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English
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Hoping to Establish a Presence : Parley P. Pratt's 1851 Mission to Chile
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BYU Studies
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1999
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38
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no.4
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115-138
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Chronicles Elder Parley Parker Pratt's efforts to establish a mission in Chile in 1851-52 to convert the native Chileans. As first president of the Pacific Mission, Pratt received directions Brigham Young to study Spanish, make his way to California, sail to Chile, and establish a Mormon community in the South American country that appeared to be the most stable and open to new ideas from America. Pratt, his eighth wife Phoebe, and fellow missionary Rufus Chester Allen arrived in Valparaiso, Chile, on 8 November 1851 after a two-month journey. Inflationary spirals, lack of employment opportunities for Pratt and Allen, food shortages, and high rent made living in the large city impossible for poor Mormons who did not find willing benefactors among the Roman Catholic Chilean population. Pratt realized his poor command of Spanish, the state prohibition against other faiths, internal civil unrest, and the denial of freedom to worship made traditional Mormon missionary work impossible forcing the small group's return to Utah in 1852. It was not until the Chilean Constitution of 1925 guaranteed the right to religious freedom for all residents that Mormon missionaries returned to the country.
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