SALT LAKE CITY — President Russell M. Nelson, his wife Wendy, and Elder D. Todd Christofferson of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and his wife, Katherine, will visit four countries in Southeast Asia next month.
The four will speak to church members on five consecutive nights in five different major cities in Vietnam, Cambodia, Singapore and Indonesia from Nov. 15-22.
They also will meet with government and religious leaders, according to a news release issued by the church.
The trip will bring to 31 the number of countries President and Sister Nelson will have visited in the first 22 months of his presidency of the church. They have been to nations in Africa, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, the South Pacific, Latin and South America and Canada.
The November trip begins with a member meeting in Hanoi on Nov. 17 followed by another in Ho Chi Minh City on Nov. 18.
He will leave Vietnam the next day and hold a devotional on Nov. 19 in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, where the church is planning to build a temple, based on his announcement a year ago.
On Nov. 20, he will hold a meeting for members in Singapore that will be transmitted to all of the church’s congregations in Malaysia.
Finally, on Nov. 21, the group will hold a devotional in Jakarta, Indonesia, before returning the following day to Utah.
President Nelson will be the second church president to visit these countries, which have about 30,000 church members. President Gordon B. Hinckley visited Vietnam and Cambodia in 1996 and Singapore and Indonesia in 2000.