Wheeler also said Moroni was a real person, an ancient prophet in the Book of Mormon. “In 1823, Moroni revealed to Joseph Smith the location of a record engraved on gold plates that gave the ...

The 5.7-magnitude earthquake that shook Utah Wednesday morning also dislodged a symbolic part of Salt Lake City’s iconic Mormon temple: the trumpet of an angel statue atop its highest spire.

The Angel Moroni statue is lifted and placed atop the Salt Lake Temple in Salt Lake City on Tuesday, April 2, 2024. (Photo: Scott G Winterton, Deseret News) ...

"To my Mormon friends, my Latter-day Saint friends, think of him as Captain Moroni," Lee said at the Latter-day Saints for Trump event. Around 436,000 LDS members live in Arizona.