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After the 1978 revelation, the South African government revoked its limits on visiting LDS Church missionaries, [15] and the LDS Church started actively proselyting to blacks. Church president Spencer W. Kimball visited Johannesburg in 1978 for an area conference, [ 15 ] and the first black branches formed in Soweto in the 1980s.
South Africa Pretoria: 28 June 2023 Botswana/Namibia South Africa Johannesburg: extant [3] DRC Kananga: 29 June 2023 DRC Mbuji-Mayi: extant [3] Nigeria Abuja: 29 June 2023 Nigeria Lagos: extant [3] Côte d'Ivoire Abidjan North: 30 June 2023 Côte d'Ivoire Abidjan East Côte d'Ivoire Abidjan West: extant [3] Nigeria Aba* 30 June 2023 Nigeria ...
Limited missionary contact began in Zimbabwe (what was Southern Rhodesia) in the 1930s, [6] but the first convert was not baptized until 1951. Missionary work was limited until after the church's 1978 Revelation on Priesthood which allowed blacks to hold the priesthood. [6] Gordon B. Hinckley visited Zimbabwe and spoke to members on February 18 ...
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A mission of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) is a geographical administrative area to which church missionaries are assigned. Almost all areas of the world are within the boundaries of an LDS Church mission, whether or not any of the church's missionaries live or proselytize in the area.
After his retirement as governor, Bangerter returned to his construction firm and served for three years as president of the South Africa Johannesburg Mission of the LDS Church from 1996 to 1999. The Bangerter Highway ( SR-154 ), which opened in 1998, was named after the former governor, who had long supported such a road.
Haven, Smith, and Walker were the first missionaries specifically assigned to South Africa. Hong Kong: 1853 Hosea Stout, James Lewis, and Chapman Duncan The missionaries were called to preach in China, but conditions allowed them to only preach in Hong Kong, which was a British colony at the time. Jamaica: 1853
The book contained interviews with 23 black converts from South Africa, Zimbabwe, Nigeria, Ghana and Zaire, which were the first African countries to receive LDS missionaries. [3] After his work in Africa, LeBaron returned to his role as a professor of religion at BYU where he lectured from 1986 until 2001. [2]