22 years ago.No one could doubt that Gordon B. Hinckley was a visionary man with a long view. Some could even say he was a prophet.Related contentHow does one achieve the first presidency for the LDS Church?What prophets of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints have performed miracles?A member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints told me that the Church's local leadership and missionaries don't get salaries. Is this true? 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