From Deseret News archives:

LDS Church News: The church and lush green foliage flourish in Taiwan

Published: Sunday, Sept. 14, 2008 12:42 a.m. MDT
 |  E-MAIL | PRINT | FONT + - 
TAIPEI, Taiwan -- When he stepped off a boat in Taiwan on New Year's Day 1959, Elder Gerald H. Walker from Utah was among the earliest missionaries to serve here, just three years after the first had arrived from Hong Kong in the Southern Far East Mission. He didn't know the Chinese language as he went forth to teach the gospel of Jesus Christ in a land dominated by Buddhism and Taoism.

Read the full story via MormonTimes.com

Recent comments

Church News? Seriously? This is just a sample, an ad to get us to...

Church news? | Sept. 14, 2008 at 9:47 p.m.

Taiwan is awesome, I love it there. The island is a lighthouse of the...

Max | Sept. 14, 2008 at 9:41 p.m.

previousnext

Latest comments

It is great to have a president who can speak the English language.

Letters: Democracy dwindles

Approximately 2% of the U.S. population receives welfare. If you want to...

5A: Davis runs over Hunter

Tanner Hinds would not like all of thus hype about him. He's very humble and...

Murder-suicide in West Jordan

How about blaming the booze instead of the gun???

Soccer hair-pulling fuels debate

I had 4 daughters and 2 sons play soccer. The play of the girls was just as...

Where are all the Ute Fans now??? Just because the Utes bairly beat Air...

What do these officials have against Max Hall... Attempting to deceive the...

Christian leaders not backing down

I agree with you on your last statement about not taking government money......

For those of you don't like animals and don't want to live in a community...

Re. carbon dating of the Shroud: everyone is forgetting the fact that the...

Advertisements