British Journal of Mormon Studies

[Solon]

The first issue is now available.

http://www.bjmsonline.org/index.php/BJMS

[MikeWaters]

From the Mauss article:

The Church in Europe must live again. The work of the Church has run on the backs of its European
Saints since the beginning. Don’t think that you are just minding the shop waiting for the
Savior to come. Don’t think that the great days of gathering in Europe are over. This is our time.2 2 Elder Jeffrey R. Holland, as quoted from a 1995 seminar for stake and mission
presidents in Paris by Hoyt W. Brewster, Jr., The Promise: The
Prophesied Growth of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the
Netherlands and Belgium and All of Western Europe (Netherlands Mission,
Amsterdam, November, 1998). Brewster, then President of the Netherlands
Mission, also quotes a comparably optimistic prediction by Elder Henry B.
Eyring made two years later at a similar meeting in Rome, and still another
made by President Hinckley himself in 2000 about a “second harvest” soon to
come in Sweden (Erik Nilsson, “Göteborg, Sweden: A Second Harvest,” Ensign
30[7]: 77 [July 2000]).

[Archaea]

Dr. Mauss writes incitefully, and Dr. Daniel Stewart is almost a neighbor.

[Archaea]

This section made consider the value in having foreign leadership:

The high cost of being Mormon, then, for LDS families and
individuals, comes fundamentally from being relegated both constitutionally
and culturally to this lower tier or margin of religious
respectability.33 Until this situation can be changed, which I believe is
possible in future generations, membership in the LDS Church will
continue to carry a cost, heavier in some countries than in others, but a
cost nevertheless, with respect to marriage opportunities, family lives,
friendships, careers, and many other life–chances. As I mentioned earlier,
the number and impacts of these costs can scarcely be appreciated
by Latter–day Saints in the United States, where membership and activity
in a given religious community rarely have any implications for other
aspects of a person’s life. For that reason, American Saints (unless they
have served missions elsewhere) tend to hold the naïve idea