LDS Church News - Georgia Atlanta North Mission

New mission presidents

René Rodolfo Alba, 61, and Kathleen Tenney Alba, six children, Paper Mill Ward, Roswell Georgia Stake. Brother Alba, a counselor in the Georgia Atlanta North Mission presidency, is a former counselor in a stake presidency, stake Young Men president, stake mission president, bishop, gospel doctrine teacher and missionary in the Taiwan Mission. Business development executive, OEM Sales Asia Pacific. Born in Piedras Negras, Coahuila, Mexico, to Bartolo and Angela M. Alba.

Published: Saturday, Jan. 14, 2012
New mission presidents

Seven new mission presidents and their wives have been called by the First Presidency. They will begin service about July 1.

Published: Saturday, April 23, 2011
United States information: Georgia

Early efforts at missionary work in Georgia began with John U. Eldredge in 1843, who preached in Georgia as he traveled from Alabama to North Carolina. No other work was in Georgia until 1876 with the arrival of John Morgan, who in fulfillment of a dream 10 years earlier, converted many people in Haywood Valley and organized a branch there in 1876.

Published: Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2010
Mormon missionary has harrowing experience as flight crashes on homeward journey

Peering out a thick double-paned window into the rainy Jamaican night on Dec. 22, Sister Remounah Meddow wondered why her plane was traveling so fast even though it had already landed.

Published: Saturday, Jan. 16, 2010

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