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List of Mormon missionary entries by country

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The following list indicates when missionaries of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) first preached in the territory of present-day countries.

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Date	Country (current name and territory)	First official church missionary	Notes
1830	United States	Samuel H. Smith^[1]	Smith is regarded as the "first missionary" of the LDS Church. He preached in New York in June 1830.
1830	Canada	Joseph Smith, Sr. and Don Carlos Smith^[1]	Although Phineas Young preached in Upper Canada several months before the Smiths, when he did so he was not a member of the church and therefore was not an official missionary of the church. The Smiths preached in villages north of the St. Lawrence River in Upper Canada in September 1830.
1837	United Kingdom	Heber C. Kimball and Orson Hyde^[1]	Kimball and Hyde first preached in Preston, England
1840	Ireland	John Taylor, James McGuffie, and William Black^[1]	A few months before Taylor, McGuffie, and Black arrived in Ireland, Reuben Headlock preached in Belfast, which was part of Ireland at the time but which is now in Northern Ireland in the United Kingdom
1840	Australia	William Barratt^[1]	Barratt was a 17-year-old convert from England whose family emigrated to Australia. Before his departure, he was set apart as a missionary to Australia.
1841	Netherlands	Orson Hyde^[1]	Hyde spent a week in Rotterdam and Amsterdam preaching to rabbis.
1841	Germany	Orson Hyde^[1]	A British church member named James Howells preached in Germany in 1840, but he was not an official missionary of the church.
1841	Turkey	Orson Hyde^[1]	Hyde preached in Istanbul.
1841	Israel/Palestine	Orson Hyde^[1]	Hyde preached in Jerusalem and dedicated Palestine for the return of the Jews.
1844	French Polynesia	Addison Pratt, Noah Rogers, and Benjamin Franklin Grouard^[1]	Preached first in Tubuai. Preached in Tahitian; first official church missionaries to preach in a language other than English.
1848	Channel Islands
1849	France	William Howells^[1]
1850	Denmark	Erastus Snow, Peter O. Hansen, John E. Forsgren, and George P. Dykes^[1]	First preached in Copenhagen
1850	Italy	Lorenzo Snow, Joseph Toronto, and Thomas Stenhouse^[1]	First preached in Genoa
1850	Sweden	John E. Forsgren^[1]
1850	Switzerland	Thomas Stenhouse and Lorenzo Snow^[1]	First preached in Geneva
1851	Norway	Hans F. Petersen^[1]	Petersen was one of the first converts baptized in Denmark
1851	Iceland	Gudmund Gudmundson and Thorarinn Thorason^[1]	Gudmundson and Torason joined the church in Denmark and were sent back to their native Iceland as missionaries.
1851	India	Joseph Richards^[1]	Church members Benjamin Richey and George Barber preached in India in 1849, but they were not official missionaries of the church.
1851	Chile	Parley P. Pratt, Phoebe Pratt and Rufus C. Allen^[1]	Phoebe was one of Parley's plural wives.
1852	Malta	Lorenzo Snow and Jabez Woodard^[1]
1853	South Africa	Jesse Haven, Leonard L. Smith, and William H. Walker^[1]	Preached first in Cape Town. In 1852, Joseph Richards spent nearly a month in Cape Town on his way home from his assigned mission in India. He distributed some tracts and preached a few sermons. Haven, Smith, and Walker were the first missionaries specifically assigned to South Africa.
1853	Hong Kong	Hosea Stout, James Lewis, and Chapman Duncan^[1]	The missionaries were called to preach in China, but conditions allowed them to only preach in Hong Kong, which was a British colony at the time.
1853	Jamaica	Darwin Richardson, Aaron F. Fan, Jesse Turpin, and A. B. Lambson^[1]
1853	Sri Lanka	Chauncey W. West and Benjamin F. Dewey^[1]
1854	New Zealand	Augustus Farnham, William Cooke, and Thomas Holder^[1]	Preached first in Auckland, Wellington, and Nelson
1854	Thailand	Elam Luddington^[1]	Preached first in Bangkok.
1856	Mauritius	George Kershaw^[1]
1863	Samoa	Kimo Pelia and Samuela Manoa^[1]
1865	Austria	Orson Pratt and William W. Ritter^[1]
1876	Mexico	Daniel Webster Jones and Ammon N. Tenney^[1]
1876	Finland	Carl A. Sundstrom and John E. Sundstrom^[1]	Preached first in Vaasa.
1884	Czech Republic	Thomas Biesinger^[1]	Preached in Prague.
1885	Hungary	Thomas Biesinger and Paul Hammer^[1]	Preached in Budapest.
1888	Belgium	Mischa Markow^[1]	Preached in Antwerp.
1891	Tonga	Brigham Smoot and Alva J. Butler^[2]^[3]	Met with and granted permission from King George Tupou I before preaching.
1895	Russia	August Höglund^[1]	Preached in St. Petersburg.
1898	Syria
1899	Greece	Ferdinand F. Hintze^[1]
1899	Serbia	Mischa Markow^[1]	Preached in Belgrade.
1899	Croatia	Mischa Markow^[1]
1899	Romania	Mischa Markow^[1]
1899	Cook Islands	Osborne J. P. Widtsoe and Mervin Davis^[1]	preached first in Rarotonga
1900	Bulgaria	Mischa Markow^[1]
1901	Japan	Heber J. Grant, Horace S. Ensign, Louis A. Kelsch, and Alma O. Taylor^[1]
1903	Latvia	Mischa Markow^[1]	Preached in Riga.
1925	Argentina	Rulon S. Wells and Rey Pratt^[1]	Preached first in Buenos Aires. Wells preached in German and Pratt preached in Spanish.
1928	Brazil	Rheinhold Stoof, William F. Heinz, and Emil Schindler^[1]	Preaching began among German speakers.
1929	Slovakia	Arthur Gaeth^[1]	Gaeth was the first mission president of the Czechoslovakia Mission. Thomas Biesinger had previously preached within Czechoslovakia, but only in the current territory of the Czech Republic.
1930	Zimbabwe	George C. Maw, Vern D. Greene, and Bertram C. Cutforth^[1]
1946	Costa Rica	Arwell L. Pierce, Robert B. Miller, and David D. Lingard^[1]
1947	Guatemala	Seth G. Mattice, Earl E. Hansen, Robert B. Miller, and David D. Lingard^[1]
1947	Uruguay	Frederick S. Williams^[1]
1949	El Salvador	Glenn W. Skousen and Omer Farnsworth^[1]
1950	Paraguay	Frederick S. Williams, Sister Williams and William S. Farnsworth^[1]	The first baptism was performed by Samuel J. Skousen, a former missionary in Argentina who was then working as the military attache to the United States Embassy in Paraguay, he baptized Carlos Alerto Rodriguez, having previously been authorized to do so by the First Presidency. Williams was president of the Argentine Mission when he went with his wife and Elder Farnsworth to begin missionary work in Paraguay. Three additional missionaries, Keith J. Morris, Norval C. Jesperson and Daryl L. Anderson were sent after President Williams had determined that the government would allow missionary work to proceed.
1952	Honduras	James T. Thorup and George W. Allen^[1]
1952	Niue	Thayne Christensen^[1]	Fritz Bunge-Kruger and his family arrived earlier in 1952 and traveled about the island doing missionary work, but none of the members of the family were official church missionaries
1953	Nicaragua	Manuel Arias and Archie R. Mortensen^[1]
1954	Fiji	Boyd L. Harris and Sheldon L. Abbott^[1]
1954	South Korea	Richard L. Detton and Don G. Powell^[1]
1958	Faroe Islands
1964	Bolivia		Sterling Nicolayson was President of the Andes Mission; he met with American expatriate members in Bolivia in October to November. Missionaries under him arrived in late November and baptized their first covert, Victor Walter Vallejos, just before Christmas.^[1] In 1962 Norval Jesperson, who had been among the first six missionaries in Paraguay, became the director of the American-Bolivian Center in Cochabamba. He shared the gospel with several people and baptized Maria van Gemerfen.
1956	Peru	Darwin Thomas, Edward T. Hall, Donald L. Hokanson, Shirrel M. Plowman^[1]
1956	Taiwan	Weldon J. Kitchen, Keith Madsen, Duane W. Dean, and Melvin C. Fish^[1]
1957	Guam
1961	Philippines	Ray Goodson, Harry Murray, Kent Lowe, and Nestor Ledesma^[1]
1963	Luxembourg	Hyrum M. Smith and Gerald E. Malmrose^[1]
1964	Puerto Rico	Verl Tolbert and Dwight K. Hunter	The first baptisms of Puerto Ricans in Puerto Rico had occurred May 7, 1959 when Cristina Burk and Irma Haws, both of whom were married to American Mormons, were baptized. Tolbert and Hunter mainly worked with US military personnel in Puerto Rico, although they did baptize Becky Farticelli, the first Puerto Rican convert who did not have familial connections to the U.S. mainland. Steven Johnson and Craig Van Tassell in 1969 were the first missionaries in Puerto Rico to preach in Spanish.
1964	Macau	Darryl Thomander and Gilbert Montano^[1]
1965	Ecuador	Craig Carpenter, Bryant R. Gold, Lindon Robinson, and Paul O. Allen^[1]
1965	Panama	Ted E. Brewerton^{[citation needed]}
1966	Colombia	Randall Harmsen and Jerry Broome^[1]	Preached first in Bogotá.
1966	Bermuda
1967	Venezuela	Ted E. Brewerton, Floyd Baum, Neil Gruwell, David Bell, and Fred Podlesny^[1]
1968	Singapore	Kim A. Shipley, Joel Richards III, Rhett T. Bake and Melvin D. Shurtz^[1]
1968	New Caledonia	Harold Richards and Jeannine Richards^[1]
1970	Spain	Clark Hinckley and a few others.^[4]
1970	Indonesia	Frank Willard, Dale Storer, Robert Meier, Ross Marchant, Greg Hawker, and Larry Hunt^[1]
1972	Kiribati	Eb L. Davis^[1]
1972	Malaysia		Elam Luddington had preached on the island of Penang in 1854.^[1] Anthony Lim, the first Malaysian baptized in Malaysia, was baptized on December 3, 1972.
1973	Vietnam	Colin B. Van Orman, James L. Chrisensen, David T. Posey, and Richard C. Holloman^[1]
1974	Portugal	William Grant Bangerter^[1]
1975	Slovenia	Neil D. Schaerrer^[1]
1975	Vanuatu	Asaeli Mokofisi and Peni Malohifo’ou (of Tonga) and Brett Edward Olsen and Rodvern Lowry (of Canada)^[1]
1975	Northern Mariana Islands	Jeff Frame and Callis Carlton^[1]
1975	Iran	Kent Bowman, Randy Clark, Kerry Riley, and Derrin Watson^{[citation needed]}
1976	Micronesia	George L. Mortensen and Aldric Porter^[1]	Preached first on Pohnpei.
1977	Marshall Islands	William Wardel and Steven Cooper^[1]
1977	Poland	Matthew and Marion Ciembronowicz^[5]
1977	Trinidad and Tobago	Chris Doty, Doug Mathews, Randy Clark, and David Roos^[1]
1978	Dominican Republic	John A. Davis and Ada Davis^[1]	Latter-day Saints Eddie Amparo and Mercedes Amparo preached prior to 1978, but they were not official missionaries of the church.
1978	Ghana	Edwin Q. "Ted" Cannon, Janath Cannon, Rendell N. Mabey, Rachel Mabey^[1]	Billy Johnson and others had shared the Book of Mormon with many people in Ghana and even been recognized as The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints by the government in 1968, but none of these people had been baptized. Immediately after the June 1978 Revelation on Priesthood, Ted Cannon, and Merrill J. Bateman had made a short fact-finding trip to Ghana and Nigeria where they laid the final ground-work for the entry of missionaries a few months later. The missions of the Cannons and the Mabeys resulted in the baptism of several hundred people, most of whom were among those prepared by Johnson and his associates.
1978	Nigeria	Edwin Q. "Ted" Cannon, Janath Cannon, Rendell N. Mabey, Rachel Mabey^[1]	See note on Ghana, above. In Nigeria there had been others who set up unofficial congregations of the LDS Church, such as Anthony Obina.
1978	Suriname	John Limburg and Beverly Limburg^[1]
1978	Palau	Ron Brown and Stanton Akana^[1]
1978	United States Virgin Islands
1978	Curaçao
1979	Réunion
1980	Belize	Samuel Flores and Robert Henke^[1]
1980	Haiti	Glenn E. Stringham^[1]
1980	Papua New Guinea	L. Douglas Johnson and Eva Johnson^[1]
1980	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	Steven B. Wooley and Terry Williams^[1]
1983	St. Lucia	Todd Hardy, Paul Jackson, Jay Schroeder, and Marty Harris^[1]
1983	Martinique	Kenneth Zabriskie^[1]
1984	St. Kitts and Nevis	Douglas Myers and Robert J. Molina^[1]
1984	Antigua and Barbuda	Ralph Tate and Aileen Tate^[1]
1984	Nauru	Joseph B. Keeler^[1]
1984	Tuvalu	Joseph B. Keeler, Glen Cornwall, and Shirley Cornwall^[1]
1984	Guadeloupe
1985	Grenada	Robert W. Hoffmaster and Leonard G. Gill^[1]
1985	Cayman Islands
1986	Democratic Republic of the Congo	R. Bay Hutchings and Jean Hutchings^[1]
1987	Eswatini	Kenneth Edwards and Betty Edwards^[1]
1987	Liberia	J. Duffy Palmer and Jacelyn Palmer^[1]
1987	Aruba	Clay Jorgensen and Julio Gonzalez^[1]
1988	Guyana	Benjamin Hudson and Ruth Hudson^[1]
1988	Cape Verde	Marion K. Hamblin, Christopher Lee, and Ken Margetts^[1]
1988	Ivory Coast	Barnard S. Silver and Cherry Silver^[1]
1988	Sierra Leone
1989	Lesotho	Marc Modersitzki and Bradley Saunderson^[1]
1989	Cyprus	James O. Henrie and Evelyn H. Henrie^[1]
1989	French Guiana
1990	Botswana	R. J. Stone^[1]
1990	Namibia
1990	Uganda	Lark Washburn and Arlea Washburn^[1]
1990	Estonia	Gary L. Browning^[1]	Browning was the president of the Finland Helsinki East Mission, which had jurisdiction over Estonia.
1991	Ukraine	Gary L. Browning^[1]	Browning was the president of the Finland Helsinki East Mission, which had jurisdiction over Ukraine.
1991	Kenya
1991	Republic of Congo
1992	Mongolia	Kenneth H. Beesley and Donna Beesley^[1]
1992	Malawi	James Griggs and Diane Griggs^[1]
1992	Tanzania
1992	Albania
1992	Lithuania	Gary L. Browning; Robert A. Rees and Ruth Rees^[1]	Browning was president of the Helsinki Finland East Mission, which had jurisdiction over Lithuania. The Rees were the first missionaries assigned to preach in Lithuania.
1993	Angola
1993	Cameroon
1993	Central African Republic	"a French missionary couple"^[1]
1993	Ethiopia	Eugene Hilton and Ruth Hilton^[1]
1993	Madagascar
1993	Pakistan
1993	Belarus
1994	Cambodia
1995	Solomon Islands	E. Crawford Jones and Judith Jones^[1]
1997	Moldova
1998	Benin
1999	Mozambique
1999	Togo	Dermoine A. Findlay and Joyce Findlay^[1]
1999	Georgia	Philip Reber and Betty Reber^[1]
2001	Kazakhstan	Barry A. Baker and Tamara H. Baker^[1]
2006	Dominica
2006	Laos
2008	Turks and Caicos Islands
2010	Burundi
2011	Kosovo	Griseld Merepeza and Eliot Steimle
2012	North Macedonia	Joel Kay and Chase Adams
2012	Montenegro	Tyran Schouten and Taylor Nelson
2012	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Philander Knox Smartt Jr. and Gloria Rose Smartt
2017	Senegal	"Missionaries from the Cote d'Ivoire Mission"^[6]

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