But in 1984 I went to Sao Paulo, Brazil on my Mormon mission just 6 years after that “revelation” and while interracial marriage was still discouraged. Brazil opened my eyes to a whole different racial world and the hurtful ramifications of that earlier Mormon doctrine. For one, racial line...
Ellis served as a full-time missionary in the Brazilian Mission and later presided over the Brazil Sao Paulo North Mission. He has also served as an Area Seventy, stake president, high councilor, elders quorum president, and Young Men president. He and his wife, Kathryn, are the parents ...
” said the actor, who is preparing to serve a two-year full-time mission in Brazil when the filming for his role is over. “This is just a part of my life that is preparing me for the future, for my mission.”
The MTC was originally called the "Language Training Mission" (LTM). The name was later changed in the 1970s to the "Missionary Training Center." The name was changed to note that it was for more than just language training, although language training would continue to be an important part...
Howe's Painesville Telegraph described the scene thusly in his issue of Tues., Nov. 16, 1830: "About two weeks since some persons came along here with the book, one of whom pretends to have seen Angels... The name of the person here, who pretends to have a divine mission, and to ...
members and apologists alike, the problem is that whenever people make contact, they speak to a very friendly lady called Sandra who is not at all pushy and just helpful, which has disarmed many people to what she is saying. Meeting Sandra on my mission trips to Utah was a massive high ...
The question is more compounded by the fact that (*sigh*) my daughter’s parents didn’t get married in the temple right away (despite us being RS Pres and an RM Ward Mission Leader at the time), while her beau’s parents did. You’d think that I, having experienced the pitfalls of...
He said he was a very miserable creature, that he had earnestly sought death during his sojourn upon the earth, but that he could not die, and his mission was to destroy the souls of men. About the time he expressed himself thus, I rebuked him in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ ...
Retired in 1992, Frank and marion accepted a call to serve in the Frankfurt Temple. They served a second mission in the Vienna South mission office. Frank is the author of three books on chiasmus in the Book of mormon and the Doctrine and Covenants. His latest work con- cerns how the ...
their assigned MTC after being called to serve in one of the LDS Church’s full-time missions after have been set apart by their stake president or mission president and before they enter the mission field. At year-end 2016, there were 15 MTCs in operation worldwide and 421 LDS missions....