President Emile Craner Dunn and the Tongan Mission: 1936-1950

Authors

Mark D. Ogletree, Ph.D.

Keywords

Tongan Mission, missionary work, Kingdom of God

Abstract

Several years ago, Elder James E. Faust related the following experience. He and Elder Spencer J. Condie were in the Salt Lake City Airport and as they were walking down the terminal, they met a devoted and faithful couple that they both had known for many years. “This couple had spent a lifetime of service, meekly, faithfully, and effectively trying to build up the Church in many places in the world. Elder Condie noted, ‘Isn’t it remarkable what people with five loaves and two fishes do to build up the kingdom of God.’”1 Elder Faust then stated, “This kind of quiet, devoted service to me is surely a fulfillment of the word of God ‘that the fullness of my gospel might be proclaimed by the weak and the simple unto the ends of the world, and before kings and rulers (D&C 1:23).’”2

BYU ScholarsArchive Citation

Ogletree, Ph.D., Mark D. (2016) "President Emile Craner Dunn and the Tongan Mission: 1936-1950," Mormon Pacific Historical Society: Vol. 37, Article 10.
Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/mphs/vol37/iss1/10