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Latter-Day Saint L. Douglas Waldorf was employed in a radio station in Elizabeth City, NC in 1948. As Doug Waldorf was the youngest disc jockey at the time, he usually received the assignment to work on Sunday mornings when the traveling ministers came to have their ministry shows put on the air. But Doug Waldorf was not impressed with their message, based on the teachings he had received from his grandmother, "Nannie Waldorf". Once a group of singing missionaries came to the radio station, and asked if they could have some air time. "Wally Douglas", as L. Douglas Waldorf was known on his radio shows, was impressed enough with the message of these young singing missionaries that Doug Waldorf sent these missionaries to the home of his parents, Leslie D. "Strut" Waldorf, Sr. and Mary Booker Waldorf. From this visit, Doug Waldorf's parents learned of the restored Gospel of Jesus Christ on the earth and how and where to find it, in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Les and Mary Waldorf knew that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was the true church of Jesus Christ that Les Waldorf's mother, Doug Waldorf's grandmother - "Nannie Waldorf", had been looking for all her life as she read her Bible, and Les and Mary Waldorf were baptized into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1948. About this same time, Doug Waldorf's sweet bride, Olive Jean Owens Waldorf, had been praying to find a church both she and Doug could attend together. As she finished praying, there was a knock at her door. When Olive Owens Waldorf answered her door, she found to young missionaries from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on her doorstep. Olive Owens Waldorf invited the missionaries back to see her and Doug when Doug got home from the radio station. In the next year, though Doug and Olive Waldorf moved to Norfolk, Virginia in the meantime, Doug and Olive Waldorf went through eight sets of missionaries before Doug Waldorf realized that he "could not prove it was wrong", and for the first time in his life, L. Douglas Waldorf was baptized in an organized religion, the one that fit the teachings from the Holy Bible of what the true Church of Jesus Christ should be from his grandmother, "Nannie Waldorf" and L. Douglas Waldorf was baptized into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on 27 August 1949, along with his wife, Olive Jean Owens Waldorf. About a year thereafter, Doug Waldorf was called to serve a mission for the Lord, and leaving his wife and young son, Ivan Roderick Waldorf, at home to wait for him, Doug Waldorf went to the Central Atlantic States Mission, in the Virginia Central District, which is in the mountains of Virginia, and preached the message of the Restored Gospel of Jesus Christ. As Doug Waldorf's mission was coming to a close, Doug Waldorf was confiding to his mission president about Doug's plan of moving "out west" with his wife and son when he returned home. Doug Waldorf's mission president prophesied that if Doug Waldorf would stay in the east, that Doug Waldorf would continue his mission for the rest of his life. This prophesy has been fulfilled as Doug Waldorf has continued to teach the gospel of Jesus Christ throughout his life. The Fireside Lecture Series of L. Douglas Waldorf is just one small way that Doug has continued his mission throughout his life. L. Douglas Waldorf served the Lord Jesus Christ through out his life through not only missionary work, but also through numerous callings throughout his life, including, but not limited to home teacher; Sunday School teacher; music leader; member of the first Stake High Council ever in the new Virginia Stake (which encompassed from Richmond, Virginia to Columbia, North Carolina); first Elder Quroum's president in the Virginia Stake of Zion; Stake Boy Scout Leader; served as High Priest Group Leader and as Assistant to the High Priest Group Leader; organized and presided over the first home Sunday School in Manteo, North Carolina, which lead to the organization of the Manteo Branch which is now the Nags Head, NC Branch; counselor to Branch Presidents; member of the High Council in Columbia, SC Stake; had served continually as a Temple Ordinance Worker in the Atlanta GA Temple since its dedication in 1983; and most recently, served as Male Stake Single Adult Representative in the Marietta East Stake of Zion and lastly as Secretary to the High Priest Group Leader. L. Douglas Waldorf was asked by BYU Professor and renowned author, Dr. Paul Chessman, when Dr. Paul Chessman was President of the Louisianna, Baton Rouge Mission, to tour the Louisianna, Baton Rouge Mission and give these LDS Fireside Lectures to every ward in the mission. Brethren serving as Ward Mission Leaders in the Atlanta Georgia area had asked L. Douglas Waldorf to give these Firesides in their Wards often over the past 25 years. L. Douglas Waldorf had been a popular and much sought after speaker through out the southeast for most of his life in the Church. L. Douglas Waldorf desired to continue to share his testimony and his knowledge of the scriptures as well as history and how they support each other through his Fireside Lecture Series, and was working diligently with Mark 4:22 Productions and Publications, Inc. in producing and distrubuting his facinating LDS Fireside Lecture Series. Work is continuing on the production of this LDS Fireside Series, and productions will continue to be released, beginning with The Princess & the Scroll on DVD in October 2007. Made your selection and ready to check out? Just click here now. MARK 4:22 PRODUCTIONS & PUBLICATIONS, INC., PO Box 422, Rydal, GA 30171 770-382-3088 "For there is nothing hid, which shall not be manifested; neither was any thing kept secret, but that it should come abroad." Mark 4:22 (King James Version)