BYU Studies Quarterly
Keywords
Mormon studies, Thomas Farrar Whitley, Tonga, missionary
Abstract
Thomas Farrar Whitley served an LDS Church mission to Tonga in the late 1930s and documented his experiences there through journaling, correspondence, and photography. The author shares photographs and quotes from Whitley's journal, capturing the Tongan way of life in the 1930s. The article documents the small group of faithful Latter-day Saints and missionaries who established a foothold for the faltering Church in Tonga and created a foundation upon which today's thriving Tongan LDS population could build.
Recommended Citation
Whitley, Colleen
(2009)
"Thomas Farrar Whitley's Mission Photos of Tonga, 1935–1938,"
BYU Studies Quarterly: Vol. 48:
Iss.
1, Article 4.
Available at:
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/byusq/vol48/iss1/4