Keeping The Faith: With Missionary Work Banned, Mormons In Russia ‘Just Making Friends’
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty December 30, 2018 Matthew Luxmoore TVER, Russia — When American Ian Crookston was assigned to Russia as a Mormon missionary in 2009, the 19-year-old knew next to nothing about the country. Nevertheless, putting his undergraduate studies on hold, he set off for a year of asceticism...