Comments: For Leo Percival Talbot, the call to serve as president of the Australia Sydney South Mission has personal meaning.Serving in the mission area reminds President Talbot, the first Australian to preside over the Sydney mission, of hisancestral roots.Although the former regional representative for the Perth and Adelaide Regions was born in Melbourne, his family history gives him a sentimental claim to the suburbs southwest of Sydney. After his ancestors arrived in Australia in 1792 on the Fourth Fleet, their subsequent fourteen children and eighty grandchildren helped populate the areas of Campbelltown, Liverpool, and Parramatta. Serving in the Sydney South mission will be just like returning home, President Talbot says. For the rest of the story click here |