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Latter Day Saint missionaries -- Tonga

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:

Lorraine Morton Ashton collection on Ermel J. Morton

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 6273
Scope and Contents

Collection consists of papers relating to the dictionary Ermel J. Morton, a Mormon missionary who went to Tonga, created from English to Tongan and Tongan to English, his accounts of his mission and translating the Book of Mormon, a history of his wife, a catalog of his materials from home, a typed copy of the talks at his funeral and a Tongan grammar book. There is also a book written about the time the family spent in Tonga.

Dates: 1956-2011

Verlyn Dale Frost papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 7585
Scope and Contents

Collection contains photographs, correspondence, slides, film reels, and journals related to Verlyn Dale Frost and his mission to the Tongan Islands. A particular emphasis is placed on his work at the Liahona School. The materials are dated 1954-2010.

Dates: 1954-2010

Albert Stephen Jones papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 350
Scope and Contents Contains diaries and photographs, including twenty stereographs, documenting Jones's experience as a missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Samoa and Tonga from 1893 to 1896. The diaries detail his daily activities and talk about the nature of his work. Jones continued to write in these diaries after his return to Provo, Utah until 1902. The collections also contains a handwritten Tongan-English dictionary copied by Jones and a 1895 article on Tongan cannibalism...
Dates: 1893-1902

Alfred A. Kofoed mission journals

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31197231031789]
Identifier: MSS 6693
Abstract

Collection contains photocopies of Kofoed's mission journals. Photocopies of pictures from Kofoed's mission are also included.

Dates: 1895-1897

Zola Jensen Mullins missionary papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 6790
Scope and Contents

Contains Zola Jensen Mullins' mission diary, and slides of the missionary diary and pictures. Also includes maps of Tonga, a calendar poster, newspaper articles, and a scrapbook that were all collected by Zola Jensen Mullins. Material dated 1956-1959.

Dates: 1956-1959

Fred W. Stone scrapbook and slides of Tongan mission

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31197223104271]
Identifier: MSS 2991
Scope and Contents

Collection contains slides (photographic) and a Tongan mission scrapbook, 1955-1959, including photographs, correspondence, newspaper clippings, Church programs, invitations, and related ephemera. The slides include nineteen color images of Tonga, Tongan people, missionaries, and Stone family members.

Dates: 1955-1959

Verlyn Dale Frost film reels, 1955-1958

 Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 7585 Series 6
Scope and Contents

Contains film reels of Frost's mission experiences in Tonga. Dated 1955-1958.

Dates: 1955-1958