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Youth 'on mission' with Book of Mormon

Published: Saturday, May 13, 1989

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Despite his mental and physical handicap, Ronnie John Page, 19, of the Bountiful (Utah) 32nd Ward, has found a way to serve a `mission.'

Page, employed at a local sheltered workshop, donates most of his earnings for copies of the Book of Mormon. Through the Family-to-Family Book of Mormon Program, he sends books with his photo and testimony to his cousins serving missions and to all the missionaries from his ward.One of his cousins, Guy Vaughn Francis, now serving in the North Carolina Raleigh Mission, told him, "Ron, I know you can't go, so I am going to work for both of us."

After that, Ronnie began the Book of Mormon project, said his mother, Dixie.

"He's received several letters back," she said. "He's very excited about his mission."