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Missionary stories

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 9 Collections and/or Records:

Brittany Long Olsen missionary correspondence, 2012-2013

 Series — Box 1: Series 1; Series 2; Series 3 [Barcode: 31197239251785], Folder: 7
Identifier: MSS 8839 Series 1
Scope and Contents

Contains e-mails from Brittany Long Olsen. Letters are addressed from Sister Long and focus on daily events, people, and her personal feelings. Includes letters to her family. Also includes letters between Sister Long and L. Todd Budge, mission president. Materials dated 2012 to 2013.

Dates: 2012-2013

Brittany Long Olsen missionary sketchbooks, 2012-2013

 Series — Box 1: Series 1; Series 2; Series 3 [Barcode: 31197239251785], Folder: 1-6
Identifier: MSS 8839 Series 3
Scope and Contents

Contains Brittany Long Olsen missionary sketchbooks, which served as her missionary diary during her mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to Tokyo, Japan. Her entries assume the form of a graphic novel and focus on daily events, people, and her personal feelings. Materials dated 2012 to 2013.

Dates: 2012-2013

East of the river of snails, 1999

 Item — Box 380: [Barcode: 31197233256707], Folder: 3
Identifier: FA 1 Item 4778
Scope and Contents

Student Thesis by Patrick Madden. A collection of thirteen personal narrative essays on missionay work in Uruguay.

Dates: 1999

Norma Elliott collection of Addison Pratt materials

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 8660
Scope and Contents

The collection contains transcripts of letters from Addison Pratt to his family, a transcript of Pratt's missionary journal from his time in Tahiti, genealogy research of Addison Pratt's family, and a rubbing of Pratt's gravestone. Dated approximately 1950.

Dates: Approximately 1950

Christopher James Kearl diaries

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31197239236190]
Identifier: MSS 8926
Scope and Contents

Four handwritten mission journals from Christopher James Kearl's mission to the British Isles. Materials dated 1906-1908.

Dates: 1906-1908

LaVorn and Beatrice Sparks mission papers, approximately 1986-1990

 Series
Identifier: MSS 2224 Series 4
Scope and Contents Materials include papers from the Sparks' time as missionaries working in the Family-to-Family Book of Mormon program. In addition to their missionary work they purchased Books of Mormon and distributed them with their testimonies pasted in the cover to many international missions. There are responses regarding their Book of Mormon donations from recipients, missionaries, and mission presidents. The responses are both personal and adminstrative in nature. Dates range approximately...
Dates: Other: approximately 1986-1990

Andrew Mortensen diary

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197227636971]
Identifier: MSS 3982
Scope and Contents

Andrew Mortensen diary, 1887-1889, is relatively short, comprising only about fifteen pages of the entire journal and describing the early journey of a group of missionaries leaving Salt Lake City and traveling to Europe.

Dates: 1887-1889

Ermel J. Morton papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 7566
Scope and Contents Collection includes the photocopies of journal entries, experiences, memories, and research papers of Ermel J. Morton regarding the Tongan Mission from 1907 to 1967. The manuscript of this compiled history was published in an abridged version for the Golden Jubilee of the Tongan Mission in 1968, however, the manuscript edition in this collection is a complete form. Collection also includes mission journal, letters and other correspondence; includes a telegram instructing him to go ahead...
Dates: 1936-1997

Brittany Long Olsen missionary papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 8839
Scope and Contents

Contains materials regarding Brittany Long Olsen's mission to Tokyo, Japan for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Includes Olsen's missionary sketchbooks, which functioned as her missionary diary. Also includes correspondence and photographs from Olsen's time as a missionary. Materials focus on daily events, people, and Olsen's personal feelings. Materials dated 2012 to 2013.

Dates: 2012-2013