From Deseret News archives:
Missionary survives fall from cliff
Weirich went missing about 2 p.m. Wednesday while hiking in the park with three other missionaries. That part of Australia is 15 hours ahead of Mountain Standard Time.
"We feel like a miracle happened," said Jinger Aleman, a friend of Weirich's family in Fredericksburg, Texas, who was serving as their spokesperson.
New South Wales police agree.
"It is a miracle," New South Wales police spokesman Norris Smith said. "And if he is a missionary like some people are saying, then I guess the boss was looking after him."
Morton National Park's landscapes are primarily sandstone cliffs, from which waterfalls cascade into rainforest valleys, according to information from the park Web site. The park is south of Sydney in Australia's Southern Highlands.
Weirich was serving in the Australia Sydney South mission, LDS church spokesman Dale Bills said. Bills did not know when Weirich's mission had begun, but Aleman said he was due to return to Fredericksburg in August.
The mission president had called Matthew's parents, Rick and Brenda Weirich, about 4 a.m. Wednesday notifying them that their son was missing, Aleman said.
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