Matthew McBride | The Lives and Legacies of the First Sister Missionaries

Latter-day Saint Women Podcast

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

5 • 670 Ratings

🗓️ 7 October 2020

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Though Latter-day Saint women have participated in missionary work by sharing the gospel since the beginning of the restoration, it wasn't until 1898 that the first "lady missionaries" were called to serve full-time missions. Church Historian and author Matthew McBride shares stories of what life was like for these first sister missionaries, why their influence was an important part of the growth of the Church in the early 1900s, and how they paved the way for the thousands of sister missionaries to follow. You'll be inspired by the faith and courage of the earliest sister missionaries, and understand how the contributions of women, past and present, are unique and vital to missionary work. Additional Resources: Learn more about some of the first full-time sister missionaries • Josephine Booth: Sister Missionary to Scotland https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/ensign/2015/08/josephine-booth-sister-missionary-to-scotland • “An Ardent Desire to Speak for Myself”: Lecture Explores Evolution of “Lady Missionaries” https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/church/news/an-ardent-desire-to-speak-for-myself-lecture-explores-evolution-of-lady-missionaries • Women in the Mission Field https://history.churchofjesuschrist.org/landing/women-with-a-mission • Missionary Database https://history.churchofjesuschrist.org/missionary/ • Log in to Family Search to discover the missionaries in your family tree https://www.familysearch.org/campaign/missionary

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Latter-day Saint Women podcast, where we share the legacy of women of the
0:09.0	Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. You'll get to know the faithful women who shaped our past
0:13.8	and hear from inspiring women and men today of faith. I'm Carly Geiman. And I'm Shailenbach.
0:20.6	We're your co-hosts. We're excited today to
0:23.2	welcome back to the podcast, Matthew McBride. Matt, thanks for being here today. It's good to be here.
0:29.2	Matt is the director of publications for the church history department, and he is a contributor to the
0:35.0	Joseph Smith Papers and to the new narrative church history volume
0:38.7	Saints, the story of the Church of Jesus Christ of Lattery Saints.
0:42.3	And part of his focus professionally has been on the history of missions, and we are really
0:48.0	looking forward to our discussion today about early sister missionaries in particular.
0:52.8	And Matt, I remember reading in saints about women in the
0:55.9	19th century who served with their husbands when they were called on missions. Will you just tell us
1:00.6	more about this informal way that women were involved in missionary work in the beginning of the
1:06.2	church? And then what eventually led to women being called as individual full-time missionaries?
1:12.6	Sure. You know, from about 1830 till the late 1890s, women are participating in the church's
1:21.4	missionary efforts in a couple of different ways. And one of them, as you mentioned, is kind of
1:25.9	this more informal work that women are doing
1:28.1	to share the gospel, kind of the way we think about member missionary work today with friends,
1:33.4	with relatives. And this is a quiet ministry that these women carry out over the decades,
1:39.6	sometimes in person, sometimes in letters. Sometimes they'll publish in a church newspaper or magazine.
1:47.0	One of my favorite examples of this is Marianne Fulmer Price, who joins the church in the American
1:53.0	South. Her parents do not join the church. She's kind of, I think, the only convert from her family
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