Dedication Prayer Asks Blessings on Honduras

Honduras was dedicated on June 1 for missionary work by Elder Russell M. Nelson of the Quorum of the Twelve.

Although missionaries have been working in the country since 1952, and Central America was long ago dedicated for missionary work, Honduras itself had not been dedicated. The country has nine stakes, two missions, and more than thirty thousand members.

In the prayer, Elder Nelson expressed gratitude for the restoration of the gospel and the reestablishment of the Church and asked that the Church might be additionally strengthened in Honduras. The prayer also asked a blessing on the Honduran people, that they might be receptive to the gospel, and on the nation’s present and future leaders, that they might support freedom of worship.

Elder Rex D. Pinegar of the Presidency of the Seventy and Elder Gardner H. Russell of the Seventy, a counselor in the Central America Area Presidency, accompanied Elder Nelson and spoke at the dedicatory service. About fifty local Church leaders attended the service, which was held on a mountainside overlooking Tegucigalpa, the capital city.