Posted on 03/08/2008 5:14:33 PM PST by Zakeet
Spanish-speakers are fueling growth in the local Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, which recently opened new worship space on Tucson's predominantly Hispanic South Side.
Many local Mormon worshippers, like 47-year-old Juan Arroyo, converted to the faith from Catholicism while living in their native countries. Arroyo, a roofer who has four children, joined the church when he lived in Guadalajara, Mexico. He's been in the United States for seven years.
"I was missing something, and my life changed greatly after meeting the missionaries," he said in Spanish.
Nationally, the number of Spanish-speaking congregations in the Mormon church grew by 64 percent between 2000 and 2006. There are 639 such congregations in the United States.
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The church is growing quickly in Mexico.
Church officials say its presence there began in 1875 when Brigham Young, then denomination president, called on six missionaries from Salt Lake City to bring Spanish-language materials about the church to Mexico. In 1885, a group of nearly 400 colonists from Utah arrived at northern Mexico's Casas Grandes River. Mexico's first stake was created in Colonia Juárez in 1895. By 1912, more than 4,000 members had settled in Chihuahua and Sonora.
More than 1 million members now live in Mexico, a predominantly Catholic country with a population of about 108 million.
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You should have warned fproy2222 instead of Elsie, since elsie only copied a post by him.
It seem you Mormons have a hard time keeping up with one another....LOL
I am the you from fproy2222 statement cited above and not fproy2222, so any offense would have been against me - but I take none OMM.
Actually not.
They get hardly ANY 'doctrine' from the BoM.
It all comes from OTHER sources; stuff that the missionaries do NOT ask you to 'pray about'.
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Maybe.
So what?
Remember RM’s admonitions about pronouns! If they apply to one, I trust they apply to all!
Research better. Elsie pointed out her “chart” of insults.
Do YOU want your own number?
Not if you trace the post you referenced. I guess you simply referrenced the wrong post, or you are mistaken.
Please do not use personal pronouns per RM.
Please refrain from the use of personal pronouns per RM.
And yes, I do mean YOU.
YOU are supposed to ping the Moderator when you discuss them. YOU seem to have bad manners.
Yes, YOU.
When in trouble, when in doubt; run in circles, scream and shout.
Yep. Anything BUT the Bible which is full of errors!
Frightening.
dog chasing its tail...The factual posts you are making DO, in fact educate lurkers. Carry on. He who laughs last, laughs best! ;)
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Sorry to take so long in getting back about this one, I spent some time studying your “pro-LDS” sight.
Did you notice his desire in having the site is to change the Church to something you would call Christian because he thinks like the Tanners that the Church needs changing.
Of course, that is past a sound-bite and “not worth learning”.
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If you would take the time to learn what you were talking about in our history, you would know why I bring it up.
Joesph was visited by mote then the Father and the Son.
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