During my service as a young missionary in the South African Mission in the late 1960s and early 1970s, I was tasked by the Mission President on two separate occasions to visit Mozambique to assess the viability of opening the country for missionary work. Once when I was a District Leader in Salisbury, Rhodesia (now Harare, Zimbabwe) and another time when I was an Assistant to the President. I highly doubt that any of my input that I provided the Mission President had any impact on the opening of Mozambique to missionaries. However, today there are two LDS missions in

One last dinner out on the town in the Philippines On Thursday, December 5th at 7:55 am, we left the Philippines for South Africa. After a short stop in Dubai, we landed in Johannesburg the evening at 8:55 pm (not including the 6-hour time difference which would have made our body clock time 3:55 am, Philippines time on Friday). The total time from leaving our apartment to arriving in Johannesburg was~24 hours of lapsed time.  On our way to South Africa After arriving in South Africa, it took about 90 minutes to clear customs, change our US dollars (that we converted