Preaching the Mormon Gospel in Remotest Australia, With Art

The car, driven by Mormon missionaries, trundled along a red dirt road for 90 minutes, before its driver suddenly announced that it was ’time for a lesson.’ Like clockwork, the front passenger unclipped her seatbelt, turned around, and half hanging through the back seat where I sat, opened a black binder and proceeded to teach. The subject was the ‘Plan of Salvation,’ what Mormons see as God’s grand plan to save humanity and help it thrive. The lecturer, a senior Mormon missionary, had a special Indigenous edition of the Book of Mormon, with pictorialized Mormon scripture, each image painted by a local Aboriginal artist.