Year in review: See photos and read highlights from 2021
President Russell M. Nelson, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, received the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccination on Tuesday morning, Jan. 19, 2021.
|The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Year in review: See photos and read highlights from 2021
President Russell M. Nelson, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, received the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccination on Tuesday morning, Jan. 19, 2021.
|The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
From senior leaders receiving the COVID-19 vaccine to the first ever Friend to Friend broadcast for Primary children, the year 2021 included many noteworthy events for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Amid an ongoing pandemic, it was a year characterized by temples continuing to reopen, changes to missionary training, global humanitarian efforts, general conference messages of hope, Latter-day Saint athletes making headlines and more.
Below are several articles and photos that illustrate news of the Church in 2021:
- A look back at Church news highlights from 2021
- Missionary work in 2021: Spotlight on hybrid training, reopened MTCs
- Temples in 2021: Emphasis not just on edifices themselves but work of salvation going on inside
- Take a look at changes in phased temple reopenings in 2021 through graphics
- Sarah Jane Weaver: What 2021, a new temple and two missionaries taught me about faith
- Watch these 14 Church News videos you might have missed this year
- Church News podcast Episode 63: Deseret News Executive Editor Doug Wilks on how connection helped overcome contempt in 2021
- Service and humanitarian work in 2021: How the Church and its members reached out in love around the world
- This year on social: Family stories, scriptural insights and other uplifting messages from Church leaders in 2021
- Messages of hope and faith in Jesus Christ emphasized in general conference messages in 2021
- 2021 marked a ‘season’ of lofty highs for Latter-day Saint athletes
- Read the Church News staff’s favorite stories from 2021
President Russell M. Nelson of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints tours the Salt Lake Utah Temple in Salt Lake City on Saturday, May 22, 2021.
Credit: Jeffrey D. Allred, Deseret News
Mykayla Skinner of the United States, poses after winning the silver medal for the vault during the artistic gymnastics women’s apparatus final at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Sunday, Aug. 1, 2021, in Tokyo, Japan.
Credit: Natacha Pisarenko, Associated Press
President Russell M. Nelson, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, received the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccination on Tuesday morning, Jan. 19, 2021.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Elder Chi Hong (Sam) Wong, General Authority Seventy, Elder Gerrit W. Gong of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles and Elder Arnulfo Valenzuela, General Authority Seventy, stand for a portrait at the Winnipeg Manitoba Temple in Winnipeg, Canada, Saturday, Oct. 30, 2021.
Credit: Daniel Crump, for the Deseret News
The Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints gather for their weekly meeting at the Church Administration Building in Salt Lake City on Tuesday, May 11, 2021.
Jeffrey D. Allred, Deseret News
Seven-year-old Brianna Villsnill from Salt Lake City, Utah, stands behind a table set up for a rock activity on Thursday, Jan. 21, 2021, at the Church’s Motion Picture Studios in Provo, Utah.
Credit: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Attendees sing a congregational hymn during the Sunday morning session of the 191st Semiannual General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the Conference Center in Salt Lake City on Sunday, Oct. 3, 2021.
Credit: Jeffrey D. Allred, Deseret News
The First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is seated in the Conference Center Theater in Salt Lake City before the Sunday morning session of the 191st Annual General Conference on April 4, 2021.
Credit: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
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