Hong Kong
The Hong Kong Temple Had to Be Built Before 1997
Land was expensive, suitable sites were scarce, and time was running out to build a temple before Hong Kong’s 1997 transfer to…
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Uplifting stories of faith from Latter-day Saints around the world. Search, or narrow the library by place, theme, era, or format.
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Hong Kong
Why the Hong Kong LDS Temple, Had to Be Built Before 1997
How did a temple get built in one of the most crowded and expensive cities in the world, just as Hong Kong…
Cape Verde
Her Mom Said No to Baptism. She Did It Anyway
At 15 years old, Elisângela Monteiro discovered The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints almost by accident on the island of…
Ghana · Kenya
He Dreamed of an LDS Temple 15 Years Before It Was Built
Kelvin Turay grew up Muslim in Sierra Leone before joining The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1991 and later…
New Zealand
A Māori Prophecy Fulfilled by Latter-day Saint Missionaries
A Māori holy man foretold exactly how his people would recognize the true church when it came to Aotearoa (New Zealand.) When…
Chile
A Missionary Knocked on One Door… It Changed Generations
A young missionary in Chile felt prompted to knock on one door during a rainy night. That simple act of faith led…
Hawaii · Japan
Why Latter-day Saints baptize for the dead, and my family history miracle.
After discovering the names of my great-grandmother’s first husband and his family in Japan, my son performed proxy baptisms for them in…
Madagascar · Réunion
Réunion Island’s first LDS converts and what made them want to join the church.
Most people have never even heard of Réunion, a small French island in the Indian Ocean east of Madagascar. Yet that’s where…
Colombia
Denied the priesthood because he was black, yet he chose to stay.
Horacio Tulio Insignares nearly walked away from the Church after being told he could not hold the priesthood because he was Black.…
The primitive Christian church practiced baptism for the dead
Most Christians today reject baptism for the dead. But history shows… some early Christians practiced it.
Peru
They survived terrorist brutality and found peace in the gospel and each other.
In 1982, terrorists swept through a small village in the Andes Mountains of Peru and killed 21 people, including the parents of…
Ecuador
Paralyzed girl healed at the Guayaquil Ecuador Temple.
In the early days of the Guayaquil Ecuador Temple, a fifteen year old girl from Esmeraldas was brought in by ambulance, paralyzed…
Ecuador
An apostle’s prophecy, a dream of Moroni, and a temple announced decades later.
The newly announced Otavalo Ecuador Temple is more than just another temple announcement. Its story reaches back nearly sixty years to a…
Armenia · United States
She dreamed of the Salt Lake Temple.
After a devastating earthquake struck Armenia in 1989, humanitarian missionaries from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints traveled to Yerevan…
Mexico
Did President Gordon B. Hinkley see the prophet Lehi from the Book of Mormon?
At the 1983 dedication of the Mexico City Temple, President Gordon B. Hinckley shared a powerful spiritual moment as he testified that…
Philippines
The Philippines doubles number of LDS temples in one year
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the Philippines began with just a handful of members when missionaries first arrived…
Nicaragua
Nicaragua is getting its first Latter-day Saint Temple this year
The Managua Nicaragua Temple represents a historic milestone for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Nicaragua, where the Church…
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.
Hawaii
History of the Laie Hawaii Temple
The first temple built outside the continental United States wasn’t built with wealth or experience… It was built with faith. The Laie…
Japan
History of the 1st Latter-day Saint Temple in Japan
For decades, faithful members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Japan had to travel nearly 4,000 miles to…
Japan
Family history miracle on Latter-day Saint Mission to Japan
I went to Japan to serve a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints… and ended up finding generations…
Hawaii
Hawaiian Mormon pioneers faced discrimination in Utah
In the late 1800s, Native Hawaiian Saints gathered to Zion, only to face rejection and discrimination, even from some within their own…
Rwanda
Finding forgiveness in impossible circumstances
At eleven years old, Agnes watched her family die in the Rwandan genocide, and carried that pain for years, believing healing might…
Hawaii
Mormon family humiliated at church. The amazing example they set afterwards.
years ago in the early 1900s, a young family in Ha, Hawaii, their young daughter got very sick with a a disease…
