After more than a year devoted to the deserts of Iraq, Devin Richter, a member of the Louisiana Army National Guard, is home on American soil. Richter will always remember September 17, 2005, as the day he was welcomed by his family back to the United States of America.

Richter was in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Arabic Peninsula Stake while in Baghdad. An average of 15 members of the Church met in one of the army base chapels, and Sunday services lasted only two hours.[read more]