Two Australian articles about Mormons

“Local Mormons plan PR blitz to counter savage musical”

“Peter Meurs’ higher calling with Mormons”

You may or may not have a difficult time accessing this second article, which is about Elder Peter Meurs, an extraordinarily successful Australian engineer and businessman who was sustained as a General Authority in April 2016.  I was able to read it myself without any problem once or twice, but, for some reason, cannot now.  But you might give it a shot.  (Also see this little sketch.)  Elder Meurs is a remarkably accomplished man who, with his wife, has made real sacrifices to serve.

For what little it’s worth, I stayed at the home of Brother and Sister Meurs during my first lecture tour in Australia and New Zealand, when he was serving as a stake president in Perth, Western Australia.  They were remarkably hospitable.  Good people.

I get a kick out of claims, by critics, that the leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are in it for money and power.

(Incidentally, one of the Saints in Perth told me that it’s the furthest inhabited place on Earth from Church headquarters.  If you go any further, you’re getting closer.  I haven’t checked that, but they also say that, while Perth isn’t at the ends of the Earth, you can see the ends of the Earth from it.)

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