"You are some of the most precious children on earth, and God loves you," Elder Richard G. Scott of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles told Latter-day Saints of Mozambique while he was recently in the Africa Southeast Area. Eleven years after dedicating this country for the preaching of the gospel, Elder Scott returned in January 2011 to find that the Church has made great progress.
On Elder Scott's first visit, there were only 40 Church members in Mozambique, and the country was part of the South Africa Johannesburg Mission. At the time of his second visit, the Church had grown to more than 5,000 members spread throughout 2 districts, 19 branches, and 3 groups meeting across the country. Mozambique is also the headquarters of the Mozambique Maputo Mission, which covers all of Mozambique and Angola.
Before leaving, Elder Scott took time to meet and thank doctors who were in Mozambique with the Church's humanitarian aid program.