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Daily Diary Of Mphs 2004 Tour Of New Zealand

Mormon Pacific Historical Society

We had a group of 48 people of which 39 met at BYU-H parking lot at 7:30 PM. to have a bus transport us to the airport for our trip to N. Z. Many family members came to say good-bye, wish us well and to have a safe journey. The leaders of our group are Bro. Colin and Raewin Shelford, John Elkington, Riley Moffat and Rex Frandsen. Stella Keil, Mike Foley and Zane Clark are other members of the MPHS board and are traveling with us as well. Checking in at the airport ran rather smoothly, except for a very …

At Whakatu Marae, Nelson, New Zealand

Mormon Pacific Historical Society

April 12th, 2004

President Staples of the Wellington, New Zealand Mission:

It is so wonderful for Sis Staples and I to be here with you tonight. We have some dear friends with us from Hawaii. We lived in Hawaii for about six years and I served as a Bishop of the Laie Ward and then I served in the Stake Presidency and what a joy that was for us and the friendships we that we made, Carol and Marie lived right under us, almost, at Cackle Fresh and we really built a friendship there.

Mphs Fireside At Dunedin Branch, Dunedin, New Zealand

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April 18th , 2004

Bro. Riley Moffat:

My dear brothers and sisters, Aloha. "Aloha". Okay, now it customary that you respond so let's try that one more time, brothers and sisters, Aloha. "Aloha". Mahalo nui loa.

Fireside At Manukau Stake Centre, Auckland

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April 25th, 2004

Sister Hinemoa Hakaraia:

"Aloha my friends from Hawaii. "Aloha." Aloha my relatives from New Zealand. "Aloha." Kiaora. "Kiaora." I deem this a great honour to be invited to speak at this fireside tonight. This is our ANZAC Day today and I just thought, before I continue with my talk, that I pay reverence to my brother, who died on the 29th April last year, and left me on my own-some out of our three families, and I am so thankful for him and you'll notice as I go along in my report tonight, how important he was …

Fireside At Christchurch Stake Center Tuesday, April 20, 2004

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The tape of the Christchurch fireside did not turn out. It was garbled and unintelligible. So here is a synopsis of the event from the notes of Bonnie Naluai who was assigned to record the events of the day and Mike Foley.

Whangarei Stake Center

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Monsey Anaru: We have a saying in New Zealand among the Maori people, which goes something like this: Kia poto tonu te okou to paipa kie maha nai waha. Translated: we're happy to see you, extremely happy. Especially when you're handed some candy and things like that. Literally, that means: have a short stalk on your pipe to retain the warmth closer to your mouth. So, I hope that I'm not going to speak for too long. I have all my notes with me. The first meeting place in Whangarei was a street by the central Baptist Church there where …

Takapuwahia Marae, Porirua

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Taku Parai: Well, we've come to the part of the program where I guess a lot of questions and answers are going to be shared between us all, but I think we should start of on the right note, and that is that we'll have an opening song, which we'll ask Aunty Cissy to conduct. And we'll ask Hrother Pierce to give the opening invocation to this part of the program.

Mphs New Zealand Trip: Daily Diary, April 16-28, 2002

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Tuesday, 16 April

We left Honolulu at 12:30 a.m., 5 long hours after leaving Laie. At some point the 6 ½-hour flight to Nadi we crossed the International Dateline and lost a day, arriving at Nadi at 5:30 a.m. on April 16th.

Judea Marae, Tauranga

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A. Watene: They belong to the Church for two generations before I was born. My mother was a Morrison Meha from Gisborne. Actually she was a Salvation Army person before she met my father, and it wasn't long after she met him that she joined the Church. My mother was a very spiritual woman, and her name was Ani Morete.

Duncan Home, Tahoraiti, Dannevirke

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Richard Marsh: I'll go back till I was round about ten. Matthew Cowley came here to live. He brought a little boy. I do believe he adopted a little boy that was brought from up Nuhaka way somewhere. Tony was his name. The first thing he told Tony was, don't you mix with that man he was bad company. That was me, but anyway. That was one of my first introductions with Matthew Cowley.

Awarua Chapel

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(Who?): Brothers and sisters and friends, I acknowledge our Heavenly Father for the blessings that bring you people here to Awarua. Now, I have just arrived back from Wellington and I heard that this Hawaiian group was coming from Hawaii.

Papakura Marae. Auckland

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Brian Joyce: There's a picture up on the wall of a world renowned lady for her skills in making korowai in particular. And her name was Dame Rangimarie Hetet. And so we built that center to commemorate her and we did that while she was alive. And when we opened the building we invited her to the opening and she opened it and she was 100 years old then.

Maromaku Chapel

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Les Going: The Church in the Valley here goes back to 1910 when my grandfather moved into the valley. His life in the church began way back in 1890 and he lived in a different area at the time, but when he moved here then he began the Church in this area.

Andrew Jenson In New Zealand 1895-1896

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Andrew Jenson was Assistant Historian of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for many years. He was born in 1850 in Damgren, Denmark. The family joined the Church in 1854 and emigrated to Utah in 1866, settling in Pleasant Grove. After a mission back to Denmark Andrew become interested in publishing material about the history of the Church. In 1888 he traveled throughout the Eastern U.S. collecting material on Church history.