Florida Orlando Mission 2010-2013

Wednesday, July 21, 2010

We received a new sister missionary last Monday, she is an ASL sister (American Sign Language), we now have three.

We have been in Leadership Training for the last two days and will wind things up tomorrow. It is the new Simplified Curriculum that goes hand in hand with Preach My Gospel, the new program that we learned at the MTC. It is to train the missionaries to be better teachers.

We are always busy and on the go, hopefully we can spend some time this weekend trying to get things caught up. Our missionaries amaze us, they are so good, their missionary skills are the best and the work is moving along.

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FLORIDA ORLANDO MISSION HISTORY

Florida has a deep Mormon heritage, going back as far as 1843. Traveling elders were occasionally sent into Florida until the Florida conference was officially organized November 1, 1895, which conference was within the Southern States Mission. In 1937, the first chapel in central Florida was built in Orlando. In 1950, the church established what is now officially called Deseret Cattle and Citrus Ranch in Osceola County, southeast of Orlando. Today the Church owns 316,000 acres covering three counties, making it the largest cattle ranch in Florida. Orlando was the second Florida stake, and was organized on February 23, 1958.

On November 1, 1960 the Florida Mission was created out of the Southern States Mission. This was the fist mission for the State of Florida. The original Florida mission was divided into the Florida South Mission July 1, 1971, then later into the Ft. Lauderdale Mission (June 1974); the Tampa Mission being created in 1976, and the Jacksonville Mission in July of 1987.

The Florida Orlando Mission is now graced to have within its boundaries the Church Ranch and the first temple of the church in Florida, the Orlando Temple.