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• Hong Kong China Temple
  ...60 there were 91 full-time foreign and 12 full-time local Latter-day Saint missionaries preaching the Gospel in Hong Kong.[1] ...mission offices, and living quarters for the temple president and several missionaries.[2]
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• LDS Church Growth: 100th Stake Established in Peru
  ...missionaries arrived in August 1956. The number of Mormon converts grew as missionaries shared the Gospel of Jesus Christ and by 1959, five congregations had been ...than 100 Mormon [[Stake|stakes]]. A "stake" is an administrated group of [[Ward|wards]], which is what Mormons call locally organized congregations. The o
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• Danor Gerald: Mormon Actor
  ...He was baptized in 1994 and met his wife, Jarrah Lyn, in a Dallas singles ward. They married in 2000 and have three children and live in Saratoga Springs, He is directing and starring in "Heart of Africa," a movie about Mormon missionaries and the culture clash they experience on that continent.
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• Nicholas G. Smith
  ...this capacity until 1921. In 1922 Brother Smith became bishop of the 17th Ward in Salt Lake City. [[Category:Missionaries in the Netherlands]]
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• Rio de Janeiro Brazil Temple
  ...Church, with 277 [[Stake|stakes]], more than 2,000 congregations (1,774 [[Ward|wards]] and 402 [[Branch|branches]]), 36 [[Mission|missions]], and 40 [[Dis ...a special place in my heart because my wife and I served as [[Missionaries|missionaries]] there when we were young. What a beautiful thing it is to see the beloved
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• Winnipeg Manitoba Temple
  ...like [[Missionaries|missionaries]] sent to the area. A month later, seven missionaries were called to the area. Many early converts to the Church in Manitoba immi City councilor for South Winnipeg, St. Norbert Ward, Janice Lukes said, "The temple will definitely be an iconic building here
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• Port-au-Prince Haiti Temple
  ...he Church in Haiti, five [[Stake|stakes]] (a group of congregations), 31 [[Ward|wards]], 19 [[Branch|branches]] (smaller congregations), and one [[Mission| Michael Paquette, a Canadian who was one of the first international missionaries to serve in Haiti in the 1980s, [https://www.thechurchnews.com/temples/2019
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• Mission farewell and homecoming
  ...ording to Church policy. However, in the past, sacrament meetings in which missionaries spoke were called "farewells" and "homecomings," and the missionary and his ...iblings will not be invited to do so. There might be two or more departing missionaries who speak in the same service. The meeting will be entirely in the hands of
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• Andrea Munoz Spannaus
  She was 9 years old when Latter-day Saint missionaries began teaching her family about the restored gospel. She and her older sist :Soon after the missionaries finished their lesson and left, her mother explained that there was more th
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• Mormon Special Occasions
  ...d wards) often celebrate these events together. Families also gather when missionaries depart and when they return. ...were told how we should assist Louis McDonald, a particular brother in our ward who was afflicted with a palsied condition, that he might have the opportun
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• Mormon Should Mean "More Good"
  ...ings. In the course of his travels he met two of our [[Mormon missionaries|missionaries]]. They tried to set up an appointment to teach him. He put them off, but f ...y I attended a sacrament service in one of our university wards, a [[Wards|ward]] comprised entirely of young married students who are struggling with thei
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• Ben Cahoon
  ...12 seasons, all while juggling various church [[calling]]s in the Kirkland Ward in Montreal. "I've had missionaries tell me they've used my name in door approaches," Cahoon said. "They ask pe
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• Mormon Beliefs: Work
  ...[[Calling|lay clergy]], all active members have work to do in their own [[ward]]s and [[stake]]s. Latter-day Saints also have work to do in their communit ...em again as a mission president in Toronto, Canada, working with wonderful missionaries who were a living witness and testimony to the world that this work is divi
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• Jordan Vajda
  ...from the Church for a free Book of Mormon. He sent for it, and two sister missionaries responded. They were surprised that he was only 13 and had requested the Bo ...nd then at the University of Washington. There he came in contact with our missionaries.
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• Villahermosa Mexico Temple
  ...and put in prison for 90 days. During that time he was taught the [[Mormon missionaries|missionary]] discussions and converted to Latter-day Saint faith. ...d Brother Perez was called to serve as branch president. In 1972 a [[Wards|ward]] building was built, which later became a stake center and was finally tor
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• Carol Louise Foley McConkie
  ...l McConkie has served as a president of the Young Women’s program at the ward (congregational) level, as well as in the [[Primary]] (an auxiliary for chi ...r the California San Jose Mission, a position that involves overseeing all missionaries within a certain geographical area. She has a bachelor’s degree in Englis
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• Charles A. Callis
  In 1902, Elder Callis married Grace Pack, a daughter of Ward Eton Pack Sr. who served as president of the Hawaiian mission for a time. ...the Southern States Mission. Charles and Grace Callis were first called as missionaries to serve in the Southern States mission in 1906. Elder Callis served as pre
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• Eric B. Shumway
  From 1960 to 1962 Shumway served as a [[Mormon Missionaries|missionary]] for the Church in Tonga. After his mission Shumway married Car In 1968, Shumway became the first [[Bishop|bishop]] of the Hauula 2nd [[Ward]] of the Church. From 1973 to 1977 he served on the High council of the Lai
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• John H. Groberg
  ...Falls area. Groberg also served for five years as a [[Bishop|bishop]] of a ward in Idaho Falls. ...of the Church, where he was closely connected with the initial sending of missionaries into Cambodia. In the early years of the 21st century he served as presiden
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• Mormon Reformation of 1856 - 1857
  ...-question catechism to help measure the worthiness of the Saints, the home missionaries assisted families with everything from hygiene and church attendance to obe
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• Fortaleza Brazil Temple
  ...Stake|stakes]] and 39 [[District|districts]], 2,038 Congregations (1,593 [[Ward|wards]] and 445 [[Branch|branches]]), 34 [[Mission|missions]], and six temp ...anguage [[Mission|mission]] to a Portuguese speaking one. One of the early missionaries in Brazil, serving in 1939, was [[James E. Faust]].
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• Bearing a Testimony
  :Grandfather was not converted to the Church by the missionaries. I believe he was converted in the main by the testimony of this young girl ...“I don’t know much about the Mormon Church. I have never met with the missionaries, and I have never studied the doctrine. I have never been to one of their s
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• Mormon Church
  ...atter-day Saints share their knowledge of the gospel with others through [[missionaries|missionary]] work. They also provide ordinances for those who have died wit ...tings for two hours every Sunday. And then many Latter-day Saints serve as missionaries far from home at their own expense. They generally rejoice in service and f
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• Home Teaching 2
  ...and are assigned to make monthly visits to two or more families in their [[ward]]. Home teachers serve the people they visit. They counsel with the head o ...r home teachers, visiting teachers, priesthood and relief society leaders, missionaries, and families – all of whom use visits to strengthen the church and enlar
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• Charity
  ...when the calling ends and someone else is called to serve in their place. Missionaries often have the same experience, feeling an all-encompassing love for the pe
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• Russell M. Nelson Stories
  ...ent, bishop, home teachers, and ward mission leader, as well as with young missionaries and a senior missionary couple. And then, not long ago, in the Payson Utah
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• Brigham Young University-Idaho
  ...lized attention; where ecclesiastical leaders created spiritual havens for ward members; where students genuinely cared about other students. Many things h * Half of the student body have served as [[Missionaries]]
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• R. Conrad Schultz
  ...]] was the featured speaker. After he returned home, Schultz contacted the missionaries and was baptized in January 1956. He attended [[Brigham Young University]]
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• Famous Mormons
  ...c singers. Kelsi is in charge of the [[Young Women]]'s organization in her ward. ...er an active member of the Church. He was brought to the U.S. by full-time missionaries.
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• Wolfgang H. Paul
  ...sionary work in East Germany beginning in 1989. This marked the first time missionaries had been able to proselyte in East Germany in over forty years. Paul is one ...stake conference, because there is a Saturday meeting, not normal for a [[Ward]] Conference or branch conference.</ref>
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• Scott O'Neil
  ...O’Neil said. “I mean, it brought us closer as a family, it brought the ward together, the stake together, kind of the region together, and to play our :The two began meeting with the missionaries every night while O’Neil’s family was out of town and when they returne
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• Chi Hong Sam Wong
  ...ch of Jesus Christ in 1982 after Carol Lu introduced him to the gospel and missionaries began teaching him. He married Carol one year after his baptism. He has served in numerous Church callings, such as ward clerk, [[Sunday School]] president, Young Men president, [[bishop]], [[Stak
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• Arie Van De Graaff: Mormon Cartoonist
  ...mas S. Monson]] that changed the age requirements for both male and female missionaries.[https://www.lds.org/youth/video/welcome-to-conference?lang=eng] As a member of the Church of Jesus Christ, he served at one point as a [[Ward]] newsletter editor. He did a puzzle or a maze for the children to solve, a
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• John Hafen: Mormon Artist
  Five artists were set apart as art missionaries and sent to study in Paris. Hafen, Pratt, and [[John Fairbanks]] were sent ...t and he became one of the youngest and earliest students at the Twentieth Ward Academy in Salt Lake City. Part of his instruction included drawing. Over t
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• Karl Tilleman: Mormon Athlete
  ...h accompanying fasting and prayers from friends, family, missionaries, and ward members, he was hospitalized for only 17 days, and the paralysis began to l
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• Kerry Summers
  ...ily home evening program initiated by Elder [[Mark E. Peterson]] where the missionaries put on a kind of variety show for potential converts. Summers did a very s ...at one point taught the [[Priesthood|high priests]] in the Orem Park 5th [[Ward]] -- believes Elvis read the [[Book of Mormon]] and was very interested in
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• Nobuaki Irie: Mormon Musician
  :: I met two missionaries on the street when I was eighteen, a senior in high school. I grew up in a ...nted elders to tour the mission and present a fireside in every branch and ward.
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• Sam Merrill
  ...untochrist.org The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]. Like many missionaries, he focused on teaching people the gospel and serving them instead of keepi In 2018, Merrill married Kanyan Ward, a Utah State soccer player.
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• Boyd K. Packer
  ...One Sunday, President Packer was asked to give a [[LDS Sermons|talk]] in a ward that he did not attend. A young woman named Donna Edith Smith was at the me ...acker learns to trust the missionary work in a province in Canada to young missionaries who hold "the priesthood of the Almighty God." [https://www.churchofjesusch
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• Brian Banks
  :Perez said his girlfriend was a Mormon and he had been meeting with the missionaries. He pulled out a Book of Mormon, said he’d been reading it and knew it wa ...be there,” said Banks, currently the elders quorum president in his LDS ward. “That’s how the Lord works. He puts us in situations to share our test
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• Duty to God
  *Continue to add regularly to your [[Mormon missionaries|mission]] fund in preparation for receiving your mission call. *Invite a group of newly married couples from the ward or stake to a panel discussion in which they discuss how individuals should
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• Richard Ostler
  ...rom those sharing their experience with repentance, being an early-release missionaries, solving porn, emotional illness, death, faith crisis, and many other topic
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• Four-fold Mission of the Church
  ...s Christ of Latter-day Saints]. The phrase was most common in the [[Mormon missionaries|missionary discussions]]—shared with nonmembers and inactive members of t ...and finally to deceased ancestors. ''Handbook 2'', a guide for members of ward and stake councils, states that the original "three applications were part
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• Institute
  ...m college campuses, in some areas classes are taught in campus classrooms, ward buildings, homes, office buildings—basically anywhere people are willing ...also assist parents and priesthood leaders in encouraging youth to serve [[Missionaries|missions]] and marry in the [[Mormon temples|temple]]." [http://ldsces.org/
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• Randall K. Bennett
  ...anguage-learning missionaries, stake high councilor, bishop’s counselor, ward [[Young Men]] president, and full-time [[Missionary|missionary]] in the Fra
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• Richard G. Wilkins
  ...went to Istanbul, Wilkins was serving as an Latter-day Saint bishop in a [[ward]] in Provo, Utah.<ref>Rasband and Wilkins. ''Sacred Duty'', p. 1</ref> [[Category:Missionaries in Italy]]
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• G. William Richards
  ...esus Christ of Latter-day Saints] including as [[bishop]] of the Manhattan Ward and as a member of a [[stake]] high council. . Bill then served fourteen ye [[Category:Missionaries in the United States]]
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• John S. Staley
  ...d its doctrines. Through attending the Philadelphia ward, meeting with the missionaries and other members and much prayer, Staley came to join the Church.
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• Mormon Women
  ...tal emblems or baptizing, they serve in senior leadership positions and as missionaries and teachers, and they routinely preach from the pulpit and lead congregati ...e defined by Jesus Christ. We try to do what He would do.” Within the [[Ward|wards]] and [[Stake|stakes]] of the Church, humanitarian aid projects are o
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• Conner Mantz
  ...coach who coaches Mantz and Young, made the team in 1988 and 1992. [[Jared Ward]], from Kaysville, made the team in 2016.
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