Heber C. Kimball's Mission to England (The First British Mission)

Join Casey Griffiths, a BYU Religion professor, as he explores historical sites related to the first British mission of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in England, along with some amazing stories of apostle Heber C. Kimball and others. Find out just how profound an influence this mission had on the early Church.
Produced by Zander Sturgill

[@brookewam1]

This is the story of our ancestors!❤ our family journals indicate that our grandpa was the other in the foot race! And his wife, was the first female to be baptized. ❤

[@33sylvia33]

That’s thrilling!

[@TheBibeba]

That’s so cool !!

[@darronr.desantis5098]

I think you mean "the first female to be baptized into the true, restored, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, in this, the last dispensation." There have been, in fact, many women who have been baptized into the true, original, former-days, Church of Christ, in previous dispensations.

[@rossmeldrum3346]

My mothers family has similar history of the race between the first two women. Where my 2nd great grand mother Ellen Pucell ran against Jennetta Richards who later married Willard Richards. My GG Ellen was ten years old when she came across the plains in the infamous Martin handcart company she had her feet frozen and had them amputated below the knees.

[@stevenbakenhester]

@@darronr.desantis5098Darron, she was pretty well understood by all except maybe you. No need to be like this. We knew what she meant.

[@camismith1419]

I cannot believe this was made just this year!!!! I LOVE the legacy sculpture!!!! Those were some of my ancestors that boarded those boats including a great grandmother escaping physical abuse. So so grateful to her forever!

[@mammcreeker]

In late 90s I served my mission in Preston and Liverpool!! Amazing spirit and people there. Wonderful video of the amazing history there!! The field was truly ready to harvest. Part of my heart will ALWAYS be there❤❤❤❤

[@melvabirch4658]

The older man according to family records was an ancestor Henry Clegg. Heber City , Utah was named after Heber C Kimball. My brother eight years ago as a senior missionary, drew his last breath serving in London.

[@lorenefullmer8495]

One of my ancestors Joseph Fielding was one of those first missionaries. This video has increased my love for him, and my gratitude to him for bringing my family into the Church. Thank you brother Griffiths.

[@marciamarshall72]

Fabulous video! What great scenery. I love seeing the places of these original events. Now I must visit England!

[@copisetic1104]

I am so grateful that my ancestors had the testimony of the gospel and packed up and moved to the U.S. especially Utah. My family has truly been blessed.

[@greysquirrel3924]

Really looking forward to part 2. So well done. Thank you to our brothers and sisters in the British Isles who are so welcoming and for sharing their part of our churches history with us in this video.

[@chren6643]

I served my mission in England, in the England Coventry Mission. I served in Birkenhead, across from Liverpool. Unfortunately, I could not visit Liverpool because it was a different mission. My colleague and I had the opportunity to wait for our bus, by the Mersey River. It was neat to know what happened there with the first migrants. We had to go to Liverpool once, because I had lost my bus pass and to get it renewed, we had to have a special permission from the mission. This was a very short visit to Liverpool. No time for site seeing.

[@user-xs8ut9kc3c]

I join with many of you that my mothers grandparents were from England, the Greens and Tomlinsons came to Utah and joined their families. Glory to those early missionaries who gave their all in preaching the gospel to those wonderful people of England!

[@sandrakisch3600]

I love the Gospel. The dedication of these missionaries is a real testiment to the Church of ajrsus Christ of Latter Day Saints. My neighbor here in Canada is proof of that. Her father and mother both were off spring of these early missionaries. Her relatives still are active members in England. I love the history of the church growth throughout the world. ❤

[@onepercentpermile]

Wow, great history! Willard and Jeanetta Richards are my family, and it's great to see where Jeanetta lived, she mentions the river and the valley, in her letters.

[@mountainsmotorcyclesandmom7411]

Such a wonderful video! Thank you.

[@charlenelundquist3512]

My Great Grandfather was one of those who were baptized in Preston. This is a great video!

[@ebmvideoproductions]

Your a diamond geezer for bringing this about mate! Cheers!

[@jameseverett4976]

Would have been nice if he'd stuck to church history, instead of short, minimal snippets of it, in between the fascination with tourist attractions and what it's like to be a tourist in modern Britain. 6 minutes in, and I can tell this won't have much history in it.

[@SheDreadsElectionYears]

Peter is the absolute best!! I've done 2 church history tours of England with him, and they were both wonderful and tailored to our group.

[@taylorbarney1772]

“They seemed to tax everything” we continue to ignore the lessons of the past. Why our ancestors left this beautiful country

[@danielhickmott5800]

I’ve heard that one King decided to tax each house according to the number of windows. The residents would board up all but one window to avoid the tax. They called them “spite windows”.

[@daltonmichelsen6046]

Really impressed with the production value. Looking forward to part two 👍

[@timothytaggart6162]

Great job!!!

[@angelalewis3645]

This is wonderful!

[@munciehansen]

Excellent!!!

[@j0vus]

Where is the cover image of a young Heber C. Kimball from? It is striking.

[@scottbrandon6244]

Imagine being a missionary and baptizing 4,000 converts.

[@lindamartinez7006]

That’s why he got attack by devils

[@reillydevine12]

That’s awesome, great video!

[@pinecone7562]

Awesome!

[@doa2758]

Much to be thankful for the faith of the missionaries and the receptiveness of the people of England === "truth will prevail" indeed. Informative and well presented.🤔🤔

[@lilacbunches]

So interesting. My ancestors came from England.

[@bartboggess1701]

I love this video, thank you for preparing it 👍

[@antyrak7905]

Ah yes, good old "let's tax everything" strategy. That's England for you.

[@bearonaromp7473]

The Title of this segment is Heber C. Kimball his encounter with daemons. It seems you got segments mixed up.

[@lindamartinez7006]

He just mentions other a little bit . That is a really scary story .

[@IrishKamikazeh]

As a pioneer in the faith I'll pass this on to future generations

[@whitneypay515]

This is wonderful, my ancestors came from Sussex to America in 1855.

[@neilhokanson2006]

It’s too bad that you did not even mention the name of Joseph Fielding who’s brother was the one where the missionaries had their first success. It was also his brother-in-law church congregation in Bedford where Willard Richards had his success on this first mission. One could say that the communications of the Fielding family was the key too why Heber C. Kimball went to Preston. Joseph Fielding was his companion and was called to be the mission president upon the departure of Kimball. Make sure you cover the full story.

[@rossmeldrum3346]

My mothers family has similar history of the race between the first two women. Where my 2nd great grand mother Ellen Pucell ran against Jennetta Richards who later married Willard Richards. My GG Ellen was ten years old when she came across the plains in the infamous Martin handcart company she had her feet frozen and had them amputated below the knees.

[@johnharvey4448]

Left was the correct side as people walked before vehicles were invented.

[@rodhjelm1571]

Love the video. Wondering if you guys have some information about Harrison Burgess's mission in England.

[@NEMOTHEMORMON]

Just FYI, that's not the London Bridge you showed, that's Tower Bridge.

[@GalenChock59]

Peter, James, John and Ringo

[@ludivinaballan8076]

❤❤❤

[@saintinlower48]

I love the videos you're making, Brother Griffiths! "*not actual missionaries" 😂😂

[@troymitchell1747]

Homeless and poor in the streets, and tax everything. So what your telling me is , American has become old England.

[@martytid60]

That is the Tower Bridge, not London Bridge.

[@MustangWriter]

14:02 Nemo

[@Fee212]

Britain is Scotland, Ireland, Wales AND England.... Americans..... Please remember that there are 3 Temples in England with NONE in any of the rest of Britain! Britain is NOT ONLY England. Get it?

[@harroldhenderson]

Who would have thought that this was all possible due to Joseph Smith being able to translate the gold plates into English by looking at a stone in an ordinary white top hat. Also interesting how Joseph Smith married Helen Mar Kimball.

[@JakobPGrau]

Joseph had one wife, Emma. The Helen Mar Kimball business is a lie.

[@harroldhenderson]

@@JakobPGrau Helen described her reaction to this proposition: My father was the first to introduce it to me, which had a similar effect to a sudden shock of a small earthquake. When he found (after the first outburst of displeasure for supposed injury) that I received it meekly, he took the first opportunity to introduce Sarah Ann [Whitney] to me as Joseph's wife. Whitney, Helen Mar Kimball (1880-1883), Helen Mar Kimball Whitney, 1828-1896, Autobiography (c. 1839-1846), "Life Incidents," Woman's Exponent 9-10 (1880-1882) and "Scenes and Incidents in Nauvoo," Woman's Exponent 11 (1882-83)

[@lindamartinez7006]

@@harroldhendersonstill A lie

[@harroldhenderson]

@@lindamartinez7006 Which one? The three different vision stories? The Book of Abraham? Eden in Missouri? 34 wives? Angels with flaming swords? The Book of Mormon?

[@lindamartinez7006]

@@harroldhenderson actually there are more then three. And they are all true.

[@lang1031]

The officer is stumbling over his words and pronunciations more then the drunk. And the drunk says she breast feeds! Does she not know that the alcohol goes into the breat milk! Just too much stupid here.

[@getharryonsax]

I encourage people to look. Ore into Heber. C Kimball. I don’t believe that he’s a great man we should admire

[@peterxuereb9884]

Liar, Herbert, is there anything in scripture that Jesus said, which could be or should be treated as trivial and not necessary for salvation????

[@leswilson488]

Back in Mormonism’s inception in the 1830s, it was possible to make very sensational-and very unsubstantiated-claims. Almost 200 years later, advances and discoveries in anthropology, linguistics, archaeology, DNA and other sciences allow for a more forensic examination of such claims. Let’s take just one-the claim that some Israelites came and settled in the Americas, and on such a scale that millions could be lost in battle. Mormons say this is historical fact-others say it’s nonsense. What do the aforementioned sciences-and common sense reveal to the objective observer, one not clouded by cognitive dissonance? We only have two options-the claim there is evidence Israelite immigrants were on this continent, or there is no such evidence. Anyone with even a cursory acquaintance with scripture knows the Israelites were an Iron Age people, had the wheel (carts, wagons, chariots), plowed with draft animals, used potter’s wheels, made and used glass, wrote in alphabetic characters, used base ten numbers, and spoke their own distinct Semitic language. A boat ride from the Middle East to the Americas would not change any of that. Yet, we find NONE of these things in the New World at that time, nothing, nada, zilch. If you got on a ship, and sailed somewhere else, how much of this would you suddenly forget? Would your DNA change on this boat trip-putting you on a completely different branch of the human family? Even when people break off from others, some things ALWAYS, ALWAYS stay the same. For instance, when America broke off from England, they went from the pound to the dollar-but you would NEVER go from a base ten numerical system to a six. . .ever. It would completely upend your mathematics, currency, calendars, and well, everything numerical. So, we are left with two possibilities: The Israelites, and the inhabitants of the Americas not only were not the same peoples-they never even met each other. Or. . . Iron Age immigrants apparently managed to somehow forget what a wheel was, how to smelt iron, use wagons and carts, plow animals, make pottery or glass, speak or write their own language-and inexplicably converted from the base ten number system-on a single boat trip. Oh, and their DNA changed-a biological impossibility. EVERYTHING ELSE about Mormonism and The Book of Mormon hinges on the claim that Israelites came to The New World in the time frame alleged by Joseph Smith. If this “historical account” is just incredibly clumsy, EASILY debunked mythology, it knocks the legs out from under ALL Mormon theology. So, the real question is: Where does this evidence point?

[@rdancranston]

A lot of evidence points to the validity of the bible...and yet millions don't believe it. Its called having faith...I can't answer a lot of questions about the BoM or the bible or religion in general. But the answers the Lord has answered me is enough. I have faith that the time will come when all will be explained and all questions answered..

[@lindamartinez7006]

If you really want to know which you don’t ?? Go search around. Hey off of being lay and go on the many sites. With proof.

[@TheRonster1954]

LDS is so wrong

[@quiltmania58]

One day, we shall see.😉. Scroll on; enjoy your life! Much love to you.

[@TheRonster1954]

@@quiltmania58 - No, it's wrong right now...don't wait until it's too late

[@sandrakisch3600]

I love the LDS church. The teachings of Jesus Christ have given me strength to survive in these trying times.

[@twinangels9352]

Jesus christ is not wrong.

[@TheRonster1954]

LDS version of Jesus Christ is wrong... the spirit brother of Lucifer...geez, how wrong can you get, lol