"Swiss-American Missionaries" by Cindy Brightenburg
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Swiss American Historical Society Review

Swiss American Historical Society Review

Keywords

Swiss-American Missionaries, Mormon Studies, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Early LDS History

Abstract

In the fa ll of 1888, Gottfried Buehler left his home, wife and small children in Utah for a two-year return to Switzerland. He had been ass igned by his church to serve a miss ion in the land of his birth with the goal to preach the tenets of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (also known as the Mormon church, and hereafter referred to as "the church") to the people of Switzerland, baptize them into membership , and encourage them to emigrate to the land of Zion, or the Utah Territory. From the mid- to late-nineteenth century, the church sent many Swiss-born men who had emigrated to the United States back to their homeland as emissaries of this American-founded religion.

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