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This week's "Mormon Land" podcast features a former NASA engineer who worked on the Mars rover and her husband, a former Navy engineer. Together, the Black couple, converts to Mormonism, now oversee the faith's Louisiana Baton Rouge Mission.
From paranormal to a not-so-normal Mormon
“X-Files” watchers know that “the truth is out there,” and David Duchovny’s Latter-day Saint fans should know that so is his new novel, which includes hefty helpings of Mormonism.
Released this month, “Truly Like Lightning,” the latest creation from the Ivy League-educated actor turned writer, centers on Bronson Powers, a former Hollywood stuntman who converts to Mormonism (and its earlier teachings) and homesteads off the grid with his three wives and 10 children on the desert near Southern California’s Joshua Tree National Park.
“Seduced by the faith’s outsider-ish, independent spirit, [Bronson] adopts an originalist interpretation of the religion,” states a Washington Post review. “.Bronson’s undiluted Mormonism gives Duchovny a metaphor for American reinvention.”
President John D. and Sister Michelle E. Amos. Sister Amos is a former NASA engineer who worked on the Mars 2020 rover before embarking on a mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She watched her project land Thursday while on Zoom with 200 missionaries.
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For almost a year, Michelle Wright Amos worked on the Mars 2020 rover as a systems engineer.
But before the Perseverance rover launched on July 30, 2020, Amos and her husband, John, received a special church assignment to supervise young men and young women serving as full-time missionaries in Louisiana.