More members now live outside the United States than inside it. Small temples are built by the dozen, the Proclamation on the Family and The Living Christ are issued, worship moves toward the home, and the Church passes three hundred and fifty temples announced or in operation.
1,519 entries in this era, shown 200 to a page. This is page 4 of 8, covering 1993 to 1997. See the same material on the moving timeline.
CHURCH NEWS article "Jewish Congregations Note High Holy Days in LDS Meetinghouses," with explanation that this practice has continued for twenty years in Southern California because "many synagogues are unable to hold the large numbers wishing to attend Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur services."
CHURCH NEWS article features Egide Nzojibwami, university dean of engineering and branch president of Burundi, Africa.
Colorado Denver North mission is created
Colorado Denver South mission is created
Commemorative service at California's Mt. Coray, recently named for Melissa Coray who accompanied Mormon Battalion to California in 1846.
Counselor Thomas S. Monson presides at memorial service for reinterred bodies of former apostle Abraham Owen Woodruff and his first wife Helen Winters Woodruff. Removed from their original 1904 burial sites in Texas and Mexico, respectively, the couple is buried side-by-side in Salt Lake City. This is first reinterment of Mormon leader and wife since that of Joseph and Emma Smith in 1928.
Czech Prague mission is created
Czech Republic Prague mission is created
Dedication of San Diego, California temple by Gordon B. Hinckley. Its stunning exterior design is post-modern gothic inspiration of its Roman Catholic architects.
Financed by LDS headquarters and coordinated by resident member of Tabernacle Choir, Hanoi Opera House performs Handel's "Messiah," sung in English by Vietnamese and accompanied by National Vietnam Symphony Orchestra.
Four Church-service missionaries entered Hanoi, Vietnam, to give humanitarian service, teaching English to doctors and staff at a children's hospital and to teachers, staff and children at a school for young children.
Guatemala Guatemala City Central mission is created
In 1993 there were 28,774 missionaries called to serve.
India Bangalore mission is created
INSIDE RADIO reports: "New York's finest summoned to the mailroom of station WABC Tuesday morning. Somebody heard a beeping or ticking noise coming from a pouch. Played it safe and called the cops. Actual contents of the package: the latest PSA package from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the Mormons). Seems the press kit contained a chip designed to emit an attention-getting signal. It worked."
Ivory Coast Abidjan mission is created
Latvia Riga mission is created
Legacy Theater completed in the Joseph Smith Memorial Building, showing the film Legacy.
Lynne Kanavel Whitesides, Mormon Women's Forum president, receives a letter from Bishop Virgil Merrill stating that a disciplinary council for apostasy is scheduled. Whitesides has regularly spoken on women and priesthood, Mother in Heaven, and other feminist issues. When she asks her bishop who her accusers are she is informed that there were none but her own words from public addresses, of which he had transcripts and cassette recordings. To prepare her defense, she asks which of her statements would be used; she was told that she knew what she said. Merrill had been contacted repeatedly by a general authority concerning Whitesides and had been sent materials, such as copies of news reports about her. When he receives a full transcript of a television interview Whitesides had given, with yellow highlighted passages, he immediately sets a date for the disciplinary council. 150 friends hold a vigil on the lawn during the disciplinary council. Whitesides is disfellowshipped and reports that Merrill had said that the support of so many friends had an impact on him. The day after the Whitesides's disciplinary council LDS historian D. Michael Quinn receives a letter from his stake president notifying him of his disciplinary council on the charges of "apostasy and conduct unbecoming a member."
Mexico's government grants legal recognition to LDS church and authorizes it to own property for first time in more than one hundred years of settlement.
Mormon Tabernacle Choir performs in renovated Cathedral of the Madeleine.
Mormon Tabernacle Choir's Music and the Spoken Word telecast from Jerusalem.
Nebraska Omaha mission is created
New York New York North mission is created
New York New York South mission is created
Nigeria Enugu mission is created
Nigeria Ibadan mission is created
Peru Chiclayo mission is created
Regional Representative Jon M. Huntsman, recently released as U.S. ambassador, meets in Vatican with Pope John Paul II who expresses gratitude for Mormon donations to Catholic Relief work.
Representatives of University of Jordan and BYU sign agreement for academic and cultural exchanges, which represents Howard W. Hunter's long encouragement for greater LDS out-reach to Arab and Muslim peoples.
Richard A Searfoss, Mormon lieutenant-colonel, pilots COLUMBIA back to earth after fourteen days in orbit, longest space-shuttle flight to this date.
Romania Bucharest mission is created
Russia Samara mission is created
SALT LAKE TRIBUNE reports survey showing that 55 percent of Utah's residents favor right of persons to commit suicide under any circumstances. For persons with terminal diseases, 65 percent of Utahns favor physician-assisted suicide.
SALT LAKE TRIBUNE reports that University of Utah study shows that 61 percent of Utahns "believe bad parenting is the primary cause of severe mental illness." also 29 percent of Utahns believe that mentally ill persons "would be helped if they repented."
San Diego California Temple was dedicated 25–30 April 1993 by Gordon B. Hinckley.
Spain Malaga mission is created
Steve Benson goes public concerning a conversation he had earlier with Apostle Dallin Oaks concerning Apostle Boyd K. Packer contacting Paul Toscano's stake president, Kerry Heinz, concerning Toscano's disciplinary council. Oaks had publicly stated that "if Elder Packer is having any conversation with" President Heinz, "it is contrary to what I know about Elder Packer and how he operates." Benson states that Oaks had previously told him that Packer had contacted Heinz and that, "You can't stage manage a grizzly bear," adding that "it was a mistake for Packer to meet with Heinz and a mistake for Heinz to ask for the meeting."
Tennessee Knoxville mission is created
1993 Church Membership 8,689,168
The centennial of the Salt Lake Temple was observed at a Tabernacle Choir special program, and a special mural was placed in the temple.
The Church received legal recognition in Italy, Madagascar, Cameroon and Ethiopia.
The government of Mexico formally registered the LDS Church, grant-ing it all the rights of a religious organization, including the right to own property.
Ukraine Donetsk mission is created
Utah Pioneer Day parade has float by "Latter-day Saints for Cultural Awareness," who portray African-American pioneers Elijah Abel (ordained elder and Seventy with Joseph Smith's approval, denied endowment by Brigham Young), Green Flake (Utah pioneer slave), and Jane Elizabeth Manning (sealed as eternal "Servitor" to Joseph Smith).
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences gives Oscar to LDS Jerry Molen as coproducer of "Schindler's List." Because film is "R-rated," BYU refuses to show this dramatization of Jewish Holocaust even though public high school students throughout Utah have seen this film in special screenings as school activity with parental permission.
Archibald F. Bennett, former secretary of Genealogical Society and first director of its microfilming, is inducted posthumouwly into National Genealogical Hall of Fame.
Brazil Belem mission is created
Brazil Belo Horizonte East mission is created
Brazil Belo Horizonte South mission is created
Brazil Salvador South mission is created
California San Fernando mission is created
Church membership reaches 9 million.
CHURCH NEWS story "Members Help Defeat Lottery Initiative" tells how two general authorities coordinate political campaign in Oklahoma where Mormons "make up less than 1 percent of the state's population." LDS Public Affairs officials and their Protestant allies achieve overwhelming defeat of proposal even though "public opinion polls show 75 percent for the initiative" before this Mormon-directed campaign.
Called as first counselor to President Howard W. Hunter.
First Presidency sends $760,000 to aid civil-war refugees of Rwanda, Africa.
Germany Leipzig mission is created
Became President of the Church.
Howard W. Hunter becomes fourteenth president of the Church.
Presided over creation of 2000th stake, the Mexico City Mexico Contreras Stake.
In 1994 there were 27,912 missionaries called to serve.
Jane Partridge, president of her high school seminary class, testifies before U.S. congress in support of reducing legal limits for blood-alcohol level of teenage drivers.
Maryland Baltimore mission is created
New York Utica mission is created
One-third of the population of the United States has been visited by Church representatives, and 36 percent have friends or relatives who are LDS, the Missionary Department announced.
Orlando Florida Temple was dedicated 9–11 October 1994 by Howard W. Hunter.
Peru Lima Central mission is created
Philippines Olongapo mission is created
President Ezra Taft Benson, 94, president of the Church for 8 1/2 years, died in Salt Lake City.
President Howard W. Hunter was ordained and set apart as the 14th president of the Church. Set apart as his counselors were President Gordon B. Hinckleyand President Thomas S. Monson.
President Hunter creates the 2,000th stake of the Church in Mexico City.
Russia Novosibirsk mission is created
Russia Rostov Na Donu mission is created
SALT LAKE TRIBUNE article, "The Ups and Downs of Prozac—Utah's Favorite Drug." The reporter quotes a distinguished psychiatrist as saying: "the typical Utahn taking Prozac frequently is a housewife overwhelmed with a lot of children. She's not able to deal with an unresolved problem with a marriage, and wants a solution. She will say to her doctor that she is kind of depressed and they will prescribe it. What she really needs is family counseling or therapy." The psychiatrist later claims he was misquoted.
Tahiti issues postage stamp commemorating 150 years of Mormonism there.
Texas McAllen mission is created
1994 Church Membership 9,024,368
The First Presidency announced that the 87-year-old Uintah Stake Tabernacle in Vernal, Utah, would be renovated and dedicated as Utah's 10th temple. It was the first existing building to be renovated into a temple.
Orlando Florida Temple dedicated.
Venezuela Barcelona mission is created
Venezuela Caracas mission is created
Venezuela Valencia mission is created
85% of Church membership lives in the Western Hemisphere; 47 operating temples by year's end.
A new administrative position, Area Authority, was announced by President Hinckley during the priesthood session of general conference. The position of regional representative was discontinued after 28 years.
Agreement between LDS church and American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors "over the issue of posthumous baptisms of Jewish Holocaust victims." First Presidency agrees to "remove from next issue of International Genealogical Index public-access record only names of all known posthumously baptized Jewish holocaust victims, "and "to discontinue any further baptisms of deceased Jews, including all lists of Jewish Holocaust victims who are known Jews, except if they were direct ancestors of living members of the Church."
Area Authorities are announced as a new calling.
At the annual General Relief Society Meeting, the First Presidency and Quorum of the Twelve issued a Proclamation to the World on the Family, reaffirming that "the family is central to the Creator's plan for the eternal destiny of His children."
Award-winning author Brian Evenson announces his resignation as BYU English professor to join faculty at Oklahoma State University. Because of anonymous student's complaint to an apostle about violence and "darkness" in Evenson's published work, BYU's officials were requiring him to cancel his most recent book contract with New York publisher Knopf or face termination. BYU's spokesperson comments: "The University's sense of mission and Brian's sense of mission were quite divergent."
Bountiful Utah Temple was dedicated 8–14 January 1995 by Howard W. Hunter.
Brazil Marilia mission is created
BYU's spokesman announces that university officials have accepted explanation of mathematics professor John Milo Peterson that only "a clerical error" was involved in his claiming for twenty years that University of Georgia had awarded him Ph.D. degree (which qualifies him as specialist in mathematics) rather than his actual degree of Ed.D. (which qualifies him as specialist in educational techniques) from Utah State University. Peterson is currently stake president and his college dean is patriarch of that stake. As stake president, Peterson asks every applicant for priesthood ordination and temple recommends following question: "Are you honest in your dealings with your fellowmen?" In 1993 national CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION noted that Peterson's annual salary was $103,000 (among BYU's top five) as full professor and director of graduate program in mathematics.
Chile Santiago West mission is created
CHURCH NEWS lists 117 appointments to new position (non-hierarchy) of "Area Authorities," including native-born professors at universities in Brazil, Canada, England, Japan, and Korea.
Czech Prague mission is created
Ecuador Guayaquil mission is created
Gordon B. Hinckley becomes fifteenth president of the Church.
Gordon B. Hinckley holds a press conference at the Harvard Club in New York.
Gordon B. Hinckley interviewed by BBC and other London media; KSL Television affiliates with NBC after 45 years with CBS.
Gordon B. Hinckley interviewed by Gustav Niebuhr of The New York Times.
Gordon B. Hinckley interviewed by Laurence Spicer of London News Service.
Gordon B. Hinckley interviewed by Mike Wallace on CBS's 60 Minutes.
Gordon B. Hinckley presides at "ground-breaking" ceremony for temple to be constructed by remodeling nearly ninety-year-old Uintah Stake Tabernacle in Vernal, Utah. This is first time new temple is to be created from pre-existing building which had other uses.
Church released new logo that emphasizes central position of the Savior in Church theology.
This temple has been suspended at the moment
Became President of the Church.
Howard W. Hunter, fourteenth president of the Church, dies.
In 1995 there were 29,015 missionaries called to serve.
Indonesia Jakarta mission is created
International Olympic Committee in Budapest votes overwhelmingly for Salt Lake City as site of winter Olympics in year 2002. Utahns are divided about economic benefit/losses, and some Mormons have misgivings about long-term secularization of city that Olympics will cause. However, many see this as ideal opportunity to preach Mormonism directly and indirectly to tens of thousands of visitors in short time. LDS headquarters technically remains neutral about this "political matter" during five-year promotional effort. However, Salt Lake Olympic Bid Committee's legally required financial statement shows that during its final year of operation alone, committee received $100,000 from LDS church's "associated business" Intermountain Healthcare, and $100,000 from Deseret Foundation (Arm of LDS Hospital). Hospital subsequently denies that it is officially involved in transaction by which "anonymous" party channels donations through Deseret Foundation.
LDS president answers questions at press conference, first time in 22 years.
Mexico Culiacan mission is created
Mongolia Ulaanbaatar mission is created
New Jersey Cherry Hill mission is created
Nigeria Port Harcourt mission is created
President Gordon B. Hinckley was ordained and set apart as the 15th president of the Church. Set apart as his counselors were President Thomas S. Monson, first counselor, and President James E. Faust, second counselor.
President Hinckley was interviewed by CBS television host Mike Wallace on the show 60 Minutes. The show was broadcast in April 1996.
Presiding Bishopric letter informs local LDS leaders to use toll-free telephone number to report cases of child abuse involving Mormons: "This will enable the caller to consult with social services, legal and other specialists who can assist in answering questions and in formulating steps that should be taken."
Proclamation on the Family introduced at the general Relief Society meeting.
Russia Rostov mission is created
Russia Yekaterinburg mission is created
SALT LAKE TRIBUNE reports that during formal meeting with University of Utah's president, nine Utah legislators from Utah County (home of BYU) criticize coursework at state campus. Utah County legislators (including several members of appropriations committee for University of Utah) complain about "topics being taught that are inconsistent with the beliefs of the predominant religion, particularly in the Graduate School of Social Work and the department of philosophy." These legislators (eight republicans out of nine) also have "concerns about the Women's Resource Center."
Solemn assembly sustains newly ordained Gordon B. Hinckley as LDS president, first time in Mormon history that solemn assemblies have sustained two new presidents within six-month period. For first time, females are asked to vote according to their auxiliary membership, Young Women (ages 12 to 18) and Relief Society (age 18+), in imitation of traditional voting-pattern for males according to their priesthood quorums. Announcement of end of Regional Representative calling, effective Aug 15, to be replaced by Area Authorities. These officers will be high priests serving without financial compensation for six years, while they "continue their current employment, and reside in their own homes." Number of Area authorities is intended to be substantially smaller than 284 Regional Representatives serving at this date.
1995 Church Membership 9,338,859
The Choir travels to Washington D.C. and New York, and premieres “An American Requiem” by James DeMars.
The Church News goes online at www.ldschurchnews.com.
The Church reached 9 million members.March 3 — President Hunter died at his Salt Lake City home after serving as Church president for less than nine months, the shortest tenure of any president.
The Family Proclamation is released.
Read by President Gordon B. Hinckley at a general Relief Society meeting, the proclamation becomes one of the most quoted modern Church documents.
This translation of Книга Мормона was done for Ukraine. Reference information: Ukraine, "LDS Country Database", International LDS Database (The Cumorah Project),
The International Olympic Committee announced that the site for the 2002 Winter Olympics would be in Salt Lake City.
Announced that position of Regional Representative would be discontinued and replaced by Area Authority Seventy.
U.S. postage stamp promoting environment, designed by fourteen-year-old Brian Hailes of Millville, Utah.
USA TODAY reports: "A Bountiful, Utah man discovered that his wife of 3 1/2 years is a man who is now jailed on charges he ran up $40,000 in phony credit card charges. Bruce Jensen, 39, says he feels 'pretty stupid' that he didn't know Felix Urioste, 34 was a man." Jensen and Urioste (using the name Leasa) were married in Lyman, Wyoming in December of 1991 and later were sealed for time and eternity in the Salt Lake Temple.
Utah Salt Lake City Temple Square mission is created
Church stops reporting number of Child of record baptisms, switches to increase in children of record (generally newborns)
31,324 new missionaries sent out.
A commemorative wagon train crossed Iowa, retracing the path of the 1846 exodus from Nauvoo, Ill.
A milestone was reached as a majority of members, 4,720,000, lived outside the United States, compared to 4,719,000 living within.
Albania Tirana mission is created
Austria Vienna South mission is created
Boyd K. Packer, Twelve's acting-president, tells BYU devotional assembly that Bishops should exercise strict control over LDS funerals because families are conducting funerals where "several family members speak in a funeral, we hear about the deceased instead of about the Atonement." DESERET NEWS notes that he speaks about "unwritten laws" of church conduct, but does not quote or paraphrase Apostle Packer's statements against content of LDS funerals by grieving families.
CHURCH NEWS reports that CIA's director has conferred National Intelligence Medal of Achievement on Robert A. Mills, a Mormon
CHURCH NEWS story about Chong Youl Kim, LDS director of South Korea's National Institute of Scientific Investigation ("similar to the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation," FBI).
Church's official web site www.lds.org launches unannounced.
Ecuador Guayaquil North mission is created
Ecuador Guayaquil South mission is created
Elder Joseph B. Wirthlin of the Quorum of the Twelve became the first apostle to address Latter-day Saints in Far East Russia when he spoke in Vladivostok, Russia, in the region of Siberia.
Gordon B. Hinckley holds a press conference in Council Bluffs, Iowa.
Gordon B. Hinckley holds press conferences in Tokyo, Japan and Seoul, Korea.
Gordon B. Hinckley interviewed a second time by CBS's Mike Wallace.
First Presidency announced establishment of Latter-day Saints Charities to help deliver humanitarian aid worldwide.
Groundbreaking for temple in Guayaquil, Ecuador, 14 years after it was announced. It is dedicated three years later.
Hong Kong China Temple was dedicated 26–27 May 1996 by Gordon B. Hinckley.
In 1996 there were 31,227 missionaries called to serve.
Mormon investors announce they are purchasing Southern Virginia College (SVC), four months after it loses accreditation as two-year school and one month before its closing, to turn it into Mormon school without official sponsorship by LDS headquarters. The likely success of this unprecedented idea is indicated by its announcement in CHURCH NEWS and choice of David Ferrel as college's new president. He is senior employee of recently appointed general authority Richard B. Wirthlin who formally endorses school. Having arranged for LDS congressmen to pressure accrediting association to reconsider its decision, newly installed Mormon trustees announce that SVC will be four-year college with starting freshman class of 400 students who meet same standards of conduct and entrance requirements as at BYU.
Mount Timpanogos Utah Temple was dedicated 13–19 October 1996 by Gordon B. Hinckley.
National news story that Tennessee's Fellowship of Christian Athletes has withdrawn Male Athlete Award of the Year from high school student Aaron Walker because he is member of LDS church.
Northwest Association of Schools and Colleges recertifies BYU's accreditation for ten years, despite committee's acknowledgement of faculty complaints that academic freedom is severely limited on this LDS campus.
President Gordon B. Hinckley announced at general conference that a new assembly hall four times the size of the Tabernacle would be built.
President Hinckley spoke to gatherings of Church members and missionaries in Colombia, Peru, Bolivia, Chile, Argentina and Brazil, and broke ground for temples in Bolivia and Brazil.
President Hinckley, on a tour of the Orient, became the first Church president ever to visit mainland China. He also visited, from May 17 to June 1, Japan, Korea, Hong Kong, Cambodia, Vietnam, the Philippines and Saipan.
Profile of President Hinckley and the Church airs on 60 Minutes, reaching at least 40 million people.
SALT LAKE TRIBUNE story that, contrary to recommendation of her department and college, BYU has fired English professor Gail Houston for expressing feminist views off campus. In support of this decision, university spokesman notes that 5 percent of her student-evaluations complain that Houston's courses in English literature do not offer "gospel insights" and are not "spiritually uplifting," even though 90 percent of student evaluations rank her highly. In October the American Association of University Professors begins investigation of this action in terms of due process and academic freedom.
Security leader and de facto second in command of Russian Republic publicly apologizes week after calling Russia's Mormons "filth and scum." LDS church has no more than 5,000 converts and 200 missionaries there. Apology occurs because LDS members (Republicans) of Republican-controlled U.S. Senate ask Democratic "Clinton administration to reconsider aid to Russia because of Aleksandr Lebed's stand."
The church begins a humanitarian fund.
The Faith and Values Channel changes its name to Odyssey, still carrying some Church programs.
The First Presidency announced the establishment of Latter-day Saint Charities, a charitable, nonprofit corporation designed to help the Church deliver humanitarian aid to the poor and needy of the world.
The majority of church members now live outside the U.S.
The proportion of Church members living outside the United States surpasses 50%.
A commemorative wagon train reenacts the pioneer trek 150 years later.
A letter from the First Presidency announced significant modifications to the curriculum and gospel study program for the Melchizedek Priesthood and Relief Society, providing a similar meeting and instruction schedule for both organizations.
After 93 days on the trail, the commemorative Mormon Trail Wagon Train from Winter Quarters, Neb., entered Salt Lake City, where they were greeted by about 50,000 cheering people at This Is the Place State Park. There, they heard an address by President Hinckley.
Bonneville International owns 19 radio stations by this date; DVD videodiscs and players introduced.
BYU's NewsNet provides the first English audio Internet broadcast of General Conference.
California San Francisco mission is created
Chile became the fourth nation in the world to have 100 or more stakes, with the creation of the Puerto Varas Chile Stake.
Chile Santiago East mission is created
Church membership exceeds 10,000,000, with more than half outside the United States.
Church membership surpasses 10 million.
Democratic Republic of Congo Kinshasa mission is created
During general conference, the organization of the Third, Fourth and Fifth Quorums of the Seventy was announced. Area Authorities were then ordained as Seventies, and their titled changed to Area Authority Seventy.
First Presidency announced significant modifications to curriculum and gospel study program for Relief Society and Melchizedek Priesthood.
Honduras Comayaguela mission is created
Illinois Chicago North mission is created
In 1997 there were 33,726 missionaries called to serve.
It was announced in general conference by President Hinckley that the Church would construct temples in remote areas of the Church that have small LDS populations. The first were to be built in Anchorage, Alaska; in the LDS colonies of northern Mexico; and in Monticello, Utah.
John Hughes becomes the first non-LDS editor of the Deseret News.
Mormon singer and actress Shawn Southwick marries CNN broadcast interviewer Larry King (born Lawrence Harvey Ziegler). Shawn Southwick (aka Shawn Engemann) is known to Mormon audiences as original cast member of "Saturday's Warrior" and as cover model for Jack Weyland's popular, LDS novel CHARLEY. It is her second marriage and King's sixth. King publicly refers to her repeatedly as "a devout Mormon." Their first child, Chance Armstrong King, is born March 9, 1999. LDS president Gordon B. Hinckley appears as sole guest on King's hour-long interview program, "Larry King Live" on Sept. 8, 1998 and again on Dec. 24, 1999. Hinckley appears a third time on Sept. 14, 2001 and a fourth on Dec 26, 2004. King refers to Hinckley on the air as "The prophet."
Nevada Las Vegas West mission is created
President Hinckley addressed 42,000 Church members in Mexico City and an additional 12,000 in Puebla, Mexico. On the trip, he met with Mexico's president, Dr. Ernesto Zedillo.
President Hinckley delivered 12 addresses to about 56,000 people in four nations of South America: Paraguay, Ecuador, Venezuela and Uruguay.
President Hinckley toured the South Pacific nations of New Zealand and Australia, speaking 15 times in seven cities to a total of more than 55,000 members.
President. Hinckley addressed a total of 52,500 members in eight islands of the Pacific: Samoa, Hawaii, American Samoa, Tonga, Fiji and Tahiti.
Priesthood and Relief Society lessons are announced to be the same starting in 1998.
Russia Moscow South mission is created
Sesquicentennial online site launched; Church reenacts the 150th anniversary of the pioneer trek.
Sometime during the first week of November, the Church reached 10 million members, according to Church estimates.
This is an operating temple dedicated by Gordon B. Hinckley
For the first time a majority of members live outside the United States, and the Church begins building small temples to reach them.
Texas Houston South mission is created