Mongolia
She Fought for Religious Freedom Before Becoming a Latter-day Saint
Before she ever became a Latter-day Saint, Oyun Altangerel risked her livelihood and went on a hunger strike for freedom in Mongolia.
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Church Pioneers
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Angola · United States
They Prayed to Find Her… Then She Sat Beside Them | LDS History
Two Church History missionaries had exhausted their research trying to discover who helped The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints gain…
Angola · Portugal
She Risked Her Life to Bring the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to Angola
Maria da Silva fled Angola during the civil war as a young pregnant refugee. After joining The Church of Jesus Christ of…
Japan
From Expo ’70 visitor in Japan, to Latter-day Saint General Authority.
At the 1970 World’s Fair in Osaka, Japan, nearly seven million people visited the Church’s pavilion. One of them was a high…
Serbia
This Family Helped Build the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Serbia
As refugees in Austria, one Serbian family discovered the restored gospel. When they returned home, they were the only Latter-day Saints in…
Micronesia
Micronesian Latter-day Saint Pioneer, Naped Elias.
One blue Book of Mormon, a fifty-cent debt, and a testimony that changed a family forever. This is the story of Naped…
DR Congo
How the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints came to Zaire/DR Congo
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the Democratic Republic of the Congo began in the 1960s, when people in…
South Korea
Kim Ho Jik helped bring the gospel of Jesus Christ to South Korea
In 1949, Kim Ho Jik traveled from Korea to study agriculture at Cornell University in the United States. But what he found…
Romania
He risked everything to leave Romania, but followed God‘s prompting to go back
Vasile Doru’s journey begins in Romania, where his faith in God survived childhood tragedy, public ridicule, and years of atheism under communism.
Philippines
She used her government connections to legalize the Mormon church in the Philippines
This is the incredible true story of Ping Batchelor, the unlikely hero who helped bring the gospel to the Philippines with the…
Italy
The conversion of the first Italian LDS general authority
A 9-year-old boy in Taranto, Italy opened the door to missionaries in 1970 and chose to be baptized, even though his parents…
Japan
First non-Caucasian LDS general authority was from Japan!
In 1967 a prophet stood in Osaka and told Japanese Saints they would one day help lead The Church of Jesus Christ…
Philippines
This Mormon woman’s influence on the Philippines
Maxine Tate Grimm helped bring The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to the Philippines before missionaries ever arrived.
Angola · Portugal
By small and simple means are great things brought to pass
By small and simple things are great things brought to pass. Maria da Silva followed a prompting, and the Church of Jesus…
