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• Mormon missionaries
  [[Image:Sister_Missionaries.jpg|frame|Female missionaries are called "Sister Missionaries"]] ...h President and Prophet [[Russell M. Nelson]]’s April 2022 call for more missionaries.
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• Mormon jokes
  ==Missionaries== ...' field. To deal with this problem, a large banner was posted, which read "Missionaries Only."
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• The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Michigan
  ...They were also accompanied by [[Lyman Wight]] and [[John Corrill]]. The missionaries eventually went to Pontiac, Michigan, where they had much success, baptizin In 1833 Joseph Wood and [[Jared Carter]] were sent as missionaries to Michigan. Besides Pontiac they also preached in Rochester, Michigan, an
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• Mormon-ese: Common LDS Acronyms
  Ward = congregation based on geographical location Bishop = lay clergy leader of a ward.
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• MormonWiki Articles
  [[Mormon missionaries|Missionary Program]] · [[Ward]] ·
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• Mormon Terminology
  *[[Home Teaching|Home Teachers]]: The men in the ward are paired up and asked to pay monthly visits to usually three or four loca ...ssionaries| missionaries]] go to the centers for training and instruction. Missionaries going places where they will be speaking a different language stay longer t
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• Stake
  ...n Church Meeting3.jpg|300px|right|alt= Mormon Ward Church Meeting | Mormon Ward Church Meeting]]In [[The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]], or ...he lowest level, consisting of a single congregation, is known as a [[Ward|ward]] or [[Branch|branch]]. Stakes are organized from a group of wards or branc
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• Meetings for Members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
  ...e-centered Church, supported by what takes place inside our branch, [[Ward|ward]], and [[Stake|stake]] buildings. ...children, youth, singles, the elderly, new converts, and those people the missionaries are teaching—through a home-centered, Church-supported, balanced effort.
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• Sunday School
  ...e-centered Church, supported by what takes place inside our branch, [[Ward|ward]], and [[Stake|stake]] buildings. ...first year (2019) will focus on the New Testament, which aligns the entire ward and family on the same scriptures each week. Eventually, a four-year rotati
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• Missionary Work 3: American Sign Language, South America, Hungary, England, and India
  ...f hearing members of the Church of Jesus Christ and their families, and to missionaries who teach deaf or hard of hearing investigators. ...gnition-list.html] [http://www.meetmormonmissionaries.org Latter-day Saint missionaries] have been proselyting in the country without formal government recognition
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• Finances of the Church of Jesus Christ
  ....churchofjesuschrist.org/comeuntochrist/easter-2021/talk-with-missionaries missionaries] in other locations), the [https://philanthropies.churchofjesuschrist.org// ...ithing, fast offerings are collected by the local congregation (branch or "ward"), but unlike tithing, they are first used for local needs with the excess
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• Bonnie D. Parkin
  ...ef Society President, stake Young Women President, Young Women Adviser and ward [[Primary]] President. She served with her husband, Dr. James L. Parkin, du ...friend and I realize we were hungering to know what spiritual women in our ward knew. We wanted righteous children, “taught by their mothers” to be bel
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• Official Websites of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
  ...urch because it will have the Church logo. Individuals and Church units ([[Ward|wards]], [[Stake|stakes]], [[Mission|missions]], etc.) are not authorized t ...ory Sites, The Joseph Smith Papers, Church Historian's Press, Early Mormon Missionaries database, Church History catalog, and the Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel da
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• LeGrand Richards
  ...ke president, so Elder Richards served for about six months as bishop in a ward in Los Angeles before he was made stake president. ...ard and was made its bishop. Despite its name, this ward was not a student ward, but did include many students and professors in its boundaries. In 1938 El
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• Contemporary Developments
  ...1990s with 7,700,000 million members, over 15,000 congregations and 50,000 missionaries worldwide. The 1990s have proven to be the most explosive period of growth ...onate easily to the support of missionaries and also made it is easier for missionaries from poor areas to afford a mission. In 1991, the Church ordained its 500,0
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• Yigo Guam Temple
  ...t to the temple were damaged by the flooding. Members, including youth and missionaries, came to help remove the water from the carpets and clean the floors and wi ...ses were frequently held, but few joined the Church. In May 1976, the Guam Ward was divided. The first Chamorro couple to join, Don Calvo and his wife, Mar
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• John Gaye
  ...they weren’t native Liberians. But Gaye and seven other native Liberian missionaries wanted to stay and complete their missions. The events that followed inspir ...presidency had gone. The two, Elders Menti and Myers, took the four other missionaries serving in Monrovia—Elders Selli, Forkpah, Chanipo, and Gonquoi—went to
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• The Great Commission: Spreading the Gospel of Christ
  ...ith|Samuel]] was the first missionary called. Most of the Church’s early missionaries left their wives and children to serve for varied amounts of time — s ...sionaries are deemed worthy to serve through interviews conducted by their ward [[bishop]] and [[stake]] president and are called to labor in an area of th
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• Missionary Work: Cameroon, Rwanda, Uganda, India, Dominican Republic, Thailand, Southwest Asia, Guam, and Missions of the Church
  ..., Kigali. Elder Holland's Africa trip began in Ethiopia, where he spoke to missionaries and held a large fireside. He then presided over a stake conference in the ...en and women who serve, meticulously follows the active day in the life of missionaries in Uganda and clarifies common misconceptions people have of members of The
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• The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
  ...young men, and 21 to 19 for young women. The number of full-time teaching missionaries at the end of 2022 was 62,544.[https://www.thechurchnews.com/members/2023/4 * '''Bishop''' - The [[bishop]] of a ward, but not his counselors, is addressed by the title of "bishop". Generally,
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• Tokyo Japan Temple
  ...Asia [[Mission]] was headquartered in Tokyo, and the first [[Missionaries|missionaries]] included future Church President [[Heber J. Grant]] and Alma O. Taylor, w ...sionaries]] in Japan following the war. They along with the newly returned missionaries found members who had remained strong since the 1920s and others who were r
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• Elder
  ...of this priesthood. [[General Authorities]] and [[Mormon missionaries|male missionaries]] are called by the title, [http://lds.about.com/library/glossary/bldefelde ...thood quorums to accomplish the work of the Lord more effectively. In each ward, the high priests and the elders will now be combined into one elders quoru
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• LDS Sermons
  ...rom two to twenty minutes. There is often a youth speaker (a member of the ward between the ages of 12 and 17) and it is usual for married couples to speak ...eeting. It is also traditional in the Church to have [[Mormon missionaries|missionaries]] that have just been called to the mission field or who have just returned
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• Raymond Weaver
  ...ching his wife, who had noted a change in him. They began meeting with the missionaries at the Proudfoot home. ...life—it’s a lot to comprehend,” she says. By the second lesson, the missionaries told Laura about the reality of eternal families. “That is when the Spiri
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• Keith Lionel Brown
  He told the [[Missionaries|missionaries]] that were teaching him at the time (Matthew Christopher Jennejohn and Lay ...Second]] and [[First Counselor]]), as [[High Priest]] Group Leader, and as Ward [[Mission]] Leader. He also taught [[Missionary|missionary]] preparation cl
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• Richard L. Bushman
  ...put together a book, entitled ''Mormon Lives'', during this time about the ward members. [[Category:Missionaries in the United States]]
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• Convert Retention
  ...is through [[baptism]] and reception of the [[Holy Ghost]]. Thus, [[Mormon missionaries]] aim to baptize as many as possible. Latter-day Saints, however, believe t ...f Jesus Christ has experienced explosive growth, and some Latter-day Saint missionaries report baptizing hundreds during their missionary service. However, this ex
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• Matthias F. Cowley
  ...quorums donated for the erection of the [[Salt Lake Temple]], and acted as Ward Teacher almost continuously, from October 1874, to February 24, 1878, at wh ...home. He visited ten Stakes of [[Zion]], holding meetings in nearly every Ward thereof. He increased the circulation of the magazine to over four thousand
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• George Reynolds
  ...er of the boys' Bible class. Having removed his residence to the Twentieth Ward, he became, in 1868, librarian and a teacher in its Sunday School, and in D ...mploy of the Church. For many years he was superintendent of the Twentieth Ward Sunday School, and at the time of his death was the oldest member of the De
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• Richmond Virginia Temple
  ...and only the sixth stake on the Atlantic coast. At that time, the Richmond Ward numbered 700 members.
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• Mormon Yankees
  ...he “Mormon Yankees.”[https://www.deseret.com/faith/2020/11/23/21594136/missionaries-australia-mormon-yankees-church-jesus-christ-college-basketball-byu-utah-mo According to the ''Deseret News'', “Starting in 1937, missionaries began playing basketball in Australia and generated positive publicity for
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• Thomas S. Monson Stories
  ...Grant Remund is getting older. Their sons have served together in the same ward bishopric. I truly treasure the friendship of these two wonderful families. ...ing the Church, and a number of people threatened violence against the two missionaries. At a critical moment, a woman who was a widow stepped between the elders a
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• Bengaluru India Temple
  ...Latter-day Saints]. The members are organized into 45 congregations (21 [[Ward|wards]], 24 [[Branch|branches]]), four [[Stake|stakes]], and three [[Distri ...l also include new residences for the temple president, temple and service missionaries, and the mission president.
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• Mormon Men
  ...ple of work; service; and many, many others. Each congregation (called a [[ward]] - organized geographically) can be a community in itself, with members re [[Image:Mormon-missionaries-men01.jpg|left|200px|alt=Mormon Missionaries]]
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• LDS Church Growth: 30 Years in Haiti
  ...y 12, 2013, Elder Andersen and his wife, Kathy, and LDS Church leaders and missionaries serving in Haiti “drove high above the capital city of Port au Prince to ...d branches, where the programs of the Church are administered. Normally, a ward is comprised of 300-600 people and a branch is less than 200. About five to
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• Keys
  ...Peter, James, and John. Joseph Smith had keys to organize the Church, send missionaries, and ordain priesthood leaders. ...preside over a local organization of the Church, such as a [[stake]], a [[ward]] or branch, a mission or district, a priesthood quorum, or a [[Mormon Temp
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• Church Organization
  ...small to be wards, shepherded by a branch president and two counselors; [[Ward|wards]], which are geographically-organized as single congregations, admini Within each ward, stake, and the Church, there are auxiliary organizations for the men ([[pr
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• LDS Church Growth: 2012 Statistical Report
  *[[Ward|Wards]] and branches (congregations) = 29,014 ==MISSIONARIES==
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• San Pedro Sula Honduras Temple
  ...[[Stake|stakes]] and five [[District|districts]], 236 congregations (178 [[Ward|wards]] and 58 [[Branch|branches]]), and four [[Mission|missions]] - Hondur ...merica Mission was created. On 21 March 1953, the first two [[Missionaries|missionaries]] in Honduras, James T. Thorup and George W. Allen, [[Baptism by Immersion|
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• Stake President
  ...iastical organization that consists of several geographically contiguous [[ward]]s and may include smaller units called [[branch]]es. It is roughly analogo ...hem apart after they have been sustained by vote of the stake. Full-time [[missionaries]] are set apart by him just prior to leaving, and later upon their return f
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• John D. Amos
  ...opric counselor, ward executive secretary, stake presidency counselor, and ward Sunday School president. During the February 18, 2020, landing of the Mars rover, the Amoses’ missionaries watched with them via Zoom technology and allowed them to share their feeli
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• Thomas Appiah
  ...d as a district president in Accra and as the bishop of the Accra New Town Ward.<ref> [[Emmanuel Abu Kissi]]. ''Walking in the Sand: A History of the Chur ...ince moved back to New York City and served in the bishopric of the Harlem Ward.
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• Joseph Freeman, Jr: First Black Mormon Priesthood Holder
  ...Saints. On 30 September 1973, after several months of studying with Mormon missionaries, reading and studying the [[Book of Mormon]] (Another Testament of Jesus Ch ...lake Valley where he served for a time as a [[Bishop|bishop]] of a [[Ward|ward]].
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• David S. Baxter
  ...t his future wife. He and his wife, Dianne Lewars, were in the same [[Ward|ward]] and were two of only five Latter-day Saints at their school. Baxter then [[Category:Missionaries in the United Kingdom]]
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• Patrick Kearon
  ...ved in numerous Church callings, including assistant ward [[Clerk|clerk]], ward [[Young Men]] president, counselor in a bishopric, branch president, stake
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• Priesthood
  ...e as [[Home Teaching|ministering brothers]], reverently serve as ushers in ward meetings and stake conference, assist the bishopric, and participate in [[s ...president of the Aaronic Priesthood, and the presiding high priest in the ward. Although the position of bishop is an Aaronic Priesthood office, men calle
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• Michelle Wright Amos
  ...anded on Mars on February 18, President and Sister Amos and their 200-plus missionaries watched via Zoom technology. ...that want to work for NASA. ... I think we made some good mileage with our missionaries and helped them to want to be inspired. ... They will be recording this in
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• Membership Statistics
  ...e 27,070 senior church-service missionaries and 2,736 young church-service missionaries.
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• Perpetual Education Fund
  :[W]e face another problem in the Church. We have many missionaries, both young men and young women, who are called locally and who serve with :They become excellent missionaries working side by side with elders and sisters sent from the United States an
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• Bishop's Storehouses
  ..., towels and sheets. It is up to the [[Bishop]] in each Latter-day Saint [[ward]] (congregation) to determine if an individual qualifies for food from the ...issionaries|senior missionaries]] and young [[Service Missionaries|service missionaries]] serve there. Other labor comes from Church members who live in the vicini
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