Parable of the Plumeria

"The Other Side of Heaven"

Remember this movie about Elder Grobergs mission to the islands of Tonga? We attended a fireside where he was the speaker . It was two hours long and it still wasn't enough time. He is delightful and still so in love with the Tongan people and their culture. He has had many other occasions to serve with them, the past sixty years. I think he is an inside out coconut, like me; brown on the inside and white on the outside.

(These really awesome pictures are from my phone)

His wife, Jennie. They have eleven children.

 Among many things, he spoke about the time he woke up and rats had chewed on the soles of his feet. A woman came and immediately made him go outside and she staked his feet so they pointed at the sun, until they turned black. He said the only thing that hurt worse than the sun were the rats chewing on his feet. Several years later he developed cancer on the bottom of his feet. The doctor was befuddled by that until he told him this story. The doctor then told him the woman had saved his life. Had she not done what she did, he would have been dead by the end of that day.

Our darling, friend, Tasi, who came from the MTC, with us. We don't get to see her very often, so, we were happy she attended, too. Isn't she pretty.

Aloha