Into All the World

A Utah native, Lee Daniels discusses the demographics, culture, challenges, blessings, and other information regarding the Japan Sapporo Mission.

President Lee Daniels and Sister Terry Daniels. President Lee Daniels is from Park City, Utah. He has served as a YSA bishop, stake president, high councilor and ward Young Men president. He is married to Terry Lyn Park and they have six children. He and his wife were called to the Japan, Sapporo Mission in July 2008.

Facts about the LDS Church in Japan

• Japan has 7 missions and 29 stakes.

• Under Elder Heber J. Grant's direction, the first Church mission in Asia was established with headquarters in Tokyo in 1901.

• The first baptism in Japan was on March 8, 1902 when Elder Grant baptized Hajime Nakazawa, a former Shinto priest.

• Alma Taylor began translating the Book of Mormon into Japanese in 1904. The book was printed in October 1909.

• The first meetinghouse in Asia, housing the Tokyo North Branch, was dedicated by Elder Gordon B. Hinckley on April 26, 1964.

• The first stake of the Church in Asia, the Tokyo Stake, was organized on 15 March 1970

• According to the Deseret News' LDS Church Almanac, the Japan Sapporo Mission was officially formed on July 1, 1974

• The Tokyo Temple was dedicated on October 27, 1980 by President Spencer W. Kimball. It was the first temple in Asia and the first in a non-Christian country.

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