We spent two weeks in Chuuk in
January to help the people on the islands with their Family History. We believe
that we belong to eternal families and it’s important that we get to know who
our relatives are. People go to the Temple in Manila in the Philippines to
solidify their links with their ancestors.
This is a picture of Jean Ichin
and her family as they stopped off on Guam on their trip back to Chuuk from
Manila. She is the Family History Director for the Chuuk District. On her
island, to get from her home to the church to do the family history work for
the people of the islands, she walks 5 miles each way along a terrible road
that passes through one of the islands many garbage dumps. The road is always
covered with running sewage from the refuse dumped there.
This is the group of members on
their way back to Chuuk, they had a 24-hour layover so the church members from
the wards on Guam provided housing and meals for the Chuukese and brought
clothes for the families to take back to the islands. Chuuk is a poor country,
by our standards, but they have a wonderful and loving people living there. Life there is comparable to camping out most of our lives.
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