Samuel Smith
FIRST LATTER-DAY SAINT MISSIONARY BORN 200 YEARS AGO
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SALT LAKE CITY, Utah - Samuel Smith, the first missionary for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and brother of Church founder Joseph Smith, was born 200 years ago on March 13. Elder M. Russell Ballard, a Church Apostle as well as a descendant of Hyrum Smith, a brother of Samuel and Joseph, spoke Sunday evening in the Salt Lake Tabernacle about the first Mormon missionary's legacy.