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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
South African Post Office (SA Post Office) is the national postal service of South Africa and as a state owned enterprise, its only shareholder is the South African government. In terms of South African law, the Post Office is the only entity that is legally allowed to accept reserved mail, and as such, it operates a monopoly. [ 3 ]
Limited missionary contact began in Zimbabwe (what was Southern Rhodesia) in the 1930s, [6] but the first convert was not baptized until 1951. Missionary work was limited until after the church's 1978 Revelation on Priesthood which allowed blacks to hold the priesthood. [6] Gordon B. Hinckley visited Zimbabwe and spoke to members on February 18 ...
As of 2021, the LDS Church reported 102,862 members in 269 congregations in the DRC, [1] making it the third largest body of LDS Church members in Africa, behind Nigeria and Ghana. [4] Currently, the DRC ranks as having the 16th highest LDS growth rate among countries of the world, with an annual growth rate of 13 percent. [5]
In 1995, all LDS Church units were included in the newly formed Roodeport South Africa Stake. The first Botswana native to serve a full-time mission for the LDS Church, Yakale Million Moroka, began serving 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.
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 a young man, he served as an LDS missionary in South Africa and Zimbabwe [4] from 1955 to 1958. [3] Receiving his B.A., M.S., and Ed.D. from BYU, LeBaron worked as a teacher and administrator for the Church Educational System in Alberta, Wyoming, and Utah. In 1972 he returned to Africa to organize LDS Seminaries and Institutes of Religion in ...