Florida Orlando Mission 2010-2013: KENNEDY SPACE CENTER

Monday, May 16, 2011

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER

We left Orlando at 4:15 am this morning to go to the Kennedy Space Center for the second to last space shuttle launch. As the sun came up it looked like a good day but as it got closer to the launch of Endeavour, the sky became very cloudy and we were afraid that they would not be able to go ahead with the launch. It cleared off a little and the Space Shuttle Endeavor was launched. It was very exciting to hear the count down and then see the lift off!

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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.