Elder Lorenzo Snow organized the Italian mission in 1850 and supervised the translation of the Book of Mormon into the Italian language. "Il Libro di Mormon" was... Read more »
The first translation of the Book of Mormon into Portuguese was published in 1939 when the LDS Church in Brazil had few members. Read more »
Literary Japanese was at a crossroads when four missionaries for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints arrived in Tokyo Bay in August of 1901. Read more »
Around 1874, Daniel Webster Jones and Mileton G. Trejo began translating the Book of Mormon into Spanish. The first complete translation was completed in 1886 by... Read more »
As a young missionary in Korea, Elder Han In Sang was assigned the task of translating the Book of Mormon into the Korean language. Read more »
The Pacific Islands span multiple languages and a variety of translation stories. From Tongan to Maori, from as early as the 1840s through today, translating the Book... Read more »
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