Item Detail
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29027
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English
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Launching Mormonism in the Pacific : The Voyage of the Timoleon
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Go Ye into All the World : The Growth and Development of Mormon Missionary Work
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Provo, UT
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Religious Studies Center
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191-216
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“'The Timoleon is an excellent seaboat, but not a fast sailor; she makes sure passages, but not quick ones,” wrote Addison Pratt, a Mormon missionary who spent nearly seven months aboard this whaling vessel, which launched Latter-day Saint missionary work in the Pacific.....Addison Pratt left Nauvoo in 1843 with three other missionaries to teach the gospel in the South Pacific...the Timoleon stopped on the island of Tubuai, 350 miles south of Tahiti...The first Latter-day Saint conference to be held on Anaa took place on September 24, 1846. On this historic day for these island Saints, Pratt recorded the following statistics: 'At Putuahara, the Church assembled according to previous notice for conference & the following branches were represented, Tubuai 61, members, Metia, 14 members, on this Island 5 branches number 651 members, Makea, 81 mem, Aura 17 mem, Rairoa, 10 mem, And on 3 other Islands of this group of these in good standing are 18 members.'" -[EXCERPTS FROM ARTICLE]
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Mormondom's First Woman Missionary, Louisa Barnes Pratt : Life Story and Travels told in her Own Words
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Seasons of Faith and Courage : The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in French Polynesia. A Sesquicentennial History, 1843-1993
Tahiti and the Society Islands Mission
The Journals of Addison Pratt
Wilford Woodruff's Journals
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