Florida Orlando Mission 2010-2013

Wednesday, August 11, 2010

On August 11, 2010 our first batch of missionaries, 9 Elders and 1 sister went home. It was a very emotional time to see these Elders and Sister leave the mission. They are such great missionaries with strong testimonies and we will miss them. We went to the the temple and then had dinner after at the mission home.

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ShannonAugust 12, 2010 at 12:43 PM
Hello President and Sister Hall! I have been looking through your blog and loving all the pictures. Florida is one of a kind. I had no idea the mission was so large! Sorry we missed the 51st ward reunion. We were actually planning on coming. Then Titus decided to come instead! Look forward to learning more about Florida... maybe I'll see some of my family on here! They do populate like 1/2 of Orlando area, so it seems. Hope your surviving the heat. Man, what a time of year to go, eh?
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Los HansenAugust 21, 2010 at 5:58 AM
We stumbled across your blog this morning. What a great looking group of missionaries, not to mention the leaders. Sis. Hall, good to see that you have the presidente working.

Con amor,
Los Hansen
Veracruz
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LexiAugust 24, 2010 at 9:16 AM
This looks like quite a dinner and not even eating oatmeal??!! This must be a missionary dinner rather than a stake president dinner. :) So fun to read through your experiences and see all that is going on for you. I think of you often and miss my counseling sessions. As hard as Kevin has tried to fill in the gap, I think he realized that I am crazy from day 1 and gave up hope. :) I got called to be the ward missionary in my ward and credit that to our investigation talks and sessions before you left...so thank you for the preparation. Hope you are doing so well for both of you!! All the Best -Lexi
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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.