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LDS Missionary From Logandale Found Dead

	By Vernon Robison Moapa Valley Progress Published February 3, 2010 An LDS missionary from Logandale died last week while serving in Romania. According to Scott Trotter, a spokesman for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Elder Jace Edwards Davis died on Friday, January 29 from accidental natural gas asphyxiation. Davis was the son of Larry and Donna Davis of Logandale. Also dead was Davis' missionary companion Elder McKay Choy Burrows of Highland, Utah. Both were serving in the Church's Romania Bucharest Mission. Davis was in the fourteenth month of his two year missionary service. He was expected to return home at the end of this year.	Elder Jace Edwards Davis of Logandale, died last week while serving an LDS mission in Romania.

	"Jace was a wonderful young man and he will be greatly missed," said LDS Logandale Stake President Matt Messer. "He was a strong and faithful missionary. I have spoken to his Mission President who said that Jace was doing a wonderful job there in Romania." Messer stated that the news of Davis' death had been a shock and a deeply felt loss to the general LDS membership in the Logandale Stake. "With terrible tragic events like this it is hard to understand why," Messer said. "But we have faith that someday we will fully understand. We've learned over the past year with tragic events like these, that people eventually can heal and overcome. It is hard, but we can because of what we know to be true." Efforts are being made by local church membership to comfort and help the Davis family through this difficult time, Messer said. "The Davises are faithful, good people," Messer said. "Our hearts go out to them. They have good friends and a strong family. I know that they will come out on top." The LDS church has over 52,000 missionaries serving throughout the world. The Logandale Stake currently has 55 missionaries serving in the mission field. TELL US WHAT YOU THINK! Comment on this story. Send a letter to the editor by email, click here: *EMAIL US*

LDS Missionary From Logandale Found Dead