LONDON-The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints confirms three Apostles representing the Salt Lake City-based faith have returned to Great Britain, where they served their missions as young men.

President M. Russell Ballard and Elders Quentin L. Cook and Jeffrey R. Holland, have returned to the land of their early experiences to meet with Latter-day Saints and modern-day missionaries serving.

President Ballard arrived in Great Britain in 1948 and served for 2.5 years in what was then known as the British Isles Mission.

Incidentally, Elder Holland and Elder Cook were missionary companions as young men in 1962.

Tuesday, Pres. Ballard traveled to Scotland, stopping in Tranent, where his great-grandmother, Margaret McNeil, was born in 1846. In 1856, she emigrated to Utah to join the body of the Latter-day Saints.

He visited the cemetery where her grandparents were buried during his experiences.

Pres. Ballard also visited with Latter-day Saint Stephen Kerr, a member of the Scottish Parliament in the capital city of Edinburgh.

Pres. Ballard later joined with missionaries serving in the Scotland-Ireland Mission. Later, he shared many of his personal experiences as a missionary in the British Isles with them. This past August, he did the same for Manti Temple workers at a fireside.

Elder Holland and his wife, Patricia, spent the morning in the Chorley Stake Center with missionaries serving in the England Manchester Mission, along with new missionaries studying at the Preston Missionary Training Center.

Elder Cook and his wife, Mary, traveled to Leeds, meeting with missionaries serving in the England Lees Mission.

He spoke of his experiences with Pres. Ballard Monday at Liverpool, where many early Latter-day Saints set sail for the New World.