Happenings!

INTERESTING HAPPENINGS IN OUR MISSION ZONE
(1) There is a lovely young Tongan, Sister Pasina, fresh over here from the islands, who has learned English so fast and so well, that she sounds as though she's lived here for 20 years. Well, during Transfers, she was given a brand new missionary, who is also Tongan, Sister KiniKini, who was born and raised in West Valley, Utah. Her parents are both Tongan but none of them speak the language. THey discovered, to their great delight, that they were actually related; that one's grandmother was a sister to the other's grandfather and they are cousins! And the story ends with Sister Pasina teaching KiniKini how to speak Tongan. And they are so thrilled to be together.

(2) Another interesting story was told by our Mission President's dynamite wife in an address during the Zone Conference. She was talking to the young missionaries about how laws that are eternal and can't be ignored or broken without a consequence. She related an experience her brother-in-law had just the week before. Sister Lindley was received a desperate call from her sister in Salt Lake, who was on her way there, but needed her to please hasten to Sydney and be with her husband who was in the hospital. He had been in Sydney for a Business Convention and had been run over by a truck and was in serious condition in the hospital there. He had stepped off a curb, looked to his "left" as we do in America; but in Australia traffic comes at you from the "right." There apparently was even a warning sign on the curb that said "Look to the right." She flew to be by his side, and everyone at the hospital there was saying "It was so sad it happened to such a sweet man!" But as Sister Lindley explained "When it comes to natural laws, it doesn't matter "how nice" a person is, if you step off the curb into a truck, the resulting outcome cannot be changed and he was thrown 20 feet into the air, resulting in serious skull fractures. Interesting enough, though, he received no injuries "under his clothing." Life is very interesting here in the Mission Field!