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Afghanistan. He and his wife, Rachel, along with Ted and Janath Cannon were the first four LDS missionaries sent to Nigeria and Ghana, arriving in late 1978. By the time they left there were over 1700 Latter-day Saints in those two countries organized into eight districts, all of which were presided over by natives of the country in which they were located. Among others they worked with during their year as missionaries were
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84:(August 8, 1908 – November 8, 2000) was a speaker of the Utah House of Representatives, member of the Utah State Senate, and prominent leader of missionaries in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Mabey was among the first four LDS missionaries sent to Nigeria, and had previously been president of the Swiss Mission.
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Antonio Giurintano. On a second visit to Sicily in 1966 Mabey organized the first branch there. Mabey also oversaw LDS missionaries in Lebanon, and LDS Church members in Poland, as well as expatriate Latter-day Saints in all of Africa besides South Africa and Rhodesia, South-west Asia,
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