Everyone knows something about the struggle of members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to find a sanctuary on the American frontier, but at the same time, on the other side of the world, another epic of faith and courage was being enacted by the Saints.
Missionaries called by the Prophet Joseph Smith in 1843 to the islands of the Pacific were the Church's first to a foreign language, a foreign culture. That mission was carried out chiefly by two missionaries, who were directed to stay in their field of labor until they were released or relieved. They clung to the mission for nine years or more. Immediate success on Tubuai anchored their work, and their success in the Tuamotus set the pattern for missionaries for a century. Many inspiring experiences of both missionaries and Saints in French Polynesia are published here for the first time.
Missionaries called by the Prophet Joseph Smith in 1843 to the islands of the Pacific were the Church's first to a foreign language, a foreign culture. That mission was carried out chiefly by two missionaries, who were directed to stay in their field of labor until they were released or relieved. They clung to the mission for nine years or more. Immediate success on Tubuai anchored their work, and their success in the Tuamotus set the pattern for missionaries for a century. Many inspiring experiences of both missionaries and Saints in French Polynesia are published here for the first time.