in Every Land. From Tahiti to Holland, Latter-day Saint pioneers build the Church all over the world.

This free lecture is part of the 2015 Pioneers in Every Land lecture series sponsored by the Church History Library. Lectures are held on the second Thursday of every month at 7:00 p.m. in the Assembly Hall on Temple Square.

The Church History Library’s 2015 lecture series will be centered on the theme “Pioneers in Every Land.” No longer an organization made up mostly of U.S. members, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has spread from Tahiti to Taiwan.

February 12, 2015. “To Every Nation, Kindred, Tongue, and People”: Pioneers in Every Land. Elder James J. Hamula. No longer an organization made up mostly of U.S. members, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has spread from Tahiti to Taiwan. Latter-day Saint men and women are building the kingdom of God all over the world.

Joyce Findlay, “First Unit of the Church in Togo,” DeMoine and Joyce Findlay mission papers, Church History Library, Salt Lake City. [6] “ Facts and Statistics: Togo .” [7] Johnson, “Togo,” part 3.

Olivas Vila Aoy, a native of Spain, joined The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in New Mexico in the early 1880s. He was a member of the team that translated the Book of Mormon into Spanish. But Aoy is best remembered as an education pioneer in El Paso, Texas, where he was the first teacher to cater to Spanish-speaking students.

This free lecture is part of the 2015 Pioneers in Every Land lecture series sponsored by the Church History Library. Lectures are held on the second Thursday of every month at 7:00 p.m. in the Assembly Hall on Temple Square. Limited free parking is provided at the Conference Center for those attending this event.

This free lecture is part of the 2015 Pioneers in Every Land Lecture Series sponsored by the Church History Library. Lectures are held the second Thursday of every month at 7:00 p.m. in the Assembly Hall on Temple Square, 50 North West Temple Street.

Pioneers in Every Land “It Was the Truth!” ... Looking back on their time in Jamaica, Jay and Shirley Bills—two of the expatriate members of the Church who helped lay that gospel foundation for the Nugents—see one thing very clearly:

West African Pioneer Preached the Gospel before Missionaries. Within a few days, the Cape Coast Branch had been organized with Joseph William Billy Johnson as branch president. Emmanuel Kissi, a native of Ghana who joined the Church in England in 1979 before returning to his home country to help build the Church there,...