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Pacific islanders feel spiritual uplift

Published: Thursday, Nov. 12, 2009 | Read story
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President Dieter F. Uchtdorf meets with Samoan Head of State Tui Atua Tupua Tamasese Efi at the leader's home.   (Photo by Oliver Iosefa)
Photo by Oliver Iosefa
President Dieter F. Uchtdorf meets with Samoan Head of State Tui Atua Tupua Tamasese Efi at the leader's home.
President Dieter F. Uchtdorf arrived in the Samoas Nov. 7 to deliver messages of encouragement and hope and promise to multitudes of resilient members who will forever feel the pain exacted by a recent deadly earthquake and tsunami.