According to an unsubstantiated tradition, President Brigham Young directed them to settle in Spanish Fork, feeling they would fit in well, with the Danish Saints who had settled there. On January 7, 1855, they embarked on the ship James Nesmith and arrived in the Salt Lake Valley on September 7, 1855. Early converts Samúel Bjarnason and his wife Margrét Gísladóttir, along with Helga Jónsdóttir, left the Westmann Islands in 1854 for Liverpool. We are looking for those with computer skills and are familiar with Family Search and love doing Family History.Fred Woods, “Immigration to Utah and Early Settlement of Spanish Fork,” in Fire on Ice: The Story of Icelandic Latter-day Saints at Home and Abroad, (Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2005), 31–46.Īlthough Guðmundur Guðmundsson was one of the first two missionaries to Iceland, he was not the first Latter-day Saint Icelander to reach America. Volunteer at the Center - Come join our Staff
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