Florida Orlando Mission 2010-2013: WE LOVE THIS WORK

Sunday, July 1, 2012

WE LOVE THIS WORK

Interviews are the best part...this past two weeks we have been interviewing each companionship in their apartments. Interviews are to help each missionary with their stewardship and to render an account of his/her area. We have the opportunity to see them in their own area and how they are doing and how they keep their apartments. We have been stressing clean apartments. The President checks the bedrooms and bathrooms and I check the oven and fridge, kitchen. We check for old furniture and needs. Each apartment has an Area Book and we check each one for neatness, organization and make sure they have the Emergency information. We are happy to report that the apartments have been well kept.

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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.