MormonTimes.com: Members find 'international family'

By Scott Taylor
Deseret News
Published: Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2008 12:39 a.m. MDT
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GUANGZHOU, China — At first glance, TT Yeung and Benjamin Ubah are as different as two adult men can be — the former an older, shorter Hong Kong native who is married with two older children, and the latter a younger, taller, single but engaged man with Nigerian roots.

And yet they share many things as fellow members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Guangzhou, a bustling commercial city of 10 million-plus in the southern reaches of the People's Republic of China.

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Anonymous | Oct. 8, 2008 at 4:13 p.m.

My first visit to the Guangzhou Branch was in early 2002 when our...

Paul Fielding | Oct. 8, 2008 at 9:20 a.m.

- Benjamin Ubah, second counselor in the Guangzhou branch presidency, speaks with Jenny Yeung Diehl following Sunday meetings in the rented-room chapel. (Scott Taylor, Deseret News)
Scott Taylor, Deseret News

Benjamin Ubah, second counselor in the Guangzhou branch presidency, speaks with Jenny Yeung Diehl following Sunday meetings in the rented-room chapel.

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