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More than eight decades have passed since Elder Melvin J. Ballard of the Quorum of the Twelve stood before a small Sabbath gathering of members in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and offered prophetic words about the future of the Church in South America.
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Lamanite convert, Abish, played key role in bringing about conversions
Published: Saturday, May 23, 1992Abish is distinguished because she is one of only three women named in the Book of Mormon. One sentence about the Lamanite woman convert is at once informative and cryptic: "she having been...

