Florida Orlando Mission 2010-2013

Monday, July 26, 2010

Well, another week has flown by and we're still surviving! Hope everyone had a great Pioneer Day. We thought about our pioneer heritage and reflected on those who came out West for religious freedom.

Last week was another killer with three days straight of Leadership Training from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm. This is part of the new simplified curriculum that the Church is putting into place to help our missionaries to be better teacher. This was part of our training at the MTC. It will really help the missionaries. President let the missionaries unwind a bit by letting them have some skits at the end of the training - very enlightening! So creative. Check out Joseph Smith.

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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.