Amos Makulu walked across Tanzania to be baptized as a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Now in New York, he is instrumental in creating a Swahili-speaking branch.
After living in the same apartment and working together as young missionaries in 1995, two fathers reconnect as their sons serve together as missionaries in Tanzania.
A full-time missionary of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from Haiti died unexpectedly while serving in her home country from complications related to a preexisting medical condition.
“If you wanted to find Jesus Christ’s church on the earth today, you would look for a church that is taking the gospel to all nations,” said Elder Brent H. Nielson two days before becoming an emeritus General Authority Seventy.
Sunday School General President Mark L. Pace taught missionaries about the importance of prayer, both in the lives of missionaries and in the lives of those they teach.
In this Church News video titled “Wonderful Association,” Elder D. Todd Christofferson speaks of the late Elder Richard G. Scott, who was his mission president in Argentina in the mid-1960s and his fellow Apostle 40 years later.
Elder Paul Hardin of San Antonio, Texas, died Monday night, May 20, from injuries sustained in a weekend accident that earlier claimed the life of his wife, Sister Mary Hardin.
“The success of our missionaries, like the army of Helaman spoken of in the Book of Mormon, is the result of wonderful, covenant-keeping parents, leaders and mentors,” Elder Brent H. Nielson of the Presidency of the Seventy said during BYU Women’s Conference.