Yes. You must have a High School diploma, GED, or equivalent (if from outside the U.S.) to serve an LDS mission. Some foreign missions also require you to have graduated from LDS Seminary as well.
LDS High School ended in 1931.
Nick Whitaker from High School Musical and Aly&AJ are all lds.
No. Trey Parker did not go on an LDS mission.
Sunday School - LDS Church - was created in 1867.
Yes, in Italy
There are 52,000 or so full-time LDS missionaries at any given time, so there's a good chance there is a person of that name has served an LDS mission.
Yes. He served a LDS mission in 2005 and played football for BYU.
Yes. The England Birmingham Mission also covers Nottingham. A map of the current mission boundaries can be found at the "Related Links" below. The Birmingham mission is shaded in yellow.
And LDS prophet earns no income from the church. The LDS church utilizes a complete lay clergy where all leadership is voluntary. The same for Bishops, Stake Presidents, Mission Presidents, and all other authorities.
It is a rumor that your LDS mission paper packet will be 'heavier' or 'thicker' if you are being called to a foreign mission rather than a stateside mission. It is true that there is extra information regarding passports, visas, etc for the specific country you are called to, however the actual weight difference between stateside and foreign mission packets is so small that it could no be measured with a standard household scale.
In addition to a SAT/ACT score, high school transcripts and essays, the BYU application requires an ecclesiastical endorsement from a bishop if the applicant is LDS or another religious leader if the applicant is not LDS. Applicants are also strongly encouraged to attend seminary during high school.
No, he is not. His theology and LDS theology differ in many areas. According to LDS, people pre-exist in the spiritual realm before being born into the physical realm. LDS also believe in the possibility of being re-incarnated. There is a passage in the Bible refering to John the Baptist as Elijah by Jesus, and they claim this indicates he was the re-incarnation of Elijah. Sun Myung Moon teaches that John the Baptist had the same mission as Elijah and that Elijah was cooperating with him from the spiritual side...John the Baptist was Elijah in the sense of inheriting his mission. There are other theological differences.