LIMA — Each month, Czibor Chicata-Sutmöller issues scores of visas to Utahns preparing to serve Latter-day Saint missions to Peru.
The Consul General of Peru in Salt Lake City said his daily duty of managing the visa flow between the Beehive State and his South American nation signals the link that two regions from opposite sides of the equator share with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
“And Peru’s capital city of Lima is the only city in South America that has two Latter-day Saint temples,” Chicata-Sutmöller reminded the Deseret News in the minutes before Delta launched its first-ever direct flight between Lima and Salt Lake City on Dec. 4…