As early as 1915,
however, we see a first wave of itinerant teachers and short-time settlers
directing their steps towards Alaska in an attempt to open it to the light of
Bahá'u'lláh. This was followed by a second wave of determined pioneers and
spiritual conquerors who, ever since the first Seven Year Plan, [1937-1944]
demonstrated their exemplary enthusiasm and caused "the breezes ... of the
love of God" to "Perfume the nostrils of the inhabitants" of
that "vast country."
- The Universal House of Justice (From a message
dated July 1976 addressed to the friends assembled at the International
Teaching Conference in Anchorage; ‘Messages from the Universal House of Justice
1963-1986’)