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Mission group still together after 50 years
While many missionary groups enthusiastically hold reunions for a few years and then lose interest, one group is still meeting regularly after 50 years. These Mormon missionaries served under President Harold I. Bowman in the Spanish-American Mission between 1953 and 1958. This mission was...
Brazil missionary, convert rejoice together after 45 years
Mormon Life says: This is really very touching.
When Curtis Broadbent was a Mormon missionary in Brazil in the early 1960s, he met a teenager named Aldo Francesconi. Broadbent taught Francesconi, who was baptized just before he turned 17, and...
Missionary moments: Intriguing photo
Mormon Life says: A sweet story.
Shortly after Elder Jeffrey Andersen arrived in the Australia Melbourne West Mission, now the Australia Melbourne Mission, he sent home photos of his companion and their apartment and meetinghouse,...
Missionary Etiquette?
Mormon Life says: A good discussion started about missionary work.
Having not been a missionary, I’m totally unfamiliar with what goes on in the MTC. Other than obvious doctrinal and language lessons, I’m not sure what else is taught. And I pose this query after...
Tips for surviving the MTC: language, district, rules
Mormon Life says: Some good advice here.
Returned Mormon missionaries can generally be divided into two camps: those who hated the Missionary Training Center and those who loved it. Last week, my sister entered the MTC, and ever since...
Look inside the Brazilian MTC
The young men are wearing white shirts and dark ties. They and the nicely dressed young women are carrying scriptures. Many of them can be seen studying. Others talk quietly or play hacky-sack in a courtyard. At dinnertime, the Wednesday night menu is pizza, and the soda fountain is...
10 new missions announced in seven areas
To better align resources and adjust to the ever changing needs of the Church, 10 new missions will be organized in July, while 14 other missions will be combined with neighboring missions. The resulting number of missions will be 340. Pacific Area Combine the Australia Sydney North Mission with...
Two apostles speak at funerals for missionaries who died in Romania
Mormon Life says: So sad, but the remarks from Elder Nelson and Elder Cook are worth reading for anyone dealing with a death or looking to better understand the atonement.
After expressing sympathies from the First Presidency and Quorum of the Twelve, Elder Russell M. Nelson of the Quorum of the Twelve, spoke at the funeral for Elder McKay Choy Burrows in American...
Community Mormon
Mormon Life says: Fantastic post asking the question: "Could you be Mormon without other Mormons?"
It was hot and overcast on a Sunday in late July. My companion and I wandered down the narrow dirt path, weaving through the Moscow forest. We had a few more minutes of time to kill, but the path...
Just One More Cigarette
This story is going to make Wilfried wince, because he’s heard too many like it, but I finally need to tell it to someone besides myself. Today, February 4 (the day I wrote this anyway), is Annie Nijs day. The day of my only baptism as a missionary. The day (well, half-day) that Annie Nijs was...
LDS missionaries resuming their work in Guyana
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is slowly rebuilding its public profile in Guyana after the government ordered dozens of its missionaries to leave last fall because of outdated documents. Church spokesman Leslie Sobers said Saturday the church has resumed donations of medical...
Feeding the Missionaries—in the Internet age
Mormon Life says: Such a great suggestion.
As life-long LDS Church members, my wife and I know the drill—how to feed the missionaries. Then, with our son serving an LDS mission, we got an email that changed everything. You probably know the...
2 Missionaries found dead in Romania - Families pay homage
Mormon Life says: So, so sad.
McKay Burrows spent four Saturdays constructing a 10-foot-tall retaining wall for a church campsite in the American Fork Canyon area. Friends told him he had done enough, but the same drive that...
Returning missionary has harrowing experience as flight crashes on homeward journey
Peering out a thick double-paned window into the rainy Jamaican night on Dec. 22, Sister Remounah Meddow wondered why her plane was traveling so fast even though it had already landed. Runway soon gave way to gravel. The landing gear failed. The plane crashed into large rocks and a mound of...
Florida paper sharing stories of mission calls and MTC
As friends and relatives made their way to James Tate’s house, he couldn’t help but reminisce about the world he was to leave behind. Wherever he was going, his family and friends couldn’t follow. Tate was about to open a letter that would dictate where he would spend the next two years of his...
