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8: The Mormon Proposition

Director Reed Cowan, who is a former Mormon missionary, "planned on making a film about gay teen homelessness and suicide in Utah, but switched his focus to Mormon ideology because of how it contributes to the homophobia that causes these problems".

Benjamín De Hoyos

As a young man, he served a mission in the Mexico Hermosillo Mission, where he first met his wife Evelia Genesta Mendivil, who is a native of Ciudad Obregón, Sonora.

Hazen Aldrich

In April or May 1832, Aldrich was taught about the Latter Day Saint movement by missionaries Orson Pratt and Lyman E. Johnson and was baptized in Bath, New Hampshire.

Montevideo Uruguay Temple

Richard G. Scott, a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, who was one of the first Mormon missionaries in Uruguay, presided at the groundbreaking ceremony for the temple.

The Saratov Approach

The movie is about the 1998 kidnapping of the two Mormon missionaries, Andrew Lee Propst and Travis Robert Tuttle in Saratov, Russia.

Theodore B. Lewis

He served a mission to the Southern States, then in 1870 began teaching at a school that later became Brigham Young Academy.


see also

Avery County, North Carolina

Joyce McKinney, former beauty queen, famous for allegedly kidnapping Mormon missionary Kirk Anderson in the UK in 1977.

Brandley

Theodore Brandley (1851–1928), Mormon missionary and colonizer of Stirling, Alberta, Canada

Harry L. Rattenberry

His parents were William Henry Rattenberry (1834-1889) and Mary Ann Broomhead (c. 1829-1909), a former wife of notable Mormon missionary Cyrus H. Wheelock.

Newland, North Carolina

Joyce McKinney: Became notorious for the alleged kidnap and rape of Mormon missionary Kirk Anderson in England in 1977, and hit the news again in 2008 for cloning her pit bull terrier in Korea.

Robert Elmer Kleason

Ken Driggs wrote a book about the murders, Evil Among Us: The Texas Mormon Missionary Murders, published by Signature Books in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Walter Gibson

Walter M. Gibson (1822–1888), English adventurer, Mormon missionary, and government official in the Kingdom of Hawaii