Meltham Ward Celebrates Nine Missionaries in Service
On 26 April 2022, Malachi Fullwood and Jas Flynn both opened their mission calls with family and friends. Excited at the chance to serve in the Armenia/Georgia Mission and the Finland Helsinki Mission, respectively, it was a joyous and emotional day.
It was also a day of celebration for the Meltham Ward of the Huddersfield Stake. Once Elder Fullwood and Elder Flynn left for the MTC in August and September, they became the eighth and ninth concurrent serving missionaries from the ward.
In the hills made famous by Last of the Summer Wine1, the villages that make up this rural ward support Elder Jacob Turner (Alpine-German Speaking Mission), Elder Joseph Flynn (Germany Berlin Mission), Elder Isaac Casper (England Manchester Mission), Sister Eva Cooper (England Manchester Mission), Sister Grace Cooper (England London Mission – Spanish speaking), Elder Luca Everson (Hungary Romania Mission), and Elder Ben Williams (France Paris Mission) —alongside Elder Fullwood and Elder Flynn.
Bishop Adam Quesne said, “With eight families having children serving missions, it is a great privilege and blessing for the rest of the ward to support and love those missionaries too.
“Adapted from a famous proverb: ‘it takes a [ward] to raise a [missionary]’. In the last year we have also had missionaries return from Brazil, Sweden, Russia and Ukraine. It has been an incredible experience to learn of the new cultures, hear the languages and see the growth in these young men and young women as they have served the Lord and their brothers and sisters across the world”.