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Show Jtaatoy Ortnha LAKESIDE ?1 . I'M? La&sSe Ro.k4 Mission Possible: Seme Tk New areas constantly opening for missions tV Other reasons for missions to be LOfiCTTA PARK UflWHW SALT church opened include humanumn services the church give and work done tn family history by member living in another country, he 3id. When the church send food, clothing, medical supplie and school supplies, it does so without any strings attached, Ttngey said. "We do it because we are Christian, Tingey said. ftut a foreign government has to give approval before the church will send missionaries into an area. Tingey said the church need the government recognition so it can hold meetings, lease or euw.artjn LAKE COY -- 1 Ucr I Wl C. mitf m a general auiltority I DS Church include the nwaonary department. And that no mtmII Job. Tingey, a member of the Irehlcney of the Seventy, w not only revpomible for the imcMonary department employee. but for the iIuhojihI of volunteer nmion throughout the who ctrve world. 1 ingey i the executive direct of tM mivuonary department. "Mission are expanding and new ar eas are opening for missionaries every buy property for buildings and open bank accounts. Not only have the number of missions increased, but so have die number of missionaries. In 1947 there were only 2,132 missionaries. As of Sept. 2, there are 36.259 missionaries throughout the world, said Dan Kascon, television spe08 CALL Oder Earl Tingey the head of the mtssxxiafy program for the LDS Church. cialist with the church's public affairs department. And with that number come a training. If they need to learn a foreign ment, Tingey said. No matter where they change in the way they're trained. Tinlanguage they an spend up to eight receive their training, whether its in Pro-- , gey remembers when he served a misweeks in the training centers, Tingey vo, Guatemala City. London, Seoul, or sion 43 years ago. said. Hamilton, New Zealand, all missionarHe received his training In one of the ies receive the same basic training. "The training was less formal die furfour brownstone apartment buildings in the back church's ther you go history, Then when a missionary from Layton that used to be behind the liagle Gate in Salt Lake City. It only took about four but even 30 years ago it was purposeto a place like Brazil, he may be goes teamed up with a missionary from (hat to five days. He still has his orientation ful," Tingey said. notes. Missionaries attend classes about country. The Utah missionary learns the Now missionaries are sent to one of scriptures, church doctrine, how to teach language faster, while teaching the local 13 missionary training centers throughdiscussions, about different cultures, and missionary English, Tingey said. The loout the world for at least two weeks of also how to work in a foreign environ cal missionary is also more aware of ccr- - day.. It only been In the past 10 jean the LDS missions have grown dramatically, according to the church Global Media GiwJe. When LDS missionaries received their all in 1947, they knew they would be in one of 43 missions in 29 countries. Now they serve in 318 missions in more than 160 countries. Foreign countries have opened their doors to LDS missionaries for many reasons, Tmgcy said. W hen the number of members increase in an area, a mission can be divided and expanded, Tingcy said. Like in Honda, where it was once part of the Southern States LDS Mission. Now in Honda there are four missions. Where a mission's headquarters is loatcd is how a mission is named, Tin-ge- y said. The boundaries of a mission may encompass other states or HVI V r tain times of the year it's best to stay.to: ; doors and not be out on the streets. Jn some countries national holidays aro-- ut 'so times when uprisings may occur, Tii , gey said. Dl,t ' All missionaries are required to re-- " port any incident, whether it's a stolen-wall- et or writing on a chapel door, to. their mission presidents. The mission presidents then send daily reports to Salk, Lake City. Tingey and other general aln. SeeTlNCQf3, , Mission: Exposure to another world By RUTH MALAN Standard Cxanwier conesponoont Fruit heights made from -- boxes, boards nailed together or cinder block is the norm in Honduras. Tyler Butcher of Fruit Heights was one of the first missionaries allowed back into Honduras when the mission reopened three years ago. He lived in some of these homes. To prepare for his mission Tyler had saved his money. His parents also paid for part of it. We had no extra money whatsoever, said Tyler, who returned from two years in Honduras just a year ago. The missionaries paid a family to "prepare Kv i ' ! f - I c . p'T'ff' r -- M art r i T ,V i L - ' r..; uL I - shirts and cotton pants instead of dress slacks wlpch would be ruined in just a months time. Temperatures of Photo courtesy at TYLER BUTCHER MISSION IN HONDURAS: mission to Honduras. ElderTyler Butcher of Fruit Heights got used to humble conditions while on an LDS 170 'degrees were common as was humidity at 100 percent. Our clothes were scrubbed on a board in the river, he said, ybfcn we showered it was just a bucket of water poured over our Honduras, Tyler said. He only lived in a wooden house twice - and that was enough, Tyler said. People could see through the houses and they had to bath outside. A lot of people had no running water or toilets. Often there would be just one water tap for 20 shacks. It would come on once every four or five days. People would come and fill all the bottles they could at one time. Often they would go to the river for water. City life was different than life in the country. In the city crime was rampant and occasionally the missionaries would get robbed. In fact, Tyler was there just one month when he was robbed. Usually the thieves break into the homes, but on this occasion Tylers companion had left the key - shoh-sleeve- d CALLED TO SERVE: A bicycle was the most common means of transportation for ElderTyler Butcher while he served in Central America. heads and we always had sandals on our feet. The floors were so dirty the missionaries have to wear shoes or sandals even when showering. I only saw carpet once in Comfort of home left behind in It was By RUTH MALAN Standard-Examin- ?- meals for them. Church members in some countries invite the missionaries into their home for meals, but since Honduras is such a poor country the families must be given money the meals. According to Tyler they paid $120 a month to'Teed two missionaries two to three meals a day. And housing was 'just $25 a month. But the conditions were so poor that the $2 5 "could seem like a lot. ' We only had running water half of the time. There were power outages all of the time, he recalled. 'There was just a sheet of tin over boards for the roof of the cinder block homes. Beds were wooden with a cushion on them. Iftyas mostly the poor people who lived in the wooden and dirt shacks with straw roofs in the San Pedro Sula Honduras Mission. ' The hot, humid weather meant th'fc1 elders were able to wear correspondent - It was July KAYSVILLE Hall was a phone call. A bomb had just exploded in,. Cambodia and she was concerned for her son who was LDS mission in Phnom Penh. serv-ing..-- an initely shock, def- a David said about the leaving United States and going to Cambodia. He returned just a month ago. It was a tu I transition to saLby the phone for four days go from a modern, clean environwaiting, said Elder David Halls ment to a dirty, rundown area mother. I started reading things with no sanitation. Cars were still in- 4he newspaper and I knew a new thing to most of the people. And most of the people things were brewing. Those lived war their whole couldn't afford cars. It was a big shock to me to see there were lives, the gospel is the only thing more motorcycles than cars. that brings happiness. ,,,T wasnt too comfortable. - peo-plq.ha- ve 5CX)N5iwe s Theres not much of an economy because of war and there is no Itllliff in the door. They were sleeping when someone came into there home. His $150 hiking boots, his Tevas he used to bath with, and some money was stolen. "They left the door open and I woke up. I just laid there. I stayed there until they left. I went and closed the door. My shoes were gone and I was sure they were going to come back for more, he explained. Before he had gotten to Hon- duras the missionaries had been barred from the country because of the threat of terrorists. One day he and his companion had an appointment so were walking down the only road that goes out of Seiba City. Cars were stopped. Tires were burning in the road. I wanted to go on, but the Spirit told us to turn back. We later found out this was one of the protests against North Americans and two Americans had been beaten up. We were loved ' by some of the people and hated by others, he explained. Most of the time it was safer for American missionaries to have native companions. Seventy percent of the missionaries in this country are native. The food is poor as is the countrys economy. Coffee and bananas are exported as are some beans and rice. The diet consisted of beans, rice, bananas, sometimes tortillas, avocados and mangos. ; Most of us got sick, some sicker than others. And a few actually had to go home because of health problems. While Tyler was working as an assistant to the mission president, he started getting terrible headaches. He was able to rest and to see the best doctors in the city. And people were praying and fasting for him to get better. I didnt tell my family about it, at least not everything. The president got everything ready for me to go home when we found out about a new doctor See BUTCHER4 field far-awa-y spected by the police. Many foreigners were robbed so the missionaries werent allowed to proselyte in the evenings. The Asian people liked us quite a bit. They always let us into their homes, David said. He spent the whole two years of his mission in Phnom Penh, a stable government," said David. I left the comfort of home with Mom and Dad being there, to go to a foreign country on my own. The worst thing was they were speaking a different language, but it was exciting working with them. I didnt know city of about 800,000. what to expect, being an AmeriThe day of the coup he was can. There was an element of teaching a discussion to an invedanger being any foreigner. But stigator of the church. The we (missionaries) gained more rechurches were on the lower level spect because of our dress and of the buildings and the missionbehavior, they could tell we aries lived above the churches. werent tourists. David's house was above the It wasnt just the respect of the North Church, but he was teachpeople the young missionaries ing in the Middle Church and about to finish a discussion when earned, but they also were 3 I realized my work " wasnt converting ,rS people. It was helping people learn how to her: happy and he a family. Elder David Hall on his ... mission in Cambodia.,. This will he die first :r. time 111 do a hum id Utah. Vve been wanting, to do this since I earner" on my mission... Ijust wanted to share a part tun ofmy culture. Back , , home we would do this-- all the time: - Elder Brandon Soong, who is on a mission here'u from Hawaii: m Were thankful for thffz different cultures oftfte, world. Were thankful ,J! for die gospel bringing-- us all together. rum - Jeff Brewer in an ,,,J $ opening prayer beford'tf'luau- People comefrom afiurrs over the world to com here and use our information. They gefsfr, excited when theyfind'a name of an ancestorilt. rlt a noise like a clap of thunder was heard. I had heard mine detonations realty connects people to before when they detonated mines about a mile away. This sounded familiar, he said. But the investigator said it was just thunder. Then 30 seconds later they heard the loud sound of a shell going off as someone was aiming at the princes house a Brother Vern Mauchley on his mission at the Family Search Center , few blocks away. . When it hit I was nervous, it was the first time I had heard a bomb, David said. But the disruption of the discussion didnt stop the missionaries from doing their job. , TseeTwlL4 . their past. I have become bestA4 friends with the V ' mailman. -- Valerie K4J Jlii Davis on having' two sons on missions |