After hearing the missionaries in the Adriatic North Mission sing during her Central Europe ministry last year, President Camille N. Johnson, Relief Society general president, said, “Music is your superpower.”
That power was on full display this May when missionaries in Serbia, Slovenia, and Croatia performed for community members with Irish singer Alex Sharpe, from the world renowned, all-female Irish music group Celtic Woman.
The concert series featured three performances: May 9 in Belgrade, Serbia; May 10 in Ljubljana, Slovenia; and May 11 in Zagreb, Croatia.
Sharpe grew up in a town in Ireland where she and her family were the only members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
“It was a little difficult because we were kind of an anomaly. But even though we were a small group of Church members in Ireland, we were strong,” she told a Slovenian television reporter.
Before becoming a professional singer, Sharpe—who has performed with The Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra at Temple Square, for RootsTech and in many other Church productions—was a travel agent. After many of her clients visited countries like Serbia and Croatia, she said, “They never seemed to want to go anywhere else, so that piqued my curiosity and made me want to visit someday.”
That day came when the Adriatic North Mission leaders, President Brian Cordray and Sister Angie Cordray, invited her to perform with their missionaries.
“I jumped at the chance,” Sharpe said.
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