Wales Virtual Tour

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has had great success in Wales.  This Virtual Tour highlights the initial baptism, in 1839, of 23-year-old Martha Thomas, a young woman who was baptized in Manchester, but who’s conversion lead missionaries Henry Royle and Frederick Cook to be sent to her hometown village of Cloy, near Overton, Wales, where the missionaries then baptised her parents as well as many family friends nearby. 

It discusses the work of William and Mary Henshaw who were sent from Wolverhampton down to Merthyr Tydfil, Wales, and of the success of their efforts in south Wales. It speaks of the unusual conversion of Abel Evans, and of his wonderful efforts carrying the message of the Restored Gospel of Jesus Christ to others, ultimately giving his life to his missionary efforts.

It tells of the conversion of Dan Jones, a Welshman from the north, who while looking for a faith he could fully embrace, had relocated himself and his wife, Jane Jones, to the USA, where he finally found the faith he had been seeking across the ports of the world’s Seven Seas. After his conversion, he became business partners and close friends with the Prophet Joseph Smith.  It tells of why he, Dan Jones, became so successful as a missionary leader in Wales, and how the Welsh Saints embraced their role as member missionaries.

It speaks of the contribution of John Parry, Sr., who became the first director of the famed Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square. It covers the contributions of his son, John Parry, Jr., who helped convert fellow stone-mason Elias Morris, and of the secluded, yet popular, Latter-day Saint baptismal spot on the north shore of Wales at the base of the magnificent Point Ayr Lighthouse. 

It also mentions how the translation and publication of “Llyfr Mormon”, or The Book of Mormon in Welsh, which was the fourth foreign language publication of The Book of Mormon in all the world, completed in 1852, was the result of the efforts of John Davis and not Dan Jones. Yet Dan Jones was grateful to have it to teach from during his second mission to Wales.