The LDS Church secured a small legal victory in Russia recently, when that nationâs Constitutional Court ruled that two Mormon volunteers â formerly known as missionaries â were wrongly deported. In 2016, Nathaniel Joseph Worden and Parker Drake Oldham, both U.S. citizens, arrived in Samara as volunteers to provide âspiritual support to Samara members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints,â according to a release on the faithâs Russian news website, âand received a migration registr... <iframe src="http://www.sltrib.com/csp/mediapool/sites/sltrib/pages/garss.csp" height="1" width="1" > </frame>