News Item: Alma O. Taylor Journals Available Online
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I just noticed that BYU has now made available scanned and typed missionary journals of many missionaries that served a long time ago. I was looking through the list and saw Alma O. Taylor's journals listed. He was one of the first LDS missionaries in Japan. It was very interesting to read through. He was a good writer.
Enjoy!
There appears to be journals of a few other early missionaries to Japan too.
They can be found at http://www.lib.byu.edu/dlib/mmd/
or
http://more.byu.edu/missionarydiaries
Webmaster Note:
Alma O. Taylor served eight years in Japan, starting as one of the first to arrive with Heber J. Grant in 1901, extending through to 1909 when he was serving as Mission President and the first Japanese Book of Mormon, which he largely translated, was published. It was in reading these journals that I confirmed missionaries of this early era lived and worked in what is now the Sendai Mission, including Sendai, first arriving July 10, 1905, and Morioka, first noted in President Taylor's journal in February 1908. For those of you who served in the pre-Sendai/Sapporo split Japan East Mission, you might be interested to know that Sapporo's first missionaries also arrived in July 1905 (they kept going North on the same train as the Sendai elders.)
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