Missionary Companion


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Handbook designed to give missionaries, teachers, and other students of the gospel rapid and convenient access to scriptural wisdom, both ancient and modern. Organized alphabetically, these topics include an introductory paragraph, key scriptures, relevant quotations from modern-day prophets, and cross-references to the book Preach my gospel.




A Companion to the Early Modern Catholic Global Missions


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A survey of the latest scholarship on Catholic missions between the 16th and 18th centuries, this collection of fourteen essays by historians from eight countries offers not only a global view of the organization, finances, personnel, and history of Catholic missions to the Americas, Africa, and Asia, but also the complex political, cultural, and religious contexts of the missionary fields. The conquests and colonization of the Americas presented a different stage for the drama of evangelization in contrast to that of Africa and Asia: the inhospitable landscape of Africa, the implacable Islamic societies of the Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal empires, and the self-assured regimes of Ming-Qing China, Nguyen dynasty Vietnam, and Tokugawa Japan. Contributors are Tara Alberts, Mark Z. Christensen, Dominique Deslandres, R. Po-chia Hsia, Aliocha Maldavsky, Anne McGinness, Christoph Nebgen, Adina Ruiu, Alan Strathern, M. Antoni J. Üçerler, Fred Vermote, Guillermo Wilde, Christian Windler, and Ines Zupanov.




From One Missionary to Another


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The book is intended to be a guide for Mormon missionaries who are planning on serving missions or are already on their missions.




Missionary Families Find a Sense of Place and Identity


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Missionary Families Find a Sense of Place and Identity is a community history of members of nineteen Lutheran missionary families who served in Tanzania. Based on over ninety interviews and John Benson’s extensive knowledge of cultural geography, he compares the lives of the missionary generation who grew up in the United States and went to Tanzania as missionaries to those of their children who grew up in Africa but settled in the United States as adults. Benson blends his personal experiences as a child of missionaries in Tanzania to tell the story of both generations. Missionary Families is centered on the themes of connection to place and religious development and will appeal to scholars of geography, cultural studies and religion.




For the Strength of Youth


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OUR DEAR YOUNG MEN AND YOUNG WOMEN, we have great confidence in you. You are beloved sons and daughters of God and He is mindful of you. You have come to earth at a time of great opportunities and also of great challenges. The standards in this booklet will help you with the important choices you are making now and will yet make in the future. We promise that as you keep the covenants you have made and these standards, you will be blessed with the companionship of the Holy Ghost, your faith and testimony will grow stronger, and you will enjoy increasing happiness.




Sketches of Missionary Life


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"Sketches of Missionary Life " is an account of the missionary life of Edwin F. Parry wherein the wonderful providences of the Lord are shown. Many of the events were narrated to or came under the observation of the writer while engaged in missionary labors in Salt Lake City, Utah (1899). They serve to awaken faith and strengthen confidence in God and teach many valuable lessons. The object sought in presenting this work to the public is to supply fresh reading matter of a wholesome character to the youth of Zion, and it is issued with the hope that its contents may stimulate faith in the heart of the reader, and assist him in his efforts to become more useful in the Kingdom of God.




Led by an Unseen Hand


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Looking back on one’s life can bring forth memories of regret as well as exultation. The home and family is most generally a place of comfort and security; however, many can testify that it is often a place of trouble, heartache, and shame. Missionary life, as well, can be both exhilarating and frightening with its many unforeseen experiences. Learning a new language and culture may serve to deepen and enrich the life in so many ways but at the same time cause one to recognize the need for someone beyond oneself to provide some necessary help. It is in reflecting on what life has handed us that we are grateful for the unseen hand which has upheld us and led us regardless of the situations we’ve known. For my family and me, there was never a dull moment.










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