One Year in Scandinavia

This work presents a brief account of Erastus Fairbanks Snow's one year on a mission in Scandinavia through extracts of private letters which were never planned for publication. He successfully describes the observations he made about the people of the country and the country in general. During October 1849, at the general conference, Snow was assigned to lead a mission to Scandinavia. He had a Danish convert, Peter O. Hanson, who had joined the church in Boston as a companion. They put most of their efforts in Denmark, but another convert, John E. Forsgren, had joined them, who sermonized in Sweden.

Snow was a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1849 until his death. He did sixteen missions to New England, St. Louis, Arizona, southern Utah, Denmark, Scandinavia, and Mexico throughout his life, making it impossible for him to be with his family for more than a year.