\u201cThe Strange Saga of a False Prophet:\u00a0Charles W. Stayner, Orson F. Whitney, and George Q. Cannon\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
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My wife and I are here alone on the rugged western coast of Vancouver Island, a place of which we have very warm memories from previous trips. \u00a0This is a special time of the year for us, too, and we\u2019re now here in commemoration of some past events.<\/p>\n
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Before we came over here, though, we were in Victoria with a number of friends. \u00a0And, as I looked around at them, it occurred to me what remarkable friends and neighbors we have and what remarkable service they\u2019ve given, and continue to give, to the Church and Kingdom of God. \u00a0Several of the men have served as bishops, for example, the women have headed up various auxiliary organizations, and so forth. \u00a0But I\u2019ll concentrate mostly on recent missionary service<\/p>\n
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One couple is just back from serving in Norway, where another of our neighbors had been called to preside over the mission. \u00a0When he was young, the husband in this couple served as a missionary in Japan.<\/p>\n
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Another couple recently served as missionaries, working with the youth, in London.<\/p>\n
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A third couple are set to leave, fairly soon, for a welfare mission in western Africa. \u00a0(He is a physician; he had served his own mission as a young man in Germany.)<\/p>\n
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The husband in yet another couple serves, alongside his Church responsibilities, as the volunteer bookkeeper for the Interpreter Foundation.<\/p>\n
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On the night that we all went out to Butchart Gardens, we had dinner there, by prearrangement, with friends of ours from Mesa, Arizona. \u00a0Not too long ago, they presided over the mission in a South Pacific island group, where they had earlier served as a senior missionary couple (and where, much, much earlier, he had served as a young elder). \u00a0They brought along some Canadian friends of theirs whom they had met when the other couple came to that South Pacific area as senior missionaries.<\/p>\n
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Anyway, as I thought about these people, I reflected that their stories are not altogether unusual among Latter-day Saints \u2014 and that the Church affords faithful Saints remarkably diverse experiences \u00a0and a rich variety of remarkable opportunities for service.<\/p>\n
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It\u2019s a great thing to be a committed Latter-day Saint.<\/p>\n
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Posted from Ucluelet, British Columbia<\/p>\n
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