Mormon Pacific Historical Society 2019 Conference “LDS Temples in the Pacific: A Centennial Celebration”

Authors

Keywords

LDS temples, Pacific, Laie Temple

Abstract

Brothers and Sisters,

I am Elder Gary Davis of the Church History Library in Salt Lake City, UT. My wife Deborah and I have been laboring in the Hawaiian Islands for the past 28 months as part of the Laie Hawaii Temple History Project. I began serving as a Church Service Missionary at the Church History Library on February 1, 2016. I was recruited to work in the Global Acquisitions section of the Church History Library and assigned to gather the journals, letters, personal histories, photographic images, oral histories, documents of all kinds and the testimonies of early members and missionaries, primarily in Chile but also in Argentina and Peru. About seven months into my eighteen-month mission I discovered that my direct supervisor, Clint Christensen, had been invited to participate in the penning a book about the upcoming 100th anniversary of the Laie Temple. Through a series of events that I won’t bore you with here, my call was detoured to work on the Laie Hawaii Temple History Project with Clint along with a fellow Church Service Missionary, Elder Michael Morgan.

BYU ScholarsArchive Citation

(2019) "Mormon Pacific Historical Society 2019 Conference “LDS Temples in the Pacific: A Centennial Celebration”," Mormon Pacific Historical Society: Vol. 40, Article 17.
Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/mphs/vol40/iss1/17