Florida Orlando Mission 2010-2013

Monday, July 26, 2010

Sunday we were in the Spanish Branch and then went to a Baptism for a young girl named Kelly who knew a family that was LDS and wanted the life style that they have. She is attending college in Orlando and would really like to go to BYU-Idaho. She is a very strong young lady, her parents are very anti-mormon but her mother and brother did attend the baptism. An interesting side note: The sister missionaries taught her and one afternoon they were tracting some apartments and just happened to knock on her brother's door! (randomly)

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Randy A. MorganJuly 27, 2010 at 6:35 AM
Pres. and Sis. Hall,

I sounds like things are wonderful in The Mission. I'm continue to be amazed at how fast you must hit the ground running. There seemed to have been no time to ease into your calling. I am sure that all will become common place soon and that you will learn fast. God bless you both.

Randy
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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.