Florida Orlando Mission 2010-2013: March 2013

Sunday, March 31, 2013

ZONE LEADERS COUNCIL MARCH 2013

I forgot to post the ZL picture from last month, time is flying by!

Friday, March 29, 2013

DEPARTURE

March 2013

One of the hardest things we do as a mission president and wife is to say good-bye to the missionaries. What a great privilege to be involved in this great work, and to see the missionaries develop faith and help their investigators know their Savior personally.

NEW TRAINEES AND TRAINERS

ARRIVALS

We all know the Lord is hastening his work (D&C 88:73). Elder Nelson gave us this vision. There are two promises yet to be realized: 1) gathering, 2) prepare for the second coming. The Lord is blessing the Florida Orlando Mission in so many ways. First, we are receiving many more missionaries to move this work forward. Most of them are sisters that will compliment the work as they work in each ward along with the elders of the Florida Orlando Mission.

We received 12 new sisters and 9 new elders this transfer.

Sunday, March 3, 2013

HUNTERS CREEK ZONE

ORLANDO SOUTH ZONE

COCOA ZONE

DELAND ZONE

ORLANDO ZONE

LEESBURG ZONE
What a phenomenal experience Zone Conference was. So much revelation and learning. We are grateful for each of these missionaries coming spiritually prepared.

DEPARTURES FEBRUARY 20, 2013

NEW ARRIVALS FEBRUARY 18, 2013

"Missionary work is not that hard, it is not complicated -- come and see -- let's take the anxiety out of the work. We are on His errand".

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.