![]() ![]() Nielson, executive director of the Missionary Department at the time, said, “I quickly learned that the Lord had prepared us for this day. However, through the inspired efforts of missionaries working from their apartments on their smartphones, baptisms continued.Įlder Brent H. Within three weeks, the pandemic shut down the world and proselyting stopped. ![]() 1.įast forward to January 2020 when President Nelson, now President of the Church, authorized every missionary worldwide to have a smartphone. However, “Elder Nelson never wavered in his conviction that missionaries could be taught to use the internet righteously and that they should have smartphones,” Sheri Dew related during a BYU–Hawaii devotional on Nov. In time, the council began pilot testing in a few missions, and every problem the council predicted could happen, happened. ![]() One day he announced to the council the need to put smartphones in the hands of every missionary. Nelson chaired the Missionary Executive Council. ![]()
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