Florida Orlando Mission 2010-2013: SPACE SHUTTLE DISCOVERY

Tuesday, March 1, 2011

SPACE SHUTTLE DISCOVERY

Space Shuttle Discover lifts off launch pad 39A atop twin columns of fire, creating rolling clouds of smoke in it's track. We had to visit our sister missionaries in Titusville near Cape Canaveral and so we were able to see the launch. February 24, 2011 at 4:53 pm. It was very exciting.

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nanamooMarch 1, 2011 at 10:35 AM
I am so glad that you were able to see a launch. It is a most amazing experience!
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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.