By: Ardis E. Parshall - November 12, 2013 The MIA (the Young Ladies’ – later Young Women’s – and Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations) were organized in 1869 and 1875, respectively, with a vague general mission to organize and “improve” the youth of the Church. Oh, they were each given some definite assignments in the early days (young women were to “retrench” or pull back from the fashions of the day, becoming m...
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