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Education moments: 'Plan from heaven'
After returning home from serving in the Argentina Rosario Mission from 2001-2003, Luis Alberto Fuques Munoz, from the Lezica Ward, Montevideo Uruguay North Stake, requested a loan through the Perpetual Education Fund to study dairy production. Although he planned to finish in 2007, Luis had an...
Latter-day Saints in New Zealand Help Collect Books for Fijian Students
Representatives of the Church in New Zealand recently delivered nearly 43,000 books to Fiji’s Ministry of Education for distribution to students living in rural areas and outer islands—some of whom have grown up without reading or owning a book. The effort was a response to a call from Wellington...
Washington Post: What baptism for the dead means to Mormons
Toward the end of May, 1970, I stood waist high in water in a baptismal font of a temple in Hamilton, New Zealand, while the name of my deceased father was read aloud. Moments later, on his behalf, I was buried in the biblically mandated full-immersion baptism that is so powerfully symbolic of...
Elder Cook Expresses Love to Members in Australia, New Zealand—Part 2
Following a visit to Sydney, Australia, Elder Quentin L. Cook of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles traveled to meet with members, missionaries, and local officials in Christchurch, New Zealand, and in Melbourne and Auckland in Australia. Accompanying Elder Cook were his wife, Mary, and other...
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Temples Are a Beacon
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Elder Cook Expresses Love to Members in Australia, New Zealand
While traveling throughout New Zealand and Australia during January 2012, Elder Quentin L. Cook of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles met with missionaries, members, and local officials to express his love and concern for the people. Elder Cook is being accompanied on his Pacific visit by his...
Relief efforts by Christchurch New Zealand Stake
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints launched the new community initiative, "Lunches for Linwood," on May 10 to help feed high school students from Linwood College whose school has been shut down due to damages from the 6.3 magnitude earthquake that hit the Canterbury region in New...
LDS missionaries safe after New Zealand quake
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All LDS Church missionaries serving in New Zealand are safe and accounted for in the wake of Monday's devastating earthquake centered in Christchurch. Several dozen people are confirmed dead...
