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After the 1978 revelation, the South African government revoked its limits on visiting LDS Church missionaries, [15] and the LDS Church started actively proselyting to blacks. Church president Spencer W. Kimball visited Johannesburg in 1978 for an area conference, [ 15 ] and the first black branches formed in Soweto in the 1980s.
This mission was organized from the part of the Mexican in the United States, when it was discontinued its operations were merged with the geographical missions in Texas, California and Colorado/New Mexico, making it so the mission now covered all LDS missionary work in a given geographical area
The first Motswana to serve a full-time mission for the LDS Church, Yakale Million Moroka, began serving as a missionary in 1999 in the South Africa Cape Town Mission. In the early 2000s, the church formed its first branch in Francistown in the north of Botswana. In 2009, missionaries were regularly sent there for the first time.
The company continued to expand their logistic services in 1973 and introduced the 24-hour overnight delivery services in the country later on. In 1985, the first branch of LBC outside the country was established in San Francisco, California, in the United States. [1]
A mission of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) is a geographical administrative area to which church missionaries are assigned. Almost all areas of the world are within the boundaries of an LDS Church mission, whether or not any of the church's missionaries live or proselytize in the area.
As of 2022, the LDS Church reported 101,924 members in 353 congregations in Ghana, [1] making it the second largest body of LDS Church members in Africa, behind Nigeria. In 2021, Ghana ranked as having the third most LDS Church members per capita in Africa, behind Cape Verde and Sierra Leone. [4]
Haven, Smith, and Walker were the first missionaries specifically assigned to South Africa. Hong Kong: 1853 Hosea Stout, James Lewis, and Chapman Duncan The missionaries were called to preach in China, but conditions allowed them to only preach in Hong Kong, which was a British colony at the time. Jamaica: 1853
Elsewhere in the world, the LDS Church has created standardized floorplans that better fit in with the culture and geography of individual countries and regions. In tropical locations, the roofs tend to be thicker and the meetinghouses smaller. They are often light green or white as opposed to the standard brick or stone of the United States.