{"id":40054,"date":"2017-02-22T23:24:32","date_gmt":"2017-02-23T06:24:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=40054"},"modified":"2017-02-22T23:31:18","modified_gmt":"2017-02-23T06:31:18","slug":"one-woman-used-talents-spread-gospel-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2017\/02\/one-woman-used-talents-spread-gospel-africa.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;How One Woman Used Her Talents to Spread the Gospel in Africa&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_40055\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-40055\" style=\"width: 596px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2017\/02\/Durban-South-Africa-Temple-Rendering.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-40055\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-40055\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2017\/02\/Durban-South-Africa-Temple-Rendering.jpg\" alt=\"asfkjflkaksfj Durban Temple\" width=\"596\" height=\"447\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-40055\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">When the Durban South Africa Temple is dedicated, probably before the end of 2018, it will be the second Latter-day Saint temple in that important nation. \u00a0(Image from LDS Newsroom site)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>What a wonderful story:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/history.lds.org\/article\/judy-bester\/i-was-blessed-with-a-gift-?lang=eng\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">\u201cI Was Blessed with a Gift\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Everybody has been given something, though, that is unique. \u00a0Or some assignment that has been given to nobody else. \u00a0We should try our best to find out where we are supposed to serve, where we can contribute something that only we can do. \u00a0It may be big. \u00a0It may be small. \u00a0Size doesn\u2019t matter.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Posted from Honolulu, Hawaii<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 What a wonderful story: \u00a0 \u201cI Was Blessed with a Gift\u201d \u00a0 Everybody has been given something, though, that is unique. \u00a0Or some assignment that has been given to nobody else. \u00a0We should try our best to find out where we are supposed to serve, where we can contribute something that only we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>&quot;How One Woman Used Her Talents to Spread the Gospel in Africa&quot;<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"&nbsp; 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