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A few missions were discontinued with the formation of two or more missions in its place. Occasionally missions will be discontinued as a result of government restrictions, military conflict and/or other issues affecting the safety of missionaries serving in the area. All missions include the word "Mission" as part of their name.
The local mission office will often help missionaries find LDS doctors or dentists who can offer their services to missionaries for a small fee or for free. Young people in the church are encouraged to save money throughout their childhood and teenage years to pay for as much of their mission as they can, although many receive assistance from ...
The first official meeting of the LDS Church in Sierra Leone was held in Goderich in January 1988, with the first LDS missionaries arriving in May of that year. They were under the Liberia Monrovia Mission. A district was organized in Freetown in 1990. At various times in the 1990s, missionaries were withdrawn due to the civil war in the country.
[9] [10] On August 1, 2014, the LDS Church announced that it would transfer all of its 274 missionaries out of Sierra Leone and Liberia, thereby closing the Liberia Monrovia Mission for the duration of the outbreak. [9] [10] [11] In July 2015, a new mission president returned to Liberia to reopen the mission. New missionaries were called and a ...
Dancing. Dancing remains ever-popular at senior communities and can even be a daily event at many. Dancing is not only fun, but it also helps keep residents’ bodies and minds fit. [02] Plus, it ...
The first youth conference was held in 1999 in which 106 youth attended. The first Church-built structure in Bulgaria, included a meetinghouse, mission offices, and mission home, was dedicated on June 18, 2000, in Sofia, by Charles Didier of the Seventy. 20 missionaries from Bulgaria were serving missions in 2000. [4]
Mississippi forms parts of several church missions. Originally a conference of the Southern States Mission, it later became part of Central States Mission, Texas-Louisiana Mission, Gulf States Mission, Louisiana Baton Rouge Mission and ultimately the Mississippi Jackson Mission formed in 1979 with Frank W. Hirschi as president, but was ...
The Nicaragua Managua Mission opened in October 1989. [4] In April 2018, church president Russell M. Nelson announced the first temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to be built in Nicaragua. The Managua Nicaragua Temple was announced at the same time as six other temples. [6]