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English
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To Every Tongue : The Church and Language in the Former Soviet Union
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The Worldwide Church : Mormonism as a Global Religion
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Provo, UT
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BYU Religious Studies Center; Deseret Book
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209-230
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In this chapter, James Miller recounts an episode where language proved to be an obstacle for Latter-day Saint missionaries in Latvia. The missionaries had studied Russian, which was their only means of communicating with the Latvians - while the Latvians saw Russian as the language of their oppressors. This episode demonstrates the role that language plays in the Church's ability to fulfill its divinely appointed mission to take the Gospel unto "every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people." (D&C 133:37)