David NoyceA 19-year-old missionary serving for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has died, the Utah-based global faith announced Friday.
John Vincent Arcilla, from the church’s Quezon City Stake in the Philippines, died Monday, according to a news release. He had been laboring since January in the faith’s Puerto Princesa Mission in his homeland.
No other details about his death were released. Funeral services were pending.
Arcilla’s death comes nearly a month after a 19-year-old missionary from northern Utah died. He had been serving in Tennessee but had returned home temporarily to Morgan for a medical procedure. No cause of death was released.
In September, a 76-year-old senior Latter-day Saint missionary from Providence, Utah, died of complications from a heart attack. He had been working as a BYU–Pathway Worldwide education center missionary with his wife in South Africa.
Later that month, a 70-year-old senior missionary from Oregon who had been serving in an employment center in the California Oakland/San Francisco Mission, died.
