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Ministry in Mormon country

— To Mormons, the Salt Lake Temple — a magnificent granite structure built in the 1800s — stands as a sacred icon and monument of pioneer faith.

For the 14 million adherents worldwide of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Temple Square represents “Jerusalem and Mecca and Shangri-La all rolled into one,” said Latayne C. Scott, a former Mormon.

“I myself wore a silver charm of the Salt Lake Temple around my neck for many years,” said Scott, author of the Zondervan book “The Mormon Mirage” and a member of the Mountainside Church of Christ in Albuquerque, N.M.

On a recent morning, a dozen teenagers from Texas made their way to the center of Utah’s capital city to tour the Mormon world headquarters. The teens’ aim: familiarize themselves with the region’s predominant religion before starting a weeklong mission trip here.

The youth group came from the 1,200-member Sunset Church of Christ in Lubbock — a West Texas congregation with more members than all the Churches of Christ in Utah combined.

“I wanted the Texas kids to get a perspective” on Mormon life, said Mike Wiist, minister of the Murray Park Church of Christ, a 100-member congregation just south of Salt Lake City that hosted the group.

Mormons believe God gave additional Scriptures beyond the Bible to a self-styled prophet named Joseph Smith in the 19th century. These writings claim Jesus Christ visited the Americas, reject traditional Christian understandings of the trinity and original sin and admonish followers to avoid alcohol and caffeine.

“I guess, if you’re just looking at it from a distance, people might say, ‘Oh, I can’t believe people believe that. It’s ridiculous,’” Wiist said. “But to see people who are really passionate about what they believe, to see real people behind the beliefs, real hearts, real faces — maybe the group can take that perspective with them.”

The teens were joined by adult sponsors and four short-term missionaries to Salt Lake City: Beth Horn, her brother Dustin Horn, Jacob Norwood and Glenna Schultz, all serving through Sunset International Bible Institute’s Adventures in Missions program, known as AIM.

“Mormonism is in my roots, so I really wanted to come be a part of it,” said Sunset member Laura Collier, who joined her daughter, Rhonda, 17, on the trip.

Laura Collier grew up in Wyoming and was baptized as a Mormon at age 8.

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