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Santo Domingo: Elder Ballard makes return visit – LDS Church News

Published: Saturday, Nov. 28, 2009 12:14 a.m. MST

By Rebecca Mehr, For LDS Church News

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SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic — In a historic visit to the Caribbean, Elder M. Russell Ballard addressed a group of priesthood leaders in Santo Domingo, where 31 years earlier he dedicated the nation of the Dominican Republic and opened the land to missionary work.

On Nov. 13, the area presidency and the eight Mormon mission presidents of the Caribbean Area with their wives joined Elder Claudio R.M. Costa of the Presidency of the Seventy and Elder Ballard in the Mirador Sur Park in Santo Domingo.

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