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Show 2 Pi I 1I i 8 SS The second mission in less than seven years is now organized in the Repub of the Philippines, the only Christiao nation in Asia. The new mission is the PhiEppine,s Cebu City Mission, which will cover the southern half of the sprawling tropical area covered by the Philippines. The original mission, Philippines Mamla mionrs, will retin its- headrtuartc,cs Manila, and be presided over by Pres - Ray mood Lynn Goodson of 'Troy, Ohio Pres. Carl D. Jones, who had presided over the Philippines Mission, licad,; up the new mission. ons r, 1 t Sometime enemy planes would interritpt meetings, but with the corning of peace more meetings were held. Brother and Sister Peter Grimm, longtime residents of the Philippines, held PHILIPPINES MANILA j vien-itiers- MISSION 1 inte 1 --'. 8)A. 0 I b1 Lieff4ts: 1 ov I k (LTIY11)167 ( ovv s") MISSION 2' k) 5 AC.? i - kloyfO 0 I PHILIPPINES 1 ) I I,, 9". t Z I 11 1964 there had been 263 baptisms and 31 missionaries, When the iniSACK13110 arriViA in the Philippines, there hadn't been a nificant nurrber of native baptisms There were about ZW members of the church in the islands, but these were mostly American !servicemen. At the close of 16, nearly been taker into the waters of baptism Groundbreaking for the first church building in the Phdippines was held on Sept. 6, 196-- in the choice Makati, area near Manila. The first fulttime Filipino nais 51fmanes, Elders (Alaimo rocka and Einiliano Antonio Jr. were called iint ,sent to Hawaii from the Lavin District in February of It4t4. That same inonth and yi7M', the k .tisonalla.- ,) Z113: i ) , if?) tII 'I L . 1:3(1)'--, - vii,LI 0(b. esonsi-d, ' ) CAy CN 1) 1 ) , ' j"- IN , - I"N I ) Ciyo' , I ) , Iwo missions will now serve the approximatel 40 million people in the meetings in thea home fiir the LDS serdcemen A servicemen's conference was held in (ktober, 1951, with Pres Ina) Mauss of the Japan Mission presiding, and 45 attended the meeting. The Luzon Servicemen's District came into being on Feb 12, ITi3, and week later, Ehlers Nestor ledesnii, Ray Harry Murray and Keid Lowe from the Southern Far Fast Mission, headquartereit in !long !Sorg, arrivisit in Manila The !lumber of missionarie! was gradually increased, and by the end of A (den. -- A Li ocv.' -- 0 (I) , V-,- 'MANILA 1 CEBU CITY Servicemen organized church mectings after the fall of Manila to U S troops in February, 1945, The first two meetings were at Tacloban on the coast, acid at a navy installation at Samar. Officials assured the church that ini&sionaries Mild be gerinted teisas, and in the early morning hours of May lt,161. a small group cif chureti led by fliter t:ortion Hinckley of the Council of the Twelve, gathered on the beautiful grounds of the American Rattle Memorial Cemetery to officially missionary work. 11 0 Aug. 21 for roc tlk-- legal so ttlti (Intro in the Niiiimmes It took sisi' ether v, 014, to tw would he recognued I or islands Although the first missionaries of thy church set foot in the Philippines the first part of June 1961, church history dates back to the close of World War It, 1 N. mission's territory. There are 7.400 members residing in the north Manila territory, and 3,2110 in The ReptfOliC ol the Philippines constitutes more than 7,000 islands in a land area about one and a half times that of Utah. Luzon is the largest of the nine major islands in the Philippines, and is halt the size of the Beehive State. -- AN, for the present. There are approximately 25 milhon people living in the area served by the Philippines Manila Mission, and about 16 million in the other ftil dedicated the Phdimines Oil the preadoug of the gospel. '" ' If the mission:, the Cebu City mission. - There is some good native leadership, and much more is develo2ing as ihe cLii,.11 continues to grow in the beauti- 1 t Membership at the beginning of VG0 was atkiut 5,000, and mission leaders feel that with the Lncreased missionaries for two missions, and the fact that travel area has been reduced for the mission presidents, the gospel will continue to spread. It is felt That at least 150 will t3,2 laboring M each of Philippi es DIVIVON OF THE PHILIPPINES MISSION t There are now over 10,001 members uf the church in the Philippines, most of them Filipinos. showing the phenomenal growth of the gospel in the islands, t' conferences ere held they could tie arranged Croups were orgair i7ed at various military bases, and the fn st itehei Society w as orr,anizeit lfl thc: Clark Air Force Base group that year. During a tour rif Asia in 19), President Joseph Fielding Snuth then a member of the Council ot the Twelve, FIMHO MCITINTS distinguished them-!selveo by having tlie first elders wan-toin the Southern Far East lit issitai The harvest was becoming .so great in the Philippines, that the church organized the Philippines Mission on At lj.f 21,1961, with Pres, and Sister Paul s, Rose of Murray. Utah being called to preside over the new mission. Pres, and Sister DeWitt C. Stinth were called to succeed Pre, aryl Sister Rose, and the work continued to (loutish wetur their directiouu pri.s jonet, was the third pra.'sidvnt called to preside in the Philippines, and now with two missions the work of spreading the gospel to the pi.!ople of the islands of the Philippines will he speeded up Bishop Promoted to Air Force Major General ViTIGIMPAITERSON a Louis AF13, OHIO Alder, former bishop of the Fairfax Ward, Annapdale Virginia Stake, has been promoted to the rank of major general in the US, Air Force. At the time of his promotion, Gen. Alder was deputy chief of staff, com- ptroller, at Headquarters Air Force Systems Command at Andrews Air Force Base, Md. After his promotion, he was assigned as deputy chief of staff, comptroller, Air Force Logistics Command at Air Force Base. While at Andrews AFT. Gen. Alder Wright-Patterso- n was ai,varded- litOest rTT ,:., 1,;,.,,.:,. non- combat decoration, the Di5tingulshftd Service Medal, for his 'dynamic leader, ship which significantly advanced the efforts of the Air Force to achieve scientific technological superiority in management of research, development and acquisition of weapon systems for the United States and the free world." - A3 AILecomptroller, Gen. Alder now beads an mganization of more than 1,600 people. lie is responsible for budget and funding, accounting and finance, management analysis and automatic data processing br the command. AMC's linancial program amounts to some $IO billion a year. Gen Alder cntered rnt;ir3, rrvi. it! 1942 and Viai COmmi3siorted two years Liter in Fristlane, Athtratia atter completing Officer Cnididate Sch,,of de native Bancroft, Idaho, Gen. Alder married the Eirmer Sue Lewis, also of Bancroft lbey are the parents of ' WELK '' :' ' - r :,. , , ' ; ., , i,,,, '', '.z.; :.;','''',. ,:.., 'f 7,, 2i,',7,,..;.Y,',.7 ,', ..,.',:,,'-- , - '''J 1,;:',,' ''0,,,,;''': ;,:,I, ,, ,': :':'''', s',,t,? ', '.,,, ,,,',,!.., - , , - ,' !: ,.., ,c4 -, :- .'''', ' ',F, 5: ,',:,, .,, , , c'N'sk. '. 1,.- k' ? - -- ;: ,:- ' ,.." ;, 40,,,;.:01.;:.,:.;' 1 "Nc:,:,. ' , ' '' :: , ..,,: :' ' of four ,,. k,,T.,' ' ''''''''e:,,'''s,,...',-,,- , - A ,,z, ''''',, i t. Gm Alder has served vi v,tr.trim church pewttions. !Ls mspyt recl,v,t that of ht4lop of Ow FallfriX Ward. he ser.ekl is nif,m,,Er Vnor ti the Ann Virg.irda St Ae hf0 council ',,i, :: ; , , : , !,''''',..i',. '4 ; I ):: , Ati,,if.3,44.84,414,ig,iiiiittg,,,2.,,,ta:A,It O. Louis Aldqr now malot general INCO4G JULY 20, '974 G CHUKR- -3 |