Item Detail
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18589
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English
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The Palawai Pioneers on the Island of Lanai : The First Hawaiian Latter-day Saint Gathering Place (1854-1864)
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Mormon Historical Studies
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Fall 2004
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3-35
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The first missionaries arrived in the Sandwich Islands (Hawaii) in December 1850 and within three years had baptized nearly three thousand people. Church leaders recommended a gathering place for the Saints in the Palawai Basin on the island of Lanai. Members soon began gathering and planting crops, working primarily on Church farming operations. However, these Saints experienced many trials. The Hawaiian government would not allow the converts to emigrate to Utah and the Saints in Lanai struggled to survive because of the island's lack of water. After Brigham Young called all of the missionaries home due to the Utah War, the Hawaiian Mission struggled, losing many members. In 1861, when the Saints were extremely vulnerable, missionary Walter Murray Gibson made himself their king and sold priesthood offices. When this apostasy was corrected in 1864 with Gibson's excommunication, the Saints moved their gathering place from Lanai to Laie on Oahu.
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