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

From Deseret News archives:

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

Church News staff writer

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

2 comments

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.

Add your comment

Concert to benefit Ugandan children 3:22 p.m.
Senate committee approves Voros 3:21 p.m.
Mya tops fellow celebs 3:16 p.m.
Stocks zigzag after rally 2:53 p.m.
Placebo power behind cures 2:49 p.m.
'Suspect just shopping screenplay' 2:49 p.m.
'08 loss 'learning experience' for TCU 2:47 p.m.
AMA: repeal 'don't ask,don't tell' 2:46 p.m.
Jackson's executors approved 2:43 p.m.
Mapleton rejects mtn. airport bid 2:42 p.m.

Latest comments

Jazz blow big lead, hang on

plyxply said:

what an awesome game, really the only one that we can reasonably win. The...

Editorial: Lessons from Berlin

Re "interesting | 1:56 p.m" said:

interesting | 1:56 p.m It's more than the "Tear down this wall"...

Letters: Term 'Latino' misused

Not sure what I am: said:

I guess I would call myself an American mutt. Born in American with a mix of...

Letters: Will wrong on warming

Human Conceit said:

Warm, cold, tepid, nothing you can do about it anyway. Short of eliminating...

Strategy over outcome in TCU-Utah

Levin said:

Re: Not about the money. Other good reasons to want TCU to win 1. I...

U. hopes to keep clicking

Losing morale said:

It's embarrassing when you're 8-1 and ranked #16 ... and your fans have...

Mapleton rejects mtn. airport bid

Where's Mapleton? said:

Isn't it somewhere by Scipio?

Letters: Editorial page top-notch

Michael said:

What fascinates me is the contrast between the tone taken by the DN writers...

Editorial: Lessons from Berlin

Hint to "interesting | 1:56 p.m said:

interesting | 1:56 p.m. If your posting contains mis-representations it...

Strategy over outcome in TCU-Utah

Re: Win-Win said:

Yeah if Utah beats TCU then they would certainly lose enough skill and to...