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(Left) Sister Moody, from Elk Ridge, Utah, and Sister Ray, from Atlanta begin their companionship study with a prayer, while carrying out their mission at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ Independence Visitors’ Center in Independence, Mo., on Sept. 10, 2013. RNS photo by Sally Morrow

(Left) Sister Moody, from Elk Ridge, Utah, and Sister Ray, from Atlanta begin their companionship study with a prayer, while carrying out their mission at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ Independence Visitors’ Center in Independence, Mo., on Sept. 10, 2013. RNS photo by Sally Morrow