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In this Dec. 9, 2016 photo, Alex Freshman, his wife Amanda, and their family participate in one of the activities, where people were asked to do "the paper plate challenge" - a blind drawing game, where they drew a Christmas tree, presents, a fireplace and stockings on a plate placed on top of their head at Sunday Assembly in Salt Lake City. The Salt Lake City atheist group is offering non-believers a church-like service that offers music, readings and community for those who don't belong to the state's dominant religion, Mormonism, or other faith groups. (Scott Sommerdorf/The Salt Lake Tribune via AP).
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In this Dec. 9, 2016 photo, one of the activities at Sunday Assembly, people were asked to do "the paper plate challenge" - a blind drawing game, where they drew a Christmas tree, presents, a fireplace and stockings on a plate placed on top of their heads at Sunday Assembly in Salt Lake City. The Salt Lake City atheist group is offering non-believers a church-like service that offers music, readings and community for those who don't belong to the state's dominant religion, Mormonism, or other faith groups. (Scott Sommerdorf/The Salt Lake Tribune via AP)
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In this Dec. 9, 2016 photo, Sunday Assembly Vice Chairman Brian Worley speaks about the science behind the way snowflakes form during Sunday Assembly in Salt Lake City. The Salt Lake City atheist group is offering non-believers a church-like service that offers music, readings and community for those who don't belong to the state's dominant religion, Mormonism, or other faith groups. (Scott Sommerdorf/The Salt Lake Tribune via AP)
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FILE - In this April 6, 2016, file photo, Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints women leave the Federal Courthouse following a hearing in Salt Lake City. Utah polygamous group leader John Wayman, charged in a multimillion dollar food-stamp fraud case, agreed to a plea deal in Salt Lake City on Thursday, Dec. 22, that secures his release from jail after six months. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)
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ADVANCE FOR THE WEEKEND OF OCT. 29-30 AND THEREAFTER - In an Oct. 19, 2016 photo, filmmaker Scott Porter poses for a photo in Salt Lake City. His documentary film, “Splinters of a Nation, German Prisoners of War in Utah,” debuted Monday, Oct. 24, at 8 p.m. on KUED, the PBS affiliate in Salt Lake City, and airs again on Sunday, Oct. 30, at 4 p.m.
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FILE - This Sept. 16, 2016, file photo, Democratic challenger Mike Weinholtz speaks during his first debate with Gov. Gary Herbert, in Salt Lake City. A Utah prosecutor says he intends to file misdemeanor drug charges against the wife of Democratic candidate Weinholtz after investigators found Donna Weinholtz trying to mail a small amount of marijuana to the couple's home in California. Tooele County's chief deputy attorney Gary Searle says federal investigators later found Donna Weinholtz had about two pounds of the drug at the couple's Salt Lake City home. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File )
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In this Saturday, Sept 17, 2016 photo, the Eagle Stars, in yellow, and Lone Stars, in white, face off in a semifinal game of the Utah Refugee Soccer Tournament in Salt Lake City. The soccer league started for refugees living in Salt Lake City is designed to help youth and young adults stay off the streets and get on the right path toward a successful life in the United States. (Spenser Heaps/The Deseret News via AP)
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Mormon Tabernacle Choir performs during the opening session of the two-day Mormon church conference Saturday, April 2, 2016, in Salt Lake City. Mormon leaders are set to deliver guidance to their worldwide membership in a series of speeches this weekend during the religion's semiannual conference in Salt Lake City. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)
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In this April 4, 2015, photo, people walk near the Salt Lake Temple on the way to the opening session of the Mormon Conference in Salt Lake City. Mormon leaders aren't expected to mention presidential candidates by name at this weekend's church conference, but they may reiterate their push for more public civility and compassion. The twice-a-year conference runs Saturday and Sunday in Salt Lake City. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)
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FILE - In this April 5, 2014, file photo, members of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir singing during the opening session of the two-day Mormon church conference in Salt Lake City. As many as three new high-ranking Mormon leaders could be named during this weekend’s church conference to fill vacancies on a governing body that sets church policy and run the faith’s business operations. Nearly 100,000 people attend sessions held Saturday and Sunday at the twice-a-year church conference in Salt Lake City. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)
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This Sept. 3, 2014, file photo shows flowers blooming in front of the Salt Lake Temple, at Temple Square, in Salt Lake City. The Mormon church is taking another step in its push to be more transparent, and is releasing more historical documents that shed light on how Joseph Smith formed the religion. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints says the volume being scheduled to be released at a news conference Wednesday in Salt Lake City is a printer's manuscript of the Book of Mormon. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer/File)
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People walk past signs announcing the "Book of Mormon" musical at the Capitol Theatre, Monday, July 27, 2015, in Salt Lake City. The biting satirical musical that mocks Mormons is finally coming to the heart of Mormonlandia, starting a sold-out, two week run on Tuesday, July 28, 2015, at a theater two blocks from the church’s flagship temple and headquarters. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)
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A snowboarder looks on during Snowbird Ski Resort's opening day for the 2014/15 winter season, in Little Cottonwood Canyon in the Wasatch Range Thursday, Nov. 20, 2014, outside of Salt Lake City. Skiers and snowboarders traveling to Utah this winter will find the same jagged mounting peaks looming just east of Salt Lake City and many familiar trails at the state's resorts. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)
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President Boyd K. Packer of the Quorum of Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, addresses the 184th Annual General Conference of the LDS in Salt Lake City on April 6, 2014. The Mormon leader died Friday, July 3, 2015, at age 90. Church spokesman Eric Hawkins said Packer died at his home in Salt Lake City from natural causes. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)
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FILE - This March 4, 2015, file photo, L. Tom Perry, the second-most senior member of the high-level Mormon governing body called the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, speaks during a news conference at the Utah State Capitol in Salt Lake City. Perry died Saturday, May 30, 2015, surrounded by his family at his Salt Lake City home, church spokesman Eric Hawkins said in a statement. He was 92. Perry was diagnosed with cancer in late April after being hospitalized with breathing trouble.(AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)
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Washington State quarterback Connor Halliday (12) runs off the field in the first quarter during an NCAA college football game against Utah Saturday, Sept. 27, 2014, in Salt Lake City. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer) **FILE**
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Opponents of same-sex marriage hold a rally at the Utah State Capitol Tuesday, April 28, 2015, in Salt Lake City. Supporters and opponents of same-sex marriage rallied in Utah on Tuesday after the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments on the constitutionality of laws banning such marriages. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)
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Eric Moutsos, center, the former Salt Lake Police officer who was placed on leave and later resigned for not wanting to ride his motorcycle in the Salt Lake gays pride parade for religious reasons, shakes hands with Sen. Stuart Adams, R-Layton, left, while Sen. Jim Dabakis, D-Salt Lake City, looks on during a committee hearing Thursday, March 5, 2015, in Salt Lake City. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)
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Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, speaks in Salt Lake City in this Feb. 19, 2105, file photo. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)
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Sacramento Kings guard Ramon Sessions (9) lays the ball as Utah Jazz's Derrick Favors (15) defends and Dante Exum (11) looks on in the first quarter during an NBA basketball game Saturday, Feb. 7, 2015, in Salt Lake City. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)
