Friday, March 6, 2015

Sign 37 – Great Missionary Effort Begins

Year:1948

Scriptures:

Alma 16:15-16
15 And thus did Alma and Amulek go forth, and also many more who had been chosen for the work, to preach the word throughout all the land. And the establishment of the church became general throughout the land, in all the region round about, among all the people of the Nephites.
16 And there was no inequality among them; the Lord did pour out his Spirit on all the face of the land to prepare the minds of the children of men, or to prepare their hearts to receive the word which should be taught among them at the time of his coming—

In about 78 BC (1948) there was a great missionary effort to teach the gospel to the people in all the regions round about. This missionary effort was met with great success. It is a pattern of the missionary program of the church after the Second World War. In 1945, the last year of the war, there were about 400 missionaries called. After the war the missionary effort increased with over 3000 missionaries being called 1n 1950. This program met with great success with over 130,000 people becoming new members of the church.

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