The Republic of Trinidad and Tobago is located on the southernmost Caribbean Islands. In 1974 Liz Anne Rogers, a Trinidadian by birth, was baptized in England. Two years later she returned to Trinidad and requested that missionaries be sent to the republic. The Venezuela Caracas Mission sent missionaries, and Lucy Josephine Payne was the first person baptized in Trinidad, 2 June 1977.
On 22 February 1990, Elder M. Russell Ballard dedicated Trinidad and Tobago for the preaching of the gospel. In 1991 the Trinidad Tobago Mission was created.
By the year 2000 there were six branches of the Church on the two islands, with about 1,581 members in the district.
[Year-end 2005: Est. population, 1,088,000; Members, 1,993; Districts, 2; Branches, 10; Missions, 1; Percent LDS, .17; or one in 583; North America Southeast Area; Source: 2007 Church Almanac.]
SOURCES
Borde, Jean A. B. History of the Saints in Trinidad and Tobago. N. p.:Jean A. Borde, 1995.
“Services in 3 South American Nations and Island Republic.” Church News, 10 March 1990, 3.
DAVID R. CROCKETT
From Arnold K. Garr, Donald Q. Cannon, and Richard O. Cowan, eds., Encyclopedia of Latter-day Saint History (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2000), 1258. Used with the permission of the Deseret Book Company. Copies prohibited by law.