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  • Peru missionaries beautify homeless shelter

    Missionaries and staff from the Peru Missionary Training Center recently gave service in the community when they cleaned and painted a homeless shelter in downtown Lima.
    Published: Friday, Jan. 30, 2009

  • Missionary Training Center presidents

    The First Presidency has called six new Missionary Training Center presidents with their wives. They will begin service about Jan. 1, 2008.
    Published: Saturday, Nov. 17, 2007

  • Earthquake relief

    After an 8.0 magnitude earthquake — lasting a lengthy two minutes — hit the coast of Peru on Aug. 15, Church officials confirmed that nine members are among the estimated 540 dead, seven of them from the town of Pisco, which is 70 percent destroyed.
    Published: Saturday, Aug. 25, 2007

  • New mission presidents

    Seven more mission presidents and their wives have been called by the First Presidency to begin their service about July 1. Assignments were announced in the March 4 issue of Church News.
    Published: Saturday, March 18, 2006

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