1 million missionaries for LDS Church -- so far

From: Deseret News (Salt Lake City) | Date: June 26, 2007| Author: | Copyright information

PROVO -- Samuel Smith set out 177 years ago this week with a knapsack full of copies of the Book of Mormon, the first missionary of a church organized two months earlier with six members.

Now, 1 million men and women of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints have served missions, and the church has 13 million members -- milestones announced Monday by the great-great- grandson of Smith's brother Hyrum, Elder M. Russell Ballard of the church's Quorum of the Twelve.

Standing in front of a statue of Smith and his knapsack at the church's Provo Missionary Training Center, Elder Ballard ...

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