Florida Orlando Mission 2010-2013

Wednesday, December 22, 2010

Our first Christmas Program with the Elders and Sisters. We have two more to go. It finally feels a little like Christmas with 70 degree weather and no snow. We do have Poinsettias lining our walkway outside. Festive! We miss all of you but are too busy to really get homesick. We love the Elders and Sisters and it was a fun evening of singing carols and thinking of Christ and His birth. We hope all of you have a very Merry Christmas and that the blessings of the message of the Savior and his birth will be with you throughout the new year. Love, President and Sister Hall

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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.