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The Mormon Church - LDS - Rich and Powerful - Worldwide Presence - a strong Missionary Volunteer Force - Impressive and Captivating - I was just drawn to it


I took everything too serious and at face value for far too long - but life is not a nice fairytale and I paid a heavy price for it ...
When life is gray and you are promised a more meaningful higher life (it costs you 10 Percent of your total monthly income) be a part of a higher purpose - marriages and sealings for all eternity ...
The General Authorities are living a comfortable life ! - the Missionaries have to save for their mission ...


Always a special time when meeting Pres.Hunter
at HDQ in Salt Lake City or BYU Jerusalem





I saw myself as "Watchman in Zion" beholding the signs of the times, the winds of war, something big in the making ....
Jerusalem - Salt Lake City - LDS Headquarters - VIP - a deep connection to President Hunter and the Holy Land .... it was overwhelming while it lastet but I was never a devout Mormon and chore teachings never made really sense to me ! My biggest mistake was to take everything too serious and at face value for far too long - and I payed a heavy price for it ! .....
From my personal notes - while still in "Mormon Mode from 1975"
  • Conflict and domestic difficulties mark the coming years due to my church involvement

  • Aug 1984 - turning point - a visit to Germany and death of my father make me kneel again and pray - I remain a loner, LDS life in Israel just goes on without me, except for the ..... - wonderful friends, that also includes the ......
  • 1985-1988 - BYU Center construction - supervised by my good friend Fred A. Schwendiman
  • May 1989 - Pres Howard W Hunter dedicates the new BYU Jerusalem Center for Near Eastern Studies
  • Oct 1989 - Finally - the long dreamed of trip to UTAH takes place. we have a wonderful time with our friends
  • Apr 1991 - General Conference - Salt Lake City
  • Feb 1992 - Another special and important visit to Salt Lake City - celebrating my 44th birthday, visiting my good friends, meet with Pres Hunter and Spencer J. Palmer the author of Mormons & Muslims, he presents me with his book "Religions of the World" and writes : Happy Birthday - May the Lord be with you in your commendable work - Spencer Palmer - Feb 1992.

       



  • 1993-1995 - further visits follow, the saddest being April 1995, my good friends had passed away, LeRoy on 18.Feb and Eva on 22 Mar. , also Pres Howard W. Hunter had died just weeks before on 3 March 1995. It was a sad, although spiritually uplifting conference, still in the Tabernacle Building.

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    Thursday, January 28, 2021

    Over 400 missions operated by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

    Señal de Efraín - Puesto de los Santos de los Últimos Días - Monte Efraín - Tierra Santa




    As of July 2020, there were 407 missions in the church


    The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) operates more than 400 missions throughout the world. Most current missions are named after the location of the mission headquarters, usually a specific city. The geographical area a mission actually covers is often much larger than the name may indicate; most areas of the world are within the jurisdiction of a mission of the church. In the list below, if the name of the mission does not include a specific city, the city where the mission headquarters is located is included in parentheses.

    Europe and Russia (35 missions)




    Improvement Era - 1964



    Asia (20 missions)

    Cambodia Phnom Penh Mission - China Hong Kong Mission
    India Bengaluru Mission - India New Delhi Mission - Indonesia Jakarta Mission
    Japan Fukuoka Mission - Japan Kobe Mission - Japan Nagoya Mission - Japan Sapporo Mission - Japan Tokyo North Mission - Japan Tokyo South Mission
    Korea Busan Mission - Korea Seoul Mission - Korea Seoul South Mission
    Mongolia Ulaanbaatar Mission - Singapore Mission
    Taiwan Taichung Mission - Taiwan Taipei Mission - Thailand Bangkok Mission - Vietnam Hanoi Mission

    Philippines (23 Missions)

    Philippines Antipolo Mission - Philippines Angeles Mission - Philippines Bacolod Mission - Philippines Baguio Mission - Philippines Butuan Mission
    Philippines Cabanatuan Mission - Philippines Cagayan De Oro Mission - Philippines Cauayan Mission - Philippines Cavite Mission - Philippines Cebu Mission
    Philippines Cebu East Mission - Philippines Davao Mission - Philippines Iloilo Mission - Philippines Laoag Mission - Philippines Legazpi Mission
    Philippines Manila Mission - Philippines Naga Mission - Philippines Olongapo Mission - Philippines Quezon City Mission
    Philippines Quezon City North Mission - Philippines San Pablo Mission - Philippines Tacloban Mission - Philippines Urdaneta Mission



    Oceania (17 missions)

    Australia Adelaide Mission - Australia Brisbane Mission - Australia Melbourne Mission - Australia Perth Mission - Australia Sydney Mission
    Fiji Suva Mission - Marshall Islands/Kiribati Mission - Federated States of Micronesia Guam Mission
    New Zealand Auckland Mission - New Zealand Hamilton Mission - New Zealand Wellington Mission
    Papua New Guinea Port Moresby Mission - Papua New Guinea Lae Mission - Samoa Apia Mission - Tahiti Papeete Mission - Tonga Nukuʻalofa Mission - Vanuatu Port Vila Mission


    Africa - (39 missions)


    Angola Luanda Mission - Benin Cotonou Mission - Botswana/Namibia Mission
    Cameroon Yaounde Mission - Cape Verde Praia Mission - Côte d'Ivoire Abidjan Mission - Côte d'Ivoire Abidjan West Mission - Côte d'Ivoire Yamoussoukro Mission
    Democratic Republic of the Congo Kinshasa Mission - Democratic Republic of the Congo Kinshasa East Mission - Democratic Republic of the Congo Lubumbashi Mission - Democratic Republic of the Congo Mbuji-Mayi Mission
    Ethiopia Addis Ababa Mission - Ghana Accra Mission - Ghana Accra West Mission - Ghana Cape Coast Mission - Ghana Kumasi Mission
    Kenya Nairobi Mission - Liberia Monrovia Mission
    Madagascar Antananarivo Mission - Mozambique Beira Mission - Mozambique Maputo Mission
    Nigeria Benin City Mission - Nigeria Enugu Mission - Nigeria Ibadan Mission - Nigeria Lagos Mission - Nigeria Owerri Mission - Nigeria Port Harcourt Mission - Nigeria Uyo Mission
    Republic of the Congo Brazzaville Mission - Sierra Leone Freetown Mission - South Africa Cape Town Mission - South Africa Durban Mission - South Africa Johannesburg Mission
    Tanzania Dar es Salaam Mission - Uganda Kampala Mission - Zambia Lusaka Mission - Zimbabwe Bulawayo Mission - Zimbabwe Harare Mission


    Mexico (32 missions)

    Central America and the Caribbean (27 missions)

    Brazil(36 missions)

    South America (61 missions)

    United States (110 missions)

    Canada (6 missions)

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