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Authors: Richard E. Turley Jr. and Clinton D.Christensen
About Product: On Christmas Day 1925, Elder Melvin J. Ballard dedicated South America for the restored gospel in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Twenty-two years passed before another Apostle, Stephen L Richards, and his wife, Irene, visited the continent where the Church now existed in three nations with scattered small branches. Today, millions of Latter-day Saints live in South America, but what was the Church like in its early days there? How did it grow as prophesied by Elder Ballard from a small acorn to the mighty tree of the restored gospel? Follow the Apostle’s journey by train, boat, car, and airplane that marked a turning point for Latter-day Saints on that continent. Follow the experiences of Apostle Stephen L Richards and his wife, Irene, in Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay that changed the course of the Church in Latin America. In addition, read the first book that shares a history of the Church in Latin America from the nineteenth to the twentieth-first century.
About the Author: Richard E. Turley Jr. serves as managing director of the Public Affairs Department of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Previously he served as Assistant Church Historian and Recorder, managing director of the Church Historical Department, and managing director of the Family History Department.
About the Author: Clinton D. Christensen has worked for the Church History Department since 2001. He earned a BA and MA in English from Brigham Young University and a master of library and information science and archival administration from Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. He is part of the Global Support and Acquisitions Division and has spent most of his career collecting Church history in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Pages: 400
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