By: Ardis E. Parshall - April 01, 2015 Melvin R. Ballard, Rulon S. Wells, and Rey L. Pratt sailed to Buenos Aires late in 1925 to open the South American Mission. Apostle-poet Orson F. Whitney wrote a poem to commemorate the event. Its opening verses were: Buenos Aires’ sun was settingO’er the Andes far awayWhen three stalwart Mormon EldersAnchored in La Plata Bay. They were from the Rocky Mountains,And they felt quite “rocky” to...
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