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Vai's View: Much aloha, Junior Seau
My heart is heavy and broken. News of Junior Seau's death first filled my BlackBerry from mutual friends before it was confirmed by my station producers and ESPN. We weren't buddy-buddy, though he famously called everyone "Buddy." We were good friends and we had dinner together whenever he came...
87–88: Pacific Island Mormon Identities
This two-part episode features a fascinating, dynamic, and soaring discussion that takes us into the experiences, cultures, and elements of the worldviews of Latter-day Saints from Pacific Island nations. We learn pieces of the history of two of these nations as it relates to the LDS Church taking...
Scripture power in Tahiti
Mormon Life says: When two Tahitian teens gave the scriptures a chance, their lives changed.
Why would a teen choose to spend two hours every Thursday night studying the scriptures with his mom? A year ago Rooma Terooatea of Tahiti probably would have wondered the same thing.Now he might...
Polynesian culture offers barriers, blessings
Editor's note: This is the first of a two-part series exploring the cultural barriers and blessings in the Polynesian culture. Taboo. It is Tonga's sole contribution to the English language. Taken from the Tongan word "Tapu," meaning "restricted" or "sacred." Technically, we could also claim...
Papua New Guinea saints sacrifice to be sealed
Some canoed for four days from remote villages. Several came from Daru, an island close to the Papua New Guinea mainland. Many had never seen a large town before, and very few had ever visited the city of Port Moresby. Certainly none had seen a western city the size of Sydney. This group of...
The changing face of Mormonism in the Pacific
There was a time when the term Mormon meant “American missionaries, or Polynesian church” to many people in this part of the world. But such perceptions are old news.Mormon missionaries in the Pacific now come from all over the world, not just the United States. And while there are many Polynesian...
