All missionaries safe in Ecuador

[pam]

http://www.ksl.com/?sid=39383125&nid=1284

 

QUITO, Ecuador — A spokeswoman for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints confirmed Sunday that all of the missionaries in Ecuador are accounted for and safe in the wake of Saturday’s 7.8-magnitude earthquake that has left at least 235 people dead and more than 1,500 injured.

[Guest MormonGator]

12 minutes ago, pam said:

http://www.ksl.com/?sid=39383125&nid=1284

 

QUITO, Ecuador — A spokeswoman for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints confirmed Sunday that all of the missionaries in Ecuador are accounted for and safe in the wake of Saturday’s 7.8-magnitude earthquake that has left at least 235 people dead and more than 1,500 injured.

Very glad they are okay! Praying for all the victims, for sure. 

[LeSellers]

14 minutes ago, pam said:

QUITO, Ecuador — A spokeswoman for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints confirmed Sunday that all of the missionaries in Ecuador are accounted for and safe in the wake of Saturday’s 7.8-magnitude earthquake that has left at least 235 people dead and more than 1,500 injured.

Thanks for posting this. I don't always keep up with this sort of thing, and I should.

Lehi

[unixknight]

My dad lives there, and he was telling me about it yesterday on the phone.  Pretty scary stuff.

[pam]

All of the missionaries are safe.  Unfortunately some of the local members died from it.  Including a local leader, his wife and daughter.

http://www.ksl.com/?sid=39408879&nid=1016&title=mormon-leader-his-wife-and-daughter-among-413-killed-in-ecuador-quake

[Vort]

How sad.

[tesuji]

I'm truly glad the missionaries are safe, and sad for the members who have died.

However, at the risk of sounding callous:

With 80,000 missionaries in the field and almost 17 million members, statistically you would expect some of these to die every day. I don't see the point of the news headlines announcing things like this, unless I guess you have a missionary or know some members in the area.

[tesuji]

I'm actually surprised more missionaries don't die. The death rate must be a lot lower than the average, for example, for US males ages 18-20. That's an age of high risk living, for those not living an LDS missionary lifestyle at least.

I think the Lord must be watching over them. Especially the ones obeying the mission rules

Edited April 19, 2016 by tesuji

[NightSG]

11 minutes ago, tesuji said:

With 80,000 missionaries in the field and almost 17 million members, statistically you would expect some of these to die every day. I don't see the point of the news headlines announcing things like this, unless I guess you have a missionary or know some members in the area.

I have a friend serving in Chile, and while I hope her family would let me know if anything happened to her, I doubt I would be high on the priority list, so it's comforting to have these "all missionaries safe" headlines, often before I even hear of something going wrong there.

[pam]

1 hour ago, tesuji said:

I'm truly glad the missionaries are safe, and sad for the members who have died.

However, at the risk of sounding callous:

With 80,000 missionaries in the field and almost 17 million members, statistically you would expect some of these to die every day. I don't see the point of the news headlines announcing things like this, unless I guess you have a missionary or know some members in the area.

Well for those of us that live in the SLC area, the news of things like this comes out quite often.  I post them just for general knowledge.

[Guest MormonGator]

10 minutes ago, pam said:

Well for those of us that live in the SLC area, the news of things like this comes out quite often.  I post them just for general knowledge.

I'm glad you post them. I don't get a lot of LDS news from the proper sources living so far away from Utah. 

These missionaries do the Lords work, literally. They are far away from their families at such a young age and give up so much. We owe it to them to stay informed and pray for their safety.