"It's interesting now to note that the patriarchs that are now in the 14 missions in the former Soviet Union have identified all of the lost tribes of Israel in those patriarchal blessings. Isn't that amazing?"
I can't for the world see what's so "amazing" about it. You can make up anything when there's no one to check the facts.
Almost as amazing as discovering that Adams Altar was scattered amongst a pile of rocks at Adam-Ohndi Ahman (nevermind that people clear their fields of stones and put them in a central locations) and was the site of the original Garden of Eden.
But not as amazing as the early church leaders teaching that Noah built his Ark in the Carolinas, and the earth divided under the sea during the flood and they landed in the mesopotamia region.
The truly amazing thing about the patriarchs identifying the twelve tribes is that they probably never really existed, but are a pre-scientific theory created based on a biblical narrative to account for all the different peoples in the world.
the 'idea' of tracking lost 'tribes' is perfectly valid (tracking history, validating notion of chromosomal adam/eve), but if it were really as simple as having an 'elder' pray over an individual, don't you think it would have been done, I don't know thousands of years ago?