March 5, 2014

This week you get a bonus picture.  This picture was taken on the Island of Ha`apai after Cyclone Ian.  This is a Wesleyan Church, that was damaged.  The picture on the front is of John the Baptist, baptizing Christ.  The interesting  part is that the Wesleyan church does not practice baptism by immersion, they sprinkle, also....the picture is an LDS picture.  I guess you use what's available and looks good! 
A couple of weeks ago, President Tupou was at the airport after working with the 32 missionaries sent to Ha`apai to help clean up.  He spent those days wearing a "Helping Hands" vest and worked side by side with his missionaries and slept each night on the floor of the church using his backpack as a pillow.  A Wesleyan Minister, also at the airport, was proudly sharing that his "flock" who had lost everything, had just held a feast for him to enjoy.  President Tupou is never short of wisdom and said to him, "In the true Gospel the Shepherd always feeds the flock, not the flock feeds the Shepherd."