Marcus Helvecio Martin and his father receive priesthood and are ordained elders in Brazil. Right after the ordination, the son is challenged by his stake president to postpone his wedding (although he and his fiancee have already mailed the invitations) and serve a full-time mission. Marcus declines but later, with the blessing of his fiancee (herself a returned missionary), cancels wedding, and in Aug Marcus H. Martins becomes first full-time missionary of Black African Descent. His father becomes general authority in 1990.
[Source: http://www.advent-adam.com/jakestand.html (cached, based on http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies)]
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