This Grand Opportunity

24 August 2018

Elizabeth McCune and the First Sister Missionaries

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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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After toughing out one mission to the Sandwich Islands after her husband returned to Utah, Mildred Randall was called in 1873 to again teach at the plantation school in Laie, Hawaii, while Alfred stayed home.

“A Great Missionary Power”

Decades before women were called to preach the gospel as full-time missionaries, women all over the British Mission passed out literature and shared their testimonies on their own time.