A 19-year-old missionary was locked in a customs shed in Fiji with pigs and cows. No one knew where he was. No one was coming. He knelt down and heard his mother's voice praying for him from thousands of miles away, and every fear disappeared. That young man was Elder John H. Groberg, the general authority whose mission to Tonga inspired the movie The Other Side of Heaven.
In this episode of Why We Believe, host Nathan Gwilliam sits down with Elder Groberg to hear what a lifetime of faith looks like from someone who has lived it at every extreme. Elder Groberg shares how a testimony meeting interrupted a game of hangman and changed his life, how he nearly starved to death on a tiny island and fell asleep unsure which side of the veil he would wake up on, and how one quiet decision on a wharf, when he thought no one was watching, brought a man and his family back to the gospel years later. He baptized seven people on a small island, and one of those converts now has over 300 great-grandchildren and an entire stake traces back to her faithfulness. Elder Groberg's message is simple: Jesus Christ is your closest friend, and staying faithful is all He asks.
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