Additional Resource

Church History Library
Time Capsule Inventory

  1. Faith Rewarded: A Personal Account of Prophetic Promises to the East German Saints, by President Thomas S. Monson (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1996)
  2. Copy of Church History Library architectural drawings on DVD and microfilm
  3. The Joseph Smith Papers, Journals, Volume 1: 1832–1839 (Salt Lake City: Church Historian’s Press, 2008)
  4. Selected Collections from the Archives of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (DVDs; Provo, UT: Brigham Young University Press, 2002)
  5. Official Report of the One Hundred Seventy-eighth Annual General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 5 and 6 April 2008, including a report of the Solemn Assembly in which President Thomas S. Monson was sustained as president of the Church
  6. Deseret News 2009 Church Almanac
  7. Current edition of the standard works (Bible, Book of Mormon, Doctrine and Covenants, Pearl of Great Price)

Binder 1

  1. List of the languages into which the standard works are translated
  2. Photographs of the current First Presidency, Quorum of the Twelve, Presiding Bishopric, Presidency of the Seventy, First and Second Quorums of the Seventy, department executive leadership, directors council, department work groups, and the Church History Library project administration
  3. Maps of ecclesiastical areas, including current Area Presidencies
  4. Photographs of recent events in the Church, including photographs of the groundbreaking ceremony for the Church History Library
  5. Business cards for Elder Marlin K. Jensen, Richard E. Turley Jr., Elder Paul K. Sybrowsky, and Steven L. Olsen

Binder 2

  1. Document titled “Scriptural Foundation for Church History”
  2.  “Making a Case for Church History,” a talk on the value of Church history, by Elder Marlin K. Jensen, Church historian and recorder
  3. “Church History: Past, Present and Future,” a talk by Elder Marlin K. Jensen on the office of Church historian and recorder
  4. “Assistant Church Historians and the Publishing of Church History,” a talk by Richard E. Turley Jr., assistant Church historian and recorder

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