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Tallahassee missionary couple adapts to gospel service under pandemic conditions SAN FRANCISCO – Tallahassee residents Curtis and Carol Austin left their home last year to serve a mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, arriving in the Bay Area to support members and leaders of the church. They soon received an assignment: teaching English to Mandarin and Cantonese speakers and helping adults pursue their education through Brigham Young University’s Pathways Program. Then COVID-19 changed the landscape and the Austins were given an option: continue the mission or head back home to Tallahassee. [...]

Long-time Tallahassee residents on mission to San Francisco SAN FRANCISCO – After spending 34 years raising six children in Tallahassee and retiring as the executive director of the Florida Association of Post-Secondary Schools and Colleges, Curtis Austin and his wife Carol decided to go west to spend the next two years as missionaries for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. The Austins were called to serve as senior missionaries in the church’s California Oakland/San Francisco Mission where they teach the gospel, teach English to Mandarin and Cantonese speakers, work one day a week [...]

Former state champion, Gabe Beyer, spent two years as a missionary in Nevada September 27, 2019 LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – Gabe Beyer, the former Florida state champion wrestler, and All Big Bend Defensive Player of the Year in football from Tallahassee’s Leon High, is now starting his wrestling career at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock where the Trojans are starting a new wrestling program. Beyer, who was recruited out of high school in 2016 by college powers Penn State and Arizona State, and many others, returned from Nevada earlier this year where [...]