Florida Orlando Mission 2010-2013: ARRIVALS

Wednesday, June 1, 2011

ARRIVALS

We received eleven new elders and 3 new sisters this transfer. We are so excited for these new missionaries.

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EvieAugust 16, 2011 at 11:38 AM
This is the group our son, Elder D. Clark Day would have arrived with. He was delayed at the MTC due to a jaw problem. But thanks to the Lord's ever awesome blessings, he was able to join his fellow Spanish Speaking missionaries only one week later in the Florida Orlando Mission.

We are so thankful for his service there and for his great trainer - Elder Brown & companion Elder Sharp.

Thanks to all of you who are currently serving there.

Brother & Sister Day
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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.