01 · VALRICO, FLORIDA
✉LETTER · DAY 0
The call letter
“Dear Elder Quigley: You are hereby called to serve as a missionary of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints… assigned to labor in the South Africa Johannesburg Mission.”
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Farewell at the stake center
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02 · TAMPA INTL · TPA
◪PHOTO · DAY 1
Gate C41 — last hugs
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✉LETTER · DAY 1
Wheels up
“I watched Tampa get small out the window and said a prayer into my sleeve. Two suitcases, one name tag, eighteen years of Sunday lessons.”
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03 · PROVO MTC, UTAH
✉LETTER · DAY 5
Week one at the MTC
“My companion is Elder Tui from Samoa and he laughs like thunder. We are up at 6:30, Preach My Gospel until our brains leak, and I have never been happier or more tired in my life.”
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District 14-B
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▶VIDEO · DAY 12
P-day volleyball
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04 · JOHANNESBURG · JNB
✉LETTER · DAY 15
We landed
“Sixteen hours over the Atlantic, and when the aircraft doors opened the air smelled like rain on warm pavement. The mission president’s wife had rusks and hot chocolate waiting for us at the mission home.”
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First sunrise over Joburg
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▶VIDEO · DAY 15
Airport → mission home
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05 · SOWETO · AREA 1
✉LETTER · DAY 24
Pap & chakalaka
“The Dlamini family feeds us pap and chakalaka every Sunday, and Sister Dlamini will not accept I’m full as an answer.”
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◪PHOTO · DAY 58
The ward choir
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◪PHOTO · DAY 96
Vilakazi Street
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06 · PRETORIA · AREA 2
◪PHOTO · DAY 236
Jacarandas in October
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✉LETTER · DAY 128
Transfer news
“Transferred north to Pretoria. In October the jacarandas turn every street purple and the petals pile up like snow that smells like honey.”
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07 · MASERU, LESOTHO · AREA 3
◪PHOTO · DAY 293
The Maluti Mountains
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✉LETTER · DAY 299
Snow in Africa
“The Kingdom in the Sky! Maseru sits a mile above the sea, and my first week here it SNOWED on the mountains. In Africa. Nobody back home believes me.”
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▶VIDEO · DAY 340
Horseback to Semonkong
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08 · BLOEMFONTEIN · AREA 4
✉LETTER · DAY 460
City of Roses
“Bloemfontein — they call it the City of Roses, and the members here have adopted me completely.”
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◪PHOTO · DAY 505
My district
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THE JOURNEY OF ELDER QUIGLEY
SOUTH AFRICA JOHANNESBURG MISSION
VALRICO
DAY 0
TAMPA INTL
DAY 1
PROVO MTC
13 DAYS
JOHANNESBURG
DAY 15
SOWETO
105 DAYS
PRETORIA
170 DAYS
MASERU
160 DAYS
BLOEMFONTEIN
68 DAYS · NOW
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A TWO-YEAR JOURNEY · 8,700 MILES
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Valrico, Florida → Johannesburg, South Africa
FEB 2025 — FEB 2027
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PREPARING THE JOURNEY
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day 519 of 730 · see you in 211 days, Elder