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    29 July 2014 - Victor Harbor, Australia
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    New Congregation Linked to Australia's Mormon History

    A new Latter-day Saint congregation was formed on Sunday, 20 July 2014, in the South Australian coastal town where the first Mormon missionary sent to Australia was buried.

    The new leader of the Victor Harbor Branch of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Boyd Fitton, explains the link that Victor Harbor has with early Mormon history.

       
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       “The first missionary sent to Australia was William Barratt, a 17-year-old convert from Britain who arrived in Adelaide in 1840, keen to share his faith and lend a hand in the fledgling community,” Mr Fitton said.

      Read more at the Australian edition of Mormon Newsroom.

       

       

       

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