Mission To Argentina
In the October 1925 general conference, Church President Heber J. Grant announced that Apostle Melvin J. Ballard and Seventy Rulon S. Wells would go with Pratt to establish the LDS Church in South America. Pratt translated for the group. The three boarded the ship Voltaire on 14 November 1925 in New York City. The Voltaire stopped in Barbados, Rio de Janeiro and Montevideo en route to Buenos Aires, Argentina. The ship arrived at Buenos Aires on 6 December; the three disembarked at seven in the morning and immediately set to work.
In their first week in Argentina, the missionaries baptized six people who had been awaiting their arrival. They also held their first sacrament meeting. They expected to have continued success among the German and Italian immigrants, but the work soon became much more difficult. After a few weeks of hardships, the missionaries shifted their attention to the Spanish-speaking areas of Buenos Aires. They preached mostly in those areas until their departure for the United States in July 1926.
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