Florida Orlando Mission 2010-2013

Sunday, September 5, 2010

This week has shot by so fast. We had Zone Leaders Conference and the ASL Sister's had a baptism. It was very exciting to see someone so happy to become a member of the Church!

Burke, a deaf man. It was a very nice baptism.

This week we have two new elders coming in. They are visa waiters, we're not sure how long they will be with us until they will be able to head out for Brazil. Thursday we are having a sister's meeting, a luncheon and get together for all the Sister Missionaries in the Florida Orlando Mission (22 plus 4 Missionary Couple Sisters). Then Saturday, Elder Gonzalez is making a stop here in Orlando. We will have a small group meeting with Elder Gonzalez for a couple of hours and then he will meet with President Hall and myself for an hour at the Mission Home. Then we head to a Stake Missionary Fireside and another speaking engagement. The weather has been nice, high 90's and some thunderstorms. We just had a thunderstorm watch with 60 mile an hour winds and 1/4 inch hail until later this evening. Things are moving along and we have met so many nice people and lots of past Mission Presidents here in the Florida Orlando Mission.

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nanamooSeptember 5, 2010 at 5:29 PM
I love that picture of those shoes!
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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.