[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