In September, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints will open its completed temple in Bangkok to visitors in the Buddhist country. Mormonism got off to a rocky start there, but in recent decades has been expanding rapidly. Former missionaries to that country, many of whom will return to where they served for the open house, discuss what it was like being there.
for missionary work in 1966. Missionaries didn’t arrive until two years later, when six were sent from the Hong Kong Mission, which included Taiwan.
Missionary baptisms dried up for months, but after about a year, he says, “the lasting impact seemed to be melting away.” Alpine resident Mary Schnitker Gifford arrived in Thailand in 1975, possibly “the fourth or fifth proselytizing ‘sisters’ [women].”the Book of Mormon“We expected it would break the work wide open, but it didn’t,” Gifford recalls. “Things slogged along.”• First, the mission needed a president who spoke Thai, and they didn’t get one until 1988.
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