1039. Baptism Beach—An African Symbol of How 1978 Revelation Changed the Church -- Great Story from the LDS Church News!
This article was in the Saturday, June 1st, 2018, LDS Church News, and tells the story very well! I love to hear about this! Baptism Beach—An African Symbol of How 1978 Revelation Changed the Church Contributed By Tad Walch, Deseret News staff writer 1 JUNE 2018 Some members of the Church visit the location where they were baptized in Cape Coast, Ghana, on Monday, April 23, 2018. In the foreground is John Dan Ewudzie. Photo by Ravell Call, Deseret News. For 14 years, Joseph William “Billy” Johnson longed to join The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, but couldn’t.Cape Coast, Ghana, Converted by the Book of Mormon as a 30-year-old in 1964, he lived in West Africa 7,000 miles from Church headquarters, where there were no Mormon missionaries or priesthood holders. So Johnson wrote letters to successive Church presidents asking for missionaries. He built a large congregation of fellow believers in the town of Cape Coast, Ghana, on the gleaming sho...