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Last week eleven chiefs of Mormon missions in Western Europe met in Frankfurt, Germany, to review the past and plan the future. Under their direction, some 3,500 missionaries fish for souls, and the number of souls is growing fast...
...Britain last year the Mormon Church doubled its membership to 40,000; last month there were 1,200 baptisms...
...Harmony. Spreading the Mormon word in beleaguered Berlin are 56 missionaries-all Americans between 19 and 22, all but four of them men-whose living expenses, like those of all Mormon missionaries, are met by their own families and friends. Berlin's first red brick Mormon church was built eleven years ago. Another church, of radically modern design, was built last year in the northwestern Spandau section, and two more will go up soon...
...Mormon missionaries are volunteers, and all Mormon young men are encouraged to serve (about 40% of them do). The usual term of service is two years in the U.S., 30 months when a foreign language must be learned. Typical of those now in Berlin is boyish, sandy-haired David Owens, 22, of Berkeley, Calif. He lives with a German family, in a cheap room, rises at 6 a.m. and meets his partner (Mormon missionaries generally work in pairs) for an hour's study of German, Scripture and lesson plans. At 9 they take to motor scooters for three hours...
Romney, civic leader, Mormon churchman, president, American Motors Corp. LL.D...