SAMOA

Our Ward has been touched by the tragedy in Samoa. Several of our families are from Samoa and lost family members there. Bro. Utai just got back from there two days before the destruction. Whole villages were wiped out. There were 81,860 members in Samoa. Many of the villages were all members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. In many of the villages there were whole generations of families living there. There is great sadness in the lives lost and destruction left there. The members shared in Testimony meeting this morning the faith that is there and how prayers have been answered in finding bodies and the living. The Church members knowledge of families being sealed together forever has helped greatly in this time of sorrow.

The members told how the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints was the first one in with help. Australia, New Zealand and America are there now also.

Our hearts and prayers go out to those who are suffering through all the disasters around the world.