Nearly 50 years after Mormons first put down roots here, opening small outpost churches converting Buddhists, animists and other Thais, the fast-growing Utah-based faith has just announced plans to construct its first temple in Thailand, enabling their families to be “sealed” together for eternity, posthumous weddings for dead ancestors and other “highest sacraments.”
The project, one of three international outposts announced by leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints this week, will shorten the trip for believers: The Mormons’ nearest temple now is in Hong Kong, about 1,000 miles northeast of Bangkok.
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