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The Utah-based Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints announced on Friday that single men aged 40 and older will now be able to serve full-time missions.
This mission was organized from the part of the Mexican in the United States, when it was discontinued its operations were merged with the geographical missions in Texas, California and Colorado/New Mexico, making it so the mission now covered all LDS missionary work in a given geographical area
Worship services of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) include weekly services held in meetinghouses on Sundays (or another day when local custom or law prohibits Sunday worship) in geographically based religious units (called wards or branches). Once per month, this weekly service is a fast and testimony meeting.
Women generally serve as missionaries for 18 months. Married retired couples, on the other hand, are encouraged to serve missions, but their length of service may vary from six to 36 months depending on their circumstances and means. [12] Any single retired person may also be called to serve in what is known as senior missionary service.
On September 12, 1990, six missionaries (2 senior couples and 2 other senior missionaries), under direction of the Austria Vienna East Mission, arrived in Bulgaria to teach English. [3] The first church service was held October 7, 1990 in one of the missionary couples apartment.
It was reopened in January 1893. Little missionary work was done between 1850 and 1893. On June 20, 1974, the name of the New England Mission was changed to the Massachusetts Boston Mission. No new mission was created. The Connecticut Hartford Mission was consolidated into the Massachusetts Boston Mission on July 1, 2011. [10]
Andersen was born in Logan, Utah and raised near Pocatello, Idaho. [3] As a young man, he served in France as a missionary for the LDS Church. After his mission, he graduated from Brigham Young University (BYU) in 1975 with a bachelor's degree in economics and was elected student body vice president. [4]
President Samuel Flores, the president of the Honduras Tegucigalpa Mission and with another missionary, visited Belize on May 5, 1980 to begin formal missionary work. They were followed by 10 additional missionaries the next day. The first meeting was held on May 11. On June 1, Ernesto Alay was baptized, becoming the first convert in Belize.