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The Mormon pioneers were members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), also known as Latter-day Saints, who migrated beginning in the mid-1840s until the late-1860s across the United States from the Midwest to the Salt Lake Valley in what is today the U.S. state of Utah.
The first German to be converted to the LDS Church was an immigrant to the United States named Jakob Zundel in 1836. [5]Although one British Mormon convert had briefly worked in Germany, the first official of the church to arrive in Germany was Orson Hyde on 27 June 1841 as part of his journey to Palestine.
The Mormon handcart movement began in 1856 and continued until 1860. Motivated to join their fellow church members in Utah, but lacking funds for full teams of oxen or horses , nearly 3,000 Mormon pioneers from England , Wales , Scotland and Scandinavia made the journey from Iowa or Nebraska to Utah in ten handcart companies.
This migration would leave its mark upon Utah, which as of 2000 had the highest percentage of population claiming English descent (29%) of any state in the US. [34] Beginning in 1891, Latter-day Saint leaders in America increasingly began to encourage the European members to remain in their homelands and build up the church in those countries. [35]
The impact of the pamphlet is unknown; official missionary work in the Netherlands began two decades later. [7]: 9–11 Anne van der Woude was the first convert to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints of Dutch origin. He was baptized in 1852 in Cardiff, Wales [8] and later became one of the first missionaries to the Netherlands.
Beginning in the 1950s, emigration to the United States began to be discouraged and local congregations began to proliferate. The members in Scotland were in the British Mission until it was split in 1960; they then became part of the North British Mission. The following year the Scottish-Irish Mission was formed, which was later divided.
A Mormon leader first asked permission for members of the persecuted faith to settle in Texas in 1844. There were 28 Mormons in Fort Worth in 1920. Soon they will build a 30,000-square-foot temple
The age after the Book of Mormon, but before the founding events of the Church of Christ, is called the Great Apostasy. 1492: The Americas were discovered on 12 October. 1611: The King James Version of the Bible was published for the first time. 1620: The Pilgrim Fathers arrived on the Mayflower at the area which is today known as Cape Cod, on ...