This media collection provides a worldwide view of historic and contemporary Latter-day Saints overcoming obstacles, bigotry, and challenges to live their faith and bless their families and communities.

Break the Soil of Bitterness: One Woman's Quest for Healing

Julia Mavimbela experienced the difficulties of being a black woman in South Africa during the Apartheid era. Through her work to heal others and her conversion to the restored Gospel, she found peace.

Our Homes Became the Sacrament Hall: Sabbath Day Worship During the Freeze

In June 1989, Ghana's government banned LDS Church meetings. During the ban, Church members gained a new perspective on Sabbath worship as they met in their own homes for sacrament meeting.

You Can't Close My Heart: Ghanaian Saints and the Freeze

In June 1989, Ghana's government banned LDS Church meetings. While the ban lasted, Church members held sacrament meetings in their homes and watched over one another through home and visiting teaching.

Fire on Ice: The Story of Icelandic Latter-day Saints at Home and Abroad

Fred Woods looks at the challenges Icelandic people faced in the early days of the Church in the area, and share correspondences between Icelanders living in Utah and in Iceland.

He Was Like a Shepherd: Home Teaching During the Freeze

In June 1989, Ghana's government banned LDS Church meetings. During the ban, Church members learned the vital importance of home teaching.

The First Integrated Branches in South Africa

In the early 1980s, members in South Africa worshipped together in spite of political and social differences by focusing on the common ground afforded by their faith in the restored gospel.

The Church in Italy: A Personal and Ecclesiastical History

Using both research and personal experience as an Italian Latter-day Saint, Mauro Properzi highlights the history of the Mormon Church in Italy.

Sealed Together: The Manaus Temple Caravan

In 1992, a group of Latter-day Saints helped transform the Church in Manaus, Brazil by making a 3,000 km trek to the Sao Paulo Temple.

"The Nethermost Part of My Vineyard": Lessons of Faith from Africa

Matt Heiss presents about the history of the LDS Church in Africa, and how their stories can help us understand the blessings of the Gospel.

Unto the Least of These: Olivas Aoy’s School

Before becoming a Mormon in 1880, Olivas Aoy had lived among the Maya and with freed American slaves. After his conversion, he helped translate the Book of Mormon into Spanish and founded El Paso’s first school for Spanish speakers.

China, Japan, and Utah: The Transnational Passages of a Mormon Family

Melissa Inouye discusses how looking at the Chinese and Japanese roots of one large Mormon Asian-American family illuminates how Mormonism has provided a framework to which global Mormon pioneers have anchored their lives since World War II.

This Grand Opportunity: Elizabeth McCune and the First Sister Missionaries

Elizabeth McCune helped missionaries in England in 1897 to overcome anti-Mormon rumors about Mormon women.

Learn about the experiences of Carol Gray, who found a vocation of providing aid to people suffering caused by civil war in former Yugoslavia.

Housewife in a Foreign War Zone

That We Might Be One: The Story of the Dutch Potato Project

Dutch Church members after World War II planted potatoes together to help heal spiritual wounds and restore unity. The project took on new meaning when they were asked to send their harvest to Germany.

"To Every Nation, Kindred, Tongue, and People": Pioneers in Every Land

Elder James J. Hamula introduces the theme of this year’s Church History Library Lecture Series.

Néster Curbelo reviews the history of convert pioneers in Latin American countries, showing that the experiences of these people help to fulfill the inspired revelations and prophecies of the ancient prophets.

Prophecies Precede History

Pioneers in Every Land

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