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This Grand Opportunity

24 August 2018

Elizabeth McCune and the First Sister Missionaries

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Women with a Mission
Latter-day Saint women have participated in missionary work since shortly after the Church was organized, sharing books, tracts, and testimonies with loved ones and strangers alike. After the call of the first single “lady missionaries” in 1898, the woman missionary force began to blossom.
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