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Missionaries with Welfare Assignments
- Lift Up Thy Hands
- Humanitarian missionaries Joel and Kathryn Sperry help schools develop small agricultural projects such as raising chickens and vegetables to provide protein for the childrens' diets and to give the schools a source of income.
- Our Children Can't Stop Talking about Us
- The Misbachs are serving a third humanitarian mission, helping the homeless, the elderly, and children. They tell how it has brought meaning and joy to their lives, and how they hope their children and grandchildren will follow their example.
- Making the Mekong a Cleaner Place
- The Swensons were missionaries teaching English in Laos. On their way to school each day, they noticed litter along the river and began cleaning it up. Others saw their efforts and began to help. Garbage cans were soon purchased to place along the river.
- The Hardest Thing We Had So Much Fun Doing
- Humanitarian missionaries Elder and Sister Coombs help hospital administrators in Bangkok by obtaining diagnostic equipment for cancer ward children.
- The Lord Looketh on the Heart
- Sister missionaries walk to a small village high in the Andes where they meet an 86-year-old blind man who had recently lost his wife. They teach him the gospel, as well as the principles of temporal salvation. He is baptized and becomes a faithful member.
- Of Rabbits and Men
- Humanitarian service missionaries Henry and Janice Peacock help people on the island of Samar to raise rabbits and grow vegetables. The health of the people improves and they now have a source of income from the sales of vegetables, meats, and hides.
- A Disease Dimly Remembered
- In 2003 the Church commited funds to the International Red Cross to immunize children against measles. Terry and Danne Morris were called as humanitarian missionaries to help coordinate these measles vaccinations.
- "I guess we done some good"
- When Helaman Hunt was born, bleeding in his brain and spinal meningitis caused doctors to doubt his chances of survival. Through the faith of his mother and priesthood blessings he not only survived but he now serves as a special needs missionary at Welfare Square.
- A Mormonish Jew
- Two young missionaries visit Betty, a Jewish lady, who had been very ill. As she recovered, she tried to plant a small flower garden, which proved to be difficult. The elders helped her plant her flowers, and she read the Book of Mormon.
- As Ye Reap, So Also Shall Ye Sow
- John Hess is sent to Belarus by Humanitarian Services at the request of the Belarus Department of Agriculture to help with their lagging potato harvest. Through the methods Brother Hess used, the potato harvest in his plots yielded 11 times the state plots.
- I Am Not An English Teacher
- Dr. Ralph Francis and his wife, Charla, were called as humanitarian missionaries, but instead of assisting at a dental school in Indonesia as planned, they were reassigned to teach English to students in Cambodia due to the September 11, 2001, attacks.
- Where There Is Work, There Is Hope
- Clyne and Ann Long serve a humanitarian mission in Ecuador. They teach people about finding work, which gives the people of Ecuador hope in a country that is filled with the poor and uneducated people who have little hope for change.
- And Feet Was I to the Lame
- John and Nancy Hopkins accept a call to serve as welfare missionaries in Mongolia. There they see a woman carrying an eight-year-old boy who had been crippled since birth. A medical shipment arrives and inside is a child-sized wheelchair which is given to the boy.
- The Boy Who Moved
- Simon was 13 years old and had rarely left his house. Stricken with muscular dystrophy and paralyzed from the waist down, he had grown too heavy for his parents to carry him. Then one day, through the efforts of humanitarian service missionaries, he received a wheelchair from the Church.
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