19-Year-Old LDS Missionary John Vincent Arcilla Dies in the Philippines
By Claudette
Posted Nov 13, 2026 at 4:39 PM
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints announced Friday that a 19-year-old missionary serving with the faith has died. The Utah-based church said the missionary, John Vincent Arcilla, died Monday, according to a news release.
Arcilla was from the church’s Quezon City Stake in the Philippines. He had been serving since January in the Puerto Princesa Mission in his homeland. The release did not describe the circumstances of his death in the portion of the report available here.
The announcement comes nearly a month after another 19-year-old missionary from northern Utah died. That missionary had been serving in Tennessee but had returned temporarily to Morgan for a medical procedure. No cause of death was released.
In September, a 76-year-old senior missionary from Providence, Utah, died of complications from a heart attack. He had been serving 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 died. He had been serving in an employment center in the California Oakland/San Francisco Mission.
Families who lose a child or a spouse in such circumstances need steady care and comfort from those around them (Psalm 34:18).
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