{"id":2230,"date":"2010-02-16T10:02:39","date_gmt":"2010-02-16T17:02:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/?p=2230"},"modified":"2010-02-16T10:02:39","modified_gmt":"2010-02-16T17:02:39","slug":"utah-st-george-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/2010\/02\/16\/utah-st-george-mission\/","title":{"rendered":"Utah St. George Mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since the Church\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ldschurchnews.com\/articles\/58775\/New-missions-10-announced-in-seven-areas.html\">announced<\/a> last week that it would be\u00c2\u00a0amalgamating\u00c2\u00a0several missions around the world, the Bloggernacle lit up with <a href=\"http:\/\/bycommonconsent.com\/2010\/02\/11\/mission-restructuring\/\">several<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/ldschurchgrowth.blogspot.com\/2010\/02\/10-new-missions-to-be-created-14-to-be.html\">discussions<\/a> regarding former missionaries of those missions losing their mission.<\/p>\n<p>My mission is one of the affected ones. In my case, however, my mission is being split. Geographically, at least three-quarters of it is being turned into the Utah St. George Mission. Granted, my mission already\u00c2\u00a0lost\u00c2\u00a0pieces to the Nevada Las Vegas Mission and the New Mexico Farmington Mission.<\/p>\n<p>It looks like four of my areas (Kanab, Wellington, Pleasant Grove, and Provo) will remain in the UPM, while Kanab (my third area) will be in the USGM. Mesquite, my fifth area, transferred to the NLVM several years ago.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thespectrum.com\/article\/20100215\/NEWS01\/2150318\/LDS-Church-to-add-mission\">Apparently<\/a>, the UPM had the highest number of stakes of any mission in the world.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder if this is one more step to creating a St. George Temple Mission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since the Church\u00c2\u00a0announced last week that it would be\u00c2\u00a0amalgamating\u00c2\u00a0several missions around the world, the Bloggernacle lit up with several &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/2010\/02\/16\/utah-st-george-mission\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Utah St. George Mission<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Utah St. George Mission<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/2010\/02\/16\/utah-st-george-mission\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Utah St. George Mission\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Ever since the Church\u00c2\u00a0announced last week that it would be\u00c2\u00a0amalgamating\u00c2\u00a0several missions around the world, the Bloggernacle lit up with several &hellip;\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/2010\/02\/16\/utah-st-george-mission\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Our Thoughts\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2010-02-16T17:02:39+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Kim Siever\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Kim Siever\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/2010\/02\/16\/utah-st-george-mission\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/2010\/02\/16\/utah-st-george-mission\/\",\"name\":\"Utah St. George Mission\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2010-02-16T17:02:39+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2010-02-16T17:02:39+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/#\/schema\/person\/99e996edc89affe5206808d3f65869d1\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/2010\/02\/16\/utah-st-george-mission\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/\",\"name\":\"Our Thoughts\",\"description\":\"Thought-provoking commentary on life, politics, religion and social issues.\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/#\/schema\/person\/99e996edc89affe5206808d3f65869d1\",\"name\":\"Kim Siever\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/417c7b5f55d329bdd0f64ef4396831db?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/417c7b5f55d329bdd0f64ef4396831db?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Kim Siever\"},\"description\":\"Queer Mormon poet with radical political views. 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