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The LDS Church views slain missionaries as martyrs. Their names "will be engraved forever in the history of this Church as those who lived as faithful servants of God and died as martyrs to His eternal work[s]." [6] [7] The circumstances surrounding the politically motivated assassinations of Ball and Wilson affected people of many different ...
His mother opened a vat of pickled beets and poured cup after cup of the red vinegar all over him, which neutralized the lye. When Harold was a teen, he punctured an artery on a broken bottle. His mother cleaned it, but it became badly infected. She burned a black stocking to ashes and rubbed it in the open wound and it soon healed. [2] [3]
LeGrand Richards (February 6, 1886 – January 11, 1983) was a prominent missionary and leader in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). He served as the seventh presiding bishop of the LDS Church from 1938 to 1952, and was then called as a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles by church president David O. McKay. [1]
Joseph Standing [1] (October 5, 1854 – July 21, 1879) was a missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) who was killed by a mob near the town of Varnell, Whitfield County, Georgia, in 1879. [2]
On September 6, 1934, McConkie received a call to serve in the Eastern States Mission, with Don B. Colton as his mission president. His first assignment was in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania . From May 1 to July 24, 1935, he served in the Cumorah District in Palmyra, New York , as part of an intensive missionary campaign tied to the dedication of a ...
A prospective missionary receiving the call to serve is generally considered to be a major event in LDS culture; family members, friends, and members of the prospective missionary's congregation often gather together when a call arrives, which the prospective missionary opens and reads aloud to the group.
Beau Shroyer died in an "act of violence while serving Jesus" on Friday, according to a statement from the church. He left behind his wife and five children, who as of Tuesday were still in Angola ...
After graduating from high school, Lee served as a missionary for the LDS Church to the Navajo Nation, known then as the "Southwest Indian Mission". Prior to his call as a general authority, Lee held a number of priesthood leadership callings, including elders quorum president, branch president, district president, and president of the Arizona ...