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A few missions were discontinued with the formation of two or more missions in its place. Occasionally missions will be discontinued as a result of government restrictions, military conflict and/or other issues affecting the safety of missionaries serving in the area. All missions include the word "Mission" as part of their name.
Located in Dallas, Texas, the temple was dedicated on October 19, 1984 by Gordon B. Hinckley. [2] The temple sits on a 6-acre (24,000 m 2) site and was originally 18,000 square feet (1,700 m 2). It was the first temple in Texas and the South Central United States. A groundbreaking, to signify the beginning of construction, occurred in January ...
Texas remained in the Central States Mission until the Texas Mission was organized in 1931. Texas and Louisiana were combined to form the Texas-Louisiana Mission in 1945. Texas was part of the Gulf States Mission from 1955 to 1960. In 1961, a new Texas Mission was organized. This became the Texas Dallas Mission in 1974.
The Latter-day Saints assigned traveling missionaries to Fort Worth to spread the religion’s controversial post-Biblical gospel. ... Oct. 28 for a 30,000-square-foot LDS Temple, comparable to a ...
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The LDS Church mission with the smallest geographic area (approximately 10 acres) is the Utah Salt Lake Temple Square Mission, in which missionaries from around the world serve on Temple Square, often to visitors from their own homelands. These missionaries serve at Temple Square, and occasionally serve in another mission in another part of the ...
The temple is then dedicated as a "House of the Lord," after which only members twelve years of age and older [1] who hold a valid temple recommend are permitted to enter. Weekly worship services are not held in temples, but ordinances that are part of Latter-day Saint worship are performed within temples.
Missionaries with special needs or health considerations may be called as full-time or part-time service missionaries. Many fully able missionaries are called to do genealogical research or act as tour guides or hosts at Temple Square or Family History libraries and other church sites. In many areas, even proselytizing missionaries spend most ...