by Megan Finley | Feb 13, 2017 | Inspiring Stories from Latter-day Saints, Mormon Missionary, Uncategorized
The following article by Jason Swensen first appeared on Deseret News on February 2, 2017. In recent years, the Syrian city of Aleppo has been a staging ground of death, violence and horror. Civil war has claimed tens of thousands of lives and legions have been forced...
by | Jul 8, 2008 | Mormon Missionary
The history of Mormon missionary work is almost as long as Mormon history itself, for without missionary work, there would be no Mormon Church. Mormon missionaries have, from the very earliest days of Mormonism, gone out to their neighbors, surrounding communities,...
by | Jul 8, 2008 | Mormon Missionary
The rapid growth of the 1980s and 1990s which nearly quadrupled the size of the Mormon Church from 1974 to 2004, a mere thirty years, has only slowed somewhat in the early years of the twenty-first century. In 1995, Gordon B. Hinckley became President and Prophet to...
by Anita Stansfield | Jul 8, 2008 | Mormon Missionary
While Mormon missionaries never ceased preaching in Canada, the United States, and the British Isles, the next major change in Mormon missionary work came in the 1840s, as Mormons went beyond the English-speaking world. In 1843, Joseph Smith sent Mormon missionaries...
by Anita Stansfield | Jul 8, 2008 | Mormon Missionary
From 1830 to 1837, Mormon missionaries continued to preach as they traveled, often being called by revelation from the Prophet Joseph Smith to preach for an unspecified time, usually a few months, in New England, Canada, or the regions round about Kirtland, Ohio. In...
by Anita Stansfield | Jul 8, 2008 | Historical Stories, Modern History, Mormon Missionary
In the early twentieth century, Mormon missionaries continued to preach in the traditional lands of Europe and throughout America, while still seeking to reach entire new countries in order to fulfill Jesus Christ’s commandment to “teach all nations” (Matthew 28:19). ...
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