David O. McKay served for the nearly twenty years as the beloved President and Prophet of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. McKay is known for his challenge to Mormons: “Every Member a Missionary.” Everyone interested in LDS missionary work will want to read this interesting account. Now for the first time are published the diaries of David O. McKay as a young Mormon missionary in a foreign land far from his home in Huntsville, Utah – in fact, this is the first time in LDS Church history that the missionary diaries of one who later became President of the Church can be read.