
Mormon proselytizing in Europe
Initial missionary efforts in Europe beginning in the 1830s focused on the British Isles and the northern Scandinavian countries. The first missionaries reached Germany in 1840, and that country's first branch was established in 1843, several years before the America-based Latter-day Saints relocated from Nauvoo, Ill., to the Salt Lake Valley. Ref. Source 7
LDS leaders helped spur big changes in Europe
SALT LAKE CITY - Benson, McKay, Kimball, Hinckley, Monson, Nelson.
These names highlight a long list of LDS Church prophets, apostles and general authorities whose service to former communist-controlled countries in central and eastern Europe were critical during the tense and tenuous four-plus decades following World War II. Ref. Source 9