Mon. Feb. 11th,
We had another sad experience this last weekend. There was a man here, he was the Stake Clerk in the other stake, and he was 32 years old. He went into the hospital last week because he had a kidney problem and he was bleeding internally. They gave him a transfusion and part of it was the wrong blood type. He became extremely ill and the Stake President asked Sister Cahoon to go and see him. She is the wife of one of the dentists here and she was a trauma team nurse. She is acting as the mission nurse until Sister Mitchell arrives. She could tell immediately what had happened and knew that he needed to get to New Zealand if he was going to live. Of course no one would admit that there had been a mistake and she doesn’t have a license to practice here so she tried to get the Area Presidency involved to get him off of the island. The Dr., the Stake President and the Bishop were asked to send emails explaining what had happened to the Area Authorities. Sister Cahoon sent 3 emails, including pictures as proof. In the end, hers were the only ones the Area received and it was to late, the young man died. He died on the same day that his 28 year old wife gave birth to their second child. He never got to see his new born son. What a tragedy! Sister Cahoon was devastated, there just wasn’t anything she could do. You can’t get sick in Tonga!!
We had a great FHE tonight. The Beans have been reading a couple of books about Tonga. They shared some stories from those books. One book was, “The Other Side Of Heaven” and the other one was “A Legacy of Faith”. We have the first one and I want to try to find the second one. They are beautiful stories about the people of Tonga finding the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
