VICTORIA, Texas -- Mission Victoria is what they call it, and their title, elder, is a bit deceiving for the youthful group of 20-something-year-old missionaries in town.

"Victoria is awesome," said Elder Johnathon Cobabe, a 19-year-old Mormon missionary from Washington. He's been in the city for little more than a month teaching and training.

"Victoria is the best place in Texas, and dare I say the world," added Elder Dayton Law, his 20-year-old trainer, flashing a bright smile. Law gave up a cabinet-making business in Utah to become a missionary.

"This is the good life out here doing this kind of stuff," he said.

The two wear short-sleeve white shirts and ties, the basic uniform for their line of work. They carry small knapsacks filled with Bibles and several copies of the Book of Mormon.

In regular clothes you could probably mistake the former high school athletes for fraternity members or college freshman. But their purpose here is different.



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