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Luvequ<br />
Yalewa<br />
ena Noqu Mata<strong>ni</strong>tu<br />
NA ITUKUTUKU KEI<br />
NA CAKACAKA NI<br />
ISOQOSOQO NI VEIVUKEI
<strong>Na</strong> ivola oqo e nei:<br />
Raica au sa kaya vakaidina vei iko, ko ira kecega sa vakabauta na noqu<br />
ivakavuvuli, era sa yaco me luvequ ena noqu mata<strong>ni</strong>tu.<br />
Vunau kei na Veiyalayalati 25:1
Luvequ Yalewa<br />
ena Noqu Mata<strong>ni</strong>tu<br />
NA ITUKUTUKU KEI NA CAKACAKA<br />
NI ISOQOSOQO NI VEIVUKEI<br />
Tabaka na<br />
<strong>Na</strong> Lotu i Jisu Karisito <strong>ni</strong> Yalododonu Edaidai<br />
Salt Lake City, Utah
INAKI NI<br />
ISOQOSOQO<br />
NI VEIVUKEI<br />
Vakalevutaki <strong>ni</strong> vakabauta<br />
kei na bula savasava yadua<br />
Vaqaqacotaka na<br />
matavuvale kei na vuvale<br />
Vakasaqarai ira ka<br />
vukei ira era leqa tu
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ITUKUTUKU<br />
Lewena<br />
TAUMADA iTukutuku mai na Mataveiliutaki Taumada .............................................................. ix<br />
IKAU NI<br />
ITUKUTUKU “E Dua na Ka Matalia” .............................................................................................. xi<br />
WASE 1 <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>: <strong>Na</strong> Vakalesui Mai <strong>ni</strong> Dua na iVakarau Makawa .................. 1<br />
WASE 2 “E Dua na Ka Vinaka Cake”: <strong>Na</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Marama</strong> e <strong>Na</strong>uvoo ....... 11<br />
WASE 3 “Kukuva Toka na Veiyalayalati”: Lako Ya<strong>ni</strong>, Biuvanua, ka Tawavanua ................... 31<br />
WASE 4 “E Dua na iVakarau Raraba ka Rabailevu <strong>ni</strong> Veiqaravi” .......................................... 45<br />
WASE 5 “Sa Sega <strong>ni</strong> Mudu na Loloma” ................................................................................ 69<br />
WASE 6 E Dua na iWiri<strong>ni</strong> <strong>ni</strong> Veitaci<strong>ni</strong> <strong>Marama</strong> e Vuravura Raraba ...................................... 91<br />
WASE 7 “<strong>Na</strong> Lotu Savasava”: Vakatawa ka Veiqaravi ena Siko Vuvale .............................. 115<br />
WASE 8 Veivakalougatataki <strong>ni</strong> Matabete Vei Keda Kece:<br />
iSema Sega <strong>ni</strong> Cavuka Rawa kei na Matabete ...................................................... 141<br />
WASE 9 “iVakatawa <strong>ni</strong> Vuvale”: Vakadeitaka, Susuga, ka Taqomaka na Matavuvale ........163<br />
<strong>Na</strong> Matavuvale: iVakaro ki Vuravura Raraba.......................................................... 186<br />
WASE 10 “Bula ki na Nomu Dodonu” ................................................................................... 189<br />
Veika Bibi ena iTukutuku <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> .................................................................... 204<br />
iVakamacala ...................................................................................................................................208<br />
iTuvatuva <strong>ni</strong> iTaba.......................................................................................................................... 216<br />
iTuvatuva Vakamata<strong>ni</strong>vola ............................................................................................................223
ITUKUTUKU TAUMADA<br />
<strong>Na</strong> iTukutuku mai na<br />
Mataveiliutaki Taumada<br />
Kemu<strong>ni</strong> na <strong>Marama</strong>:<br />
Ni raici ena vakavinavinaka na veivakalougatataki <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> Vei-<br />
vukei ena nodra bula na lewe <strong>ni</strong> Lotu, keitou sa veidusimaki kina ena kena<br />
vakarautaki na Luvequ Yalewa ena Noqu Mata<strong>ni</strong>tu: <strong>Na</strong> iTukutuku kei na Cakacaka<br />
<strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>. Keitou masuta me na yaco me veivakalougatataki<br />
vei kemu<strong>ni</strong> vakakina vei ira o <strong>ni</strong> na tara na nodra bula na ivola oqo.<br />
Keitou vakaraitaka na neitou iloloma kei na neitou qoroi kemu<strong>ni</strong> ka keitou<br />
kila <strong>ni</strong> sai kemu<strong>ni</strong> na luvena yalewa loma<strong>ni</strong> na Tamada Vakalomalagi<br />
ka nona tisaipeli yalodina na Turaga ko Jisu Karisito. O <strong>ni</strong> tiki <strong>ni</strong> dua na<br />
veitaci<strong>ni</strong> marama e vuravura raraba. Ko <strong>ni</strong> dusimaki mai na nomu<strong>ni</strong> ibole,<br />
“Sa Sega <strong>ni</strong> Mudu na Loloma,” o <strong>ni</strong> veivuke ena kena vaqaqacotaki na<br />
veimatavuvale ka tarai cake na mata<strong>ni</strong>tu <strong>ni</strong> Kalou e vuravura.<br />
Keitou vakayaloqaqataki kemu<strong>ni</strong> mo <strong>ni</strong> vulica na ivola oqo ka laiva na kena<br />
dina tawayala<strong>ni</strong> kei na kena ivakaraitaki veivakauqeti me tara na nomu<strong>ni</strong> bula.<br />
Keitou vakadinadinataka <strong>ni</strong> sa vakalesuya mai na Turaga na taucoko<br />
<strong>ni</strong> kosipeli mai vua na Parofita ko Josefa Simici ka <strong>ni</strong> sa dua na tiki bibi<br />
<strong>ni</strong> veivakalesui mai oqori na <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>. Sa dua na nodra iyau<br />
talei na marama ena <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>. Keitou masuta me na dua na<br />
ivurevure uasivi <strong>ni</strong> kena maroroi na iyau oqori na ivola oqo.<br />
<strong>Na</strong> Mataveiliutaki Taumada<br />
ix
IKAU<br />
“E Dua na Ka Matalia”<br />
Era sa dau veiqaravi na marama ena <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> <strong>ni</strong>kua vakatisaipeli yalodina i Jisu Karisito me vakataki Meri<br />
kei Marica ena Veiyalayalati Vou.<br />
Ena imatai <strong>ni</strong> soqo<strong>ni</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>,<br />
e kaya kina o Sisita Emma Smith, “Eda sa<br />
vakarau vakayacora e dua na cakacaka veivakurabuitaki.”<br />
1 E dina o koya. <strong>Na</strong> itukutuku <strong>ni</strong><br />
<strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> e vakasinaiti ena kedra<br />
ivakaraitaki na marama wale ga ka ra cakava<br />
rawa na veika matalia ena nodra cakacakataka<br />
na nodra vakabauta na Tamada Vakalomalagi<br />
kei Jisu Karisito. A tauyavutaki na <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong><br />
<strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> me vukea na nodra vakarautaki na<br />
luvena yalewa na Kalou ki na veivakalougatataki<br />
<strong>ni</strong> bula tawamudu. <strong>Na</strong> inaki <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong><br />
xi
xii<br />
<strong>Veivukei</strong> me vakalevutaka na vakabauta kei na<br />
buladodonu yadua, vaqaqacotaka na matavuvale<br />
kei na vuvale, ka vakarautaki na veivuke<br />
ena nodra vakasaqarai ka vukei o ira era vakaleqai<br />
tu. Era vakataucokotaka na marama na inaki<br />
eso oqo ena nodra vakasaqara, ciqoma ka cakacakataka<br />
na ivakatakila era ciqoma me baleta na<br />
nodra veikacivi kei na nodra bula yadua.<br />
<strong>Na</strong> ivola oqo e sega <strong>ni</strong> itukutuku <strong>ni</strong> veigauna,<br />
e sega tale ga <strong>ni</strong> gadrevi me vakarautaki<br />
kina na veika kece sa rawati ena <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong><br />
<strong>Veivukei</strong>. Ia, e vakarautaki kina e dua na rai<br />
vakaitukutuku makawa <strong>ni</strong> veiqaravi raraba ena<br />
<strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>. E vakavuvulitaki kina<br />
mai na itukutuku makawa, na veika e sotavi<br />
vakatamata yadua, na ivola<strong>ni</strong>kalou, kei na<br />
nodra vosa na parofita <strong>ni</strong> gauna oqo kei ira na<br />
veiliutaki ena <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> na nodra<br />
itavi kei na madigi eso e soli vei ira na marama<br />
Yalododonu Edaidai ena nona ituvatuva <strong>ni</strong><br />
marau na Tamada Vakalomalagi.<br />
<strong>Na</strong> Cava me da Vulica Kina na<br />
iTukutuku kei na Cakacaka<br />
<strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>?<br />
E kaya o Peresitedi Spencer W. Kimball, na<br />
ikati<strong>ni</strong>karua <strong>ni</strong> Peresitedi <strong>ni</strong> Lotu, “Eda kila <strong>ni</strong><br />
o ira na marama era dau vakavinavinaka ena<br />
vuku <strong>ni</strong> veigauna sa oti era na kauwaitaka<br />
me ra tara cake na buladodonu ena veisiga <strong>ni</strong><br />
mataka.” 2 <strong>Na</strong> vulici <strong>ni</strong> ivola oqo ena vukea me<br />
vakalevutaki cake na nodra vakavinavinakataka<br />
na marama na veigauna sa oti kei na nodra kila<br />
na nodra iyau vakayalo.<br />
<strong>Na</strong> itukutuku <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> e vakavuvulitaka<br />
vei keda na kedra ivakatakilakila<br />
vakalou kei na kedra yaga tawayala<strong>ni</strong> na luvena<br />
yalewa na Kalou. E kedra italanoa vakasinaiti<br />
Ena vukei ira na marama me ra vulica na nodra itavi ena<br />
mata<strong>ni</strong>tu <strong>ni</strong> Kalou na nodra dau vuli yadua.
vakayalo na marama qaqa, yalodina vakainaki<br />
ka sega <strong>ni</strong> dau kilai levu na nodra veiqaravi. Ni<br />
vulici na itukutuku oqo, era na raica na Yalododonu<br />
Edaidai <strong>ni</strong> kilai ira na Luvena yalewa na<br />
Tamada Vakalomalagi, <strong>ni</strong> loma<strong>ni</strong> ira, ka nuitaki<br />
ira ena veiitavi tabu eso, ka dau tuberi ira ena<br />
nodra qarava na itavi eso oqori. Ena nodra sasaga,<br />
era sa duavata kina na marama ena Lotu<br />
kei ira na turaga ka ra taura tu na matabete me<br />
ra tara cake na mata<strong>ni</strong>tu <strong>ni</strong> Kalou e vuravura ka<br />
vaqaqacotaka na veivuvale e Saio<strong>ni</strong>.<br />
Vulici Yadua <strong>ni</strong> Luvequ<br />
Yalewa ena Noqu Mata<strong>ni</strong>tu<br />
<strong>Na</strong> yaga <strong>ni</strong> ivola oqo e sega <strong>ni</strong> kune ena<br />
veitiki<strong>ni</strong>siga kei na veitukutuku e vakarautaki<br />
kina ia ena inaki, na ivakavuvuli, kei na<br />
ivakarau e vakavuvulitaka. Ni ra vulica ka vulica<br />
tale na lewe yadua <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> na<br />
ivola oqo, era na raica <strong>ni</strong> iyau <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong><br />
<strong>Veivukei</strong> e sega <strong>ni</strong> baleti ira walega na marama<br />
era a bula e liu; e baleti ira talega na marama e<br />
vuravura raraba <strong>ni</strong>kua ka ra cakava ka rokova<br />
tiko na nodra veiyalayalati. <strong>Na</strong> kila ka oqori ena<br />
vukei ira na marama me ra kunea na veivakauqeti<br />
mai na veigauna sa sivi ka kune vakacegu<br />
<strong>ni</strong> qarava na veisiga <strong>ni</strong> mataka.<br />
<strong>Na</strong> ivakavuvuli, italanoa, kei na ivakaraitaki<br />
ena ivola oqo e rawa <strong>ni</strong> tuberi ira na marama<br />
me ra vakotora na veika bibi kei na ivalavala eso<br />
ena nodra bula ka na vukei ira me vakalevutaki<br />
na nodra vakabauta kei na buladodonu yadua,<br />
vaqaqacotaka na matavuvale kei na veivuvale,<br />
ka vakasaqarai ira ka vukei ira era vakaleqai tu.<br />
E kaya vaqo o Sisita Belle S. Spafford, na<br />
ikaciwa <strong>ni</strong> peresitedi raraba <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong><br />
<strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>: “<strong>Na</strong> marama yadua <strong>ni</strong>kua, au<br />
vakabauta, <strong>ni</strong> na vinaka vua me dikeva na<br />
veika e dau taleitaka, kalasitaka na itaviqaravi<br />
e vakaitavitaki koya kina, qai taura na ikalawa<br />
me vakarawarawataka na nona bula, vakaliuca<br />
na veika e dodonu me liu, ka vakabibitaka na<br />
vanua ena levu kina na kena isau ka levu na<br />
vosota e gadrevi kina, ka vakuwai koya mai na<br />
kena e sega na betena.” 3<br />
Ni ra vuli na marama mai na itukutuku <strong>ni</strong><br />
<strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>, era na rawa <strong>ni</strong> raica na<br />
ivakaraitaki, ivakamacala, kei na ivakavuvuli<br />
eso ka vakaibalebale vakalevu vei ira. Ni ra<br />
vakauqeti mai na veika era raica oqori kei na<br />
nodra ivakavuvuli na parofita <strong>ni</strong> gauna makawa<br />
kei ira ena gauna oqo, sa rawa me ra<br />
vakasaqara, ciqoma, ka cakacakataka na nodra<br />
ivakatakila yadua. E rawa <strong>ni</strong> ra tuberi ena<br />
nodra segata me ra yaco me vaka na tamata e<br />
vinakata na Turaga me ra vakakina ka kitaka na<br />
veika e vinakata o Koya me ra cakava.<br />
E rawa <strong>ni</strong> ra vakayaloqaqataki na marama<br />
ena vosa nei Alama: “Raica na ka lailai ka beci<br />
sa tubu mai kina na ka levu.” 4 <strong>Na</strong> veika lalai<br />
ka beci era qarava rawa ena vukei ira me ra<br />
xiii
xiv<br />
Ni ra dau veitalanoataka na marama na itukutuku kei na<br />
cakacaka <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> ena rawa kina vei ira<br />
me ra veivakatataki cake.<br />
raica na sala e vakaukauwataki ira tiko kina ka<br />
tubera tiko na nodra bula na Turaga.<br />
Vulica Vata kei ira Eso na<br />
iTukutuku kei na Cakacaka<br />
<strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong><br />
<strong>Na</strong> ivola oqo e dua na ivurevure <strong>ni</strong> vuli bibi<br />
me vukei ira na marama ena <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong><br />
<strong>Veivukei</strong> ena nodra vuli vata ena Veisigatabu<br />
kei na so tale na siga ena loma <strong>ni</strong> macawa.<br />
Me ra kunea na idusidusi raraba me baleta na<br />
veivakavulici ena soqo<strong>ni</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong><br />
me ra na gole na veiliutaki <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong><br />
<strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> ki na ivoladusidusi e vakayagataki<br />
tiko ena gauna oqo ka vakakina ki na LDS .org.<br />
Me ra raica na itukutuku e baleta vakatabakidua<br />
na vakayagataki <strong>ni</strong> ivola oqo ena soqo<strong>ni</strong> <strong>ni</strong><br />
<strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>, e rawa me ra gole ki na<br />
LDS .org ka raica eso tale na idusidusi veivuke e<br />
tabaka na Lotu.<br />
<strong>Na</strong> veivakauqeti <strong>ni</strong> ivola oqo e nakiti me<br />
ulabaleta ya<strong>ni</strong> na veisoqo<strong>ni</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong><br />
<strong>Veivukei</strong>. E rawa vei ira na veimatavuvale me ra<br />
vulica ka veivosakitaka vata na ivakaraitaki kei<br />
na ivakavuvuli eso ena ivola. E rawa <strong>ni</strong> ra wasea<br />
na ivola oqo kei ira na nodra itoka<strong>ni</strong> o ira na<br />
marama ena <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>. E rawa <strong>ni</strong><br />
ra vakayagataka na lewe <strong>ni</strong> Lotu ena veitabayabaki<br />
kece sara na ivola me idusidusi <strong>ni</strong> leso<strong>ni</strong>,<br />
na vosa, kei na veimatabose.<br />
Vakavinavinaka<br />
O ira era vakarautaka na kena tabaki na ivola<br />
oqo era vakaraitaka na nodra vakavinavinaka<br />
vei Lucile C. Tate kei na vugona o Elaine R.<br />
Harris, ka rau a kacivi ka vakatikori ena 1996<br />
me rau biuta vata e dua na itukutuku sega <strong>ni</strong><br />
tabaki <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>. A maroroi na<br />
nodrau cakacaka me ivurevure ena itukutuku<br />
maroroi <strong>ni</strong> Lotu. <strong>Na</strong> nodrau sasaga me rau vakaivolataka<br />
na nodra bula na veiperesitedi raraba<br />
<strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> kei na veisoqo<strong>ni</strong><br />
lelevu <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> sa vakayavutaki<br />
kina na ivola oqo.
E vagolei talega na vakavinavinaka vei ira<br />
oqo: Susan W. Tanner, ka vakatikori ena 2009<br />
me vola na imatai <strong>ni</strong> itukutuku taucoko oqo<br />
<strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> me baleta na Lotu<br />
raraba, ka vakayagataka na nodrau cakacaka o<br />
Sisita Tate kei Sisita Harris me kena yavu; o ira<br />
na edita, kei na daudroi<strong>ni</strong>, ka ra toboka rawa<br />
na yalo <strong>ni</strong> ivola oqo ena gauna sa na oti kina<br />
ka ra qai cakacaka vagumatua me rawati; o ira<br />
na dauvolaivola tale eso, o ira na cau, dau<strong>ni</strong>itukutuku<br />
makawa, ka ra kilai ena kena laurai na<br />
nodra cakacaka sa tabaki tu ena idusidusi ena<br />
mua <strong>ni</strong> ivola oqo.<br />
Me kena iotioti, ena sega <strong>ni</strong> rawa <strong>ni</strong> volai na<br />
itukutuku oqo ke a sega na nodra vakabauta,<br />
yalodina, kei na veiqaravi na marama ena <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong><br />
<strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> ena veitabagauna taucoko<br />
<strong>ni</strong> Lotu.<br />
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WASE 1<br />
<strong>iSoqosoqo</strong><br />
<strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong><br />
<strong>Na</strong> Vakalesui Mai <strong>ni</strong><br />
Dua na iVakarau Makawa<br />
E dina beka <strong>ni</strong> rogorogo vou na<br />
yacana, na isoqosoqo e se tekivutaki ena<br />
gauna makawa sara. E tukuna vei keda na<br />
noda parofita ka a vakamatei ena vuku <strong>ni</strong> nona<br />
vakabauta <strong>ni</strong> isoqosoqo vata ga oqo a dau<br />
tu ena lotu <strong>ni</strong> gauna makawa.<br />
Eliza R. Snow
WASE 1<br />
<strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong><br />
<strong>Na</strong> Vakalesui Mai <strong>ni</strong><br />
Dua na iVakarau Makawa<br />
Ena gauna taucoko <strong>ni</strong> nona veiqaravi ena<br />
bula oqo, sa dau vakaraitaka na iVakabula na<br />
nona loma<strong>ni</strong> ira ka kauwaitaki ira na marama.<br />
E kaya o Elder James E. Talmage ena Kuoramu<br />
<strong>ni</strong> iApositolo Le Ti<strong>ni</strong>karua, “<strong>Na</strong> jabe<strong>ni</strong> cecere<br />
duadua e vuravura me baleti ira na marama kei<br />
na bula vakamarama sai Jisu na Karisito.” 1<br />
E vakavulici ira na marama vakailawalawa<br />
lelevu, vakatamata yadua, e tolo <strong>ni</strong> sala kei na<br />
baravi, ena ikeliwai kei na nodra veivale, na<br />
iVakabula. E vakaraitaka vei ira na loloma kei<br />
na yalovinaka ka vakabulai ira kei ira na nodra<br />
lewe <strong>ni</strong> matavuvale. Ena vuqa na italanoa va-<br />
kaibalebale, e tukuna me baleti ira na marama<br />
era vakaitavi ena nodra itavi ga <strong>ni</strong> veisiga. E<br />
vakaraitaka na nona kila vakavinaka tu na itovo<br />
<strong>ni</strong> bula <strong>ni</strong> marama ka rawata mai na nodra<br />
ivakarau <strong>ni</strong> bula e veisiga na veileso<strong>ni</strong> cecere<br />
vakosipeli. E vosoti ira. E tagi vata kei ira. E<br />
yalololoma vei ira ena nodra itutuº vakaluvena<br />
yalewa, marama radi<strong>ni</strong>vale, dauqaravi vuvale,<br />
tina, ka yada. E dau taleitaki ira ka vakamaramataki<br />
ira.<br />
Ni sotava sara tu mada ga na mosi vakaiyanaqa<br />
ena kauveilatai, e vakaraitaka na iVakabula<br />
na nona kauwaitaka na Tinana, ka kena<br />
irairai ena gauna ko ya <strong>ni</strong> sa yada ka gadreva e<br />
dua me vakatawai koya. 2 <strong>Na</strong> imatai <strong>ni</strong> tamata<br />
e rairai kina ko Koya <strong>ni</strong> oti na Nona Tucaketale<br />
e dua na marama. 3<br />
Tisaipeli Yalewa ena<br />
Veiyalayalati Vou<br />
E lailai na ka e kilai rawa me baleta na<br />
isoqosoqo <strong>ni</strong> marama ena Veiyalayalati Vou,<br />
ia na ivakadinadina e tukuna <strong>ni</strong> ra a vakaitavi<br />
sara vakabibi na marama ena gauna <strong>ni</strong> nona<br />
veiqaravi vakalotu na iVakabula. <strong>Na</strong> Veiyalayalati<br />
Vou e okati kina na kedra itukutuku na marama,<br />
o koya e cavuti na yacana kei koya e sega, ka ra<br />
cakacakataka na nodra vakabauti Jisu Karisito,<br />
vulica ka bulataka na Nona ivakavuvuli, ka vakadinadinataka<br />
na nona cakacaka, cakamana, kei<br />
na nona bula vakaturaga. Era qai yaco na marama<br />
oqo me ra tisaipeli ivakaraitaki vinaka ka<br />
ra ivakadinadina bibi <strong>ni</strong> cakacaka <strong>ni</strong> veivakabulai.<br />
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Era a lako na marama vata kei Jisu kei iratou<br />
na Nona iApositolo Le Ti<strong>ni</strong>karua. Era solia na<br />
nodra iyau me vukea na Nona veiqaravi. Ni oti<br />
na Nona mate kei na Nona Tucaketale, era sa<br />
yaco tiko ga me tisaipeli yalodina na marama.<br />
Era sota ka masu vata kei ira na iApositolo.<br />
Era solia na nodra veivale me nodra vanua <strong>ni</strong><br />
vakasoqo<strong>ni</strong> vata na lewe <strong>ni</strong> Lotu. Era vakaitavi<br />
ena yalodina ena cakacaka <strong>ni</strong> vakabula yalo,<br />
vakayago ka vakayalo talega.<br />
Erau ivakaraitaki <strong>ni</strong> tisaipeli yalewa ena<br />
Veiyalayalati Vou o Marica kei na tacina o Meri.<br />
Ena Luke 10 e koto kina na itukutuku kei<br />
“A sa kauti [Jisu] ki na nona vale e dua na yalewa na<br />
yacana ko Marica.” Sa dua na tacina na yacana ko Meri<br />
“sa tiko talega ena yavai Jisu, ka rogoca na nona vosa”<br />
(Luke 10:38 39).<br />
Marica ena nona dolava na nona vale vei Jisu.<br />
E qarava na Turaga ena nona sotava na Nona<br />
gagadre vakayago, a dabe ko Meri e yavana na<br />
iVakavuvuli ka tiloma na Nona ivunau.<br />
Ena dua na itabagauna ka dau namaki<br />
walega kina vei ira na marama na veiqaravi <strong>ni</strong><br />
veika vakayago, e vakavuvulitaka na iVakabula<br />
vei rau ko Marica kei Meri <strong>ni</strong> rawa vei ira<br />
na marama me ra vakaitavi talega ena veika<br />
vakayalo <strong>ni</strong> Nona cakacaka. E sureti rau me rau<br />
Nona tisaipeli ka vakaivotavota ena veivakabulai,<br />
“na ivotavota uasivi cake” ka na sega <strong>ni</strong> kau<br />
ta<strong>ni</strong> vei rau. 4<br />
Sa yaco me rau vakaitavi vakalevu o Meri<br />
kei Marica ena nona veiqaravi ena bula oqo na<br />
Turaga. E muri ena Veiyalayalati Vou, eda wilika<br />
kina na nona ivakadinadina qaqa o Marica me<br />
baleta na nona vakalou na iVakabula. Ena dua<br />
na veitalanoa vata kei Jisu, a kaya kina o koya,<br />
“Au sa vakadinata <strong>ni</strong> sa Karisito koi kemu<strong>ni</strong>, na<br />
Luve <strong>ni</strong> Kalou, ko koya sa dodonu me lako mai<br />
ki vuravura.” 5<br />
E vuqa tale na tisaipeli yalewa era a lako<br />
vata kei Jisu kei iratou na Le Ti<strong>ni</strong>karua, era vuli<br />
vakayalo mai Vua ka qaravi Koya vakayago. E<br />
vola ko Luke:<br />
“Sa oti sa qai lako voli e muri ko koya [Jisu]<br />
ena veikoro kecega kei na veikoro lalai kecega,<br />
ka vunau, ka tukuna na itukutuku vinaka <strong>ni</strong><br />
mata<strong>ni</strong>tu <strong>ni</strong> Kalou: kei ira vata kaya na lewe<br />
ti<strong>ni</strong>karua,
Ena gauna taucoko <strong>ni</strong> nona veiqaravi ena bula oqo, sa dau vakaraitaka<br />
na iVakabula na nona loma<strong>ni</strong> ira ka kauwaitaki ira na marama.<br />
“Kei na yalewa eso, sa vakabulai oti mai na yalo ca eso<br />
ka curumi ira kei na malumalumu, ko Meri sa vakatokai<br />
na yalewa <strong>ni</strong> Makitala, sa lako ta<strong>ni</strong> oti vua e vitu na tevoro,<br />
“Kei Joana na wati Kusa na mata<strong>ni</strong>vanua nei Eroti,<br />
kei Susana, ka lewevuqa tale, era sa qaravi koya ena<br />
nodra iyau.” 6<br />
E kena irairai <strong>ni</strong> ra a vakarautaka na marama oqo<br />
eso na veivuke vakailavo vei Jisu kei iratou na Nona<br />
iApositolo, kei na veiqaravi eso me vaka na vakasaqa.<br />
Me ikuri <strong>ni</strong> nodra ciqoma na nona veiqaravi vakalotu<br />
o Jisu—na itukutuku vinaka <strong>ni</strong> Nona kosipeli kei na<br />
“<strong>Na</strong> tarai cake <strong>ni</strong><br />
ivalavala <strong>ni</strong> bula<br />
Vakarisito e cakacaka<br />
kaukauwa ka sega kina<br />
na wele—e sega <strong>ni</strong><br />
baleti ira na daucakacaka<br />
vagauna se o ira era<br />
sega <strong>ni</strong> rawa <strong>ni</strong> dau<br />
vakaukauwataki ira<br />
e veigauna.”<br />
Spencer W. Kimball<br />
Ensign, Nove. 1978, 105<br />
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veivakalougatataki <strong>ni</strong> Nona kaukauwa veiva-<br />
kabulai—era qaravi Koya na marama oqo ena<br />
nodra solia na nodra iyau kei na yalodra dina.<br />
A vola ko Paula me baleti ira na marama era<br />
a veiqaravi vei ira na Yalododonu ena vuku <strong>ni</strong><br />
nodra itutu vaka-Lotu kei na nodra dui vaka-<br />
tulewa ga vakataki ira. <strong>Na</strong> nona ivakamacala<br />
me baleta e dua na yada buladodonu e tukuna<br />
na ivakarau <strong>ni</strong> nodra bula e vuqa na marama<br />
ena Lotu taumada: “Me rogo ena vuku <strong>ni</strong><br />
ivalavala vinaka; kevaka sa qaravi ira na gone<br />
kevaka sa dau vakacegui ira na vulagi, kevaka<br />
sa vuya na yavadra era sa lotu, kevaka sa vukei<br />
ira era sa vakararawataki, kevaka sa gumatua<br />
<strong>ni</strong> dau cakava na cakacaka vinaka kecega.” 7 A<br />
vola talega o Paula na nodra veivakauqeti na<br />
kena marama matua ka kila ka vakalevu cake.<br />
A vakasalataki Taito me vakauqeti ira na kena<br />
marama me ra veiqaravi ka vakavulici ira na<br />
marama gone me baleta na nodra itavi tawamudu<br />
vakamarama radi<strong>ni</strong>vale ka tina, “me ra<br />
vakavulici ira na marama gone me ra rakorako,<br />
me ra dau loma<strong>ni</strong> ira na watidra, me ra lomana<br />
na luvedra.” 8<br />
<strong>Na</strong> ivola <strong>ni</strong> Cakacaka e oka kina e dua na<br />
tukutuku <strong>ni</strong> dua na marama ka a bulataka na<br />
ivakarau <strong>ni</strong> ivalavala dodonu a vakamacalataka<br />
o Paula. O Tapaica ka dau vakatokai talega me<br />
o Tokasa, a vakaitikotiko voli mai Jopa, ka dau<br />
cakaisulu kina me baleti ira na marama era<br />
vakaleqai tu.<br />
“A sa tiko mai Jopa e dua sa lotu ko Tapaica<br />
na yacana, a kena ibalebale ko Tokasa: sa dauoga<br />
sara na yalewa oqo ena cakacaka vinaka,<br />
kei na cakacaka loloma sa kitaka tiko.<br />
“A sa yaco ena gauna ko ya sa tauvimate ko<br />
koya ka ciba. . . .<br />
“Ia <strong>ni</strong> sa veivolekati ko Jopa kei Lita, ka ra<br />
sa rogoca ko ira sa lotu <strong>ni</strong> sa tiko kina ko Pita,<br />
era sa tala e lewe rua na tamata vei koya, me<br />
masuta me lako vakatotolo sara mai vei ira.<br />
“Sa qai ia ko Pita ka lako vata kei rau. Ia <strong>ni</strong><br />
sa tadu ko koya, . . . a sa tu voleka vua ko ira<br />
Ko Tapaica “sa dau oga ena cakacaka vinaka kei na<br />
cakacaka loloma” (Cakacaka 9:36).
na yada kecega era sa tagi, ka vakatakila na<br />
icurucuru eso kei na isulu ka cula ko Tokasa, <strong>ni</strong><br />
sa bula vata kei ira.<br />
“A sa vakatalai ira kece ya<strong>ni</strong> ko Pita, ka teki-<br />
duru ka masu; ka sa vuki vaka ki na yago ka<br />
kaya, Tapaica tu cake. A sa cereka na matana:<br />
ia <strong>ni</strong> sa kunei Pita, sa qai duri cake ko koya.” 9<br />
E tuku<strong>ni</strong> ena Veiyalayalati Vou eso tale na<br />
marama yalodina. Ko Pirisila kei na watina o<br />
Akuila, erau sega <strong>ni</strong> kauwaitaka na nodrau bula<br />
ena vukudra na iApositolo ka solia na nodrau<br />
vale me ia kina na soqo<strong>ni</strong> <strong>ni</strong> Lotu. 10 E vola kina<br />
o Paula, “Sa loloma vakalevu ya<strong>ni</strong> vei kemudou<br />
o Akuila kei Pirisila ena Turaga, kei ira na<br />
isoqosoqo lewe <strong>ni</strong> lotu ena nodrau vale.” 11<br />
E dua na marama na yacana ko Meri “sa<br />
daucakacaka vakalevu” ena vukudra na iApositolo.<br />
12 E dua na marama na yacana ko Litia<br />
a papitaiso kei ira na lewe <strong>ni</strong> nona vale ka qai<br />
veiqaravi ena vukudra era a vakavulici koya. 13<br />
E dua na marama na yacana ko Fipi e kena<br />
irairai <strong>ni</strong> a vakaitutu <strong>ni</strong> veiqaravi ena nona ivavakoso.<br />
E kaya o Paula, “Ia kau sa tataunaki Fipi<br />
ya<strong>ni</strong> vei kemudou o koya na wekada, o koya sa<br />
dauqarava na isoqosoqo lewe <strong>ni</strong> lotu . . . mo dou<br />
vakacegui koya kina ena vuku <strong>ni</strong> Turaga, me<br />
vaka sa kilikili kei ira era sa lotu, ka mo dou vukei<br />
koya ena cakacaka kecega dou na yaga kina<br />
vua: <strong>ni</strong> sa dau vukei ira na lewevuqa ko koya.” 14<br />
<strong>Na</strong> mataqali veiqaravi a solia o Fipi kei ira tale<br />
eso na marama cecere ena Veiyalayalati Vou sa<br />
toma<strong>ni</strong> tiko <strong>ni</strong>kua mai vei ira na lewe <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong><br />
<strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>—o ira na veiliutaki, dausiko<br />
vuvale, tina, kei na so tale—ka ra dauveiqaravi,<br />
se dauveivukei, vei ira e vuqa.<br />
Tisaipeli Yalewa Edaidai<br />
O ira na marama ena Lotu makawa era<br />
marama dokai ka vakaturaga, gadrevi ka yaga<br />
vakalevu. Era veiqaravi vei ira na ta<strong>ni</strong>, era tubu<br />
cake ena nodra savasava yadua, ka ra vakaitavi<br />
ena cakacaka cecere <strong>ni</strong> vakabula yalo.<br />
<strong>Na</strong> ivakarau eso oqo sa vakalesui mai ena<br />
gauna oqo ena kena tauyavu na <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong><br />
<strong>Veivukei</strong>. A kaya kina na Parofita o Josefa Simici,<br />
“A sega mada <strong>ni</strong> taucoko sara na tauyavu <strong>ni</strong> Lotu<br />
me yacova na gauna era sa qai tauyavu kina na<br />
marama.” 15 A tokaruataka na ivakavuvuli oqo<br />
o Sisita Eliza R. Snow, na ikarua <strong>ni</strong> peresitedi<br />
raraba <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>. E kaya kina: “E<br />
dina beka <strong>ni</strong> rogorogo vou na yacana, na isoqosoqo<br />
e se tekivutaki ena gauna makawa sara. E<br />
tukuna vei keda na noda parofita ka a vakamatei<br />
ena vuku <strong>ni</strong> nona vakabauta <strong>ni</strong> isoqosoqo vata<br />
ga qo a dau tu ena lotu <strong>ni</strong> gauna makawa.” 16<br />
Era sa vakadinadinataka na veiparofita tale<br />
eso <strong>ni</strong> gauna oqo, sega <strong>ni</strong> oka kina o Josefa<br />
Simici, <strong>ni</strong> kena tauyavu na <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong><br />
e dua na tiki vakauqeti <strong>ni</strong> Veivakalesui<br />
Mai, ka ra kacivi kina na marama ena Lotu ki<br />
na veitutu vakalotu me ra veiqaravi vakataki ira<br />
ka vakalougatataka na Lotu raraba. E kaya o<br />
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Peresitedi Joseph F. Smith, na ikaono <strong>ni</strong> Peresi-<br />
tedi <strong>ni</strong> Lotu, “<strong>Na</strong> isoqosoqo oqo e ibulibuli va-<br />
kalou, vakadonui vakalou, tauyavu vakalou, ka<br />
tabaki vakalou mai vua na Kalou me qarava na<br />
nodra vakabulai na yalo <strong>ni</strong> yalewa kei na yalo<br />
<strong>ni</strong> tagane.” 17 E kaya vaqo o Peresitedi Lorenzo<br />
Snow, na ikalima <strong>ni</strong> Peresitedi <strong>ni</strong> Lotu, vei ira<br />
e dua na ilawalawa marama ena <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong><br />
<strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>: “Ko <strong>ni</strong> sa dau tu ga e yasadra na<br />
Matabete, ka vakarau tu mo <strong>ni</strong> vaqaqacotaka<br />
na ligadra ka qarava na nomu<strong>ni</strong> itavi <strong>ni</strong> veivuke<br />
ena kena tosoi ki liu na mata<strong>ni</strong>tu <strong>ni</strong> Kalou; ia<br />
me vaka <strong>ni</strong> ko <strong>ni</strong> sa vakaitavi ena cakacaka<br />
oqori, ko <strong>ni</strong> na vakaivotavota talega vakakina<br />
ena kena qaqa kei na bula vakacerecerei kei na<br />
lagilagi ka na solia na Turaga vei ira na Luvena<br />
yalodina.” 18<br />
Ni ra vakaitavi na marama ena <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong><br />
<strong>Veivukei</strong>, era sa veiqaravi tiko vakatisaipeli<br />
yalodina i Jisu Karisito ena cakacaka <strong>ni</strong><br />
veivakabulai. Me vakataki ira na marama ena<br />
Lotu makawa, era cakacaka tikivi ira na tagane<br />
ena matabete me vakalevutaki na vakabauta<br />
kei na buladodonu <strong>ni</strong> tamata yadua, vaqaqacotaka<br />
na matavuvale kei na vuvale, ka vakasaqarai<br />
ira ka vukei ira era vakaleqai tu. E<br />
vakavuvulitaka o Sisita Julie B. Beck, na<br />
ikati<strong>ni</strong>kalima <strong>ni</strong> peresitedi raraba <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong><br />
<strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>: “Ena <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> eda<br />
vakatovotovotaka kina na bula vakatisaipeli i<br />
Karisito. Eda vulica na veika e vinakata o Koya<br />
me da vulica, ka da cakava na veika e vinakata<br />
o Koya me da cakava, ka da yaco me vaka na ka<br />
e vinakata o Koya me da vaka.” 19
WASE 2<br />
“E Dua na Ka<br />
Vinaka Cake”<br />
<strong>Na</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong><br />
<strong>ni</strong> <strong>Marama</strong> e <strong>Na</strong>uvoo<br />
Au sa solia oqo na ki vei kemu<strong>ni</strong> ena<br />
yaca <strong>ni</strong> Kalou, ka na reki na isoqosoqo oqo<br />
ka na tekivu me drodro sobu mai ena gauna oqo<br />
na kila ka kei na vuku—oqo na itekivu <strong>ni</strong><br />
veisiga vinaka ki na isoqosoqo oqo.<br />
Josefa Simici
WASE 2<br />
“E Dua na Ka Vinaka Cake”<br />
<strong>Na</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Marama</strong> e <strong>Na</strong>uvoo<br />
Ena vulaitubutubu <strong>ni</strong> 1842, era a cakacaka<br />
vagumatua na Yalododonu Edaidai mai <strong>Na</strong>uvoo<br />
e Illinois, me ra tara e dua na valetabu ena nodra<br />
siti. A vakayaloqaqataki ira na tamata kece na<br />
Parofita o Josefa Simici me ra veivuke. Era cakava<br />
na tagane na cakacaka <strong>ni</strong> tara valetabu, ka ra<br />
vakasaqara na marama na veisala eso me ra cau<br />
kina. E nanuma lesu kina o Sarah M. Kimball:<br />
Era vakila na Yalododonu na gagadre vakatotolo me tara<br />
na Valetabu e <strong>Na</strong>uvoo.<br />
“E rauta <strong>ni</strong> tolu na fiti na cecere <strong>ni</strong> bai <strong>ni</strong><br />
Valetabu e <strong>Na</strong>uvoo. Era a kerea vagumatua na<br />
Peresitedi <strong>ni</strong> Lotu kei ira eso tale na veivuke me<br />
tosoi na cakacaka.<br />
“Ena dua na siga <strong>ni</strong> keirau veitalanoa tiko kei<br />
Miss [Margaret] Cook . . . me baleta e dua na<br />
kerekere se qai yaco walega mai ka kerei kina na<br />
kakana, isulu, iyaya <strong>ni</strong> moce kei na iyaya tale eso<br />
me baleti ira na tamata cakacaka kei na nodra<br />
matavuvale, qai kaya <strong>ni</strong> na taleitaka me cau ena<br />
talitali kevaka e rawa na kena iyaya. Au kaya vua<br />
<strong>ni</strong> na noqu itavi na kena iyaya, ka vakatura de so<br />
talega e tautavata kei keirau na nodra vakasama.<br />
Keirau qai [veitalanoataka] me tauyavu e dua na<br />
isoqosoqo <strong>ni</strong> culacula. <strong>Na</strong> kena inaki me veivuke<br />
ena kena tara na valetabu.<br />
“Ena veisureti era a sota mai kina ki na neitou<br />
[vale] e rauta <strong>ni</strong> dua na dase<strong>ni</strong> na marama<br />
ena Lotulevu ka tarava.” 1<br />
Ena itabagauna ko ya, e dau matau vei<br />
ira na marama me ra tauyavutaka na nodra<br />
isoqosoqo, ka vakavuqa, kei na kena yavu <strong>ni</strong><br />
vakavulewa kei na kena lawa lalai—na kena<br />
lawa me cicivaki kina na isoqosoqo. Era sa<br />
ma<strong>ni</strong> duavata na marama era a sota ena vale<br />
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nei Sarah Kimball me ra tauyavutaka e dua na<br />
yavu <strong>ni</strong> vakavulewa kei na kena lawa lalai, a<br />
ma<strong>ni</strong> bolea o Eliza R. Snow me vola. Era qai<br />
kerei Josefa Simici na marama me dikeva ka<br />
solia kina na nona nanuma. Ni wilika oti na<br />
parofita, e kaya <strong>ni</strong> oqo na kena uasivi duadua<br />
e qai bau raica. ‘Ia,’ e kaya o koya, ‘e sega <strong>ni</strong> o<br />
koya oqo na ka o <strong>ni</strong> vinakata. Tukuna vei ira na<br />
marama sa ciqoma na Turaga na nodra vakacacabo,<br />
ka sa vakarautaka tu o Koya e dua na<br />
ka vinaka cake mai na yavu <strong>ni</strong> vakavulewa buli.<br />
Au ma<strong>ni</strong> sureti ira kece kina me ra sota vata<br />
kei au kei iratou e vica na turaga . . . ena yakavi<br />
<strong>ni</strong> Lotulevu ka tarava, au na cokonaki ira kina<br />
na marama ena ruku <strong>ni</strong> matabete ena ivakarau<br />
<strong>ni</strong> matabete.’” 2<br />
Tauyavutaki na <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong><br />
<strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong><br />
Ena Lotulevu ka tarava, ena ika 17 <strong>ni</strong> Maji,<br />
1842, era soqo<strong>ni</strong> vata kina e ruasagavulu na<br />
marama ena itabavale e cake <strong>ni</strong> dua na vale,<br />
ka dau vakatokai tu ena vuqa na gauna me<br />
“the red brick store,” ka tiko kina e dua na<br />
vale<strong>ni</strong>volavola nei Josefa Simici kei na dua na<br />
nona bisi<strong>ni</strong>si me bula tiko kina na nona matavuvale.<br />
Era sota tiko ena ruku <strong>ni</strong> vakatulewa<br />
nei Josefa Simici kei rau na lewe <strong>ni</strong> Kuoramu<br />
<strong>ni</strong> Le Ti<strong>ni</strong>karua, o rau o Elder John Taylor kei<br />
Elder Willard Richards. 3<br />
A tauyavutaki ira na Parofita o Josefa Simici<br />
ena dua na ivakarau vakauqeti ka vakadonui<br />
vakalou ka sega <strong>ni</strong> muria na kena ivakarau<br />
Emma Smith<br />
iMatai <strong>ni</strong> Peresitedi Raraba <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong><br />
“Au gadreva na Yalo <strong>ni</strong> Kalou me kilai au ka ciqomi au, me<br />
rawa kina <strong>ni</strong>u vakamalumalumutaka na veika kecega <strong>ni</strong><br />
itovo se na veika au buli vata kaya mai ka na sega <strong>ni</strong> yaga<br />
ki na noqu bula vakacerecerei ena vuravura tawamudu. Au<br />
gadreva e dua na vakasama vuavuai vinaka, ka bulabula,<br />
me rawa <strong>ni</strong>u kila kina na inaki <strong>ni</strong> Kalou, <strong>ni</strong> vakatakilai<br />
mai vei ira na nona italai ka kakua <strong>ni</strong> vakatitiqataka.”<br />
iVola vei Josefa Simici, 1844, Vale<strong>ni</strong>vola <strong>ni</strong> iTukutuku Makawa<br />
<strong>ni</strong> Lotu
Ena 17 <strong>ni</strong> Maji, 1842, sa yaco kina o Emma Smith me imatai <strong>ni</strong><br />
peresitedi <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>.<br />
sa takalevu tu ena gauna oya vei ira na veisoqosoqo <strong>ni</strong><br />
marama.<br />
Ni tekivu na soqo<strong>ni</strong>, e tukuna o koya vei ira na ma-<br />
rama me ra veivakayaloqaqataki vei ira na turaga “me ra<br />
dau caka vinaka ena nodra raica na veika era vinakata<br />
na dravudravua—me ra vakasaqara na cakacaka <strong>ni</strong> loloma<br />
cecere, ia ena nodra qaravi ira tiko—me ra veivuke<br />
ena nodra vakadodonutaka na nodra bula ka vaqaqacotaka<br />
na ivalavala dodonu ena isoqosoqo <strong>ni</strong> marama.” 4<br />
A digitaki na wati Josefa Simici o Emma me peresitedi<br />
<strong>ni</strong> isoqosoqo vou oqo. A qai vakayaloqaqataki watina na<br />
Parofita me digitaka na dau<strong>ni</strong>vakasala, me rau vakatulewataka<br />
vata kei koya ena isoqosoqo oqo, ena nodra qaravi<br />
na dravudravua—vukei na nodra gagadre, ka sotavi<br />
na veika tale eso <strong>ni</strong> isoqosoqo oqo.” A qai digitaki rau o<br />
“A tauyavutaki na<br />
<strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong><br />
ena yalo <strong>ni</strong> veivakauqeti,<br />
ka sa dau tuberi tiko mai<br />
na yalo oqori [me tekivu<br />
mai na gauna koya], ka<br />
sa vakadabera ki yalodra<br />
na veimarama vivinaka<br />
e sega <strong>ni</strong> wiliki rawa na<br />
gagadre oya <strong>ni</strong> buladodonu<br />
ka dau taleitaka<br />
na Turaga.”<br />
Joseph Fielding Smith<br />
Mekesi<strong>ni</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong><br />
<strong>Veivukei</strong>, Tise. 1970, 883<br />
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Sarah M. Cleveland kei Elizabeth Ann Whitney<br />
o Sisita Smith me rau nona dau<strong>ni</strong>vakasala. A<br />
qai vakatikori rau na dau<strong>ni</strong>vakasala o Elder<br />
Taylor ena veitabaki <strong>ni</strong> liga me rau veiqaravi<br />
ena nodrau itutu ena mataveiliutaki. 5<br />
Ni toso tiko na soqo<strong>ni</strong> oqori, a kaya o Josefa<br />
Simici <strong>ni</strong> nona kacivi na watina sa vakayacori<br />
kina e dua na parofisai a vakatakilai vua rauta<br />
<strong>ni</strong> 12 na yabaki sa oti, ka vosa kina na Turaga<br />
vei watina <strong>ni</strong> o koya na “marama digitaki,<br />
kau sa lesi iko” ka tukuna vua <strong>ni</strong> na “lesi mai<br />
na ligai [Josefa Simici] me veivakavulici ka<br />
veivakauqeti vei ira na lewe <strong>ni</strong> lotu, io me vaka<br />
sa vukei iko kina na Yalo Tabu.” 6 A wilika o<br />
Josefa Simici vei ira era tiko kina na ivakatakila<br />
kece oqo, ka sa wase 25 tu <strong>ni</strong> Vunau kei na<br />
Veiyalayalati. 7<br />
Ena ivakatakila, a tukuna kina vei Emma na<br />
Turaga na veigalala eso ena nona, me vaka <strong>ni</strong><br />
na dau<strong>ni</strong>volavola vei watina ka dau biuta vata<br />
na sere<strong>ni</strong>lotu me baleti ira na Yalododonu. A<br />
vakasalataki Emma talega na Turaga me dau<br />
rogoca na ivakasala eso <strong>ni</strong> qaqarau<strong>ni</strong>, me dau<br />
yalodina ka ivalavala dodonu, me kakua <strong>ni</strong><br />
dau vosakudrukudru, me dau vosavinaka vua<br />
na watina ka dau vukei koya, me dau veivakavulici<br />
mai na ivola<strong>ni</strong>kalou ka veivakauqeti<br />
ki na Lotu, me dau volavola ka vuli, me dau<br />
“biuta vakatikitiki na veika <strong>ni</strong> vuravura oqo,<br />
ka segata na veika e vinaka cake,” mo dau<br />
maroroya na veiyalayalati, mo yalomalua<br />
ka qarauna na dokadoka ka dau muria na<br />
ivunau. 8<br />
Ena iti<strong>ni</strong>ti<strong>ni</strong> <strong>ni</strong> ivakatakila, e qai kaya na<br />
Turaga <strong>ni</strong> veika sa tukuna vei Emma e sega<br />
<strong>ni</strong> baleti koya ga ia na Noqu “ivakaro oqo vei<br />
ira na tamata kecega.” 9 Ena nona dodonu<br />
vakaparofita, a talemuria kina na tikina oqo o<br />
Josefa Simici, ka vakabibitaka <strong>ni</strong> ivakasala kei<br />
na ivakasala <strong>ni</strong> qaqarau<strong>ni</strong> ena ivakatakila oqo<br />
sa baleti ira kece na lewe <strong>ni</strong> isoqosoqo tauyavu<br />
vou oqo. E kaya o koya “<strong>ni</strong> sega <strong>ni</strong> o [Emma]<br />
walega, ia eso tale e rawa <strong>ni</strong> ra rawata na veivakalougatataki<br />
vata.” 10 <strong>Na</strong> ivakatakila oqo sa soli<br />
kina na ivakavuvuli me ra vakayavutaki kina na<br />
marama Yalododonu Edaidai.<br />
Ni oti eso na veivosaki, era sa ma<strong>ni</strong> nanuma<br />
na marama me ra vakatokai ira me ra <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong><br />
<strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Marama</strong> e <strong>Na</strong>uvoo. Qai<br />
kaya kina o Emma Smith: “Eda sa na vakarau<br />
vakayacora e dua na cakacaka veivakurabuitaki.<br />
. . . Eda na sotava na veigauna duata<strong>ni</strong> ka bibi<br />
cake tikoga na itavi.” 11<br />
Ni sa cava na soqo<strong>ni</strong>, a wasea o Elder John<br />
Taylor na nona vakasama. E kaya <strong>ni</strong> “reki na<br />
yalona” <strong>ni</strong> raica “na nodra<br />
kalawa mai na tamata dokai<br />
duadua ena cakacaka oqo, ka<br />
nanumi <strong>ni</strong> na vakayagataki<br />
kina na ivalavala dodonu<br />
John Taylor kecega ka vakainaki kina na<br />
yalo dauveinanumi <strong>ni</strong> marama.” E reki talega o
koya <strong>ni</strong> “raica na kena sa tauyavu na isoqosoqo<br />
oqo me vaka na lawa mai lomalagi—me vaka<br />
na ivakatakila a soli e liu vei Mrs. [Emma]<br />
Smith ka lesi ki na veikacivi bibi oqo—ka<br />
laurai <strong>ni</strong> sa toso tiko ki liu na veika kecega ena<br />
kena ivakarau lagilagi oqo.” <strong>Na</strong> nona masu me<br />
“me na tiko ga ena isoqosoqo oqo na veivakalougatataki<br />
<strong>ni</strong> Kalou kei na vakacegu mai<br />
lomalagi mai na gauna koya ka lako ya<strong>ni</strong>.” Qai<br />
vakavoqataka e dua na matasere na itukutuku<br />
nei Elder Taylor ena nodra lagata na “Me da<br />
marau ena siga <strong>ni</strong> vakabulai” <strong>ni</strong> bera na masu<br />
<strong>ni</strong> suka. 12<br />
A solia mai na Turaga na “idola <strong>ni</strong> [Nona] mata<strong>ni</strong>tu”<br />
mai vei Pita, Jemesa kei Jo<strong>ni</strong> ki vei Josefa Simici (raica na<br />
V&V 27:13).<br />
Veivakadonui, iVakarau, kei na<br />
Veivakalougatataki <strong>ni</strong> Matabete<br />
Ena dua na soqo<strong>ni</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong><br />
ena ono na macawa ka tarava, a vakavuvulitaki<br />
ira tiko na marama ena dua na gauna balavu na<br />
Parofita o Josefa Simici qai kaya: “<strong>Na</strong> isoqosoqo<br />
oqo me na ciqoma na ivakaro ena ivakarau<br />
sa virikotora tu na Kalou—mai vei ira era sa<br />
lesi me ra veiliutaki— au sa solia oqo na ki vei<br />
kemu<strong>ni</strong> ena yaca <strong>ni</strong> Kalou, ka na reki na isoqosoqo<br />
oqo ka na tekivu me drodro sobu mai ena<br />
gauna oqo na kila ka kei na vuku—oqo na itekivu<br />
<strong>ni</strong> veisiga vinaka ki na isoqosoqo oqo.” 13<br />
Ni parofita <strong>ni</strong> Turaga, e tu vei Josefa Simici na<br />
idola taucoko <strong>ni</strong> dodonu <strong>ni</strong> matabete e vuravura.<br />
O koya gona, ena nona tauyavutaka na<br />
<strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> me cici ena ruku <strong>ni</strong> nona<br />
veidusimaki, sa dolava kina na madigi eso me ra<br />
vakaitavi kina na marama ena Lotu ena veiitavi<br />
bibi <strong>ni</strong> cakacaka ena mata<strong>ni</strong>tu <strong>ni</strong> Turaga. Era<br />
sa veiqaravi oqo ena ruku <strong>ni</strong> veivakadonui <strong>ni</strong><br />
matabete ka yalataki kina na veivakalougatataki<br />
e sivia na kena era sa ciqoma oti. Ena yacovi ira<br />
mai na veivakalougatataki oqori me vaka na nodra<br />
yalodina kei na gugumatua. Ena drodrovi ira<br />
ya<strong>ni</strong> na kila ka kei na vuku ena nodra ciqoma<br />
na taucoko <strong>ni</strong> veivakalougatataki <strong>ni</strong> matabete<br />
ena valetabu. Era na ciqoma na veicakacaka<br />
vakalotu ka cakava na veiyalayalati tabu ka na<br />
vukei ira me ra vakarautaki ira kei na nodra<br />
matavuvale me baleta na bula tawamudu. (Me<br />
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so tale na itukutuku <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong><br />
kei na matabete, raica na wase 8.)<br />
<strong>Na</strong> <strong>Na</strong>namaki Taumada me<br />
baleta na <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong><br />
A tubu vakatotolo sara <strong>Na</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong><br />
<strong>Veivukei</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Marama</strong> e <strong>Na</strong>uvoo, me sivia ya<strong>ni</strong> na<br />
1,100 ena Okosita <strong>ni</strong> 1842. Taumada, era sega<br />
<strong>ni</strong> dau lewena kecega na isoqosoqo na marama<br />
lewe <strong>ni</strong> Lotu. Me ra kerekere na marama me<br />
ra lewena, e yavutaki na nodra ciqomi mai na<br />
nodra ivakarau vinaka kei na ivalavala dodonu.<br />
E kaya o Josefa Simici, “E dodonu me dua na<br />
isoqosoqo digitaki, me ra vakatikitikitaki mai na<br />
Liutaka na soqo<strong>ni</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> o Emma Smith.<br />
veika ca <strong>ni</strong> vuravura, digitaki, ivalavala dodonu,<br />
ka savasava.” 14<br />
Era maqusa na marama e <strong>Na</strong>uvoo me ra<br />
lewena na <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>. Era sa nanamaki<br />
me ra soli veivuke vakayago ka vakayalo<br />
ena dua na ivakarau tauyavutaki vakamatau ka<br />
vakadonui. Era raica talega na madigi sega <strong>ni</strong><br />
vakatauvata<strong>ni</strong> rawa me da vakavulici mai vua<br />
e dua na parofita me da vakarautaki kina ki na<br />
kila ka vakayalo cecere cake kei na veivakalougatataki<br />
<strong>ni</strong> valetabu. Era taleitaka na nodra vakaduavatataki<br />
kei ira na ganedra ena matabete<br />
ena veinaki cecere oqo.<br />
Ni sa tu vei ira na marama na galala oqo, sa<br />
nodra itavi me ra bula kina. E kaya vei ira o Josefa<br />
Simici: “O <strong>ni</strong> sa toka kina oqo ena dua na<br />
itutu ka rawa kina mo <strong>ni</strong> cakacakataka na yalo<br />
<strong>ni</strong> loloma sa teivaka koto na Kalou e lomaseremu<strong>ni</strong>.<br />
Kevaka o <strong>ni</strong> bula ki na veivakavuvuli<br />
oqo, sa dua na ka cecere ka lagilagi!” 15 Me vaka<br />
e tukuna o Peresitedi Boyd K. Packer ena Kuoramu<br />
<strong>ni</strong> iApositolo Le Ti<strong>ni</strong>karua ena vica vata<br />
na yabaki e muri, “Sa nona itavi e dua na marama<br />
me kauta mai ki na nona bula na ivalavala<br />
dodonu e dau vakamareqeti ena <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong><br />
<strong>Veivukei</strong> me vaka ga <strong>ni</strong> nona itavi na tagane me<br />
taracake ena nona bula na ivakarau <strong>ni</strong> bula era<br />
dau vakamareqeta na matabete.” 16<br />
<strong>Na</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> e sega <strong>ni</strong> dua wale<br />
ga na ilawalawa marama era vinakata tiko me<br />
ra dau caka vinaka e vuravura. E duata<strong>ni</strong> o
Dusimaki ira na marama ena <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> na Parofita o Josefa Simici.<br />
koya. E “dua na ka vinaka cake” o koya, baleta<br />
<strong>ni</strong> a tauyavu ena veivakadonui <strong>ni</strong> matabete.<br />
Sa dua na ikalawa gadrevi ki na kena tevuki<br />
e vuravura na cakacaka <strong>ni</strong> Kalou na kena<br />
tauyavutaki. E vakarautaki ira na marama ena<br />
Lotu me ra ciqoma na veicakacaka vakalotu<br />
kei na veiyalayalati, ka vukei ira ena nodra itavi<br />
vakamatavuvale.<br />
iVakaro nei Josefa Simici<br />
Ena imatai <strong>ni</strong> nodra soqo<strong>ni</strong> na <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong><br />
<strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Marama</strong> e <strong>Na</strong>uvoo, a lesi kina o<br />
Sisita Eliza R. Snow me sekeriteri <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong>.<br />
Ena nona itutu oqori, sa dau vola vakavinaka ka<br />
vakamatailalai kina na itukutuku, ka vakatokai<br />
me itukutuku <strong>ni</strong> bose, ena veisoqo<strong>ni</strong> yadua <strong>ni</strong><br />
<strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> e tiko kina. E tukuna o<br />
Josefa Simici vei ira na marama <strong>ni</strong> itukutuku <strong>ni</strong><br />
bose oqori ena yaco me “yavu<strong>ni</strong>vakavulewa ka<br />
lawa” <strong>ni</strong> isoqosoqo. 17<br />
Ena vuqa na veisoqo<strong>ni</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>,<br />
era sa dau solia nodra gauna na marama<br />
me ra vakaroti kina. Era vakalougatataki na<br />
marama <strong>ni</strong> ra a vakavulici mai vua na Parofita<br />
o Josefa Simici ena ono na nodra soqo<strong>ni</strong>. Ni<br />
veivakavulici, era vakila na kena sovaraki mai<br />
vakalevu na Yalotabu. Ni cava e dua vei ira na<br />
soqo<strong>ni</strong> oqori, e vola o Sisita Snow, “A sovaraki<br />
mai ena dua na kena ivakarau kaukauwa na<br />
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Yalo <strong>ni</strong> Turaga, ka ra na sega sara <strong>ni</strong> guilecava o<br />
ira era a tiko ena gauna taleitaki oya.” 18<br />
Ena itukutuku kece <strong>ni</strong> bose e vola o Sisita<br />
Snow, e veivakauqeti vakalevu duadua na nona<br />
itukutuku me baleta na nona ivunau na Parofita.<br />
<strong>Na</strong> nona ivakavuvuli na parofita ena veigauna<br />
vaqori e dusimaki kina na nodra cakacaka<br />
na marama ena <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> kei ira na<br />
veiliutaki <strong>ni</strong> matabete era veiqaravi vata kei ira.<br />
<strong>Na</strong> veivakavuvuli oqori sa vakauqeta tikoga na<br />
cakacaka <strong>ni</strong> Lotu <strong>ni</strong>kua.<br />
E vakavuvulitaka o Josefa Simici na veivakavuvuli<br />
ka vukei ira na marama ena <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong><br />
<strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> me ra “vukei na dravudravua” ka<br />
“vakabulai na yalo”—na ivakavuvuli ka yavutaki<br />
kina na tarai cake <strong>ni</strong> isoqosoqo. 19 Ni tara<br />
cake ena yavu oqo, sa tudei ka levu cake kina<br />
na veivakauqeti <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>. Me<br />
tekivu mai na veisoqo<strong>ni</strong> taumada <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong><br />
<strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>, era sa dau vakayagataka na<br />
marama na ivakavuvuli <strong>ni</strong> Parofita ena nodra<br />
sasaga me ra vakalevutaka cake na vakabauta<br />
kei na buladodonu <strong>ni</strong> tamata yadua, vaqaqacotaki<br />
<strong>ni</strong> matavuvale kei na vuvale, ka vakasaqarai<br />
ira ka vukei ira era vakaleqai tu.<br />
Vakalevutaki na Vakabauta kei na Bula<br />
Savasava Yadua<br />
E vakavulici ira na marama o Josefa Simici <strong>ni</strong><br />
sa nodra itavi bibi me ra segata na nodra dui<br />
vakabulai. E kaya kina, “Eda na bula walega<br />
“Ia au sa vakaroti kemudou mo dou vakavulici ira na luvemudou<br />
me ra kila na rarama kei na dina” (V&V 93:40).<br />
ena noda qarava na noda Kalou—na tamata<br />
kece me dui cakava ena vukuna—e sega <strong>ni</strong> dua<br />
e rawa <strong>ni</strong> cakava ena vukuna e dua tale.” 20 E<br />
vakavulici ira me ra tamata buladodonu, me ra<br />
yaco me tamata savasava, ka ra vakavakarau ki<br />
na cakacaka vakalotu <strong>ni</strong> valetabu kei na veiyalayalati.<br />
E vakauqeti ira me ra veisaututaki kei<br />
na Turaga, kei ira era wavoliti ira tu, ka vakakina<br />
vei ira vakataki ira: “Kemu<strong>ni</strong> na marama . . . ,<br />
kevaka e tu ena kemu<strong>ni</strong> maliwa na veiqati? Au<br />
na sega <strong>ni</strong> ciqoma—sa dodonu mo <strong>ni</strong> veivutu<strong>ni</strong><br />
ka rawata na loloma <strong>ni</strong> Kalou.” 21 “Sega <strong>ni</strong> ivalu,<br />
sega <strong>ni</strong> mauwe, sega <strong>ni</strong> veisaqasaqa, ia na yalomalua,<br />
na loloma, na savasava, oqo na veika me<br />
na vakalevulevui keda.” 22
Ena dua na soqo<strong>ni</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>, a vosa kina<br />
na Parofita o Josefa Simici me baleta na wase 12 <strong>ni</strong> 1 Kori<strong>ni</strong>ca,<br />
ka vakabibitaka kina <strong>ni</strong> marama yadua, <strong>ni</strong> qarava vakavinaka<br />
na nona itavi, sa ka bibi sara ki na Lotu raraba. A<br />
solia kina o koya na “idusidusi me baleta na veitutu duidui<br />
[ena Lotu], kei na kena dodonu me veiqaravi na tamata<br />
yadua ena ilesilesi sa lesi kina; ka ra vakatawana e vica na<br />
itutu era lesi kina.” E veivakasalataki talega me baleta na<br />
mataqali rai “e dau nanumi kina <strong>ni</strong> ra lolovira na veitutu<br />
e ra ena Lotu ka vuvutaka na nodra itutu eso tale.” Oqo,<br />
e kaya o koya, “na lialia <strong>ni</strong> yalo <strong>ni</strong> tamata, me guta e dua<br />
na tamata e dua tale na itutu mai na kena e veilesi kina na<br />
Kalou.” 23 Ena veivakavuvuli vakaoqori, sa vukei ira kina na<br />
marama me ra “caka dodonu ena mata <strong>ni</strong> Turaga.” 24<br />
“Kevaka me da lako ya<strong>ni</strong> ena mata <strong>ni</strong> Kalou,” e kaya o<br />
Josefa Simici vei ira na marama ena <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>,<br />
“me da savasava sara mada ga o keda.” 25<br />
Vaqaqacotaka na Matavuvale kei na Vuvale.<br />
E dina <strong>ni</strong> ra a vakaitavi na marama ena <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong><br />
<strong>Veivukei</strong> taumada ena nodra veitikotiko ka vakarau me ra<br />
qaravi ira na wekadra, era sega vakadua <strong>ni</strong> guilecava na<br />
nodra itavi ki na nodra matavuvale kei na vuvale. Era dinata<br />
na nodra isolisoli era sucu kaya mai vakatina ka dauveisusu.<br />
Era dinata talega na ivakatakila e solia na Turaga<br />
mai vei Josefa Simici me baleta na itavi <strong>ni</strong> matavuvale:<br />
“Ia sa nomu ilesilesi mo qarava na noqu tamata . . .<br />
na watimu, ia mo qaravi koya ena yalomalumalumu ka<br />
tauca vua na vosa <strong>ni</strong> veivakacegui.” 26<br />
“Raica ko ira na itubutubu mai Saio<strong>ni</strong>, se ena dua na<br />
iteki sa tauyavutaki tu, me ra vakavulici ira na luvedra ena<br />
“E sinai tu ena veika<br />
yalataki na vu<strong>ni</strong>lagi <strong>ni</strong><br />
<strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>.<br />
Ni tubu tiko na Lotu,<br />
sa na vakarabailevutaki<br />
cake na kena yaga, ka na<br />
kaukauwa cake na kena<br />
igu <strong>ni</strong> vinaka mai na<br />
veigauna sa oti. Kevaka<br />
era na duavata kece na<br />
marama ena kena toko<strong>ni</strong><br />
na isoqosoqo, ena rawati<br />
na veicakacaka qaqa ka<br />
na veivakalougatataki<br />
tikoga ki na Lotu.”<br />
Lorenzo Snow<br />
Deseret Eve<strong>ni</strong>ng News,<br />
9 <strong>ni</strong> Julai, 1901, 1<br />
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ivakavuvuli dina <strong>ni</strong> ra sa yabaki walu; io na ivaka-<br />
vuvuli <strong>ni</strong> veivutu<strong>ni</strong>, na vakabauti Jisu Karisito na<br />
Luve <strong>ni</strong> Kalou Bula, na papitaiso kei na isolisoli<br />
<strong>ni</strong> Yalo Tabu e na veitabaki <strong>ni</strong> liga; ia kevaka e<br />
sega, era na cudruvi kina.<br />
“Raica oqo na ivakaro vei ira na lewei Saio<strong>ni</strong>,<br />
se ena dua ga na nona iteki sa tauyavutaki tu.<br />
“Ia me ra papitaiso na luvedra <strong>ni</strong> ra sa yabaki<br />
walu me bokoci kina na nodra ivalavala ca, ia<br />
era na vakalougatataki ena veitabaki <strong>ni</strong> liga.<br />
“Ia me ra vakavulici ira talega na luvedra me ra<br />
dau masu ka caka dodonu ena mata <strong>ni</strong> Turaga.” 27<br />
“Ia au sa vakaroti kemudou mo dou vakavulici<br />
ira na luvemudou me ra kila na rarama kei<br />
na dina. . . .<br />
“. . . Vakavulici ira vinaka na nona lewe <strong>ni</strong><br />
vuvale. . . .<br />
Tobu <strong>ni</strong> veipapitaisotaki ena Valetabu na Helsinki Finland<br />
“Raica na ka au sa vakarota vua e dua sa<br />
baleta na tamata kecega. . . .<br />
“. . . Me vakavulici ira vakavinaka na nona[ vuvale<br />
]me ra gugumatua ka dau masu tiko ga.” 28<br />
<strong>Na</strong> itukutuku tomiki mai na itukutuku <strong>ni</strong> soqo<strong>ni</strong><br />
<strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Marama</strong> e <strong>Na</strong>uvoo<br />
e vakaraitaka <strong>ni</strong> ra a sega sara <strong>ni</strong> guilecava<br />
o Josefa Simici kei ira na marama na ivakavuvuli<br />
eso mai na ivakatakila oqo. <strong>Na</strong> nodra vosa kei<br />
na nodra ivalavala e tukuna <strong>ni</strong> sa ka bibi sara<br />
ena nodra vakasama na nodra vuvale kei na<br />
nodra vuvale na ta<strong>ni</strong>. Me vaka oqo, e vakavuvulitaka<br />
o Emma Smith “<strong>ni</strong> sa kena gauna me<br />
ra vakatawai ira kina na luvedra yalewa o ira na<br />
tina ka vakauqeti ira me ra muria tiko ga na sala<br />
<strong>ni</strong> ivalavala dodonu.” 29 A vakaraitaka na Parofita<br />
o Josefa Simici na nona leqataka tiko na isema<br />
vakaveiwati<strong>ni</strong>. E vakasalataki ira na marama:<br />
“Me vakavulici ena isoqosoqo oqo na iwalewale<br />
<strong>ni</strong> veimaliwai vei ira na watimu<strong>ni</strong>, mo <strong>ni</strong> itovo<br />
malua ka taleitaki. Ni bikai tu e dua na tagane<br />
ena lomaleqa—<strong>ni</strong> veilecayaki, kevaka e rawa<br />
<strong>ni</strong> kidavaki ena matadredredre, sega <strong>ni</strong> veiba—<br />
kevaka e rawa me sotava na vosa malua, ena vakamalumutaka<br />
na yalona ka loma vinaka kina.<br />
Ni sa rarawa mai na vakasama, ena gadreva na<br />
vosa vakayalovinaka. . . . Ni o lako ki vale kakua<br />
<strong>ni</strong> cavuta e dua na vosa <strong>ni</strong> cudru ia me vakaisala<br />
na nomu cakacaka ena yalovinaka, ena loloma<br />
cecere kei na loloma dina.” 30 Ena veisoqo<strong>ni</strong><br />
tale eso, a solia kina na Parofita na mataqali
Vakavakarau <strong>ni</strong><br />
Curu ena Valetabu<br />
Vakabauta na Tamada Vakalomalagi,<br />
Jisu Karisito, kei na Yalo Tabu.<br />
Susuga cake e dua na ivakadinadina<br />
<strong>ni</strong> Veisorovaki nei Jisu Karisito kei na<br />
kosipeli vakalesui mai.<br />
Tokona ka muria na parofita bula.<br />
Me ga<strong>ni</strong>ti iko na ivolatara <strong>ni</strong> valetabu<br />
ena nomu bula savasava, rokova na Vosa<br />
<strong>ni</strong> Vuku, saumi ikati<strong>ni</strong> vakadodonu, ka<br />
bulataka na ivakavuvuli <strong>ni</strong> Lotu.<br />
Solia na nomu gauna, taledi, kei na<br />
nomu iyau mo veivuke ena kena tarai<br />
cake na mata<strong>ni</strong>tu <strong>ni</strong> Kalou.<br />
Vakaitavi ena volai <strong>ni</strong> kawa <strong>ni</strong> matavuvale.<br />
Mo vakavulici rawarawa ka dau<br />
vakarokoroko.<br />
Dau vakaisulu ka rairai rakorako.<br />
ivakasala vata oqo vei ira na tagane, ka kaya <strong>ni</strong><br />
sa nona itavi na tagane me “lomana, vakamareqeta,<br />
ka susuga na watina” ka dau “kauwaitaka<br />
ena yalomalua na yalona.” 31<br />
Ni ra veitalanoataka na marama ena<br />
<strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> na sala eso me ra vukei<br />
ira kina na tamata ena nodra veitikotiko, dau<br />
vakatabakidua na nodra rai ki na matavuvale<br />
kei na vuvale. <strong>Na</strong> itukutuku <strong>ni</strong> nodra veisoqo<strong>ni</strong><br />
e dau sinai ena ivakamacala eso me vakaoqo:<br />
“a soli itukutuku o Mrs. Hawkes me baleta na<br />
matavuvale na Drury—eratou se tauvimate<br />
tikoga ka gadreva na noda masu—ke sega tale<br />
<strong>ni</strong> dua na ka.” 32 “O Sisita Joshua Smith . . . a<br />
laki sikovi Sisita McEwen kei Sisita Modley.<br />
Raica <strong>ni</strong> ratou leqa sara tu ga vakaca. Eratou<br />
gadreva me ratou vukei tiko e veisiga.” 33 “O<br />
P. M. Wheeler . . . e vakatura ki na yalololoma <strong>ni</strong><br />
isoqosoqo oqo me baleti Sisita Francis Lew Law,<br />
e tauvimate tu ka sega na nona vuvale, e dua<br />
na yada sa qase sara ka vakaleqai sara tu vakaca<br />
ena gauna oqo ena bula vakailavo.” 34 “E tukuna<br />
mai o Sisita Peck me baleti Mr. Guyes kei na<br />
nona matavuvale eratou tauvimate ka leqa<br />
sara tu vakaca. Vukei iratou. . . . Tukuna o Mrs.<br />
Kimball <strong>ni</strong> ratou tauvimate tu na matavuvale<br />
nei dua na Mr. Charleston, ituvaki ca sara koto<br />
na watina ka gadreva sara vakatotolo e dua na<br />
nasi. Kaya <strong>ni</strong> sa vukei iratou.” 35<br />
<strong>Na</strong> nodra sasaga cokovata na Yalododonu me<br />
ra tara e dua na valetabu e <strong>Na</strong>uvoo a vakavurei<br />
mai na nodra lomana na nodra veimatavuvale.<br />
Sa vakavuvulitaka vei ira na na Parofita o Josefa<br />
<strong>ni</strong> rawa <strong>ni</strong> ra papitaisotaki ena vukudra na nodra<br />
lewe <strong>ni</strong> matavuvale era sa mate. A vakatarai<br />
me ra qarava na veicakacaka vakalotu oqori ena<br />
taudaku <strong>ni</strong> valetabu ena dua na gauna, ia sa<br />
vakaroti ira na Turaga:<br />
“Dou tara kina na noqu vale, raica ena mai<br />
tiko kina ko Koya sa Cecere Sara.<br />
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“Raica sa sega tale na vanua e kune e vuravura<br />
me na mai tiko kina ka vakalesuya vei kemudou<br />
na veika sa yali tu oqo vei kemudou, ia a kauta<br />
ta<strong>ni</strong> ga ko Koya; io na ilesilesi kece vakabete.<br />
“Raica sa sega tu e vuravura na tobu <strong>ni</strong> papitaiso<br />
me baleta na nodra papitaisotaki na lewe<br />
<strong>ni</strong> lotu ena vukudra na sa mate—<br />
“Raica sa rawa walega <strong>ni</strong> vakayacori na cakacaka<br />
tabu oqo ena noqu vale.” 36<br />
Era vinakata talega me ra tara na valetabu<br />
me rawa <strong>ni</strong> ra ciqoma kina na veiyalayalati vou<br />
ka tawayala<strong>ni</strong> <strong>ni</strong> vakamau, me rawa <strong>ni</strong> ra vauci<br />
kina me tawamudu na nodra veimatavuvale. 37<br />
Era kunea vakalevu na lewe <strong>ni</strong> Lotu e <strong>Na</strong>uvoo<br />
na vakacegu ena veipapitaisotaki me baleti ira<br />
na mate kei na yalayala <strong>ni</strong> matavuvale tawamudu.<br />
E dua vei ira na lewe<strong>ni</strong>lotu oqori e dua<br />
na marama na yacana o Sally Randall. Ni mate<br />
na luvena gonetagane yabaki 14, a vakauta na<br />
itukutuku <strong>ni</strong> rarawa vei ira na lewe <strong>ni</strong> matavuvale.<br />
Ni oti ga vakalailai, a kila rawa na veika me<br />
baleta na papitaiso me baleti ira na mate. A baci<br />
volavola tale vei ira na wekana, ia ena gauna<br />
oqo ena vakacegu kei na veivakadeitaki vou:<br />
“Sa papitaiso o tamai [Joji] ena vukuna ia<br />
sa dua na ka lagilagi na noda vakabauta ka ciqoma<br />
na taucoko <strong>ni</strong> kosipeli me vaka sa vunautaki<br />
tu oqo ka rawa <strong>ni</strong> papitaisotaki me baleti<br />
ira kece na itoka<strong>ni</strong> era sa mate ka vakabulai<br />
ira ena kena yawa ki muri eda rawa <strong>ni</strong> kilai ira<br />
rawa. Au vinakati kemudou mo dou vola mai<br />
na imatai <strong>ni</strong> yacadra na wekadatou kece era sa<br />
mate me yacovi ira sara ya<strong>ni</strong> na tukada kei na<br />
buda. Au vinakata meu cakava na veika au rawata<br />
meu vakabulai ira na noqu itoka<strong>ni</strong>. . . .Au<br />
namaka <strong>ni</strong> dou na nanuma <strong>ni</strong> ivunau matalia<br />
oqo ia dou na raica <strong>ni</strong> ka dina.”<br />
E vakadinadinataka o Sally vei tinana, ka sa<br />
mate talega e dua na luvena, “Isa, nau, kevaka<br />
me daru na marautaka e dua na nodaru tikina<br />
ena imatai <strong>ni</strong> tucake tale, me daru na tauri rau<br />
tale na luvedaru me vaka ga na nodaru a laki<br />
vakadavori rau ena nodrau ibulubulu.” 38<br />
Veivuke Ena Noda Vakasaqarai Ira ka Vukei<br />
Ira Era Vakaleqai Tu<br />
Me tekivu mai na tauyavu <strong>ni</strong> Lotu ena 1830,<br />
era sa dau kunea na marama <strong>ni</strong> Yalododonu<br />
Edaidai na veisala sega <strong>ni</strong> wili rawa me ra veiqaravi<br />
kina. Era dau dinata na nona vosa na iVakabula:<br />
“Ni kemu<strong>ni</strong> a cakava vua e dua sa lailai vei<br />
ira na wekaqu oqo, <strong>ni</strong> a cakava vei au.” 39<br />
Ni liutaka na Parofita o Josefa Simici na sasaga<br />
me tara e dua na valetabu e Kirtland mai<br />
Ohio, era raica na marama e vuqa na leqa vei<br />
ira na dautaravale kei na nodra veimatavuvale.<br />
Me vaka e nanuma lesu o Sarah M. Kimball,<br />
“Era caka bata na marama ka vakauta ya<strong>ni</strong> ena<br />
yalomamarau vei ira na liga<strong>ni</strong>cakacaka ena<br />
valetabu ka ra qai kana ena nodra dui teveli ka<br />
sega na bata.” 40 Era raica talega na marama <strong>ni</strong><br />
gadrevi me caka na kapeti kei na ilatilati me
aleta na valetabu. E nanuma lesu o Polly Angell<br />
na vosa nei Josefa Simici <strong>ni</strong> raica na nodra<br />
cakacaka tiko. E kaya vaqo: “Era dau liu ka bibi<br />
duadua na marama ena veicakacaka vinaka kecega.<br />
A liu o Meri [na yalewa <strong>ni</strong> Makitala] ena<br />
tucaketale; ia o kemu<strong>ni</strong> na marama oqo o <strong>ni</strong> sa<br />
liu ena cakacaka ena loma <strong>ni</strong> valetabu.” 41<br />
Ni sa tauyavu na <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> ena<br />
ruku <strong>ni</strong> veivakadonui <strong>ni</strong> matabete, sa qai cecere<br />
cake kina na sasaga <strong>ni</strong> nodra vukei na tarā tiko<br />
na Valetabu e <strong>Na</strong>uvoo. Ena dua na soqo<strong>ni</strong> <strong>ni</strong><br />
<strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>, era vakanamata vakadua<br />
na marama ena veisala rawarawa eso e rawa <strong>ni</strong><br />
ra qaravi ira kina na tagane era sa cakacaka sara<br />
tiko vagumatua ena valetabu. “Era vakaraitaka<br />
yadudua na marama na nodra nanuma,” ka ra<br />
vakaraitaka na nodra duavata “ena gagadre me<br />
ra veivuke ena kena toso na tara <strong>ni</strong> valetabu ka<br />
vukei na inaki kei Saio<strong>ni</strong>.” E tuku<strong>ni</strong> ena kena<br />
itukutuku e vuqa na nodra cau na <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong><br />
<strong>Veivukei</strong>:<br />
“E kaya o Sis. Jones <strong>ni</strong> sa tu vakarau me lako<br />
voli ka veivosakitaka mai na iyaya, kevaka e<br />
vakakina—sa lomasoli me tiko e nona vale e<br />
dua me cakacaka ena valetabu.<br />
“E kaya o Mrs.Durfee kevaka eratou vinakata<br />
na veiliutaki <strong>ni</strong> isoqosoqo, sa tu vakarau me<br />
lako wavoki ena dua na qiqidreti ena ose ka<br />
Erau liutaka o Emma kei Josefa Simici na sasaga <strong>ni</strong> nodra vukei na viakana, sega nodra vale, kei na tauvimate.<br />
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kumuna mai na vauvau kei na veika tale eso<br />
me baleta na kena tosoi na cakacaka.<br />
“E vakatura o Mrs. Smith me ra cau mai na<br />
watidra na dauveivoli ena iyaya eso me rawa <strong>ni</strong><br />
ra vakacakacakataki kina eso tale.<br />
“E kaya o Miss Wheeler <strong>ni</strong> sa tu vakarau me<br />
solia e dua na iwase <strong>ni</strong> nona gauna cava ga, se<br />
nona gauna kece—<br />
“O Mrs. Granger sa tu vakarau me cakava e<br />
dua ga na ka e rawa, talitali, culacula, se qarau<strong>ni</strong><br />
ira na tauvimate, na ka ga e rawa <strong>ni</strong> veivuke kina.<br />
“E kaya o Miss Ells <strong>ni</strong> sa tu vakarau me lako<br />
ya<strong>ni</strong> ka veivosakitaka na kena soli mai na cau<br />
kei na so tale na ka.<br />
“E kaya o Mrs. Angell <strong>ni</strong> sa tu vakarau me<br />
bono isuwai kevaka e gadrevi <strong>ni</strong> sega <strong>ni</strong> rawa<br />
mai na isulu vou.<br />
“E vakatura o Mrs. Smith me kau vauvau<br />
mai ka soli vei ira na kena marama me ra tali<br />
sitoki<strong>ni</strong> me nodra na dautaravale ena vulaibatabata<br />
ka lako mai.<br />
“Sa lomasoli o Sis. Stringham me cula isulu<br />
<strong>ni</strong> tagane ka cakacaka ena valetabu.<br />
“Sa vakatura o Sis. Felshaw me na solia eso<br />
na sovu. . . .<br />
“E vakatura o Sis. Stanley me dau solia e 50<br />
na karamu na valasi [flax], kei na dua na lita na<br />
sucu e veisiga.<br />
“Ena caka isulu o Miss Beman.<br />
“E vakatura o Sis. Smith me na kau masili<strong>ni</strong><br />
kei na ka tale eso mai vei ira na dauveivoli ka ra<br />
sega <strong>ni</strong> lewe <strong>ni</strong> Lotu, ka ra noda itoka<strong>ni</strong>. . . .<br />
“Sa lomasoli o Sis. Geen me solia na wa<strong>ni</strong>culacula<br />
e cakava ga o koya.” 42<br />
E drodro mai yalodra na marama oqo na<br />
gagadre cecere me ra vakaitavi ena cakacaka<br />
vinaka. Era kitaka vakakina ena vauvau kei na<br />
qiqidreti, sovu kei na culacula, kakana kei na<br />
Josefa Simici<br />
iMatai <strong>ni</strong> Peresitedi <strong>ni</strong> Lotu<br />
“<strong>Na</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> e sega walega me<br />
vukei ira na dravudravua, ia me vakabula yalo.”<br />
Relief Society Minute Book, 9 <strong>ni</strong> June, 1842,<br />
Vale<strong>ni</strong>vola <strong>ni</strong> iTukutuku <strong>ni</strong> Lotu, 63
isulu, gauna kei na taledi. Mai na nodra isoqosoqo<br />
vou, era a cakacaka na marama ena Lotu<br />
me vaka na yalololoma era a buli vata mai me<br />
ra tara cake na Lotu <strong>ni</strong> Turaga.<br />
E vakauqeti ira na marama ena <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong><br />
<strong>Veivukei</strong> na Parofita o Josefa Simici ena nodra<br />
sasaga me ra vaqaqacotaki ira era vakaleqai tu.<br />
Ena dua na soqo<strong>ni</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>, <strong>ni</strong><br />
oti na nona vakavulici ira mai na 1 <strong>ni</strong> Kori<strong>ni</strong>ca<br />
12 (raica na tabana e 18), sa tekivu me wilika<br />
na ivunau nei Paula me baleta na loloma cecere<br />
ena 1 Kori<strong>ni</strong>ca 13. Ni vosa me baleta na iwase<br />
oqo, e kaya kina: “Kakua <strong>ni</strong> qiqo nomu rai ena<br />
vuku <strong>ni</strong> nona ivalavala dodonu na wekamu.<br />
. . . Mo vakarabailevutaka na yalomu vei ira na<br />
ta<strong>ni</strong> kevaka mo vakataki Jisu. . . . Ni levu cake<br />
na nomu yalosavasava kei na ivalavala dodonu,<br />
<strong>ni</strong> tubu cake na nomu vinaka, me rabailevu<br />
na yalomu—me kovuti ira ya<strong>ni</strong> na ta<strong>ni</strong>—sa<br />
dodonu mo vosota vakadede ka ciqoma na<br />
caka cala <strong>ni</strong> kawatamata. Sa ka talei dina na<br />
yalo <strong>ni</strong> tamata!” 43<br />
Ena dua tale na soqo<strong>ni</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>,<br />
a vakavuvulitaka kina o koya: “E sega<br />
<strong>ni</strong> dua na ka yaga vakalevu cake me vukea na<br />
nodra biuta ta<strong>ni</strong> na tamata na ivalavala ca me<br />
vaka na nomu taura na ligadra ka vakatawai<br />
ira vakavinaka. Ni ra vakaraitaka vei au na<br />
tamata na ivakaraitaki lailai duadua <strong>ni</strong> yalovinaka<br />
kei na loloma, sa dua na ka na kena<br />
vakauqeta vakaukauwa na noqu vakasama,<br />
Valetabu e Toronto Ontario<br />
ia na kena veibasai e dau vakavotuya mai na<br />
yalo ca ka vakabutobutotaka na vakasama <strong>ni</strong><br />
tamata.” 44<br />
Era taura na marama ena <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong><br />
<strong>Veivukei</strong> na veiqaravi <strong>ni</strong> yalololoma me yavu <strong>ni</strong><br />
ivakavuvuli <strong>ni</strong> nondra isoqosoqo. Ni ra sota na<br />
<strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Marama</strong> e <strong>Na</strong>uvoo,<br />
era dau tukuna na marama yadua na veika e<br />
baleti ira na tamata era vakaleqai tu. A ciqoma<br />
e dua na dau<strong>ni</strong>yau na cau, ka veisoliyaki ya<strong>ni</strong><br />
na cau oqori me ra vukei kina na vakaleqai tu.<br />
<strong>Na</strong> cau e oka kina na ilavo, na iyaya, na taledi,<br />
kei na gauna. Era solia na marama na isulu<br />
kei na iyaya <strong>ni</strong> moce. Era solia na valasi [flax],<br />
vauvau, kei na wa <strong>ni</strong> talitali ka rawa <strong>ni</strong> caka me<br />
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isulu. Era solia talega na kakana: apolo, varasa,<br />
valawa, suka, madrai, kei na bata.<br />
Sa ivakaraitaki cecere sara <strong>ni</strong> veiqaravi ena<br />
yalololoma o Sisita Emma Smith, me vaka <strong>ni</strong><br />
Peresitedi <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>. E dolava na<br />
nona vale vei ira na viakana, sega <strong>ni</strong> vakavale,<br />
kei na tauvimate. <strong>Na</strong> “The Homestead,” me<br />
vaka e dau vakatokai kina ena so na gauna na<br />
nodratou vale tolo<strong>ni</strong>kau na Smith, e tiko kina<br />
e dua na rumu <strong>ni</strong> soqo<strong>ni</strong> ka rua na rumu <strong>ni</strong><br />
moce. Ena gauna a tauyavu kina na <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong><br />
<strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>, a tiko ena loma <strong>ni</strong> vale e 11 na tamata<br />
ka sega <strong>ni</strong> ratou wili kina o Emma, Josefa,<br />
kei na 4 na luvedrau.<br />
O ira na marama ena <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong><br />
taumada era dau qaravi ira era vakaleqai tu ka<br />
ra dau qaravi talega ena so na gauna. Me vakaoqo,<br />
a curu ki na <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> o Ellen<br />
Douglas <strong>ni</strong> oti ga vakalailai na nodratou yaco<br />
mai ki <strong>Na</strong>uvoo vakamatavuvale ena Maji <strong>ni</strong><br />
1842. Ni oti e tolu na vula a mate na watina, o<br />
George. Eratou a cakacaka vata vakamatavuvale<br />
me rawa kina na veika <strong>ni</strong> bula, ia a dredre vei<br />
iratou <strong>ni</strong> sega na turaga watina ka tamadratou.<br />
A vakaitavi tikoga ena cakacaka <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong><br />
<strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> o Ellen ena nona veivuke vei ira<br />
era rarawa, tauvimate, kei na dravudravua. Ena<br />
Epereli <strong>ni</strong> 1844, eratou a tauvimate o koya kei<br />
na vica na luvena ka ratou gadreva kina na veivuke.<br />
A vola e dua na ivola vei iratou na nona<br />
matavuvale mai Igiladi ka vakamacalataka kina<br />
na nodra vukei koya na <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong><br />
<strong>ni</strong> lako me sikovi Ann na nona itoka<strong>ni</strong>:<br />
“Ni sa tekivu meu bula cake mai au lako sobu<br />
ki na siti ka laki sikovi Ann ena vanua e tiko<br />
kina, au tiko mai kina me rua na bogi. . . . Era<br />
vinakata na marama ena vanua e tiko kina o<br />
Ann meu kerea ki na <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> <strong>ni</strong><br />
<strong>Marama</strong> eso na isulu me baleti au kei na noqu<br />
matavuvale. Au sega <strong>ni</strong> vinakata meu cakava, qai<br />
kaya o koya <strong>ni</strong>u gadreva me caka e dua na ka <strong>ni</strong><br />
sa rui balavu na noqu davo tu kevaka au sega<br />
<strong>ni</strong> cakava ena cakava o koya ena vukuqu.” A<br />
ma<strong>ni</strong> qai vakadonuya o Sisita Douglas me kere<br />
veivuke. “Keitou lako vua e dua na marama,”<br />
e tomana ko koya, “ka taroga vei au ko koya se<br />
cava au vinakata vakalevu duadua. Au tukuna<br />
<strong>ni</strong>u gadreva . . . e vuqa na ka. Niu tauvimate tu<br />
sa kabasu na nodra isulu na luvequ baleta <strong>ni</strong>u<br />
sega <strong>ni</strong> rawa <strong>ni</strong> botana, ma<strong>ni</strong> tukuna o koya <strong>ni</strong><br />
na tovolea vakaukauwa ena vukuqu. A lako mai<br />
<strong>ni</strong> oti e vica na siga o Ann ka ratou kauta mai na<br />
qiqidreti ena ose ka kauta mai vei au e dua na<br />
iloloma au se bera vakadua <strong>ni</strong> bau taura.” 45<br />
“Me da na Dabe Vata<br />
Kina mai Lomalagi”<br />
E vakamacalataka o Elder John A. Widtsoe<br />
ena Kuoramu <strong>ni</strong> iApositolo Le Ti<strong>ni</strong>karua na<br />
cakacaka e vakayavutaki kina na <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong><br />
<strong>Veivukei</strong>: “<strong>Veivukei</strong> ena dravudravua, veivukei
ena tauvimate; veivukei ena vakatitiqa; veivukei<br />
ena lecaika—veivukei ena veika kece e vakataotaka<br />
na marau kei na toso <strong>ni</strong> marama. Sa dua<br />
na isolisoli levu!” 46<br />
O ira na marama Yalododonu Edaidai, era<br />
tudei tu ena vakabauta kei na ivakadinadina,<br />
sa soli dina vei ira na “nodra itavi na agilosi.” 47<br />
E vakavuvulitaka o Elder M. Russell Ballard<br />
ena Kuoramu <strong>ni</strong> iApositolo Le Ti<strong>ni</strong>karua: “<strong>Na</strong><br />
marama kece ena Lotu oqo sa veiyalayalati oti<br />
kei na Turaga sa dua na nona itavi vakalou me<br />
veivuke ena vakabula yalo, me liutaki ira na<br />
marama e vuravura, me vaqaqacotaka na veivuvale<br />
e Saio<strong>ni</strong>, ka tara na mata<strong>ni</strong>tu <strong>ni</strong> Kalou.” 48<br />
Ni rau lewa vata o Sarah M. Kimball kei Margaret<br />
Cook me rau tekivuna e dua na isoqosoqo<br />
<strong>ni</strong> culacula, erau vinakata me rau veivuke<br />
ena kena vakarautaki e dua na valetabu vei<br />
ira na tamata. Ena nodra veivakauqeti kei na<br />
veituberi e dua na parofita kei na veiliutaki <strong>ni</strong><br />
matabete, sa yaco rawa kina vei rau kei ira na<br />
tacidrau marama me ra vakarautaki ira eso na<br />
tamata ki na valetabu.<br />
E toso tiko <strong>ni</strong>kua na cakacaka oqo. Ni ra<br />
dusimaki ena ivakavuvuli e vakavuvulitaka o<br />
Josefa Simici, era sa dau cakacaka vata na<br />
marama ena <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> me ra<br />
vakarautaki na marama kei na nodra matavuvale<br />
ki na nona veivakalougatataki cecere duadua na<br />
Kalou. Era muria ena yalomarau na nona<br />
ivakasala na tinai Josefa Simici, o Lucy Mack<br />
Smith: “Me da veivakamareqeti, me da veivakatawai,<br />
veivakacegui ka rawata na veidusimaki,<br />
me da na dabe vata kina mai lomalagi.” 49<br />
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WASE 3<br />
“Kukuva Toka<br />
na Veiyalayalati”<br />
Lako Ya<strong>ni</strong>, Biuvanua,<br />
ka Tawavanua<br />
Era sega vakadua <strong>ni</strong> guilecava na marama na<br />
isoqosoqo, ka sega talega vakakina na yalayala<br />
e vakayacora vei ira o Peresitedi Josefa Simici. . . .<br />
Era sa dau tu vakarau tu e veigauna ena ligadra kei<br />
na yalodra dauloloma me ra qarava na cakacaka <strong>ni</strong><br />
loloma kei na loloma cecere, ka lewevuqa era gadreva<br />
tu na veicakacaka yalovinaka vakaoqori <strong>ni</strong> oqori na<br />
veigauna dredre, ka levu kina na veika rarawa,<br />
lailai na ka e tu kei na bula dredre.<br />
Emmeline B. Wells
WASE 3<br />
“Kukuva Toka na Veiyalayalati”<br />
Lako Ya<strong>ni</strong>, Biuvanua, ka Tawavanua<br />
Ena ika 27 <strong>ni</strong> June, 1844, era a kaba kina<br />
e dua na ilawalawa dauvakacaca e dua na<br />
vale<strong>ni</strong>veivesu lailai e Carthage mai Illinois,<br />
na vanua a vesu tiko kina vakatawadodonu<br />
o Josefa Simici kei na tuakana o Hyrum vata<br />
kei rau o Elder John Taylor kei Elder Willard<br />
Richards. Ni ra biuta mai kea na ilawalawa oqo,<br />
rau sa mate toka o Josefa kei Hyrum ka mavoa<br />
o Elder Taylor.<br />
<strong>Na</strong> nodrau vakamatei ena vuku <strong>ni</strong> nodrau<br />
vakabauta o Josefa kei Hyrum Smith a sega <strong>ni</strong><br />
muduka na nodra vakabauta kei na yalodina na<br />
Yalododonu. E sega talega <strong>ni</strong> ivakatakilakila <strong>ni</strong><br />
sa na oti e kea na nodra vakacaca<strong>ni</strong> na lewe <strong>ni</strong><br />
Lotu. Me vaka <strong>ni</strong> sa toso tikoga na veivakaca-<br />
ca<strong>ni</strong>, sa ma<strong>ni</strong> veivakasalataki kina na iliuliu vou<br />
<strong>ni</strong> Lotu, o Peresitedi Brigham Young, me ra sa<br />
biuti <strong>Na</strong>uvoo e Illinois na Yalododonu ki na dua<br />
na nodra itikotiko vou, na vanua era nuitaka<br />
me ra na sokalou kina ena vakacegu. E vuqa<br />
era muri Peresitedi Young, ka tekivu na nodra<br />
lako ya<strong>ni</strong> ena Feperueri <strong>ni</strong> 1846.<br />
Ni roro mai na veigauna dredre oqo, sa<br />
ma<strong>ni</strong> muduki na kena tauyavutaki tiko na<br />
<strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>. Ia, na nodra gagadre na<br />
marama me vukei na bula dredre, vaqaqacotaki<br />
na matavuvale, ka me ra yalodina tiko ga<br />
ka bula savasava, a caucaudre ka serau tikoga.<br />
Era muria na ivakaro a solia na Turaga vua na<br />
imatai <strong>ni</strong> nodra peresitedi ena <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong><br />
<strong>Veivukei</strong>: “Mo nanuma tiko na veiyalayalati ko<br />
sa cakava.” 1<br />
Lako Ya<strong>ni</strong>: Toko<strong>ni</strong><br />
ena Veiyalayalati<br />
O ira na marama lewe taumada <strong>ni</strong> iSoqo-<br />
soqo <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>, era a vakataki ira na tamata i<br />
Amo<strong>ni</strong> ena gauna e liu, “sa dokai sara na nodra<br />
yalodina vua na Kalou” ka sa “tudei sara na<br />
nodra vakabauti Karisito.” 2 Era vakavulici mai<br />
vua na Parofita o Josefa Simici, ka ra vakalougatataki<br />
ena nodra sa tauyavutaki ena veivakadonui<br />
<strong>ni</strong> matabete. Ia oqo era gadreva na<br />
veivakalougatataki <strong>ni</strong> valetabu.<br />
E sivia <strong>ni</strong> 5,000 na Yalododonu era osota ya<strong>ni</strong><br />
na Valetabu e <strong>Na</strong>uvoo <strong>ni</strong> oti na kena vakatabui<br />
me rawa <strong>ni</strong> ra ciqoma na cakacaka vakalotu <strong>ni</strong><br />
edaume<strong>ni</strong> kei na veivauci <strong>ni</strong> bera <strong>ni</strong> ra gole ya<strong>ni</strong><br />
ena ilakolako ki na dua na vu<strong>ni</strong>lagi tawamacala.<br />
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Era lako mai ki na valetabu ena siga taucoko<br />
ka yacova ya<strong>ni</strong> na bogi levu. E vola o Peresitedi<br />
Brigham Young <strong>ni</strong> ra sa nanamaki vakalevu me<br />
ra taura na nodra cakacaka vakalotu “Au sa<br />
soli au vakatabakidua ki na cakacaka <strong>ni</strong> Turaga<br />
ena Valetabu ena bogi kei na siga, ka sega <strong>ni</strong><br />
sivia na va na auwa na gauna <strong>ni</strong> moce balavu<br />
duadua ena dua na siga, kau dau lako ga ki<br />
vale vakadua e veimacawa.” 3<br />
<strong>Na</strong> igu, kaukauwa, kei na veivakalougatataki<br />
<strong>ni</strong> veiyalayalati <strong>ni</strong> valetabu ena toko<strong>ni</strong> ira tu<br />
na Yalododonu Edaidai ena nodra ilakolako,<br />
ena nodra na sotava na batabata, na katakata,<br />
viakana, tauvimate, vakacala ka, kei na mate.<br />
Era a vaqaqacotaki ka vakaukauwataki—vakarautaki<br />
vakayalo me ra biuti <strong>Na</strong>uvoo ena nodra<br />
ilakolako dredre ki na lekutu.<br />
Me vakataki ira e vuqa na marama ena<br />
<strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>, a vakayaloqaqataki<br />
Sarah Rich na veivakalougatataki <strong>ni</strong> valetabu<br />
ena nona sotava na bolebole <strong>ni</strong> lako ya<strong>ni</strong>. Ni<br />
vakarau me biubiu mai <strong>Na</strong>uvoo, a ciqoma e dua<br />
na ilesilesi mai vei Brigham Young me cakacaka<br />
ena valetabu. A qai kaya e muri o koya:<br />
“E vuqa na veivakalougatataki keimami sa<br />
ciqoma ena vale <strong>ni</strong> Turaga, ka<br />
sa vakavuna na neimami reki<br />
kei na vakacegu ena maliwa<br />
<strong>ni</strong> neimami rarawa ka rawa<br />
kina <strong>ni</strong> keimami vakabauta<br />
Sarah Rich na Kalou, ka kila <strong>ni</strong> na tuberi<br />
keimami ko Koya ka toko<strong>ni</strong> keimami ena<br />
ilakolako tawakilai sa tu e matai keimami.<br />
Kevaka me a sega na vakabauta kei na kila ka<br />
ka soli vei keimami ena valetabu oya ena<br />
veivakauqeti kei na veivuke <strong>ni</strong> Yalo <strong>ni</strong> Turaga, na<br />
neimami ilakolako ena vaka <strong>ni</strong> dua e rika ya<strong>ni</strong><br />
ki na vanua butobuto. Me tekivu ya<strong>ni</strong> . . . <strong>ni</strong><br />
vulaibatabata tu ena dela <strong>ni</strong> keimami ituvaki<br />
dravudravua, ena vaka <strong>ni</strong> da lako ya<strong>ni</strong> ki na<br />
gusui mate. Ia keimami vakabauta na Tamai<br />
Keimami mai Lomalagi, ia keimami vakararavi<br />
Vua <strong>ni</strong> keimami nanuma <strong>ni</strong> sai keimami na<br />
Nona tamata digitaki ka keimami sa ciqoma na<br />
Nona kosipeli, sa sega kina na rarawa, keimami<br />
nanuma me keimami reki <strong>ni</strong> sa yaco mai na<br />
neimami siga <strong>ni</strong> veisereki.” 4<br />
Me vaka e vakaibalebaletaka o Sisita Rich, na<br />
lako ya<strong>ni</strong> e sega <strong>ni</strong> “rika ya<strong>ni</strong> ki na butobuto”<br />
vei ira na marama yalodina ena Yalododonu<br />
Edaidai. Era a toko<strong>ni</strong> mai na nodra veiyalayalati.<br />
Me vakataki ira na luvei Isireli ena gauna e liu,<br />
era a muria e dua na parofita ki na lekutu ena<br />
nodra vakanuinui me ra sereki. A kacivaka o<br />
Peresitedi Brigham Young na itukutuku oqo vei<br />
ira na Yalododonu me vakarautaki ira ki na lako<br />
ya<strong>ni</strong>: “Oqo na noda veiyalayalati—<strong>ni</strong> da na<br />
lako voli ena nona cakacaka vakalotu kece sara<br />
na Turaga.” 5 Era lako ya<strong>ni</strong> ki na loma <strong>ni</strong> lekutu<br />
na Yalododonu Edaidai ka ra vauci tu ena veiyalayalati<br />
vua na Kalou, na nodra matavuvale, kei<br />
ira era lako vata kaya.
E sivia <strong>ni</strong> 5,000 na Yalododonu era ciqoma na veivakalougatataki <strong>ni</strong><br />
Valetabu mai <strong>Na</strong>uvoo e Illinois, <strong>ni</strong> bera <strong>ni</strong> ra lako ena ilakolako ki<br />
na Bucabuca e Salt Lake.<br />
Biuvanua: Vakabauta, Loloma Cecere,<br />
kei na Veitoko<strong>ni</strong> <strong>ni</strong> Duavata<br />
Ni bera <strong>ni</strong> ra biuti <strong>Na</strong>uvoo, era qai vola na itukutuku<br />
oqo e dua na ilawalawa Yalododonu Edaidai ena lalaga<br />
<strong>ni</strong> vale <strong>ni</strong> soqo<strong>ni</strong> <strong>ni</strong> nodra valetabu: “Sa raica na Turaga<br />
na neimami solibula: muri keimami mai.” 6 <strong>Na</strong> veimala<strong>ni</strong>vosa<br />
oqori e umana vata na nodra yalodina kei na<br />
sasaga cokovata. Era lako na Yalododonu ena ilakolako<br />
ena yalo <strong>ni</strong> solibula, sorosorovaki, kei na vakabauta na<br />
Kalou. Era sega <strong>ni</strong> lako vakatamata yadua ia me vaka na<br />
“Keba kei Isireli,” e dua na mataitikotiko ka wasewasei ki<br />
na veilawalawa lalai, vakatokai me kaba<strong>ni</strong>, me baleta na<br />
veitoko<strong>ni</strong> <strong>ni</strong> duavata.<br />
“Ena veitabayabaki kece<br />
e vuravura <strong>ni</strong> sa kaciva<br />
se vakarota e dua na<br />
tamata se dua na<br />
matatamata na Kalou<br />
me cakava e dua na<br />
cakacaka, sa yaco me<br />
ra rawata ena nodra<br />
yalodina kei na vosota<br />
vakadede, kei na<br />
vakabauti Koya.”<br />
Wilford Woodruff<br />
Deseret News: Semi-Weekly,<br />
26 <strong>ni</strong> Julai, 1881, 1<br />
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Ni ra lako ya<strong>ni</strong> na Yalododonu ki na Bucabuca <strong>ni</strong> Salt Lake, era veivuke vakataki ira na marama me ra qarava na nodra<br />
dui matavuvale.<br />
Ena dua na ivakatakila a soli vei Brigham<br />
Young “sa vakaoqo na ivakaro kei na loma <strong>ni</strong><br />
Turaga ena vuku <strong>ni</strong> Keba <strong>ni</strong> Isireli, ena nona<br />
ilakolako ki na Ra,” sa vakaroti ira na pai<strong>ni</strong>a<br />
na Turaga me ra “wasei vakatautauvata ki na<br />
veiwasewase yadua, me vaka na ka era dui tau-<br />
kena, ia me ra kau talega ko ira na vakaloloma,<br />
na yada, na luve<strong>ni</strong>yali, kei ira na nodra vuvale<br />
na a lako ki na ivalu.” 7<br />
E vakavuqa ena gauna <strong>ni</strong> biuvanua, ena dau<br />
tu sara e ra na ivakatautauvata <strong>ni</strong> tagane ki<br />
na yalewa kei na gone. Ena vulaitubutubu <strong>ni</strong><br />
1847, <strong>ni</strong> oti na nodra a vakaruru toka e vuqa na<br />
Yalododonu ena vulaibatabata ena dua na vanua<br />
era vakatoka ko Winter Quarters, e rauta <strong>ni</strong><br />
520 na tagane, kei na 35 na marama kei na 42<br />
na gone, era curu ki na Mormon Battalion me<br />
rogoci kina na kaci <strong>ni</strong> laki veiqaravi ki na mataivalu<br />
<strong>ni</strong> Amerika. E rauta tale <strong>ni</strong> 143 na tagane,<br />
3 na marama, kei na 2 na gone era a sa toso<br />
sara tiko ena kaba<strong>ni</strong> pai<strong>ni</strong>a, ka vakarautaka na<br />
sala vei ira na kena vo. A nanuma lesu e dua<br />
na marama ka yacana o Presendia Kimball: “Sa<br />
vo tu ga mai e vica na tagane me ratou tea na<br />
kakana sore<strong>ni</strong>kau kei na kakana draudrau, ka<br />
taqomaki ira na marama kei na gone. . . . Era sa
iu tu mai vakaoqori na qase, na wamalai, o ira<br />
na marama kei na gonelalai.” 8<br />
Era vakalougatataki na Yalododonu ena kau-<br />
kauwa <strong>ni</strong> matabete ena veitabaki <strong>ni</strong> liga mai vei<br />
ira na turaga ka tu vei ira na matabete. Era toko<strong>ni</strong><br />
talega mai na nodra vakabauta na Kalou, loloma<br />
cecere, nodra igu, kei na masu na marama.<br />
Ni sa veitauvi vakalevu sara na matetaka, era<br />
veiqaravi na marama vakavu<strong>ni</strong>wai kei na nasi<br />
vei ira na nodra matavuvale kei ira vakataki<br />
ira, me vaka era a vakayacora mai <strong>Na</strong>uvoo. E<br />
nanuma lesu kina o Drusilla Dorris Hendricks,<br />
“E sega <strong>ni</strong> dua na qiqidreti ena keba taucoko<br />
me sega <strong>ni</strong> dua na tauvimate e tu kina, [ia]<br />
keimami colata voli ena yalovosota nei Jope.” 9<br />
Sa tu sara e cake na levu <strong>ni</strong> mate, vakauasivi vei<br />
ira na gonedramidrami. 10<br />
A vakasucuma o Eliza Partridge Lyman e dua<br />
na gonetagane ena ika 14 <strong>ni</strong> Julai, 1846, ena dua<br />
na qiqidreti. Me vakataki ira e vuqa na gonedramidrami<br />
vei ira na pai<strong>ni</strong>a, a sega <strong>ni</strong> ma<strong>ni</strong> bula<br />
na gonetagane lailai. A vakamacalataka o Eliza<br />
na veika a sotava ena dua na ivola<strong>ni</strong>veisiga:<br />
14 <strong>ni</strong> Julai, 1846: “Sa rui logaloga ca vakalevu<br />
vua e dua na marama tauvimate na vanua au<br />
toka kina. <strong>Na</strong> katakata <strong>ni</strong> siga e cila curuma na<br />
qiqidreti ena siga taucoko kei na cagi batabata<br />
ena bogi, sa rui sivia na veisau oqori me da<br />
logavinaka kina.”<br />
15 <strong>ni</strong> Okotova, 1846: “Keitou sa taura na<br />
neitou vale tolo<strong>ni</strong>kau <strong>ni</strong>kua. <strong>Na</strong> imatai <strong>ni</strong> vale<br />
me qai curu kina na luvequ. Au vakavinavinaka<br />
vakalevu ena galala meu dabe ena yasa <strong>ni</strong> dua<br />
na matadravu buka ka sega <strong>ni</strong> rawa <strong>ni</strong> liwava na<br />
cagi ki na veiyasana kecega, ka rawa vei au meu<br />
vakatakata e dua na yasaqu ka sega <strong>ni</strong> cevata<br />
mai na yasana kadua. E sega na buturara <strong>ni</strong> neitou<br />
vale kei na vuqa tale na iyaya <strong>ni</strong> loma<strong>ni</strong>vale<br />
ia e taqomaki keitou mai na cagi na lalaga ka<br />
sega na delavuvu co kei na qele mai na uca.”<br />
6 <strong>ni</strong> Tiseba, 1846: “Sa tauvimate na luvequ<br />
ka torosobu tikoga na kena ituvaki. E tagitagi<br />
tikoga ena siga taucoko kau sega <strong>ni</strong> kila se cava<br />
e vakaleqai koya tiko.”<br />
E vuqa na marama Yalododonu Edaidai era vakasucu<br />
gone ena nodra ilakolako ki na Bucabuca <strong>ni</strong> Salt Lake.<br />
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12 <strong>ni</strong> Tiseba, 1846: “Sa mate na luvequ kau<br />
sa lolosi vakalevu ena nona sa yali. Keitou sa<br />
Eliza Partridge<br />
Lyman<br />
cakava na veika kece keitou<br />
kila na cakava ena vukuna, ia<br />
e sega <strong>ni</strong> dua na kena yaga;<br />
sa lutu sobu tikoga na nona<br />
bula me tekivu mai na gauna<br />
a tauvimate kina. Keirau dau<br />
yadravi koya e veibogi kei na taciqu o Caroline<br />
ka tovolea me keirau vakabulai koya me kakua<br />
<strong>ni</strong> mate, <strong>ni</strong> keirau sega <strong>ni</strong> rawa <strong>ni</strong> laivi koya<br />
me biuti keirau, ia sa sega ga na neirau<br />
kaukauwa. . . .<br />
“Era se tu na itoka<strong>ni</strong> au dau lomana. Kevaka<br />
a sega ke sa rairai vinaka meu vakamoce ki na<br />
vuravura oqo, <strong>ni</strong> sa rui sinai tu ena veika vakamosiyalo<br />
kei na rarawa. Ia au vakabauta <strong>ni</strong> dua<br />
na kaukauwa e vakatawai keda voli ka vakadodonutaka<br />
tiko na veika kecega.” 11<br />
Me vaka e tukuna o Eliza, <strong>ni</strong> a toko<strong>ni</strong> ena<br />
nodra veitoka<strong>ni</strong> na marama dau veikauwaitaki.<br />
E muri a qai solia na veitoka<strong>ni</strong> vata oqori kei na<br />
yalololoma, ena nona vukei ira eso na marama<br />
ka ra sotava voli na yaluma vata oqori. Ena 1 <strong>ni</strong><br />
June, 1847, a vola kina: “Sisita Elvira Holmes’<br />
ka mate na luvena. Ciqoma e dua na veisureti<br />
. . . meu lako ka tiko vata kei koya ena dua na<br />
siga, au a ciqoma. Keirau lai sikova vata na<br />
ibulubulu kei luvena.” 12<br />
Ena veituvaki <strong>ni</strong> bula dredre vakaoqori, era<br />
vakararavi na marama ena kaukauwa <strong>ni</strong> nodra<br />
veiyalayalati. A qai nanuma lesu e muri o Bathsheba<br />
W. Smith, na ikava <strong>ni</strong> peresitedi raraba<br />
<strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> na veika a sotavi oqori:<br />
Bathsheba W. Smith<br />
iKava <strong>ni</strong> Peresitedi Raraba <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong><br />
“Ena gauna au rogoca kina na kosipeli au kila <strong>ni</strong> dina; ena<br />
imatai <strong>ni</strong> gauna au wilika kina na iVola i Moma<strong>ni</strong>, au kila<br />
<strong>ni</strong> veivakauqeti kina na Kalou; ena imatai <strong>ni</strong> gauna au<br />
raici Josefa Simici kina au kila <strong>ni</strong> keirau veiraici mata tu<br />
kei na dua na parofita <strong>ni</strong> Kalou bula, kau sega vakadua <strong>ni</strong><br />
vakatitiqataka na nona dodonu.”<br />
Nona iVola<strong>ni</strong>veisiga e dua na goneyalewa, Okot. 1901, 440
O ira na marama “era sa dau tu vakarau e ligadra kei na yalodra dauloloma me ra vakaitavi ena cakacaka <strong>ni</strong> loloma”<br />
(Emmeline B. Wells).<br />
“Au na sega <strong>ni</strong> tovolea meu vakamacalataka<br />
na ivakarau <strong>ni</strong> neimami lakova na cava <strong>ni</strong><br />
ucacevata, kei na uca; na kena caka na gau<strong>ni</strong>-<br />
sala, tara na wavu, ka viri na ibilibili; na nodra<br />
toso tu na neimami manumanu vakaloloma me<br />
vica na siga ka ra kana sara tu vakalalai; ka sega<br />
talega na ivakarau keimami sotava tu kina na<br />
veika rarawa mai na dravudravua, na tauvi-<br />
mate, kei na mate. Keimami vakacegui . . . ena<br />
neimami qarava na neimami soqo<strong>ni</strong> raraba ena<br />
sautu, keimami masu ka lagata vata na sere kei<br />
Saio<strong>ni</strong>, ka reki <strong>ni</strong> keimami sa biuti ira tu ya<strong>ni</strong><br />
vakayawa ko ira era dau vakacaca<strong>ni</strong> keimami.<br />
Keimami qai vakacegui vakalevu tale ena<br />
neimami raica <strong>ni</strong> vakavotui na kaukauwa <strong>ni</strong><br />
Kalou ena veitabaki <strong>ni</strong> ligadra na italatala qase,<br />
me ra vakabulai kina na tauvimate, ka ra lako<br />
na gera. A tiko vata kei keimami na Turaga ka<br />
vakavotui mai e veisiga na nona kaukauwa.” 13<br />
Era kunea talega na marama na kaukauwa<br />
vakayalo ena nodra dui loloma kei na yalololoma.<br />
Ena loma <strong>ni</strong> ilakolako taucoko, <strong>ni</strong> ra<br />
sotava na veivakatovolei <strong>ni</strong> tauvimate kei na<br />
mate, era veimasulaki vakataki ira ena vakabauta<br />
ka veivakacegui. “E drodro na loloma <strong>ni</strong><br />
Kalou mai na yalo ki na yalo,” e vola ko Helen<br />
Mar Whitney, “me yacova <strong>ni</strong> sa sega na nona<br />
kaukauwa na vu<strong>ni</strong>ca me curu maliwai au kei na<br />
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Ena 1856, era kumu<strong>ni</strong> isulu tali na marama ena<br />
<strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> me baleti ira na pai<strong>ni</strong>a ena<br />
qiqidreti e liga ka ra sotava tu mai na veika rarawa.<br />
Turaga, kei na nona gasauvidi <strong>ni</strong> ca, ena so na<br />
gauna sa kau laivi na kedra gaga.” 14<br />
Ni ra nanuma na ivakaro vakauqeti mai vua<br />
na Parofita o Josefa Simici, era raivotutaka na<br />
marama pai<strong>ni</strong>a yalodina oqo na nodra kaukauwa<br />
kei na nodra rawata me ra veiqaravi.<br />
Era veivuke ena kena tauyavu na vale kei na<br />
itikotiko. Mai na cakacaka <strong>ni</strong> vakabauta kei na<br />
loloma cecere, era vakabula kina na yalo. E basika<br />
na revurevu veivakasavasavataki <strong>ni</strong> nodra<br />
solibula vei ira ka vakakina vei ira era ciqoma<br />
na nodra vakacacabo.<br />
Ni sega mada ga <strong>ni</strong> vakayacori tiko na nodra<br />
veisoqo<strong>ni</strong> na <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>, era a muria<br />
na marama pai<strong>ni</strong>a na ivakavuvuli vakaparofita<br />
ka rokova tiko na nodra veiyalayalati <strong>ni</strong> valetabu,<br />
ia <strong>ni</strong> ra vakayacora vakakina era sa cau<br />
kina ki na dua na iwase matalia <strong>ni</strong> itukutuku <strong>ni</strong><br />
Lotu kei na Ra kei Amerika. E vola kina e dua<br />
na dau<strong>ni</strong>tukutuku makawa sega <strong>ni</strong> Yalododonu<br />
Edaidai: “Niu sega <strong>ni</strong> ciqoma na nodra vakabauta<br />
e sega <strong>ni</strong> kena ibalebale <strong>ni</strong>u vakabekataka<br />
na nodra dau yalodina kei na yaloqaqa ena nodra<br />
veiqaravi. Vakauasivi o ira na nodra marama.<br />
Era vakasakiti na nodra marama.” 15<br />
Tawavanua: “Tu Vakarau . . .<br />
me Vakaitavi ena Cakacaka <strong>ni</strong><br />
Loloma kei na Loloma Cecere”<br />
Ni ra tadu ya<strong>ni</strong> ki na Bucabuca <strong>ni</strong> Salt Lake<br />
na imatai <strong>ni</strong> kaba<strong>ni</strong> <strong>ni</strong> pai<strong>ni</strong>a, era tei kakana ka<br />
tara ivakaruru me baleti ira. Era sotava talega na<br />
nodra gagadre na ta<strong>ni</strong>. E vakasalataki ira na Yalododonu<br />
o Peresitedi Brigham Young me ra vukei<br />
ira era vakaleqai tu vakayalo ka vakayago talega.<br />
<strong>Na</strong> nona ivakasala e vaka na veivakauqeti nei<br />
Amuleki ena iVola i Moma<strong>ni</strong> vei ira na Soramu<br />
dravudravua: “Dou qai sega <strong>ni</strong> vukei ira na dravudravua,<br />
vakasulumi ira sa luvaiwale, ka sega<br />
<strong>ni</strong> vukei ira sa tauvimate ka rarawa tu, ka wasea<br />
na veika sa tu vei kemudou vei ira sa dravudravua,<br />
au sa kaya vakaidina vei kemudou, kevaka<br />
dou sa sega <strong>ni</strong> kitaka na veika oqo, sa tawayaga<br />
na nomudou masu, ia dou sa vakataki ira ga na<br />
dauveivakaisi<strong>ni</strong>, <strong>ni</strong> ra sa cakitaka na ka dina.” 16
E vakamacalataka o Sisita Emmeline B. Wells,<br />
ka qai veiqaravi e muri vaka ikalima <strong>ni</strong> peresi-<br />
tedi raraba <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>, na nodra<br />
yalovinaka kei na veiqaravi na marama: “Ni<br />
ra biuti <strong>Na</strong>uvoo na Yalododonu kei na loma <strong>ni</strong><br />
nodra ilakolako, sa yaga me muduki tu mada na<br />
nodra dau soqo<strong>ni</strong> na <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>, Era<br />
sega vakadua <strong>ni</strong> guilecava na marama na isoqosoqo,<br />
ka sega vakakina na yalayala e vakayacora<br />
vei ira o Peresitedi Josefa Simici, ia era tomana<br />
tikoga na nodra cakacaka vinaka ena veivanua<br />
kei na veigauna e basika kina e dua na madigi<br />
Era tomana na marama ena <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> na<br />
veiqaravi ka veivakayaloqaqataki vakataki ira <strong>ni</strong> ra yaco<br />
ya<strong>ni</strong> ki na Bucabuca <strong>ni</strong> Salt Lake.<br />
era sa dau tu vakarau ena ligadra kei na yalodra<br />
dauloloma me ra qarava na cakacaka <strong>ni</strong> loloma<br />
kei na loloma cecere, ka lewevuqa era gadreva<br />
tu na veicakacaka yalovinaka vakaoqori <strong>ni</strong><br />
oqori na veigauna dredre, ka levu kina na veika<br />
rarawa, lailai na ka e tu kei na bula dredre.” 17<br />
Ena 1854, a kidava o Matilda Dudley <strong>ni</strong> tu<br />
e vuqa na leqa vei ira na kai Idia <strong>ni</strong> Amerika<br />
e kea. Taumada a muria na veika e votu mai<br />
nona vakasama e muri a qai dusimaki koya o<br />
Peresitedi Brigham Young, a tauyavutaki ira na<br />
marama ena veidusimaki nei bisopi me cula<br />
isulu me baleti ira na marama kei na gone<br />
itaukei <strong>ni</strong> vanua. A basika talega ena veitikotiko<br />
tale eso na mataqali ilawalawa vakaoqo <strong>ni</strong> ra sa<br />
muria na marama Yalododonu Edaidai na yalo<br />
<strong>ni</strong> loloma e votu mai ka veiqaravi me sotavi<br />
kina na nodra gagadre o ira era tu wavoliti ira.<br />
A toma<strong>ni</strong> tiko na ivakarau oqori <strong>ni</strong> ra sa tadu<br />
ya<strong>ni</strong> ki na Bucabuca <strong>ni</strong> Salt Lake na Yalododonu<br />
Edaidai. Era kacivi ira na tamata o ira na veiliutaki<br />
<strong>ni</strong> Lotu me ra laki tawavanua ki na mua<br />
<strong>ni</strong> veiwasewase, ka robota ya<strong>ni</strong> na veivanua<br />
ena vualiku kei na ceva kei Salt Lake City. Era<br />
nanuma na marama na iyau kei na ivakavuvuli<br />
ka vakayavutaki kina na <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong><br />
<strong>ni</strong> <strong>Marama</strong> e <strong>Na</strong>uvoo, ka ra tauyavu e vuqa na<br />
ilawalawa ena veitikotiko oqori me ra qaravi<br />
kina na ta<strong>ni</strong> ka vukei ira na dravudravua.<br />
Me kena ivakaraitaki a liutaka o Lucy Meserve<br />
Smith, e dua na ilawalawa marama <strong>ni</strong><br />
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Yalododonu Edaidai e Provo mai Utah. Era a ro-<br />
goca o koya kei ira na vo <strong>ni</strong> marama na kaci me<br />
ra laki vukei na Yalododonu Edaidai era sa yaco<br />
ya<strong>ni</strong> ki Utah. Ena ko<strong>ni</strong>feredi raraba <strong>ni</strong> Okotova<br />
1856, a kacivaka kina o Peresitedi Brigham Young<br />
<strong>ni</strong> ra sa mai tao tu na pai<strong>ni</strong>a ena qiqidreti ena<br />
vica na drau na maile mai kea. E kaya kina vaqo:<br />
“<strong>Na</strong> nomu vakabauta, nomu lotu, kei na lotu o<br />
kacivaka tiko, ena sega <strong>ni</strong> vakabula e dua na yalo<br />
vei kemu<strong>ni</strong> ena mata<strong>ni</strong>tu selesitieli <strong>ni</strong> noda Ka-<br />
lou, vakavo kevaka o <strong>ni</strong> cakava na ivakavuvuli au<br />
sa vakavuvulitaka ya<strong>ni</strong> oqo vei kemu<strong>ni</strong>. Ni lako<br />
ya<strong>ni</strong> ka kauti ira mai na tamata era sa tu oqo ena<br />
bucabuca, ka qarava vakavinaka sara na veika<br />
eda vakatoka me ka vakayago, se itavi vakayago,<br />
de na qai tawayaga na nomu vakabauta.” 18<br />
A vola o Sisita Smith ena kena itukutuku <strong>ni</strong><br />
oti na nona veivakauqeti o Peresitedi Young, era<br />
sa maqusa na tiko e kea me vakarautaki na ka<br />
<strong>ni</strong> veivuke vei ira na tacidra kei na ganedra. Era<br />
“luvata na marama na nodra likueloma [na liku<br />
e loma lelevu ka takalevu tu ena isulusulu <strong>ni</strong><br />
gauna ko ya ka dau veivakatakatari talega], na<br />
sitoki<strong>ni</strong> kei na veika kece e rawa <strong>ni</strong> ra solia, e<br />
kea ena Valecavu, ka bi<strong>ni</strong>a ya<strong>ni</strong> ki loma <strong>ni</strong> qiqi-<br />
dreti ena ose me vakau ya<strong>ni</strong> vei ira na Yalododonu<br />
e ulu<strong>ni</strong>vanua.”<br />
Era tomana na kena sokumu<strong>ni</strong> na iyaya <strong>ni</strong><br />
moce kei na isulu me baleti ira na Yalododonu<br />
era na yaco ya<strong>ni</strong> ena veiqiqidreti lalai ka vica<br />
wale na veika era taukena. E vola kina o Sisita<br />
Simici: “Keimami cakava na veika kece keimami<br />
rawata, ena nodra veivuke na turaga kei<br />
na marama vivinaka, me ra vakacegui kina na<br />
vakaleqai tu ena nodra lako mai ena qiqidreti<br />
e liga ena mua <strong>ni</strong> vulaimago. . . . Me vaka <strong>ni</strong><br />
leqa tu vakailavo ena gauna oya na neimami<br />
isoqosoqo, e sega soti <strong>ni</strong> levu na ka e rawa <strong>ni</strong><br />
keimami cakava, ia a voleka <strong>ni</strong> ratou sega <strong>ni</strong><br />
kauta rawa na va na bisopi na iyaya keimami<br />
a kumuna ena imatai <strong>ni</strong> gauna keimami sota<br />
kina. Keimami sega <strong>ni</strong> muduka na neimami<br />
cakacaka me yacova <strong>ni</strong> ra sa vakacegui kece.” E<br />
kaya o Sisita Smith <strong>ni</strong> gauna era yacoyaco mai<br />
kina na kaba<strong>ni</strong> <strong>ni</strong> qiqidreti e liga, a vakavodoki<br />
ena dua na vale ena loma <strong>ni</strong> tau<strong>ni</strong> na “iyaya me<br />
baleti ira.” E tomana ko koya: “Au sega vakadua<br />
<strong>ni</strong> bau kunea na vakacegu levu cake kei na,<br />
e rawa <strong>ni</strong>u kaya, marau ena dua na cakacaka<br />
au cakava ena noqu bula, me basika kina na<br />
yalo au vakila tiko oqo. Meu lako ga ki na dua<br />
na sitoa ka tukuna na ka au vinakata; kevaka e<br />
isulu, ena vakarautaki ga ya<strong>ni</strong> ka sega <strong>ni</strong> saumi.<br />
[Keimami] butu ucacevata wavoki tiko me<br />
yacova <strong>ni</strong> sa dua na fute na suasua <strong>ni</strong> neimami<br />
isulu ena kena kumu<strong>ni</strong> tiko na iyaya.” 19<br />
“<strong>Na</strong> Cava e Tarava Mai me ra<br />
Cakava na Liga sa Vakarau Tu?”<br />
Era vakaraitaka na marama ena <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong><br />
<strong>Veivukei</strong> na ibalebale <strong>ni</strong> loloma cecere, na
“loloma savasava i Karisito,” 20 ena nodra solia<br />
na nodra liku e loma kei na kote tali me ra<br />
maroroi kina mai na batabata na Yalododonu<br />
waloloi tu ena viakana ka ra se bera <strong>ni</strong> sotavi<br />
ira vakadua. Era kune marau ena veiqaravi oqo.<br />
Ni ra sa cakava na veika kece sara era rawata<br />
me ra vukei ira kina na pai<strong>ni</strong>a ena qiqidreti e<br />
liga, era tomana na nodra vukei ira tale eso. E<br />
vakaraitaka na ivakarau <strong>ni</strong> yalodra na mala<strong>ni</strong>vosa<br />
nei Lucy Meserve Smith: “<strong>Na</strong> cava ena<br />
tarava mai me ra cakava na liga sa vakarau<br />
tu?” 21 <strong>Na</strong> taro oqo sa ivakaraitaki uasivi <strong>ni</strong><br />
nodra yalovinaka na marama ena <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong><br />
<strong>Veivukei</strong>—ena gauna ko ya ka vakakina oqo.<br />
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WASE 4<br />
“E Dua na<br />
iVakarau Raraba<br />
ka Rabailevu<br />
<strong>ni</strong> Veiqaravi”<br />
Kevaka e dua vei ira na goneyalewa<br />
kei na tina e Isireli era vakila <strong>ni</strong> vakaiyalayala<br />
walega na vanua era tu kina oqo, era sa na kunea<br />
oqo na madigi e veirauti kei na kaukauwa kece kei<br />
na galala <strong>ni</strong> caka vinaka era sa vakalougatataki<br />
mai kina. . . . sa wirica o Peresitedi Young<br />
na idola <strong>ni</strong> dua na vuravura rabailevu<br />
cake <strong>ni</strong> cakacaka kei na ogaoga.<br />
Eliza R. Snow
WASE 4<br />
“E Dua na iVakarau Raraba<br />
ka Rabailevu <strong>ni</strong> Veiqaravi”<br />
Ena 26 <strong>ni</strong> Tiseba, 1866, era a sota kina na<br />
Mataveiliutaki Taumada kei na Kuoramu <strong>ni</strong><br />
iApositolo Le Ti<strong>ni</strong>karua ena veiliutaki nei<br />
Peresitedi Brigham Young. Ni vakarau cava na<br />
nodra soqo<strong>ni</strong>, a vakaraitaka o Peresitedi Young,<br />
na ikarua <strong>ni</strong> Peresitedi <strong>ni</strong> Lotu na nona gagadre<br />
me tauyavutaki tale na <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong><br />
ena Lotu raraba. 1<br />
Ena yabaki ka tarava, a vakila o Peresitedi<br />
Young <strong>ni</strong> gadrevi vakalevu me ra vukei na bisopi<br />
ena nodra itavi me ra vakasaqarai ka vukei<br />
o ira era vakaleqai tu. Ena nona vakatekivuna<br />
e dua na sasaga me tauyavutaki tale kina<br />
na <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> ena veitabanalevu<br />
yadua, a wasea na ivakasala vata oqo kei ira<br />
na bisopi: “Me ra tauyavutaka na marama ena<br />
<strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Marama</strong> ena veitabanalevu.<br />
E vuqa tu na marama vakataledi ena<br />
keda maliwa, ka da gadreva na nodra veivuke<br />
ena tikina oqo. Eso beka era na nanuma <strong>ni</strong> oqo<br />
e dua na ka walega, ia e sega; o <strong>ni</strong> na kunea<br />
<strong>ni</strong> o ira sara ga na marama na itakele <strong>ni</strong> toso<br />
oqo. Solia vei ira na ivakasala yalomatua kei na<br />
kila e tu vei kemu<strong>ni</strong>, vakauqet ira, tuberi ira ka<br />
dusimaki ira ena yalomatua kei na maqosa, era<br />
na vukei ira na dravudravua ka rawata na sala<br />
me ra vukei kina ka na vakati<strong>ni</strong>taki na kena<br />
totolo mai vei Bisopi.” 2<br />
Era na baci tauyavutaki tale kina na marama<br />
ena veivakadonui <strong>ni</strong> matabete ka, me vaka a<br />
tukuna na Parofita o Josefa Simici, “era biu<br />
kina ena dua na itutu ka na rawa kina <strong>ni</strong> ra<br />
veiqaravi me vaka na yalo <strong>ni</strong> loloma sa tea tu<br />
Tarai cake <strong>ni</strong> Valetabu e Salt Lake, 1877<br />
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e yalodra na Kalou.” 3 Era na vaqaqacotaka na<br />
nodra matavuvale kei ira tale eso era vaka-<br />
leqai tu vakayago ka vakayalo talega. Mai na<br />
veiqaravi oqo, ena levu cake kina na nodra<br />
vakabauta kei na buladodonu. E vakavuvulitaka<br />
o Sisita Eliza R. Snow <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong><br />
ena “vakasavasavataki ira ka laveti ira cake na<br />
[marama], ka uasivi cake <strong>ni</strong> na vaqaqacotaka<br />
na nodra vakabauta na Kosipeli, ia <strong>ni</strong> yaco<br />
vakakina, era na vakaitavi ena nodra vakabulai<br />
na lewevuqa.” 4<br />
Dua na <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong><br />
ena Veitabanalevu<br />
A kacivi Sisita Snow o Peresitedi Young me<br />
veiqaravi ena Lotu ena nona lako ya<strong>ni</strong> ki na<br />
veiyasana kecega, ka vukei ira na bisopi me tauyavutaki<br />
na Veisoqosoqo <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>. E kaya kina<br />
o koya, “E vakaroti ira na bisopi o Peresitedi<br />
Young me tauyavutaki na <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong><br />
<strong>ni</strong> <strong>Marama</strong> ena nodra dui Tabanalevu, ka . . .<br />
tokaruataka na kerekere, ka vakatetei ya<strong>ni</strong> ena<br />
veitikotiko kecega, ka ra sureti kina na marama<br />
Eliza–R. Snow<br />
iKarua <strong>ni</strong> Peresitedi Raraba <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong><br />
“Keimami dau taleitaka me keimami vakavinavinakataki<br />
ia kevaka e sega <strong>ni</strong> yaco mai na vakavinavinaka keimami<br />
nanuma <strong>ni</strong> dodonu me yaco mai, ena dua beka na kena<br />
leqa? Keimami kila <strong>ni</strong> sa biuta tu vei keimami na Turaga na<br />
veiitavi cecere, ka sega <strong>ni</strong> dua na vakanananu se gagadre<br />
sa tea tu ki yaloi keimami na Turaga ena buladodonu me na<br />
sega <strong>ni</strong> vakavotukana, ia na vinaka cecere duadua e rawa<br />
<strong>ni</strong> da cakava vei keda oya me da vakasavasavataki keda<br />
ka vakabulabulataki keda ena veika kecega e vinaka ka<br />
vakaturaga me da rawata kina na veiitavi oqori.”<br />
Relief Society Minute Book, 1868–79, Lehi Ward, Alpine Stake,<br />
27 <strong>ni</strong> Okot, 1869, Vale<strong>ni</strong>vola <strong>ni</strong> iTukutuku <strong>ni</strong> Lotu, 27; vakavoui<br />
na icegu kei na sipeli
iMawi ki na imatau: Elizabeth Ann Whitney, Emmeline B. Wells,<br />
kei Eliza R. Snow<br />
me ra curu ki na veisoqosoqo, sega walega me baleta na<br />
nodra vukei na dravudravua, ia me baleta na kena rawati<br />
na veicakacaka vinaka ka vakaturaga kecega.” 5<br />
Me vaka <strong>ni</strong> sekeriteri <strong>ni</strong> imatai <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong><br />
<strong>ni</strong> <strong>Marama</strong> e <strong>Na</strong>uvoo mai Illinois, sa dau vola toka<br />
o Sisita Snow na itukutuku matailalali <strong>ni</strong> veisoqo<strong>ni</strong>, oka<br />
kina na ivakaro mai vei Josefa Simici (raica na wase 2).<br />
Ena ilakolako mai <strong>Na</strong>uvoo ki na Bucabuca <strong>ni</strong> Salt Lake,<br />
sa dau taqomaka vakavinaka na nona ivola <strong>ni</strong> bose. E<br />
kila o koya na kena bibi na veika sa vakavuvulitaki vei<br />
ira na marama ena veisoqo<strong>ni</strong> oya. E kila na ivakarau me<br />
cokonaki kina na isoqosoqo, ka nanuma toka na ivakavuvuli<br />
e tauyavutaki kina. E kila o koya <strong>ni</strong> isoqosoqo e<br />
“Oqo na ka eda gadreva<br />
me da teivaka ki yalodra<br />
na marama—me ra yaga<br />
ena nodra iyalava ka kua<br />
<strong>ni</strong> yalolailai ena vuku <strong>ni</strong><br />
veika dredre e basika mai,<br />
ia vakabauta na Kalou<br />
ka raici Koya, kei na<br />
nona veivakalougatataki<br />
vakasakiti, au yalataka<br />
vei iko <strong>ni</strong> na sovaraki<br />
ya<strong>ni</strong> vei iko.”<br />
Lorenzo Snow<br />
Young Woman’s Journal,<br />
Sepi. 1895, 578<br />
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Dusimaki ira na marama ena <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> o Sisita Eliza R. Snow.<br />
dua na tiki bibi <strong>ni</strong> Lotu i Jisu Karisito <strong>ni</strong> Yalodo-<br />
donu Edaidai. “E sega <strong>ni</strong> dua na ka walega,” e<br />
vakamacalataka o koya, “me da mai sota vata<br />
ena dua na isoqosoqo vakaoqo. <strong>Na</strong> isoqosoqo<br />
oqo e okati ki na isoqosoqo <strong>ni</strong> Lotu i Karisito,<br />
ena veitabagauna kecega <strong>ni</strong> sa taucoko tu.” 6 Ni<br />
lako mai na dua na tabanalevu ki na dua tale, e<br />
veivakavulici vakavica mai na itukutuku <strong>ni</strong> bose.<br />
Vakarabailevutaka<br />
Nodra Rai kei na Nodra<br />
Veivakauqeti na <strong>Marama</strong><br />
Me ikuri <strong>ni</strong> nona kerei Sisita Snow me<br />
cakacaka vata kei ira na veiliutaki <strong>ni</strong> matabete<br />
ena veitabanalevu yadua, a vakarabailevutaka<br />
o Peresitedi Young na nona lesilesi. E kaya kina<br />
o koya, “Au vinakati iko mo dusimaki ira na<br />
marama.” 7 E dina <strong>ni</strong> na sega <strong>ni</strong> vakatikori me<br />
ikarua <strong>ni</strong> peresitedi raraba <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong><br />
<strong>Veivukei</strong> me yacova na 1880, a soli vua na itavi<br />
vata ga a solia na Turaga vei Sisita Emma Smith:<br />
“mo veivakavulici ka veivakauqeti vei ira na<br />
lewe <strong>ni</strong> lotu, io me vaka sa vukei iko kina na<br />
Yalo Tabu.” 8<br />
E veivakasalataki talega o Peresitedi Young<br />
kei ira na marama ena Lotu. E cokovata na<br />
nona veivakauqeti kei na nona ivakavuvuli<br />
o Sisita Snow me vakarabailevutaki kina na<br />
nodra rai na marama me baleta na nodra
kaukauwa <strong>ni</strong> vinaka ena nodra veimatavuvale,<br />
ena Lotu, ka vakakina e vuravura. E kaya kina o<br />
Sisita Snow:<br />
“Kevaka e dua vei ira na goneyalewa kei na<br />
tina e Isireli era vakila <strong>ni</strong> vakaiyalayala walega<br />
na vanua era tu kina oqo, era sa na kunea oqo<br />
na madigi e veirauti kei na kaukauwa kece kei<br />
na galala <strong>ni</strong> caka vinaka era sa vakalougatataki<br />
mai kina. . . . sa wirica o Peresitedi Young<br />
na idola <strong>ni</strong> dua na vuravura rabailevu cake <strong>ni</strong><br />
cakacaka kei na ogaoga.” 9<br />
<strong>Na</strong> railesuvi <strong>ni</strong> so na ivakavuvuli kei na<br />
sasaga ka vakamacalataki kina na <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong><br />
<strong>Veivukei</strong> ena iwase e muri <strong>ni</strong> 1800 e vakaraitaka<br />
na ivakarau e vakalevutaka kina na raivotu kei<br />
na nodra veivakauqeti dodonu na marama na<br />
kena tauyavutaki tale na <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>.<br />
Loloma Cecere<br />
Ni dinati na ivakarau erau a tauyavutaka<br />
o Josefa kei Emma Simici, sa toma<strong>ni</strong> tiko na<br />
kena vakayavutaki ena loloma cecere na veika<br />
kecega, vakayago ka vakayalo, era cakava na<br />
marama ena <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>. E vakavuvulitaka<br />
o Peresitedi Young:<br />
“<strong>Na</strong> veika kece oqo e okati ena noda lotu.<br />
<strong>Na</strong> veicakacaka vinaka kece kei na cakacaka,<br />
na veika kece e vakayago, kei na veika kece e<br />
vakayalo, na veika mai lomalagi, kei na veika<br />
e rukui vuravura era sa baleta walega na noda<br />
lotu. . . . Kevaka eda vakayacora na veika oqo, ka<br />
taleitaka me dau caka dodonu tikoga, ena [vakadeitaki]<br />
na yavada ka sega <strong>ni</strong> yavalati rawa me<br />
vaka na ruku <strong>ni</strong> veidelana tawamudu oqo. Me<br />
da kakua <strong>ni</strong> gadreva e dua na ka [vakavo] ga ena<br />
ivakavuvuli dodonu, ia kevaka eda vinakata dina,<br />
me da qai veivosakitaka kei ira na ta<strong>ni</strong>, ena noda<br />
yalovinaka kei na noda sinai ena loloma kei na<br />
loloma cecere ena vukudra kecega.” 10<br />
Vukita<strong>ni</strong> mai na Veivakauqeti <strong>ni</strong> Vuravura<br />
E dau vakavuvulitaki iratou na luvena yalewa<br />
mai nodratou vale o Peresitedi Brigham Young<br />
me ratou “biuta laivi na veika kecega e ca ka<br />
sega na betena, ka vakavinakataka cake na<br />
veika kecega e vinaka ka totoka.” 11 Me biu laivi<br />
e kena ibalebale me vakawabokotaki e dua na<br />
ka. Ni vakasalataki iratou na luvena yalewa o<br />
Peresitedi Young me ratou kauta laivi, e tukuna<br />
tiko o koya me ratou vuki ta<strong>ni</strong> mai na itovo<br />
vakavuravura, tawayaga, ka tawakilikili kei na<br />
isulusulu. E vunautaka raraba talega o koya ki<br />
na Lotu me da biuta laivi ka veisau.<br />
Ni vakasalataki ira na Yalododonu me ra biuta<br />
laivi na sala <strong>ni</strong> vuravura, e vakawasoma <strong>ni</strong> dau<br />
vakayagataka o Peresitedi Young na ivakaraitaki<br />
mai na noda bula e veisiga. E veivakayaloqaqataki<br />
ena bula ma<strong>ni</strong><strong>ni</strong> kei na cakacaka vakaukauwa.<br />
E dua na kena ivakaraitaki, e vakasalataki<br />
ira na marama o koya me ra veisautaka na ivakarau<br />
<strong>ni</strong> nodra kana kei na nodra qaravi vale. Ia<br />
na biuta laivi e levu cake na kena ibalebale mai<br />
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na noda vakarawarawataka cake ga na noda<br />
ivakarau <strong>ni</strong> bula; e kena ibalebale na veisau <strong>ni</strong><br />
yalo. Me ra vakatikitikitaki ira na marama mai<br />
na vo <strong>ni</strong> vuravura—me yaco vakaidina me ra<br />
Yalododonu, na nona tamata na Turaga. E kaya<br />
o Sisita Eliza R. Snow: “<strong>Na</strong> cava soti au vinakata<br />
meu biuta laivi? <strong>Na</strong> noqu lecaika kei na veika<br />
kece e sega <strong>ni</strong> vu mai vua na Kalou.” 12<br />
iVakatakila Yadua<br />
E muria o Sisita Snow na nodra ivakasala<br />
na veiliutaki <strong>ni</strong> matabete, ka yalataka vei ira<br />
na tacina ena <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> <strong>ni</strong> ra na<br />
Ni ra masumasu yadua ka vakakina kei na nodra matavuvale<br />
na marama ena <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>, e rawa <strong>ni</strong><br />
ra tuberi ena veivakauqeti.<br />
vakalougatataki ke ra vakayacora vakakina. E<br />
vakavuvulitaka talega o koya <strong>ni</strong> rawa <strong>ni</strong> ra na<br />
vakauqeti na marama yadua me tuberi ira ena<br />
nodra dui bula, nodra matavuvale, kei na nodra<br />
itavi ena Lotu. E kaya kina: “Tukuna vei ira na<br />
marama me ra lako ya<strong>ni</strong> ka qarava na nodra<br />
itavi ena yalomalumalumu kei na yalodina ka<br />
na tiko vata kei ira na Yalo <strong>ni</strong> Kalou ka ra na vakalougatataki<br />
ena nodra cakacaka. Me ra segata<br />
na vuku ka sega na kaukauwa ka ra na rawata<br />
na kaukauwa kece e tu vei ira kei na vuku me<br />
ra vakayagataka.” 13<br />
<strong>Na</strong> nona veidusimaki vakauqeti a vukei ira na<br />
marama ena <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> me ra sotava<br />
na nodra veivakatovolei <strong>ni</strong> nodra gauna. E vakavuvulitaka<br />
o koya kevaka era dau vakasaqara<br />
tikoga na veituberi kei na vakacegu mai na Yalo<br />
Tabu, era na sotava na sautu ena loma sara mada<br />
ga <strong>ni</strong> nodra vakatovolei. E kaya o koya <strong>ni</strong> Yalo<br />
Tabu ena “vakamamautaka ka vakasinaita na<br />
gagadre kecega <strong>ni</strong> yalo <strong>ni</strong> tamata, ka vakatawana<br />
na veivanua kecega e lala tu. Niu vakasinaiti tu<br />
ena Yalo oya,” e tomana, “e vakacegu na yaloqu,<br />
ka rawa <strong>ni</strong>u kaya ena yalo <strong>ni</strong> kusa vinaka, <strong>ni</strong> ra<br />
na sega sara <strong>ni</strong> vakalatilati e mataqu na veika<br />
sega na betena <strong>ni</strong> gauna oqo. Ia meu laiva mada<br />
vakalailai na yalo kei na kaukauwa <strong>ni</strong> Kosipeli,<br />
ka vakaivotavota ena yalo <strong>ni</strong> vuravura, ena kena<br />
ivakarau lailai duadua, ena yaco na leqa, e dua<br />
na ka sa cala. Au sa vakatovolei, ia na cava ena<br />
vakacegui au? E sega <strong>ni</strong> rawa <strong>ni</strong> o solia vei au na
vakacegu ena vakamamautaka na vakasama tawamate<br />
rawa, ia na kena ga e lako mai na Mata<strong>ni</strong>wai mai cake. Ka<br />
sega beka <strong>ni</strong> noda galala me da bula me rawa kina <strong>ni</strong> na<br />
drodro tikoga mai ki yaloda?” 14<br />
Taqomaka na iValavala <strong>ni</strong> Vakamau Vakalevu<br />
Ena veisiga taumada <strong>ni</strong> Lotu, a vakatakilai vei Josefa<br />
Simici na vakamau vakalevu. 15 E dina <strong>ni</strong> a dredre tau-<br />
mada vei ira e vuqa me ra ciqoma, ia o ira na Yalododonu<br />
yalodina era kila <strong>ni</strong> o Josefa Simici na parofita <strong>ni</strong> Kalou.<br />
Era muria na loma <strong>ni</strong> Turaga me vaka e vakatakilai vua na<br />
nona parofita. Era veiyalayalati kei na Kalou ka ra qaqa<br />
ka yalodina ena kena rokovi tiko na veiyalayalati oqori.<br />
Ni tauyavutaki tale na <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> ena mua<br />
<strong>ni</strong> 1860 vakacaca, se tiki tiko ga <strong>ni</strong> nodra bula na lewe<br />
<strong>ni</strong> Lotu na vakawati vakalevu. Ia, e vuqa na tamata mai<br />
Amerika era vakabauta <strong>ni</strong> o ira na marama era bulataka<br />
tiko na lawa <strong>ni</strong> vakawati vakalevu era sa vakalolovirataki<br />
ka vakalolomataki. A qai yaco ena duidui <strong>ni</strong> vakasama<br />
oqo ena vukudra na Yalododonu Edaidai kei na nodra<br />
vakabauta, me virikotori na lawa mai na mata<strong>ni</strong>tu levu<br />
me sa vakatabui na vakamau vakalevu.<br />
Era a soqo<strong>ni</strong> vata kina e dua na ilawalawa marama Yalododonu<br />
Edaidai ena Siti o Salt Lake ena Janueri 1870<br />
me baleta na lawa oqo. Ena kedra maliwa na dau<strong>ni</strong>tukutuku<br />
mai na vei<strong>ni</strong>usipepa e Amerika raraba, era vakaraitaka<br />
na marama oqo na nodra toko<strong>ni</strong> ira na parofita bula<br />
kei na ivalavala eso ena Lotu. Era taqomaki ira kei ira na<br />
watidra ka ra tutaka na nodra vakabauta kei na nodra<br />
veiyalayalati. E kaya kina o Sisita Eliza R. Snow: “A kena<br />
gauna oya[me] keimami duri cake ena dokai <strong>ni</strong> neimami<br />
“Vakasaqara na iVola<strong>ni</strong>kalou—vakasaqara<br />
na<br />
ivakatakila eda dau<br />
tabaka, ka kerea na<br />
Tamamu mai Lomalagi,<br />
ena yaca <strong>ni</strong> Luvena ko<br />
Jisu Karisito, me vakaraitaka<br />
vei iko na dina, ia<br />
kevaka o cakava vakakina<br />
ka vakatabakidua na<br />
nomu rai me vakalagilagi<br />
kina ko Koya, sega<br />
na lomalomarua, ena<br />
sauma vei iko ko Koya<br />
ena kaukauwa <strong>ni</strong> Nona<br />
Yalo Tabu. O <strong>ni</strong> na kila<br />
ena vukumu<strong>ni</strong> ka sega<br />
ena vukuna e dua tale.<br />
O <strong>ni</strong> sa na sega kina <strong>ni</strong><br />
vakararavi tale vua e<br />
dua me baleta na Nona<br />
kilai na Kalou.”<br />
Josefa Simici<br />
iTukutuku <strong>ni</strong> Lotu, 1: 282<br />
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ilesilesi ka vosa me baleti keimami. . . . E sega<br />
<strong>ni</strong> kilai keimami na vuravura, ia na dina kei<br />
na dodonu ena vukudra na ganei keimami kei<br />
keimami sa dodonu kina me keimami vosa. . . .<br />
Keimami sega <strong>ni</strong> uasivi cake mai vei ira na marama<br />
<strong>ni</strong> vuravura, ka keimami sega <strong>ni</strong> vinakata<br />
talega me vakakina na keimami irairai.” 16<br />
E dua na marama Yalododonu Edaidai a<br />
vakaraitaka na nodra nanuma e vuqa tale ena<br />
nona kaya: “E sega <strong>ni</strong> dua tale na vanua ena<br />
vuravura rabailevu oqo era sobuti kina vakalevu<br />
cake na marama ena yalovinaka kei na<br />
Dua nodra soqo<strong>ni</strong> na tina kei na luvedra yalewa <strong>ni</strong> Yalododonu Edaidai, 1893<br />
veikauwaitaki, ka taqomaki vakamatau sara na<br />
nodra dodonu me vakataki Utah. Keimami tu<br />
oqo me vakaraitaka na neimami veiloma<strong>ni</strong>, ka<br />
vakaraitaka ki vuravura na neimami yalodina<br />
vua na Kalou na Tamai Keimami mai Lomalagi,<br />
ka vakaraitaka na neimami lomasoli me<br />
keimami muria na veika e lavaki ena Kosipeli,<br />
ka dua na ka e gadrevi kina na lawa <strong>ni</strong> Vakamau<br />
Vakaselesitieli ka keimami sa yalataka me<br />
keimami rokova, vakavuvulitaka, ka bulataka,<br />
me na solia vei keimami na Kalou na kena kaukauwa<br />
me keimami vakayacora vakakina.” 17
Era kaya na dau<strong>ni</strong>tukutuku <strong>ni</strong> vei<strong>ni</strong>usipepa <strong>ni</strong><br />
oqo e dua na “soqo<strong>ni</strong> vakasakiti.” 18 E vola vaqo<br />
e dua na dau<strong>ni</strong>tukutuku, “Ena vakasama se ena<br />
vosa ka dau tuku<strong>ni</strong> kina <strong>ni</strong> ra marama lolovira<br />
na marama <strong>ni</strong> Moma<strong>ni</strong>; era tautauvata vinaka<br />
sara . . . kei ira na marama mai <strong>Na</strong>tuicake.” 19<br />
Ena vica na vula ka tarava, era a vakaitavi e<br />
vuqa sara na marama ena veisoqo<strong>ni</strong> vakakoya<br />
ena yasayasa taucoko ko ya.<br />
Ena 1890, a ciqoma kina o Peresitedi Wilford<br />
Woodruff, na ikava <strong>ni</strong> Peresitedi <strong>ni</strong> Lotu e dua<br />
na ivakatakila ka vakavuna na kena muduki<br />
na vakamau vakalevu ena Lotu. A vola kina na<br />
ivakatakila oqo ena dua na itukutuku ka vakatokai<br />
na Ma<strong>ni</strong>festo. Me baleta na kena volai<br />
na Ma<strong>ni</strong>festo, e kaya kina: “Sa vakaroti au na<br />
Kalou <strong>ni</strong> lomalagi meu vakayacora na ka au sa<br />
vakayacora; ia <strong>ni</strong> yaco mai na auwa au vakaroti<br />
kina meu vakayacora na veika oqo, a matata<br />
vinaka vei au. Au lako vua na Turaga, kau vola<br />
na veika e tukuna vei au na Turaga meu vola.” 20<br />
Me vaka <strong>ni</strong> ra sa ciqoma na tamata na ivakasala<br />
vakaparofita me ra vakamau vakalevu<br />
ka ra sa cakava ka rokova na kena veiyalayalati,<br />
sa yaco me dredre tale vei ira e lewe vuqa na<br />
ivakatakila vou oqo, ia o ira na Yalododonu<br />
Edaidai yalodina era sa baci vakatulewa tale me<br />
ra muria na parofita. Ena siga era rogoca kina<br />
na lewe <strong>ni</strong> Lotu raraba na ivakaro ka vakadonuya,<br />
a kaya vaqo o Sisita Zina D. H. Young, ka<br />
a veiqaravi tiko vakaikatolu <strong>ni</strong> peresitedi raraba<br />
“Dou tugana ki lomamudou na vosa i Karisito”<br />
(2 Nifai 32:3).<br />
<strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> ena gauna ko ya, “Ni-<br />
kua a vakatovolei kina na yalodra kecega ia era<br />
rai vua na Kalou ka vakadonuya.” 21<br />
O ira na marama ena Lotu era a ciqoma na<br />
vakamau vakalevu ena ivakatakila, ia e muri era<br />
qai ciqoma tale na iVakaro ena ivakatakila sa<br />
dodonu me ra vakacaucautaki ka vakavinavinakataki.<br />
Era a talairawarawa vakavinaka sara ki<br />
na nodra veiyalayalati kei na nona ivakasala na<br />
parofita bula. Nikua era sa vakarokorokotaki tu<br />
na marama mai vei ira na nodra kawa yalodina.<br />
O Helen Mar Whitney, ka a bulataka na lawa<br />
<strong>ni</strong> vakamau vakalevu, a vola vakaoqo, “Eda<br />
na wilika beka na kedra itukutuku o ira era a<br />
vakamatei ena nodra vakabauta kei ira na dau<br />
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rawavanua qaqa, kei ira e vuqa na tagane kei na<br />
yalewa vinaka, ia na kena e baleti ira na marama<br />
vakaturaga kei na luvedra yalewa matavinaka<br />
e Saio<strong>ni</strong>, ka a rawa vei ira ena nodra vakabauta<br />
na nona yalayala na Kalou <strong>ni</strong> Isireli me ra<br />
vakadruka kina na nodra gagadre vakataki ira<br />
ka talairawarawa ki na Nona lawa cecere cake,<br />
ka vukei ira na Nona italai me tauyavutaka e<br />
vuravura, . . . Au vakabauta <strong>ni</strong> ra maroroya tu<br />
na agilosi e dua na itukutuku <strong>ni</strong> nodra cakacaka<br />
ka na qai laurai ena ivolatukutuku <strong>ni</strong> veigauna<br />
tawamudu, ka volai ena mata<strong>ni</strong>vola koula.” 22<br />
Vakamatatatataki <strong>ni</strong> Vakabauta<br />
O Sisita Eliza R. Snow e dua na kenadau ena<br />
volaivola kei na vosa e matanalevu. E vuqa era<br />
kilai koya me “yalewa dauserekali kei Saio<strong>ni</strong>”<br />
ena vuku <strong>ni</strong> nona maqosa ena vosa Vakavalagi. 23<br />
E kila ka, matau, yalodina, sega <strong>ni</strong> dau guce, sega<br />
<strong>ni</strong> yavalati vakarawarawa, yalomatua, ka maqosa,<br />
ka dau muria na veivakauqeti <strong>ni</strong> Yalotabu <strong>ni</strong><br />
veivuke tiko ena kena tarai cake na mata<strong>ni</strong>tu <strong>ni</strong><br />
Turaga. E dau wasea ena veigauna eso na nona<br />
kila ka kei na nona ivakadinadina, ka vakaya-<br />
loqaqataki ira na marama Yalododonu Edaidai<br />
me ra dau vakayacora vakakina ena soqo<strong>ni</strong> <strong>ni</strong><br />
<strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>—ka sega <strong>ni</strong> dau vakararavi<br />
vei ira na ta<strong>ni</strong> me ra dau vakavulici ira tikoga.<br />
Eso na marama era dau lomalomarua ka<br />
sega <strong>ni</strong> vakarau me ra vosa e matanalevu. E veivakasalataki<br />
kina vaqo o Sisita Snow vei ira na<br />
marama oqori: “Kakua <strong>ni</strong> laiva me tukuna na<br />
ka kecega na nomu peresitedi. . . . E sega beka<br />
<strong>ni</strong> sa vakalougatataki iko na Kalou ena isolisoli<br />
Brigham Young<br />
iKarua <strong>ni</strong> Peresitedi <strong>ni</strong> Lotu<br />
“Sa cecere sara na vinaka era cakava na marama ena<br />
<strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Marama</strong>. E rawa beka <strong>ni</strong> o<br />
tukuna na levu <strong>ni</strong> vinaka e rawa <strong>ni</strong> ra cakava na tina<br />
kei na luvedra yalewa e Isireli? Sega, ena sega sara ga<br />
<strong>ni</strong> rawa. Ia na vinaka era na cakava ena muri ira ya<strong>ni</strong><br />
ki na veigauna tawamudu.”<br />
Deseret News Weekly, 16 <strong>ni</strong> June, 1869, 228
<strong>ni</strong> vosa? . . . Kevaka o sa vakalougatataki tu ena<br />
Yalo <strong>ni</strong> Kalou, veitalia na rawarawa <strong>ni</strong> nomu<br />
vakasama, ena veivakatataki cake vei ira era<br />
rogoci iko.” 24<br />
E kaya o Emily S. Richards <strong>ni</strong> a vukei koya o<br />
Sisita Snow ena vosa e matanalevu: “na imatai<br />
<strong>ni</strong> gauna e kerei au kina meu vosa ena dua na<br />
soqo<strong>ni</strong>, a sega <strong>ni</strong> rawa, qai kaya o koya, ‘Veitalia,<br />
ia <strong>ni</strong> o kerei tale ena dua na gauna mo vosa, tovolea<br />
me dua na ka mo tukuna,’ a vakakina.” 25<br />
Qai tomana tiko o Sisita Richards na nona<br />
maqosa <strong>ni</strong> vosa e matanalevu, ena 1889 a vosa<br />
o koya ena soqo<strong>ni</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Na</strong>tional Woman Suffrage<br />
Association mai Washington, D. C.<br />
A vakamacalataki Sisita Richards e dua na<br />
dau<strong>ni</strong>tukutuku <strong>ni</strong> “sauta<strong>ni</strong><strong>ni</strong><strong>ni</strong> vakalailai e matadra<br />
na lewelevu, ia a vakamalua, tauri koya<br />
vinaka, ka rokovi, ka savasava ka talei me vaka<br />
e dua na agilosi. . . . E sega <strong>ni</strong> vosa walega ia<br />
na yalo malumu ka sala vata mai kei na vosa ka<br />
kauta ya<strong>ni</strong> na loloma qaqa ki na yalo kecega.” 26<br />
Nikua o ira na marama ena <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong><br />
<strong>Veivukei</strong> era sa muria tiko na ivakarau era sa mai<br />
vakadavora koto o Sisita Snow, Sisita Richards,<br />
kei ira tale eso na lewe taumada <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong><br />
<strong>Veivukei</strong>. Era vakasaqara vagumatua na kila ka<br />
vakosipeli ka ra qai wasea na kila ka oqori vata<br />
kei ira tale eso. Ena nodra vakayacora oqori era<br />
sa muria tiko kina na nodra ivakasala na parofita<br />
<strong>ni</strong> gauna oqo. E kaya kina o Peresitedi Spencer W.<br />
Kimball, na ikati<strong>ni</strong>karua <strong>ni</strong> Peresitedi <strong>ni</strong> Lotu:<br />
“Au vakabibitaka kina . . . na nodra gadreva<br />
na marama yadua me ra vulica na ivola<strong>ni</strong>kalou.<br />
Eda vinakata na noda veivale me vakalougata-<br />
taki tu mai vei ira na marama dau<strong>ni</strong>vola<strong>ni</strong>ka-<br />
lou—se o vakawati se sega, gone se qase, dawai<br />
se tiko ena dua na matavuvale.<br />
Se cava ga na kemu ituvaki, <strong>ni</strong> ko sa kila<br />
Spencer W. Kimball<br />
Yaco<br />
Mo Bula<br />
Rawati Iko<br />
Vulica mo dau taleitaka na cakacaka ka<br />
levea na vakawelewele.<br />
Mo rawata na yalo <strong>ni</strong> bula rawati iko.<br />
Ciqoma me nomu itavi vakataki iko na<br />
igu vakayalo.<br />
Ciqoma me nomu itavi vakataki iko na<br />
veika <strong>ni</strong> tiko bulabula, na vuli, na cakacaka,<br />
ilavo, kakana kei na veika gadrevi<br />
eso me baleta na bula.<br />
Masuta na vakabauta kei na yaloqaqa me<br />
sotavi kina na bolebole e dau yaco mai.<br />
Vaqaqacotaki ira era gadreva tu na<br />
veivuke.<br />
vakavinaka cake tikoga na<br />
veika dina <strong>ni</strong> ivola<strong>ni</strong>kalou,<br />
ena yaco me na mana vei iko<br />
na ikarua <strong>ni</strong> vunau cecere, mo<br />
lomana na wekamu me<br />
vakataki iko. Mo kenadau ena<br />
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ivola<strong>ni</strong>kalou— ka mo kakua <strong>ni</strong> beca kina e dua,<br />
ia mo laveti ira cake kina! Sa dina sara, o cei e<br />
gadreva cake vakalevu me ‘vakaiyau’ ena dina<br />
<strong>ni</strong> kosipeli (<strong>ni</strong> ra na gadreva ena gauna dredre)<br />
mai vei ira na marama kei na tina era maqusa<br />
ena veisusu kei na veivakavulici?”<br />
E vakadinadinataka o Peresitedi Kimball <strong>ni</strong> ra<br />
na yaco na marama ena <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong><br />
me ra dau veivakauqeti ena veika vinaka vei<br />
ira na “marama vinaka e vuravura” ena nodra<br />
“vakaraitaka na buladodonu kei na maqosa ena<br />
nodra bula.” 27<br />
Era caka silika tiko na marama ena <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>, rauta na 1890<br />
O Sisita Snow, Peresitedi Kimball, kei ira<br />
tale e vuqa na iliuliu <strong>ni</strong> Lotu era sa wasea<br />
na vakasama me baleta na veivakauqeti <strong>ni</strong><br />
<strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> ena veika vinaka. Ni ra<br />
vakamatatataka na marama na nodra vakabauta<br />
ena vosa kei na ivalavala, ena rawa <strong>ni</strong><br />
ra veivaqaqacotaki vakataki ira ena nodra<br />
vakabauta na Tamada Vakalomalagi kei Jisu<br />
Karisito. E rawa <strong>ni</strong> ra veivukevukei me ra<br />
rawata na veivakalougatataki kece sa vakarautaki<br />
tu ena nona ituvatuva <strong>ni</strong> marau na<br />
Tamada Vakalomalagi.
Bula Rawati Koya Vakayago<br />
Era soqo<strong>ni</strong> ya<strong>ni</strong> na Yalododonu Edaidai ena Bucabuca<br />
<strong>ni</strong> Salt Lake <strong>ni</strong> oti na nodra vakacaca<strong>ni</strong> kei na nodra<br />
vakasaurarataki vakavica vata mai na nodra veivale kei<br />
na veitikotiko. Ia oqo <strong>ni</strong> ra sa biuvanua vakayawa sara<br />
ki na dua na vanua dravuisiga, sa vinakata o Peresitedi<br />
Brigham Young me ra seraka mai ena nodra tauyavutaka<br />
na nodra veivale tudei. E vinakata me ra taqomaki mai<br />
na veivakacaca<strong>ni</strong> vakayago, ka vinakata talega me ra taqomaki<br />
ira vinaka mai na veivakauqeti <strong>ni</strong> vuravura ka na<br />
rawa <strong>ni</strong> vakamavoataka na nodra vakabauta kei na nodra<br />
ivakadinadina. E vinakata o koya me ra tu vakataki ira<br />
mai na veivakauqeti vakavuravura, vakayago ka vakayalo.<br />
<strong>Na</strong> kena ibalebale oqo <strong>ni</strong> ra gadreva na Yalododonu<br />
me ra vulica na maqosa eso ka na rawa kina vei ira me<br />
ra sotava na nodra gagadre kece sara. Ena sasaga oqori,<br />
sa tu kina na nona veivakabauti o Peresitedi Young ena<br />
nodra rawa ka, taledi, yalodina, kei na nodra lomasoli<br />
na marama. Sa vakananuma tiko kina vei ira na marama<br />
ena <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> me ra qarava vinaka na<br />
nodra itavi mai vale vei ira na watidra kei na luvedra. 28<br />
E vakavuvulitaka talega o koya na itavi tale eso <strong>ni</strong> bula<br />
rawati koya vakayago, ka tuku<strong>ni</strong> toka e ra eso vei ira. E<br />
dina <strong>ni</strong> sa duidui e vuqa na itavi vakayago <strong>ni</strong>kua, e dei<br />
toka ga na ivakavuvuli me baleta na veiitavi oqori: Era<br />
sa vakasalataki na Yalododonu Edaidai me ra cakava na<br />
veika kece sara era rawata me rawa kina na veika <strong>ni</strong> bula<br />
vakayago me baleti ira kei na nodra matavuvale.<br />
Culacula. E vakasalataki ira na marama o Peresitedi<br />
Young me ra cula na nodra isulu kei na isulu <strong>ni</strong> nodra<br />
matavuvale. E kaya, “Au kaya vei ira na ganequ me ra<br />
“Ena kaukauwa <strong>ni</strong> Kalou<br />
bula e rawa kina, ka da<br />
na bula vakataki keda ka<br />
da na yaco kina me da ka<br />
bula tu vakataki keda<br />
duadua ena ruku <strong>ni</strong><br />
vuravura vakaselesitieli.”<br />
Harold B. Lee<br />
Church News, 12 <strong>ni</strong> Fepe,<br />
1944, 8<br />
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E dua na olo <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>, ena itabavale e<br />
cake <strong>ni</strong> dua na sitoa <strong>ni</strong> kakana ena Siti o Salt Lake e<br />
Utah, 1892<br />
. . . cakava na kena mataqali e vinaka vei ira, ka<br />
cakava na nomu isulu mo marautaka ka me<br />
kua <strong>ni</strong> yaco kina e dua na nanuma mai tuba.” 29<br />
E tukuna o Sisita Eliza R. Snow <strong>ni</strong> vakayalo-<br />
qaqataki ira na marama me ra cakava na kena<br />
“mataqali ka na yaco me—ga<strong>ni</strong>ti ira na marama<br />
yalomatua, savasava ka vuku era tu, me vaka <strong>ni</strong><br />
da tu dina kina, ena ului vuravura.” 30<br />
Silika. A tauyavutaka o Peresitedi Young na<br />
<strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> Silika <strong>ni</strong> Desereti (Deseret Silk<br />
Association), vata kei Zina D. H. Young me<br />
kena peresitedi. Era susuga na ilawalawa oqo<br />
na manumanu <strong>ni</strong> silika, ka vaka<strong>ni</strong>a ena drau <strong>ni</strong><br />
mulomulo. Dau vakasisilataka o Sisita Young na<br />
manumanu oya ka dau moce kina vakaca ena<br />
bogi, ia a talairawarawa ena nona vakaluve<strong>ni</strong>taki<br />
ira ka susugi ira ena kena vale ka vakavulici<br />
ira na kena vo me ra cakava vakakina. Ena<br />
nona veidusimaki, era a susu manumanu tiko<br />
kina <strong>ni</strong> silika na <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> Silika <strong>ni</strong> Desereti<br />
(Deseret Silk Association) me sivia <strong>ni</strong> 20 na<br />
yabaki. E dina <strong>ni</strong> sega <strong>ni</strong> rawa ilavo na nodra<br />
cakacaka, a rawa <strong>ni</strong> ra cakava eso na nodra<br />
silika vinaka sara.<br />
Witi. A vakasalataki ira na marama o Peresitedi<br />
Young me ra, “Vulica mo <strong>ni</strong> bula vakataki<br />
kemu<strong>ni</strong>; maroroya na kakana sore<strong>ni</strong>kau kei<br />
na falawa, ka maroroya tu me baleta na gauna<br />
<strong>ni</strong> sega.” 31 A lesi o Emmeline B. Wells, ka qai<br />
yaco e muri me ikalima <strong>ni</strong> peresitedi raraba <strong>ni</strong><br />
<strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>, me cicivaka na komiti <strong>ni</strong><br />
witi ena iwasewase e loma.<br />
Ena sasaga oqo, era a vakauqeti na marama<br />
ena nodra gagadre vakatina me ra taqomaka<br />
na nodra matavuvale mai na viakana. E kaya o<br />
Sisita Wells: “O cei tale beka ena vakila vakatitobu<br />
cake na veika oqo me vaka e dua na tina?<br />
Vakasamataka mada se na vakaevei mo rogoca<br />
na nomu ka lailai <strong>ni</strong> tagica na madrai.” 32<br />
Era dau sota ena veigauna eso na peresitedi<br />
<strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> <strong>ni</strong> tabanalevu me ra<br />
veitalanoataka na sala eso me rawa ka maroroi<br />
kina na kakana sore<strong>ni</strong>kau. <strong>Na</strong> ivakaraitaki <strong>ni</strong>
nona lomasoli o Sarah Howard, e dua na pe-<br />
resitedi <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> <strong>ni</strong> tabanalevu<br />
ena Siti o Salt Lake, sa vakaraitaka na ivakarau<br />
<strong>ni</strong> yalodra e vuqa na marama ena gauna oya.<br />
E kaya kina o koya: “Au nanuma <strong>ni</strong> oqo e dua<br />
na gauna e solia mai vei keda na Turaga, ka<br />
da na tovolea me da duavata kina. Ena noqu<br />
yasana au na tovolea meu cakava na veika kece<br />
sara au rawata, kau vakabauta <strong>ni</strong> na dolava<br />
na Turaga e dua na sala me da rawata kina na<br />
kakana sore<strong>ni</strong>kau, e dina ga <strong>ni</strong> sa viavia oti toka<br />
na kena gauna.” 33 Sa toka rawa ena vakasama<br />
nei Sarah M. Kimball, ka a veiqaravi talega<br />
O ira na taurivola <strong>ni</strong> nasi ena Vale<strong>ni</strong>bula <strong>ni</strong> YDE, kalasi<br />
<strong>ni</strong> 1911<br />
vakaperesitedi <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> <strong>ni</strong> dua<br />
na tabanalevu, e dua na ituvatuva <strong>ni</strong> mama-<br />
roroi ena nona gole mai ki na dua na soqo<strong>ni</strong>.<br />
Ena imatai <strong>ni</strong> yabaki <strong>ni</strong> sasaga oya, era a tara<br />
na <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> <strong>ni</strong> nona tabanalevu e<br />
dua na vanua <strong>ni</strong> maroroi kakana sore<strong>ni</strong>kau ka<br />
sega <strong>ni</strong> rawa <strong>ni</strong> kama, ka rawa <strong>ni</strong> maroroi kina<br />
e 1,000 na ivakarau witi.<br />
A veivakayaloqaqataki o Peresitedi John Taylor<br />
ena Kuoramu <strong>ni</strong> iApositolo Le Ti<strong>ni</strong>karua vei ira<br />
na tagane mai Kaysville e Utah, me ra veivuke<br />
vei ira na marama ena sasaga oqo. E tukuna me<br />
baleta e dua na marama ka nanuma <strong>ni</strong> sa rui<br />
dau “vakasabusabu ka sega <strong>ni</strong> qaqarau<strong>ni</strong>” na<br />
watina ena vuku <strong>ni</strong> nodratou ilavo vakamatavu-<br />
vale. Ena veimacawa e dau ciqimaka e dua na<br />
iwase <strong>ni</strong> nodratou ilavovakarau vakamatavuvale<br />
ena loma <strong>ni</strong> iVolatabu. “Ena vica na yabaki ki<br />
muri a yaco mai na leqa <strong>ni</strong> bula vakailavo, sa<br />
lomaleqa kina o vu<strong>ni</strong>turaga. A raica votu o<br />
vu<strong>ni</strong>marama na veisau ena irairai kei watina qai<br />
kerei koya me tukuna na vu <strong>ni</strong> nona lomaleqa.<br />
E kaya <strong>ni</strong> sa roro mai na gauna me saumi kina<br />
e dua na bili, ka sa leqataka tiko <strong>ni</strong> na sega <strong>ni</strong><br />
rawa <strong>ni</strong> sauma. A tovolea me vakayaloqaqataki<br />
koya ena nona tukuna vua me vakabauta na<br />
Kalou, ka dusia vua na iVola talei makawa, ka<br />
tukuna vua me wilika, me rawa <strong>ni</strong> kunea kina<br />
na vakacegu. A solia vua na iVolatabu, <strong>ni</strong> sa te-<br />
kivu me cega na veidrauna sa tekivu me lulutu<br />
mai na [ilavo].” A qai ti<strong>ni</strong>a o Peresitedi Taylor ka<br />
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vaka, “Ena yaco mai na gauna eda na gadreva<br />
kina na witi era maroroya tiko na noda marama<br />
oqo; me da kakua <strong>ni</strong> yalodei sara ena vuku <strong>ni</strong><br />
keda ituvaki, ka cakava na veika eda rawata me<br />
da veivuke kina vei ira.” 34<br />
E tukuna o Sisita Emmeline B. Wells vei ira<br />
na marama <strong>ni</strong> nodra gugumatua ena sasaga<br />
oqo ena yaco me “vakabulai ira vakayago na<br />
tamata oqo ena gauna <strong>ni</strong> leqa vakasauri.” 35 A<br />
yaco oqo ena 1898 kei na 1899, ena kena a vei-<br />
tauri tu na nodra witi na <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong><br />
ena dua na dausiga ca sara ena ceva kei Utah.<br />
<strong>Na</strong> nodra gumatua na marama me maroroi<br />
na witi a rawa kina vei ira na marama Yalodo-<br />
donu Edaidai me ra veiqaravi vei ira na tamata<br />
ena taudaku <strong>ni</strong> nodra veimatavuvale kei ira na<br />
nodra itoka<strong>ni</strong> Yalododonu. E vakauta na Lotu<br />
na nodra witi na <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> vei ira<br />
na Idia <strong>ni</strong> Amerika e Utah; vei ira na bula mai<br />
na dua na uneune vakarerevaki kei na kama<br />
mai San Francisco e Califor<strong>ni</strong>a, ena 1906; kei ira<br />
na tamata mai Jaina era a vakaleqai tu ena dua<br />
na lauqa ena 1907. 36 Era a vaka<strong>ni</strong> talega e udolu<br />
ena iMatai <strong>ni</strong> iValu Levu mai na witi, ena nodra<br />
Zina D. H. Young<br />
iKatolu <strong>ni</strong> Peresitedi Raraba <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong><br />
“Au reki <strong>ni</strong>u laiva na noqu ivakadinadina vei ira na luvei<br />
Saio<strong>ni</strong> yalewa, me vaqaqacotaki na nodra vakabauta, me<br />
rawa <strong>ni</strong> toso tiko ga na cakacaka vinaka. Vakasaqara e dua<br />
na ivakadinadina, me vaka na nomu<strong>ni</strong> vakasaqara e dua<br />
na daima<strong>ni</strong> ka vu<strong>ni</strong>taki tu. Kevaka e dua e tukuna vei iko<br />
kevaka o na kelikeli tikoga ena dua na vanua o na kunea<br />
e dua na daima<strong>ni</strong> ka na sega <strong>ni</strong> kilai rawa na kena isau, o<br />
nanuma beka <strong>ni</strong> o na maumautaka na gauna se na igu, se<br />
na veika e vakayagataki me rawa mai kina na iyautalei oya?<br />
. . . Kevaka o na kelia ena boto <strong>ni</strong> yalomu o na kunea kina,<br />
ena veivuke <strong>ni</strong> Yalo <strong>ni</strong> Turaga, na mata<strong>ni</strong>civa isau levu, na<br />
ivakadinadina me baleta na dina <strong>ni</strong> cakacaka oqo.”<br />
Young Woman’s Journal, Epe. 1893, 319
volitaka na <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> e 200,000 na<br />
ivakarau witi ki na mata<strong>ni</strong>tu o Amerika. 37 <strong>Na</strong><br />
isolisoli oqo <strong>ni</strong> mamaroroi kei na veiqaravi a<br />
veivuke ena kena tauyavu e dua na ivakarau<br />
me baleta na sasaga <strong>ni</strong> Lotu ena gauna oqo me<br />
soli na veivuke raraba e vuravura raraba, ena<br />
veivanua kece era vakaleqai tu kina na tamata.<br />
Qaravi <strong>ni</strong> bula kei na vulici <strong>ni</strong> veiqaravi va-<br />
kavu<strong>ni</strong>wai. Ena Sepiteba <strong>ni</strong> 1873, a tukuna kina<br />
o Sisita Eliza R. Snow <strong>ni</strong> vinakata o Peresitedi<br />
Brigham Young e “levu na marama me ra vuli<br />
vakavinaka, ka qai rawata e dua na koroi <strong>ni</strong><br />
veiqaravi Vakavu<strong>ni</strong>wai.” 38<br />
O Sisita Zina D. H. Young e dua na ivakaraitaki<br />
<strong>ni</strong> dua na marama ena <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong><br />
<strong>Veivukei</strong> ka a veiqaravi vakavinaka sara ena<br />
tabana <strong>ni</strong> veiqaravi vakavu<strong>ni</strong>wai. A tuku<strong>ni</strong> vua<br />
ena nona veivakalougatataki vakapeteriaki <strong>ni</strong> tu<br />
vua na isolisoli <strong>ni</strong> veivakabulai, ka vakarautaki<br />
koya me vakayagataka na isolisoli oqo ena nona<br />
vuli opusiteriki—na vuli vu<strong>ni</strong>wai me baleta na<br />
vakasucu gone. A veivuke o koya ena nodra vakasucumi<br />
e vuqa sara na gone ena Bucabuca <strong>ni</strong><br />
Salt Lake. Ena nona veiqaravi, a tokona na nona<br />
isolisoli na nona vuli me dau veisusu vakayago,<br />
veivakabulai vakayalo, ka vakaceguya na<br />
loma. A tukuna kina vaqo o Sisita Emmeline B.<br />
Wells me baleti koya: “Ena tawayala<strong>ni</strong> beka na<br />
veigauna eso e kunei kina <strong>ni</strong> veiqaravi tiko vei<br />
ira na tauvimate, <strong>ni</strong> vaka me vakauqeti mai na<br />
dua na kaukauwa e cecere cake mai na nona . . .<br />
<strong>ni</strong> sa sega na yaloqaqa kei na vakabauta vei ira<br />
era tu wavolita na idavodavo <strong>ni</strong> tauvimate. Ena<br />
veigauna vakaoqori e vaka na agilosi <strong>ni</strong> loloma<br />
cecere o koya ena kena ivalavala dina sara.” 39<br />
<strong>Na</strong> veiqaravi kece sara e vakayacora o Sisita<br />
Young <strong>ni</strong> vakararavi tiko ena nona isolisoli vakayalo<br />
kei na nona vuli vakavo, sa kila vakavinaka<br />
tiko <strong>ni</strong> na sega <strong>ni</strong> rawa <strong>ni</strong> sotava kece sara<br />
na nodra gagadre <strong>ni</strong> veiqaravi vakavu<strong>ni</strong>wai na<br />
lewe<strong>ni</strong>vanua e Utah sa tubu tiko na kedra iwiliwili.<br />
A vakayaloqaqataki ira na vo <strong>ni</strong> marama<br />
<strong>Na</strong> Woman's Exponent, e dua na <strong>ni</strong>usipepa me baleti ira<br />
na marama ena <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>, a tabaki mai na<br />
1872 ki na 1914.<br />
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Yalododonu Edaidai me ra muria na ivakasala<br />
nei Peresitedi Young me ra vuli ena veiqaravi<br />
vakavu<strong>ni</strong>wai.<br />
E kaya kina o Sisita Snow: “E tiko beka eke,<br />
ena gauna oqo, e dua na marama gugumatua,<br />
ka kila na kena yaga, ena vukui Saio<strong>ni</strong>, me cakava<br />
na vuli oqo? Era tiko eso era gadreva me<br />
ra nasi, o ira oqori ena vinaka me ra vulica na<br />
Veiqaravi vakavu<strong>ni</strong>wai. . . . kevaka era sega <strong>ni</strong><br />
sotava rawa na kena isau, e tu vei keda na veika<br />
me rawa kina.” 40<br />
Era a laki vulica na veiqaravi vakavu<strong>ni</strong>wai<br />
ena tokalau kei Amerika eso na marama ena<br />
vuku <strong>ni</strong> veivakayaloqaqataki oqori. Era lesu mai<br />
ki Utah <strong>ni</strong> ra sa vu<strong>ni</strong>wai tu ka veivakavulici ena<br />
kalasi <strong>ni</strong> vu<strong>ni</strong>kalou kei na nasi <strong>ni</strong> vale. A vola o<br />
Emma Andersen Liljenquist, ka tiko ena veikalasi<br />
oqori mai Utah, eso na veika a sotava:<br />
“Au taleitaka vakalevu [na vuli], <strong>ni</strong>u vakatikori<br />
oti mai vua na iApositolo o John Henry<br />
Smith kei na vica tale, au a lesu tale ki vale meu<br />
cakava na noqu cakacaka, <strong>ni</strong> ratou sa yalataka<br />
vei au na iApositolo <strong>ni</strong> kevaka au bula dodonu<br />
au na dau kila vinaka na veika meu cakava<br />
kevaka e yaco mai na dredre. . . .<br />
“Sa vakayacori na yalayala oya ena kena<br />
taucoko. Ena vuqa na gauna <strong>ni</strong> sa davo bibi<br />
e dua na noqu tauvimate, au dau kerea na<br />
Tamaqu mai Lomalagi me vukei au, ia ena<br />
veigauna kece oqori e dau veivuke mai. E dua<br />
na marama se qai vakasucuma ga e dua na<br />
gone ka basika kina na emoriti (hemorrhage). E<br />
kacivi vu<strong>ni</strong>wai na watina, ia e sega <strong>ni</strong> kila <strong>ni</strong> sa<br />
rui bibi sara. Au . . . kerea na Turaga me vukei<br />
keitou. Sa mai oti ya<strong>ni</strong> na emoriti kau cakava<br />
vua na veika e dodonu me caka. Ni yaco mai na<br />
vu<strong>ni</strong>wai, e qai kaya <strong>ni</strong> dredre me vakabauta na<br />
veika a yaco, ia e kaya <strong>ni</strong>u sa cakava na veika<br />
sara ga ena cakava o koya. . . .<br />
“. . . Au sa kauta [mai ki vuravura] e sivia <strong>ni</strong><br />
dua na udolu na gone. Au vakavinavinaka tale<br />
vua na Tamada Vakalomalagi ena Nona veivuke<br />
kei na kaukauwa e solia mai na Turaga, kevaka<br />
a sega au na sega beka <strong>ni</strong> rawa <strong>ni</strong> qaravi ira<br />
na taciqu ena neimami itikotiko. E dua na ka<br />
veilauti duadua me baleta na vakasucu oya <strong>ni</strong><br />
imatai ga <strong>ni</strong> ka e kauwaitaka na tina, na gone,<br />
ka sega <strong>ni</strong> o koya.” 41<br />
Ena 1882 a tauyavutaka kina na <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong><br />
<strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> na Vale<strong>ni</strong>bula <strong>ni</strong> Desereti, “era<br />
dau qaravi kina na nona tamata na Turaga era<br />
tauvimate ka ra qaravi ena cakacaka vakalotu<br />
<strong>ni</strong> Lotu [veivakalougatataki <strong>ni</strong> matabete] ka vakakina<br />
na nodra veiqaravi na kenadau.” 42 A cici<br />
tiko na vale<strong>ni</strong>bula me sivia vakalailai e ti<strong>ni</strong> na<br />
yabaki me yacova <strong>ni</strong> sa sivia na ilavo e cicivaki<br />
tiko kina na ilavo e dau cauraki mai ka <strong>ni</strong> sa tu<br />
talega na vale<strong>ni</strong>bula tale eso.<br />
Nodra Dodonu <strong>ni</strong> Digidigi na <strong>Marama</strong><br />
Ena Feperueri <strong>ni</strong> 1870 a solia kina na mata<strong>ni</strong>tu<br />
<strong>ni</strong> yasana o Utah na dodonu me ra digidigi
“Au na toso ki liu. . . . <strong>Na</strong> ‘ivakadinadina kei Jisu’ ena . . .<br />
dusimaka na noqu rai” (Eliza R. Snow).<br />
na marama ena veidigidigi <strong>ni</strong> mata<strong>ni</strong>tu. Ena<br />
gauna ko ya, na yasana duadua ga o Wyoming<br />
ena vanua o Amerika e soli tiko kina vei ira na<br />
marama na dodonu oqo. E muri a qai bokoca<br />
na mata<strong>ni</strong>tu levu na galala oqo me tiki <strong>ni</strong> kedra<br />
itotogi na Yalododonu Edaidai ka ra bulataka<br />
tiko na lawa <strong>ni</strong> vakawati vakalevu. Ia era sega<br />
<strong>ni</strong> galu na marama <strong>ni</strong> Yalododonu Edaidai ka<br />
ra madila toka me baleta na nodra dodonu. E<br />
vuqa vei ira na marama era segata na nodra<br />
dodonu, se na dodonu <strong>ni</strong> digidigi. <strong>Na</strong> nodra<br />
rawata me ra madila vakalevu cake ena vosa sa<br />
ka <strong>ni</strong> veivakalougatataki vei ira ena nodra gadreva<br />
me ra vakaraitaka tiko <strong>ni</strong> ra marama qaqa,<br />
buladokai, ka vakaturaga. Ena nodra sasaga,<br />
era a rawata tale kina na nodra dodonu me ra<br />
digidigi ena gauna sa vakadonui kina me dua<br />
na yasana kei Amerika o Utah. Era a rawata<br />
talega na nodra veidokai na veisoqosoqo tale<br />
eso <strong>ni</strong> marama e veiyasai vuravura.<br />
iVolatabaki<br />
Ena ruku <strong>ni</strong> veiliutaki nei Sisita Eliza R. Snow,<br />
era a tokona na <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> e dua na<br />
<strong>ni</strong>usipepa ka yacana na Woman’s Exponent. A<br />
volai na <strong>ni</strong>usipepa oqo me baleti ira na marama<br />
<strong>ni</strong> Yalododonu Edaidai me vukei ira ena nodra<br />
vulica na nodra cakacaka, nodra bula, kei na nodra<br />
itukutuku. A kena edita o Sisita Emmeline B.<br />
Wells ena vuqa na kena tabaki. A vola vaqo ena<br />
nona dairi, “Au gadreva meu cakava na veika<br />
kece ena noqu kaukauwa meu vukea na kena<br />
laveti cake na kedra ituvaki na noqu tamata,<br />
vakauasivi o ira na marama.” 43 A qai vola e muri,<br />
“Au a gadreva mai vu <strong>ni</strong> yaloqu meu cakava<br />
na veika oqori ka na tosoi ira na marama ena<br />
cakacaka vakayago kei na yalo ka vakakina na<br />
cakacaka vakavuli ka qarava na kena tosoi ki liu<br />
na cakacaka <strong>ni</strong> Kalou e vuravura.” 44<br />
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Ni oti e 42 na yabaki na kena tabaki tiko, sa<br />
ma<strong>ni</strong> mai muduki na Woman’s Exponent ena<br />
1914. Ena yabaki ka tarava, sa tekivu me tabaka<br />
na <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> na Relief Society<br />
Magazine, ka okati kina na leso<strong>ni</strong> vakamacawa<br />
ena soqo<strong>ni</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>. E dua<br />
na ivurevure <strong>ni</strong> vuli bibi vei ira na marama na<br />
mekesi<strong>ni</strong>. Era dau vakamareqeta na marama<br />
na nodra, era vuli ka veivakavulici mai kina.<br />
Ena 1971, sa cokoti vata kina ki na dua ga na<br />
mekesi<strong>ni</strong> na Relief Society Magazine kei na so<br />
tale na mekesi<strong>ni</strong> me baleti ira na lewe <strong>ni</strong> Lotu<br />
qase ka vakatokai na Ensign. Me tekivu mai na<br />
gauna oya, sa dau vakarautaki ena Ensign na<br />
itukutuku me ra dusimaki ka vakauqeti kina na<br />
marama ena <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>.<br />
Ena loma <strong>ni</strong> 1800 vakacaca sa tekivu tabaka<br />
kina na Lotu na mekesi<strong>ni</strong> ena veivosa tale eso<br />
ka sega <strong>ni</strong> vosa vakavalagi. E vuqa vei ira na<br />
mekesi<strong>ni</strong> oqori era a taba ena nodra veidusimaki<br />
na peresitedi <strong>ni</strong> tabana <strong>ni</strong> kaulotu. Ena<br />
1967 era sa cokovata kina ki na dua ga na mekesi<strong>ni</strong><br />
ka tautauvata tikoga na kena ituvatuva<br />
kei na lewena, sa vakadewataki ki na vuqa na<br />
vosa. <strong>Na</strong> mekesi<strong>ni</strong> raraba oqo—sa vakatokai<br />
ena gauna oqo me Liaona—sa dau vakarautaka<br />
e veigauna na itukutuku me ra vukei kina na<br />
marama me ra bulataka na kosipeli.<br />
Me tekivu mai na 1987, sa dau tabaki na<br />
itukutuku <strong>ni</strong> siko vuvale ena Liaona kei na<br />
Ensign. Sa dau veisoliyaki talega na itukutuku<br />
<strong>ni</strong> siko vuvale me vaka <strong>ni</strong> dua ga na ivolatabaki<br />
vakataki koya ena veivanua se vou kina na Lotu<br />
ka vakaiyalayala toka ga na lewena.<br />
Vakarautaki na Gonelalai kei na<br />
Goneyalewa ki na Veiqaravi ena<br />
Mata<strong>ni</strong>tu <strong>ni</strong> Kalou<br />
Ena mua <strong>ni</strong> 1800 vakacaca, era tauyavutaka<br />
kina na veiliutaki <strong>ni</strong> matabete kei na <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong><br />
<strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> na sasaga me vakatorocaketaki<br />
kina na nodra bula na gone kei na goneyalewa.<br />
Ni ra cakava na veika e gadreva o Peresitedi<br />
Brigham Young me veisau ka biu laivi (raica na<br />
tabana e 45), era tauyavutaka na veiliutaki <strong>ni</strong><br />
<strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> na Tabacakacaka <strong>ni</strong> Goneyalewa<br />
ena Nodra <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> Cokovata na<br />
Qase kei na Gone ena Veitoka<strong>ni</strong> <strong>ni</strong> Bulaveisau<br />
(Young Ladies Department of their Se<strong>ni</strong>or and<br />
Ju<strong>ni</strong>or Cooperative Retrenchment Association)<br />
kei na Nodra Veitoka<strong>ni</strong> <strong>ni</strong> Bulaveisau na Qase<br />
(Se<strong>ni</strong>or Retrenchment Association) ena 1870.<br />
Oqo e basika kina na isoqosoqo <strong>ni</strong> Goneyalewa<br />
<strong>ni</strong>kua. A tauyavu na Lalai me baleti ira na<br />
gonelalai ena 1878. Taumada, era a liutaka na<br />
veiliutaki <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> ena nodra<br />
veidusimaki na veiliutaki <strong>ni</strong> matabete na nodra<br />
cakacaka na veisoqosoqo oqo. Ena 1880 a<br />
kaciva kina o Peresitedi John Taylor, na ikatolu<br />
<strong>ni</strong> Peresitedi <strong>ni</strong> Lotu e dua na mataveiliutaki<br />
raraba <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>, e dua na mataveiliutaki<br />
raraba <strong>ni</strong> Goneyalewa, kei na dua na
mataveiliutaki raraba <strong>ni</strong> Lalai, me vakaduidui-<br />
taki kina na isoqosoqo e tolu oqo.<br />
Me tekivu mai na gauna oya, era sa dau vei-<br />
liutaki ka veiqaravi tu mai kina ena isoqosoqo<br />
<strong>ni</strong> Goneyalewa kei na Lalai na marama ena<br />
<strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>. Era sa veivaqaqacotaki<br />
talega vei ira na itabatamata era tubu cake tiko<br />
mai ena nodra veiqaravi ena isoqosoqo tale eso<br />
me vaka na Wilivola <strong>ni</strong> Sigatabu kei na semineri<br />
kei na yavulotu.<br />
Toso ki Liu<br />
<strong>Na</strong> tauyavutaki tale <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong><br />
sa basika kina na veiitavi cecere cake kei na madigi<br />
cecere cake vei ira na marama Yalododonu<br />
Edaidai. E kaya kina vaqo o Eliza R. Snow:<br />
“O <strong>ni</strong> sega beka <strong>ni</strong> raica <strong>ni</strong> sa toso cake tiko<br />
na noda iyalava? Ena rabailevu cake tikoga na<br />
noda iyalava <strong>ni</strong> cakacaka, e sega <strong>ni</strong> dodonu me<br />
dua na marama e Saio<strong>ni</strong> me tagicaka <strong>ni</strong> sa rui<br />
rabailailai na nona iyalava.<br />
“Me vakalougatataki kemu<strong>ni</strong> na taciqu na<br />
Kalou, ka vakayaloqaqataki kemu<strong>ni</strong>, mo <strong>ni</strong><br />
vakararamataki ka mo <strong>ni</strong> kila <strong>ni</strong> sega tale <strong>ni</strong><br />
dua na ka o <strong>ni</strong> taleitaka ia na tiko vinaka ga<br />
kei Saio<strong>ni</strong>. Me imatai <strong>ni</strong> nomu<strong>ni</strong> cakacaka me<br />
qaravi vakavinaka na itavi mai vale. Ia kevaka<br />
o <strong>ni</strong> dauveiqaravi yalomatua, o <strong>ni</strong> na raica na<br />
gauna me caka kina na itavi <strong>ni</strong> bula veimaliwai,<br />
<strong>ni</strong> oqo na noda itavi me vaka <strong>ni</strong> da goneyalewa<br />
ka tina e Saio<strong>ni</strong>. Ena nomu segata mo cakava<br />
na itavi kecega o na raica <strong>ni</strong> na levu cake na<br />
nomu rawa ka, o na kurabui ena veika e rawa<br />
<strong>ni</strong> o cakava.” 45<br />
<strong>Na</strong> nona ivakaraitaki o Sisita Snow <strong>ni</strong><br />
vakabauta kei na vakanuinui e rawa <strong>ni</strong> noda<br />
idusidusi o keda kece na Yalododonu Edaidai.<br />
“Au na toso ki liu,” e kaya o koya. “Au na<br />
matadredre <strong>ni</strong> cudru mai na cava, kau na vodo<br />
ya<strong>ni</strong> ena doudou kei na yaloqaqa ena wasawasa<br />
voravora <strong>ni</strong> bula . . . kei na ‘ivakadinadina<br />
kei Jisu’ ena waqaca na cina ka na dusia na<br />
noqu raica na veisalatu <strong>ni</strong> tawamate rawa.” 46<br />
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WASE 5<br />
“Sa Sega <strong>ni</strong><br />
Mudu na Loloma”<br />
Sa dau vosota vakadede na loloma,<br />
sa yalovinaka, ka sega <strong>ni</strong> dau vuvu, ka sega <strong>ni</strong><br />
dau vakalevulevui koya, sa sega <strong>ni</strong> qara na ka me<br />
nona ga, sa sega <strong>ni</strong> dau cudru rawarawa, sa sega <strong>ni</strong><br />
vakanananu ca, sa sega <strong>ni</strong> dau rekitaka na ca<br />
ia sa rekitaka ga na ka dina, sa colata na<br />
ka kecega, vakabauta na ka kecega,<br />
vakanuinuitaka na ka kecega,<br />
ka vosota na ka kecega.<br />
Moronai 7:45
WASE 5<br />
“Sa Sega <strong>ni</strong> Mudu na Loloma”<br />
Ni kacivi o Sisita Emme-<br />
line B. Wells ena 1910 me<br />
ikalima <strong>ni</strong> peresitedi raraba<br />
<strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>, sa<br />
vakarau tu ki na itavi. Ni a<br />
vakaitavi ena laki tawavanua<br />
ki na Bucabuca <strong>ni</strong> Salt Lake, sa<br />
dau cakacaka kina vakaveivolekati<br />
kei ira na marama ka ra<br />
taukena tu na ivakadinadina tudei <strong>ni</strong> kosipeli<br />
i Jisu Karisito ka ra kila na yavu ivakavuvuli <strong>ni</strong><br />
<strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>. Sa veiqaravi oti vakasekeriteri<br />
vei rau e rua na peresitedi raraba <strong>ni</strong><br />
<strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>, o Zina D. H. Young kei<br />
Bathsheba W. Smith, mai na 1888 ki na 1910.<br />
Ena nodratou ivakadinadina <strong>ni</strong> a tauyavutaki<br />
na <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> ena ivakatakila,<br />
eratou sa yalataka kina o Sisita Wells kei rau na<br />
nona dau<strong>ni</strong>vakasala, o Clarissa S. Williams kei<br />
Julina L. Smith, me ratou maroroya na ivakavuvuli<br />
ka vakayavutaki kina na isoqosoqo. Ena<br />
Okotova <strong>ni</strong> 1913 eratou kaya kina:<br />
“Keitou sa vakadeitaka <strong>ni</strong> neitou inaki me<br />
keitou maroroya vakavinaka na yaca taumada<br />
kei na kena yalo kei na inaki <strong>ni</strong> isoqosoqo<br />
cecere oqo, ka taura matua na ivakavuvuli<br />
vakauqeti <strong>ni</strong> Parofita o Josefa Simici ena nona<br />
vakatakila na ituvatuva me ra<br />
vakadeitaki kina na marama<br />
mai na veikacivi <strong>ni</strong> matabete<br />
me ra wasewasei kina ki na<br />
veisoqosoqo veiga<strong>ni</strong>ti ena inaki<br />
me ra qaravi kina na tauvimate,<br />
vukei o ira na vakaleqai<br />
tu, vakacegui o ira na qase, ra<br />
vakasalataki o ira na lecaika, ka<br />
ra qaravi na luve<strong>ni</strong>yali.” 1<br />
Ena vica na vula ya<strong>ni</strong> ki liu, na vakasama oqo<br />
<strong>ni</strong> kena inaki a vakavuna me ratou tauyavutaka<br />
o Sisita Wells kei rau na nona dau<strong>ni</strong>vakasala e<br />
dua na ibole ka na yaco me dau ivakananumi<br />
tiko e veigauna <strong>ni</strong> yavu ivakavuvuli <strong>ni</strong> isoqosoqo<br />
kei na kena ivuvu vakauqeti. Eratou a<br />
digitaka kina na itukutuku vakaivola<strong>ni</strong>kalou:<br />
“Sa sega <strong>ni</strong> mudu na loloma.” 2 <strong>Na</strong> tolu na<br />
mala<strong>ni</strong>vosa oqo e koto kina na ivakaro sa solia<br />
na Parofita o Josefa Simici vei ira na marama<br />
ena <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>: me ra “vukei na<br />
dravudravua” ka “vakabulai na yalo.” 3<br />
Ena veigauna e liu, era sa dau vakatovotovotaka<br />
na loloma cecere vei ira era tiko veivolekati<br />
na marama pai<strong>ni</strong>a. Ena gauna oqo era sa<br />
tauyavutaki ira na marama ena <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong><br />
<strong>Veivukei</strong> me ra vakatetea tiko na loloma cecere,<br />
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“na loloma savasava i Karisito,” 4 vei ira talega<br />
na wekada e vuravura raraba.<br />
Eratou a tauyavutaka o Sisita Wells kei rau<br />
na nona dau<strong>ni</strong>vakasala na ibole oqo ena dua<br />
na gauna <strong>ni</strong> bula vakacegu kei na sautu. Eratou<br />
sega <strong>ni</strong> kila <strong>ni</strong> na vakatovolei na ibole oqori ena<br />
veika ena qai yaco ena veiyabaki mai muri.<br />
Bula Sautu ena Gauna <strong>ni</strong><br />
Veivaluvaluti<br />
A kacabote na ivalu mai Iurope ena 1914.<br />
Ena gauna qai mudu kina na ivalu ena Noveba<br />
<strong>ni</strong> 1918, era sa curu ya<strong>ni</strong> ena veilecalecavi oqori<br />
e vuqa na veimata<strong>ni</strong>tu, ka qai mai kilai mei<br />
iMatai <strong>ni</strong> iValu Levu. Ena gauna oqori, <strong>ni</strong> a rawa<br />
me vakata<strong>ni</strong>taki na yalo <strong>ni</strong> loloma dau namaki<br />
vei ira na marama ena <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong><br />
ena rarawa kei na sega <strong>ni</strong> veivosoti, eratou qai<br />
kacivaka o Emmeline B. Wells kei rau na nona<br />
dau<strong>ni</strong>vakasala e dua na itukutuku vei ira kece<br />
na marama ena Lotu:<br />
“Veiqaravi ena yalo <strong>ni</strong> loloma kei na vosota vei<br />
ira na watimu<strong>ni</strong> kei na luvemu<strong>ni</strong>; vakatawai ira<br />
na lalai; kakua <strong>ni</strong> vakatara me curumi ira na yalo<br />
<strong>ni</strong> sega <strong>ni</strong> dau veivosoti se veicati me baleta e dua<br />
na mata<strong>ni</strong>tu se dua na matatamata; me ra kakua<br />
<strong>ni</strong> tara na dakai; kakua <strong>ni</strong> vakatara me nodra ka<br />
<strong>ni</strong> qito na ivalu me kakua talega <strong>ni</strong> nodra ka <strong>ni</strong><br />
veilasamaki na nodra vakatotomuria na mate<br />
ena ivalu; tea ki yalodra na yalodina ki na vanua<br />
kei na kuila, ia vukei ira me ra vakila <strong>ni</strong> ra sotia<br />
<strong>ni</strong> Kauveilatai kevaka me ra na tauri iyaragi me<br />
baleta na kena taqomaki na bula galala, <strong>ni</strong> vanua<br />
Emmeline B. Wells<br />
iKalima <strong>ni</strong> Peresitedi Raraba <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong><br />
“Sa [noqu] gagadre levu duadua me ra kila na noda<br />
goneyalewa <strong>ni</strong>kua na nodra cakacaka na lewe<strong>ni</strong>lotu<br />
taumada, <strong>ni</strong> sega tu vei ira na iyaya sa tu <strong>ni</strong>kua, era<br />
vakacegui ira na rarawa kei na yaluma, sikovi ira na<br />
yada kei na luve<strong>ni</strong>yali, ka ra vakataki ira na agilosi<br />
dauveiqaravi.”<br />
Vakatatabu <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>, Me 1914, 3
Era vakarautaka tiko na marama ena <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> na isulu<br />
<strong>ni</strong> gone me baleti ira na veimatavuvale era vakaleqai tu<br />
kei na vuvale me ra kakua <strong>ni</strong> kitaka vakakina ena cudru<br />
kei na yaloca. . . . Vakavuvulitaka na veika kecega <strong>ni</strong> noqu<br />
mata<strong>ni</strong>tu ka vukei ira vagumatua cake na vakaleqai tu.” 5<br />
Ena nona vakauta na itukutuku oqo, a vakauqeti ira<br />
na marama o Sisita Wells me ra vakaraitaka na loloma<br />
cecere , me vaka ga a vakavuvulitaka na Parofita o Josefa<br />
Simici ena sivia na 70 na yabaki sa oti. E vakauqeti ira<br />
me ra dau yalovosota ena vukudra na nodra dauloma<strong>ni</strong><br />
ka dau yalovinaka ena vukudra na wekadra—oka kina o<br />
ira na meca—ka veiqaravi ena vukudra era vakaleqai tu.<br />
Era muria na ivakasala oqo na marama ena <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong><br />
<strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>. Era segata me ra ciqoma ka wasea vata na<br />
loloma savasava i Karisito, ka ra kila <strong>ni</strong> na sega <strong>ni</strong> laivi<br />
ira. 6 Ena toko<strong>ni</strong> ira tiko na loloma oqo ena gauna <strong>ni</strong><br />
veivaluvaluti kei na gauna <strong>ni</strong> sautu.<br />
“<strong>Na</strong> noda rai me baleta<br />
na vuravura <strong>ni</strong> kawatamata,<br />
vakararaba, e<br />
dodonu me tautauvata<br />
me vaka e vakatakila vei<br />
ira ko Jisu. E segata o<br />
Koya me cakacakataka<br />
na nodra tiko vinaka, ka<br />
dodonu me tautauvata<br />
na noda ibole kei na<br />
Nona—‘sa veivinakati<br />
rawa ko ira e vuravura,<br />
sa loma<strong>ni</strong> ko ira na<br />
tamata.’”<br />
John Taylor<br />
Nodra iVakavuvuli na<br />
Peresitedi <strong>ni</strong> Lotu: John<br />
Taylor (2001), 27; vosa tiko<br />
ena Luke 2:14<br />
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Ena iMatai <strong>ni</strong> iValu Levu, era duavata kina<br />
mai vu <strong>ni</strong> yalodra na <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong><br />
e Amerika kei na veisoqosoqo eso me vaka<br />
na Matabose <strong>ni</strong> Veitaqomaki ena Mata<strong>ni</strong>tu<br />
(<strong>Na</strong>tional Council of Defense) kei na Kauveilatai<br />
Damudamu <strong>ni</strong> Amerika. Era vakaitavi<br />
na marama ena caka <strong>ni</strong> kakana kei na kena<br />
maroroi, na kumu<strong>ni</strong> ilavo, na tiko savasava,<br />
cakacaka <strong>ni</strong> welefea me baleti ira na gone, kei<br />
na veiqaravi tale eso. E mana ka ra gugumatua<br />
ena nodra vakadauavatataki ira ena veisasaga<br />
vakaitikotiko oqo. Ia, e vakananuma vei ira na<br />
nodra parofita me ra kakua sara <strong>ni</strong> guilecava na<br />
itekitekivu vakalou <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>.<br />
E kaya o Peresitedi Joseph F. Smith, na<br />
ikaono <strong>ni</strong> Peresitedi <strong>ni</strong> Lotu, <strong>ni</strong> veisoqosoqo<br />
vakavuravura “e cakava na<br />
tagane, se cakava na yalewa,”<br />
ia na <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> “e<br />
cakava na Kalou, vakadonui<br />
vakalou, cicivaki vakalou,<br />
Joseph F. Smith tabaki vakalou mai vua na<br />
Kalou me qarava na nodra vakabulai na yalo <strong>ni</strong><br />
marama kei na tagane.” E sega <strong>ni</strong> vinakata o<br />
Koya “me raica na gauna era na muria kina na<br />
noda <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>, se ra veimaliwai ka<br />
vakayalia na kedra ivakatakilakila ena nodra<br />
waki ira vata kei na veisoqosoqo era cakava na<br />
marama ka ra sa babasika tiko mai. . . . Oqo e<br />
baleti kemu<strong>ni</strong>,” e tukuna vei ira na marama ena<br />
<strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>, “me ra liutaka na<br />
vuravura ka liutaki ira vakauasivi cake na<br />
marama e vuravura, ena veika kecega e<br />
rogorogo vinaka, veika kecega e va-Kalou, ena<br />
veika kecega e veilaveti ka veivakasavasavataki<br />
vei ira na luve <strong>ni</strong> tamata. O kemu<strong>ni</strong> na uluna,<br />
ka sega <strong>ni</strong> buina.” 7 E wasea o Sisita Emmeline<br />
B. Wells na rai oqo. A tubera na <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong><br />
<strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> ena nodra duavata kei na veimataisoqosoqo<br />
tale eso, ia a veivuke talega o koya<br />
ena kena taqomaki na inaki bibi kei na ituvaki<br />
vakalou <strong>ni</strong> isoqosoqo.<br />
Me ikuri <strong>ni</strong> nodra cakacaka vata kei na<br />
veimataisoqosoqo, era cakava na marama ena<br />
<strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> eso na ka vakataki ira ka<br />
vakakina kei na nodra tabanalevu me vakarautaki<br />
kina na veika vinaka eso ka rawa ilavo<br />
me baleti ira era vakaleqai tu. Eso na marama<br />
era culā ka volitaka na ivi<strong>ni</strong>vo, eparo<strong>ni</strong>, isulu <strong>ni</strong><br />
gone, isulutali, isala kei na ibutubutu tali. Eso<br />
era susuga ka volitaka na bulumakau kei na sipi.<br />
E qai kila e dua na marama mai Tooele e<br />
Utah, <strong>ni</strong> sa laki veivakacegui sara vakalevu ena<br />
dua na matavuvale mai Perita<strong>ni</strong>a ena gauna<br />
<strong>ni</strong> ivalu na lacadrau a cula. A cula na marama<br />
ena <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> oqo na lacadrau oya<br />
ena 1906, ciqira kina e dua na ivola, ka vakauta<br />
ki San Francisco e Califor<strong>ni</strong>a, me vukei ira na<br />
vakaleqai ena dua na uneune rerevaki. Ena ti<strong>ni</strong>kadua<br />
na yabaki i muri, a soli na lacadrau oqo<br />
vei iratou na Kauveilatai Damudamu ka vakau<br />
ya<strong>ni</strong> ki Perita<strong>ni</strong>a. Ni raica na kai Perita<strong>ni</strong>a na
ivola, a vakauta e dua na nona ivola <strong>ni</strong> vakavi-<br />
navinaka ka kaya <strong>ni</strong> sa mai “yaga sara vakalevu<br />
na lacadrau, me vaka <strong>ni</strong> sa mai yali ena ivalu na<br />
turaga watiqu.” Ni sa biu tu mai kei na walu na<br />
gone ka sega <strong>ni</strong> rawa na cakacaka, e vakadinadinataka<br />
na yada oqo, “Sai koya sara ga na ka<br />
au rawa <strong>ni</strong> cakava keitou bula tiko kina.” 8<br />
Era voladia e vuqa na marama <strong>ni</strong> Perita<strong>ni</strong>a me<br />
ra culacula ka talitali me baleti ira na sotia, ia e<br />
sega na ilavo me voli kina na iyaya era gadreva.<br />
Era a cau ena lomasoli na <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong><br />
e Amerika kei Kenada ki na dua na umailavo <strong>ni</strong><br />
leqa tubukoso me ra veivuke. Era vakau ilavo ki<br />
O ira na marama ena <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> mai Kidderminster e Igiladi<br />
na veitabana e Perita<strong>ni</strong>a me rawa kina <strong>ni</strong> ra volia<br />
na isulu na marama <strong>ni</strong> Perita<strong>ni</strong>a me caka kina<br />
na iubi <strong>ni</strong> loga, waqa <strong>ni</strong> lokoloko, kei na isulu.<br />
Ni volitaka na <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> na vo <strong>ni</strong><br />
witi e tu vua ki na mata<strong>ni</strong>tu o Amerika ena 1918<br />
(raica na wase 4), e dikeva rawa o Sisita Wells,<br />
“Ena veiyabaki kece oqo a sega soti <strong>ni</strong> gadrevi<br />
vakalevu na kakana sore<strong>ni</strong>kau a maroroi tu ena<br />
kena inaki, ia ena vuku <strong>ni</strong> o loaloa ka solegi<br />
vuravura tu ena gauna oqo, eda rawa <strong>ni</strong> raica na<br />
yalomatua vakaparofita nei Peresitedi Young ena<br />
nona kerei ira na marama me ra maroroi kakana<br />
sore<strong>ni</strong>kau me baleta e dua na gauna <strong>ni</strong> leqa.” 9<br />
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<strong>Na</strong> volitaki <strong>ni</strong> witi e sega walega <strong>ni</strong> ra vaka-<br />
cegui kina na tamata era viakana tu. A vakatura<br />
o Sisita Clarissa S. Williams e dua vei rau na<br />
dau<strong>ni</strong>vakasala nei Sisita Wells ena mataveiliutaki,<br />
me maroroya na <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> na<br />
ilavo mai na veivoli oya ena dua na akaude ka<br />
me qai vakayagataki na kena tubu me vakailavotaki<br />
kina na sasaga me vakatorocaketaki<br />
kina na ituvaki <strong>ni</strong> bula vei ira na marama kei na<br />
gone. E muri, <strong>ni</strong> veiqaravi vakaikaono <strong>ni</strong> peresitedi<br />
raraba <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> o Sisita<br />
Williams, a qai liutaka na kena vakayagataki na<br />
ilavo oqori ena inaki oqori.<br />
Vaqaqacotaki <strong>ni</strong> Tamata<br />
Yadua kei na Matavuvale<br />
Ena mua <strong>ni</strong> iMatai <strong>ni</strong> iValu Levu, era sa<br />
vakaleqai tu e vuqa na veimatavuvale kei na<br />
tamata yadua—vakailavo, vakayago, e lomadra,<br />
ka vakayalo. Me sotavi na veigagadre oqori, era<br />
tauyavutaka kina na <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> na<br />
Tabacakacaka <strong>ni</strong> Veiqaravi Raraba ena <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong><br />
<strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> (Relief Society Social Service<br />
Department) ena 1919, ena veitoko<strong>ni</strong> taucoko<br />
nei Peresitedi Heber J. Grant, na ikavitu <strong>ni</strong><br />
Peresitedi <strong>ni</strong> Lotu. A veiqaravi vakadairekita<br />
<strong>ni</strong> tabacakacaka o Sisita Amy Brown Lyman,<br />
Era marautaka tiko na ivakatagi o ira na nasi kei na gonelalai ena Vale<strong>ni</strong>bula <strong>ni</strong> YDE e Salt Lake City, Utah, 1934
o koya a qai ikawalu <strong>ni</strong> peresitedi raraba <strong>ni</strong><br />
<strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>. Mai na Tabacakacaka <strong>ni</strong><br />
Veiqaravi Raraba, era duavata kina na <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong><br />
<strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> kei na veitabanalevu kei na<br />
iteki ena veisasaga me vaka na nodra vukei na<br />
marama kei na goneyalewa era vakaleqai tu<br />
me ra kune cakacaka ka ra biu na gone me ra<br />
vakubeci. Ia na kena inaki bibi duadua, me ra<br />
tuberi kina na veimatavuvale. E kaya o Sisita<br />
Lyman <strong>ni</strong> Tabacakacaka <strong>ni</strong> Veiqaravi Raraba<br />
ena <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> e sega <strong>ni</strong> “tabana<br />
<strong>ni</strong> veivukei” ia na “tabacakacaka <strong>ni</strong> veiqaravi,”<br />
ka vakabibitaka “na vulici <strong>ni</strong> ituvaki <strong>ni</strong><br />
veimatavuvale, na tuvalaki <strong>ni</strong> cakacaka kei na<br />
ilavovakarau, na tuvalaki <strong>ni</strong> veivukei vei ira<br />
na matavuvale <strong>ni</strong> YDE, kei na nodra tuberi na<br />
liga<strong>ni</strong>cakacaka.” 10<br />
Ni vakasamataki tiko na takete oqo, eratou<br />
vakarautaka na Tabacakacaka <strong>ni</strong> Bula Vakaveimaliwai<br />
e dua na parokaramu <strong>ni</strong> veituberi me<br />
ono na macawa ena welefea <strong>ni</strong> matavuvale. Era<br />
taura na kalasi oqo na liga<strong>ni</strong>cakacaka mai na<br />
iteki ka ra lesu ya<strong>ni</strong> ki na nodra tabanalevu kei<br />
na itikotiko ka vakavuvulitaka. E sivia <strong>ni</strong> 4,000<br />
na marama era a tuberi kina.<br />
Me tekivu ena 1902, eratou a cicivaka kina<br />
na mataveiliutaki raraba <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong><br />
<strong>Veivukei</strong> e dua na parokaramu <strong>ni</strong> nodra tuberi<br />
na nasi. Ena 1920, sa rabailevu sara na nodra<br />
tuberi na nasi cakacaka saumi, eratou sa ma<strong>ni</strong><br />
tauyavutaka kina na <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong><br />
O Joseph W. Booth kei ira na marama ena <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong><br />
<strong>Veivukei</strong> mai Arme<strong>ni</strong>a ena iteki <strong>ni</strong> 1920 vakacaca<br />
e dua na parokaramu <strong>ni</strong> veituberi me baleti<br />
ira na ivukevuke <strong>ni</strong> nasi. <strong>Na</strong> vuli yabaki dua<br />
oqo, ka tekivu ena Vale<strong>ni</strong>bula <strong>ni</strong> YDE ena Siti<br />
o Salt Lake e Utah, a sega <strong>ni</strong> saumi na kena<br />
icurucuru. Ia, e gadrevi ga vei ira na kena gonevuli<br />
me ra na solia e 30 na siga <strong>ni</strong> veiqaravi<br />
vakanasi sega <strong>ni</strong> saumi ena nodra veitikotiko.<br />
Ni oti e 4 na yabaki, ka ra tuberi kina e 46 na<br />
ivukevuke <strong>ni</strong> nasi, sa muduka na <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong><br />
<strong>Veivukei</strong> na parokaramu ka tokia na nodra veitoko<strong>ni</strong><br />
ki na vuli <strong>ni</strong> veiqaravai vakanasi e vale<br />
<strong>ni</strong> Kauveilatai Damudamu. Me vaka ga ena<br />
veiparokaramu tale eso, era vakayagataka na<br />
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<strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> na parokaramu oqo me<br />
sotavi kina e dua na mataqali leqa vakayago<br />
ena gauna ko ya ka qai solia ya<strong>ni</strong> ki na dua tale<br />
na tabana.<br />
Era veivakauqeti na veiliutaki <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong><br />
<strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> vei ira na marama me ra tomana na<br />
nodra veiqaravi vei ira vakataki ira ena veisala<br />
eso <strong>ni</strong> loloma cecere, me vaka era dau vakayacora<br />
ena veisiga taumada mai <strong>Na</strong>uvoo. Era veiqaravi<br />
na marama ena vukudra na tauvimate,<br />
culacula ena vukudra era gadreva tu na isulu,<br />
ka soli veivuke ena veisala tale eso vei ira era<br />
leqa tu. Me vaka oqo, ena 1921 eratou a biuta<br />
kina na nodratou itikotiko eso na Yalododonu<br />
Edaidai ka ra vakaitikotiko mai Turkey. A vukei<br />
ira ena nodra toki ki Aleppo e Siria o Joseph W.<br />
Booth, na peresitedi <strong>ni</strong> Tabana <strong>ni</strong> Kaulotu na<br />
Palestine-Syrian, ka tauyavutaka kina e dua<br />
na tabana ka ra lewena na kena <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong><br />
<strong>Veivukei</strong> e rauta <strong>ni</strong> 30 na marama. E vuqa vei<br />
ira na marama oqo era sa rui dravudravua sara<br />
vakalevu, ia era nanuma <strong>ni</strong> nodra galala ka nodra<br />
itavi me vaka <strong>ni</strong> ra marama ena <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong><br />
<strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> me ra qaravi ira era kalouca vakalevu<br />
cake mai vei ira. Era sa ma<strong>ni</strong> soqo<strong>ni</strong> vata<br />
kina ka cula isulu mai na isulu e 100 na iyate na<br />
kena levu a volia vei ira o Peresitedi Booth. Era<br />
vakarautaka e dua na kakana me baleti ira na<br />
ise <strong>ni</strong> valu era kana tu vaka ca.<br />
Ena Epereli <strong>ni</strong> 1921, a sosomitaki Sisita<br />
Emmeline B. Wells kina vakaperesitedi raraba<br />
<strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> o Sisita Clarissa S.<br />
Louise Y. Robison<br />
iKavitu <strong>ni</strong> Peresitedi Raraba <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong><br />
“Kevaka eda cakava tu ga vakaveimama na noda<br />
cakacaka eda na sega <strong>ni</strong> marau, kevaka eda cakava ena<br />
vakasama <strong>ni</strong> oqo na noda itavi eda na sega <strong>ni</strong> reki, ia<br />
kevaka eda nanuma <strong>ni</strong> o keda na taba <strong>ni</strong> vai<strong>ni</strong> oqo, ka <strong>ni</strong><br />
nanuma na Tamada Vakalomalagi <strong>ni</strong> sa kilikili kei keda<br />
me da lewena e dua na tabana oqori, ka <strong>ni</strong> rawa <strong>ni</strong> da<br />
tosoya na cakacaka <strong>ni</strong> sa tu me caka, eda na reki.”<br />
Relief Society Magazine, Nove. 1933, 649
Williams. Me vaka <strong>ni</strong> sa veiqaravi oti vata kei Sisita<br />
Wells ena mataveiliutaki, sa vakarau tu kina me sotava<br />
na bolebole ena yaco mai. A kilai tu o koya ena maqosa<br />
<strong>ni</strong> nona dau tuvatuva kei na nona dau loma<strong>ni</strong> ira ka<br />
vakaitoka<strong>ni</strong>taki ira na tamata kecega.<br />
A kauwaitaka vakalevu o Sisita Williams na nodra<br />
mate tiko vakayauyau na tina kei ira na gonelalai. A kauwaitaka<br />
tale tiko ga na lailai <strong>ni</strong> madigi me baleti ira na<br />
vakaleqai tu vakayago kei na ivakatagedegede lolovira <strong>ni</strong><br />
nodra bula eso na marama. Ena ruku <strong>ni</strong> nona veiliutaki<br />
yalomatua, era a tomana kina na <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong><br />
na nodra sasaga me ra valuta na veileqa oqori. Ena 1924,<br />
ena veitoko<strong>ni</strong> kei na veivakayaloqaqataki mai vei ira na<br />
veiliutaki <strong>ni</strong> matatebe raraba, kei ira ena nodra veivanua<br />
kei Sisita Williams, eratou a tauyavutaka kina na <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong><br />
<strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> ena iTeki na Cottonwood e dua na<br />
vale<strong>ni</strong>bula <strong>ni</strong> vakasucu. A yaco na vale<strong>ni</strong>bula oqori me<br />
dua vei ira na veivale<strong>ni</strong>bula <strong>ni</strong> Lotu.<br />
A raica o Sisita Williams na kena gadrevi vakalevu<br />
me vakatorocaketaki na ituvaki <strong>ni</strong> bula, na madigi, kei<br />
na dua na ivakatagedegede vinaka <strong>ni</strong> bula me baleti ira<br />
kece eda veitaratara kaya.” E kaya kina, “<strong>Na</strong> mataqali<br />
cakacaka vakaoqo <strong>ni</strong> veivakatorocaketaki raraba ena<br />
gadrevi kina na vakavakarau vakavinaka, na veituberi,<br />
na cakacaka <strong>ni</strong> veivakavulici, kei na veiqaravi sara ga.” 11<br />
<strong>Na</strong> veisasaga oqori a veivuke ena kena sotavi na gagadre<br />
<strong>ni</strong> gauna oqo, ka soli kina vei ira na bisopi e dua na ivakarau<br />
me vakarautaki kina na veivuke me baleti ira na<br />
veimatavuvale era vakaleqai tu. Era vakarautaka talega<br />
na Lotu me sotava na veika dredre ena yaco mai ena<br />
vica na yabaki mai muri.<br />
“Eda . . . cikevaka,<br />
matua ena veigauna vei<br />
ira na tamata, na kena<br />
gadrevi vakabibi sara<br />
na bula dodonu; na<br />
levei <strong>ni</strong> vakayagataki<br />
ilavo vakasivia; na<br />
vakabulabulataki <strong>ni</strong><br />
itovo <strong>ni</strong> bula ma<strong>ni</strong><strong>ni</strong>,<br />
lewa vakamatau, kei na<br />
cakacaka vagumatua;<br />
kei na noda bula tiko ga<br />
ena loma <strong>ni</strong> veika eda<br />
rawata; ka biu vakatikitiki<br />
e dua na ka, se vakacava<br />
ga na kena lailai me<br />
baleta na veigauna<br />
dredre ena yaco mai.”<br />
Mataveiliutaki Taumada<br />
(Heber J. Grant,<br />
Anthony W. Ivins,<br />
J. Reuben Clark Jr.)<br />
Deseret News, 2 <strong>ni</strong> Sepi,<br />
1933, iwasewase <strong>ni</strong> Lotu, 7;<br />
vakatautauvatataki na icegu<br />
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Era maroroi kakana tiko na marama ena <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong><br />
<strong>Veivukei</strong> mai Califor<strong>ni</strong>a me baleta na parokaramu <strong>ni</strong><br />
welefea ena nodra iteki, rauta na 1940<br />
Vakabulabulataki <strong>ni</strong><br />
Bula Rawati Koya<br />
Era a cakacaka na <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> me<br />
ra vakatorocaketaka na ivakatagedegede <strong>ni</strong><br />
bula vei ira na marama kei na veimatavuvale<br />
<strong>ni</strong> oti e sivia <strong>ni</strong> ti<strong>ni</strong> na yabaki mai na iMatai <strong>ni</strong><br />
iValu Levu, era vakanamata ena ituvaki <strong>ni</strong> bula,<br />
na cakacaka, kei na vuli. Era tomana talega na<br />
<strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> na nodra vakayaloqaqataka<br />
tiko na bula dodonu kei na ivalavala<br />
<strong>ni</strong> loloma cecere <strong>ni</strong> tamata yadua. Oti, qai<br />
dokoulu na vuravura ena dua na leqa levu <strong>ni</strong><br />
bula vakailavo ena mua <strong>ni</strong> 1929 ka lailai sara na<br />
kena ivakatakilakila taumada.<br />
A baci vaqaqacotaka tale na tamata yadua<br />
kei na matavuvale ena gauna <strong>ni</strong> leqa tubukoso<br />
na veitovo <strong>ni</strong> bula talei e vakavuvulitaki ka<br />
vulici ena <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>. Era kunea na<br />
marama na igu ena nodra vakabauta na Tamada<br />
Vakalomalagi kei Jisu Karisito, ena nodra<br />
goleva na kila <strong>ni</strong> bula rawati koya, ka cakacaka<br />
me ra vakaraitaka na loloma cecere e yalodra.<br />
Ni tu na ivakavuvuli oqori me dusimaki ira, a<br />
rawa me ra qaravi ira vakataki ira kei na nodra<br />
matavuvale ena gauna vata era tarai ira tiko<br />
ya<strong>ni</strong> kina na ta<strong>ni</strong>.<br />
Ena 1928, a kacivi Sisita Louise Y. Robison<br />
kina o Peresitedi Heber J. Grant me veiqaravi<br />
vakaikavitu <strong>ni</strong> peresitedi raraba <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong><br />
<strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>. E sega <strong>ni</strong> ka vou vei Sisita Robison<br />
na dredre <strong>ni</strong> bula vakailavo. A tubu cake o koya<br />
ena dua na vale tolo<strong>ni</strong>kau vakaloloma mai<br />
Scipio e Utah, na vanua e vulica kina na teitei,<br />
tei se<strong>ni</strong>kau, culacula, cakacaka vagumatua, bula<br />
<strong>ni</strong> lailai tu na ka, ka dau mamarau.<br />
Ni se vo e vitu na yabaki me qai kacivi Sisita<br />
Robison me peresitedi raraba <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong><br />
veivukei, a vakatikori koya taumada o Peresitedi<br />
Grant me ikarua <strong>ni</strong> dau<strong>ni</strong>vakasala ena<br />
mataveiliutaki raraba <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>.<br />
A vakila tu o koya na nona malumalumu, me<br />
vaka e nanuma lesu na luvena yalewa:<br />
“Ni lako o <strong>Na</strong>na ki na vale<strong>ni</strong>volavola nei<br />
Peresitedi Grant me laki vakatikori, e vakila<br />
deivaki <strong>ni</strong> cala beka na itukutuku e soli vua me<br />
baleta na nona kila ka, e ma<strong>ni</strong> tukuna vua <strong>ni</strong> na<br />
marautaka me cakava na nona vinaka duadua
ena cava ga e kerea vua me cakava, ia e vinakata<br />
mada ga me kila <strong>ni</strong> a yala koso ga na nona vuli,<br />
ka lailai sara na nona ilavo kei<br />
na nona itutu ena bula raraba,<br />
ka leqataka de sega vua na<br />
ivakaraitaki era namaka na<br />
marama ena <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong><br />
<strong>Veivukei</strong> me ra raica vua e<br />
dua na iliuliu. A ti<strong>ni</strong>a ena nona kaya ‘O au e dua<br />
ga na marama yalomalumalumu!’ e sauma vaqo<br />
o Peresitedi Grant, ‘I Sisita Louizy, e 85% <strong>ni</strong><br />
marama ena noda Lotu era marama yalomalumalumu.<br />
Keitou kacivi iko mo nodra iliuliu.’” 12<br />
Heber J. Grant<br />
Ni vakayaloqaqataki mai na vosa nei Peresitedi<br />
Grant, e wasea o Sisita Robison na nona<br />
isolisoli ka veiqaravi e yalona taucoko, taumada<br />
vakadau<strong>ni</strong>vakasala qai muri vakaperesitedi. E<br />
yalomatua, yalololoma, ka daucakacaka. <strong>Na</strong><br />
lailai <strong>ni</strong> nona vuli kei na iyau vakavuravura a<br />
rawa kina vua me kila na nodra leqa ka vukei<br />
ira era tu ena ituvaki <strong>ni</strong> bula vata oya. <strong>Na</strong> nona<br />
ivakasala vei ira na dauqaravi vale kei ira na<br />
tina e rawarawa ka kilai vinaka. E kila o koya<br />
na dredre <strong>ni</strong> noda bula ena dua na ilavo lailai,<br />
ia e kila talega na bibi <strong>ni</strong> nona veivakauqeti e<br />
dua na tina e vale. O koya sa vakayaloqaqataki<br />
ira kina na tina me ra cakava na veika kece era<br />
rawata me ra tiko e vale kei ira na gone ka me<br />
kua <strong>ni</strong> ra biu tu ka laki cakacaka.<br />
A tauyavutaka na mata<strong>ni</strong>tu o Amerika e<br />
vuqa na parokaramu <strong>ni</strong> veivukei me tovolei<br />
me vukici kina na ua <strong>ni</strong> bula dredre vakailavo.<br />
Ena dua na gauna, a cakacaka vata kina kei<br />
na veitabana vakaitikotiko na Tabacakacaka <strong>ni</strong><br />
Veiqaravi Raraba ena <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> me<br />
ra qaravi na veimatavuvale era vakaleqai tu, ia<br />
sa tubu cake na levu <strong>ni</strong> leqa ka sega <strong>ni</strong> qarava<br />
rawa na tabacakacaka oqo. A raica e dua na<br />
liga<strong>ni</strong>cakacaka ena tabacakacaka na tubu <strong>ni</strong> kisi<br />
me qarava mai na 78 na matavuvale ena 1929<br />
ki na sivia na 700 ena 1934. 13<br />
A vakavinavinakataka na Lotu na nodra<br />
sasaga na veitabana <strong>ni</strong> mata<strong>ni</strong>tu. E kaya o Sisita<br />
Robison <strong>ni</strong> sa cakava tiko na mata<strong>ni</strong>tu o Amerika<br />
“e dua na ka vakasakiti” ena nodra vukei<br />
na tamata era vakaleqai tu. Ia, a ma<strong>ni</strong> duavata<br />
kei ira na veiliutaki <strong>ni</strong> matabete ena kena tuku<strong>ni</strong><br />
<strong>ni</strong> ra gadreva na lewe <strong>ni</strong> Lotu me ra tomana<br />
Dua na nodra soqo<strong>ni</strong> na marama ena <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong><br />
<strong>Veivukei</strong> mai Del Rio, Texas, rauta na 1950<br />
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tikoga na ivakarau <strong>ni</strong> bula vinaka <strong>ni</strong> bula rawati<br />
koya. E kaya kina: “Sa ciwasagavulu katolu<br />
na yabaki na nona kaya tiko na <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong><br />
<strong>Veivukei</strong> me da vukei ira na noda era vakaleqai<br />
tu. Au vakataroga de da sa rui vakararavi tiko<br />
vakalevu ena gauna oqo ki na mata<strong>ni</strong>tu.” 14<br />
Ena Epereli <strong>ni</strong> 1936, a tekivuna kina na<br />
Mataveiliutaki Taumada e dua na parokaramu<br />
<strong>ni</strong> welefea ena Lotu raraba. Oqo a biu kina na<br />
Lotu ena dua na itutu vinaka me vukei ira na lewe<strong>ni</strong>lotu<br />
era vakaleqai tu. Ena ko<strong>ni</strong>feredi raraba<br />
<strong>ni</strong> Okotova 1936, a vakamacalataka kina o Peresitedi<br />
Heber J. Grant na inaki <strong>ni</strong> parokaramu.<br />
“<strong>Na</strong> noda inaki taumada,” e kaya o koya,<br />
“me da vakaduria, ena kena levu ga e rawa, e<br />
dua na ivakarau me na vakawabokotaki kina<br />
na cudru <strong>ni</strong> vakawelewele, ka bokoci laivi na ca<br />
<strong>ni</strong> ilavo soli wale ka tauyavutaki tale ena kedra<br />
maliwa na noda na tu vakataki koya, gugumatua,<br />
bula ma<strong>ni</strong><strong>ni</strong> ka dokai koya vakataki koya.<br />
<strong>Na</strong> inaki <strong>ni</strong> Lotu me vukei ira na tamata me<br />
ra vukei ira vakataki ira. Me vakatikori tale me<br />
ivakavuvuli liu ena nodra bula na noda lewe <strong>ni</strong><br />
Lotu na cakacaka.” 15<br />
Ena vica na yabaki ka tarava, a vakavoqataka<br />
kina na ivakavuvuli oqo o Peresitedi Thomas S.<br />
Monson, na ikati<strong>ni</strong>kaono <strong>ni</strong> Peresitedi <strong>ni</strong> Lotu.<br />
“<strong>Na</strong>numa tiko,” e kaya o koya, “<strong>Na</strong> veivuke <strong>ni</strong><br />
Lotu e kena inaki me ra vukei kina na tamata me<br />
ra vukei ira vakataki ira. <strong>Na</strong> nodra vakacokotaki<br />
Clarissa S. Williams<br />
iKaono <strong>ni</strong> Peresitedi Raraba <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong><br />
“Mai na noda isoqosoqo sa vunautaki kina na kosipeli, era<br />
sa qaravi na vakaleqai, era vakacegui na tauvimate, era<br />
vakayalovinakataki na bikai, sa dau basika tikoga mai vei<br />
ira na liga<strong>ni</strong>cakacaka ena <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>. . . . <strong>Na</strong><br />
ka cecere duadua ena vuravura oqo na loloma. Kevaka eda<br />
tugana tikoga ki yaloda, ka tukuna vei ira era tu wavoliti<br />
keda, eda na vakalougatataki ka da na iyaya <strong>ni</strong> nodra<br />
vakalougatataki o ira eda dau veimaliwai kaya.”<br />
Relief Society Magazine, June 1922, 312
na lewe<strong>ni</strong>lotu sa nodra itavi na tamata yadua<br />
kei na matavuvale, ka veivuke kina na kuoramu<br />
<strong>ni</strong> matabete kei na <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>. Eda<br />
segata tiko me da vakatorocaketaka na bula<br />
vakataki keda ka sega <strong>ni</strong> bula vakararavi. E segata<br />
na bisopi me tara na bula dodonu, dokai keda,<br />
kei na tudei <strong>ni</strong> ivakarau <strong>ni</strong> bula ena tamata yadua<br />
e vukei, ka na rawa kina na bula rawati koya.” 16<br />
E dua na ivakavuvuli veidusimaki <strong>ni</strong> parokaramu<br />
<strong>ni</strong> welefea sai koya me ra cakacaka vata<br />
na marama ena <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> kei ira<br />
na turaga ena matabete. A veivuke o Peresitedi<br />
Harold B. Lee, na ikati<strong>ni</strong>kadua <strong>ni</strong> Peresitedi <strong>ni</strong><br />
Lotu ena tauyavu <strong>ni</strong> parokaramu <strong>ni</strong> welefea <strong>ni</strong><br />
veiqaravi voli vakaperesitedi <strong>ni</strong> iteki. E kaya kina:<br />
“<strong>Na</strong> inaki bibi duadua me rawati [ena parokaramu<br />
<strong>ni</strong> welefea <strong>ni</strong> Lotu] sai koya me tarai<br />
cake na yalo <strong>ni</strong> cakacaka vata kei na duavata<br />
ena Lotu raraba. . . .<br />
“Me vaka <strong>ni</strong> ra cicivaki tiko na <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong><br />
<strong>Veivukei</strong> ena veitabanalevu ena veitoko<strong>ni</strong> <strong>ni</strong><br />
Veikuoramu <strong>ni</strong> Matabete kei na Matabisopi, sa<br />
tiko beka kina e dua na parokaramu <strong>ni</strong> welefea<br />
ena tabanalevu oqori.” 17<br />
A bibi vakalevu cake kina na nona itavi na<br />
peresitedi <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>, e kaya<br />
o Bisopi Joseph L. Wirthlin, a Bisopi Vakatulewa<br />
tiko kina <strong>ni</strong> Lotu ena gauna ko ya: “Ena<br />
ivakarau <strong>ni</strong> noqu vakasama, e dua ga e rawa<br />
<strong>ni</strong> lako ki na dua na vale, dikeva na veika e<br />
gadrevi kina, ka vakarautaka vei iratou na veika<br />
me ga<strong>ni</strong>ti iratou. <strong>Na</strong> tamata oqori sai koya<br />
eda rawa <strong>ni</strong> kaciva ka vakatoka me ma<strong>ni</strong>dia<br />
<strong>ni</strong> matavuvale, na peresitedi <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong><br />
<strong>Veivukei</strong>. . . . Ni dui tu sara mada ga na nodra<br />
matavuvale na marama vakasakiti oqori, era sa<br />
lakova oti na veika e baleta na bula vakatina kei<br />
na vakatulewataki <strong>ni</strong> matavuvale.” 18<br />
Era a conaki tu vakavinaka na <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong><br />
<strong>Veivukei</strong> me ra vakaitavitaki vakalevu cake ena<br />
sasaga <strong>ni</strong> welefea ena tabanalevu. Ena nodra<br />
vakatulewa na bisopi, era fikataka na veika<br />
e gadrevi ena matavuvale ka vakarautaka na<br />
vua<strong>ni</strong>kau kei na drau<strong>ni</strong>kau vakamamacataki<br />
ka maroroi, na isulu, kei na iyaya <strong>ni</strong> moce me<br />
vaka e gadrevi. Ena dua na gauna, era a kerei<br />
na marama era dau tawaitavayataki vuanaikau<br />
me ra solia e dua mai na veiyati<strong>ni</strong> na tavaya ki<br />
na parokaramu <strong>ni</strong> welefea. E nanuma lesu o<br />
Sisita Belle S. Spafford, na ikaciwa <strong>ni</strong> peresitedi<br />
raraba <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> na nona kumuna<br />
vata na vua<strong>ni</strong>kau era lutu ena kaukauwa<br />
<strong>ni</strong> cagi, ka maroroya ena tavaya, ka qai solia vei<br />
ira na marama era vakaleqai tu. Ena madigi <strong>ni</strong><br />
veiqaravi oqori, a yaco me taleitaka vakalevu<br />
cake kina na inaki <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>.<br />
O ira na veiliutaki <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong><br />
era sa tiki bibi sara <strong>ni</strong> ivakarau <strong>ni</strong> welefea ena<br />
Lotu. Ena ivakatagedegede raraba, na iteki, kei<br />
na tabanalevu, era na vakaitavi ena matabose<br />
<strong>ni</strong> welefea, ka ra veivakauqeti ena vakatulewa<br />
e tau ka ra raica na kena sasagataki. A yaga<br />
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me caka na vakataulewa oqo <strong>ni</strong> sa tubu cake<br />
na ivakarau <strong>ni</strong> welefea ena Lotu me vaka na<br />
iteitei, vanua <strong>ni</strong> buli iyaya, sitoa <strong>ni</strong> lotu, kei na<br />
veitabana tale eso <strong>ni</strong> iyauqaqa. A semati talega<br />
ki na Veiqaravi Raraba kei na Welefea <strong>ni</strong> Lotu<br />
na Tabacakacaka <strong>ni</strong> Veiqaravi Raraba ena <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong><br />
<strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> ena 1969.<br />
Vaqaqacotaki na iVau<br />
<strong>ni</strong> Loloma Cecere<br />
A robota tu e dua na iwase levu kei vuravura<br />
mai na 1939 ki na 1945 na iKarua <strong>ni</strong> iValu Levu.<br />
A tara e levu sara na parokaramu <strong>ni</strong> Lotu na<br />
veilecavi qaqa e vuravura raraba oqo. Ena Maji <strong>ni</strong><br />
1940, a sota kina kei ira na peresitedi <strong>ni</strong> veimataisoqosoqo<br />
o Peresitedi J. Reuben Clark Jr., na<br />
iMatai <strong>ni</strong> Dau<strong>ni</strong>vakasala nei Peresitedi Heber J.<br />
Grant, me dikevi tale mada na veiparokaramu<br />
kei na itaviqaravi kece. Era tuvalaka kina e va na<br />
sasaga taumada <strong>ni</strong> veitabana yadua ena Lotu:<br />
“me yala<strong>ni</strong> na ‘icolacola sa levu cake tikoga’ vei<br />
ira na lewe<strong>ni</strong>lotu ena kena qaravi na itaviqaravi<br />
<strong>ni</strong> lotu, me vakalailaitaki na nodra icolacola na<br />
bisopi, me musuki sobu na veiparokaramu e dau<br />
gadrevi kina na veivale<strong>ni</strong>lotu lelevu ka isau levu,<br />
ka me toka ga na Lotu ena loma <strong>ni</strong> ilavo e rawa<br />
mai.” Era sa kerei kina na <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong><br />
kei na isoqosoqo tale eso me ra “vakalailaitaka,<br />
vakaduavatataka, musuka laivi, vakarawarawataka,<br />
ka veimoiyaka na nodra cakacaka me ra<br />
dauavata kina kei na Mataveiliutaki [Taumada]<br />
ena kena rawati na sasaga sa tuku<strong>ni</strong> e cake.” 19<br />
Taqomaki na Matavuvale<br />
<strong>Na</strong> nodra inaki taumada na veiliutaki <strong>ni</strong> Lotu<br />
ena kena vakarawarawataki na nodra parokaramu<br />
me taqomaki kina na matavuvale. Era sa<br />
kauwaitaka tiko vakalevu na veiliutaki <strong>ni</strong> matabete<br />
kei na veimataisoqosoqo <strong>ni</strong> sa tatasereka<br />
tiko na vuvale kei na matavuvale na iKarua<br />
<strong>ni</strong> iValu Levu. Ni ra sa laki valu na tagane, me<br />
ra sa na qarava na marama na matavuvale ka<br />
sega kina na nodra veivuke na watidra kei na<br />
luvedra tagane qase cake. Era sa veivakayaloqaqataki<br />
kina na veiliutaki <strong>ni</strong> Lotu vei ira na tina<br />
ka ra tiko e vale na luvedra me ra vaqara na<br />
veisala eso, kevaka e rawa, me ra vakarautaka<br />
na veika me ra bula kina na gone ka kakua<br />
<strong>ni</strong> cakacaka kina e taudaku <strong>ni</strong> nodra vale ena<br />
gauna taucoko.<br />
Cakacaka Vata kei na Veisoqosoqo Vakaitikotiko<br />
kei na Tagane ena Matabete<br />
Me vaka ena veivalu levu sa oti ya<strong>ni</strong>, era sa<br />
dau rogoca na lewe <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> e<br />
Amerika na kaci <strong>ni</strong> voladia me toko<strong>ni</strong> kina na<br />
sasaga <strong>ni</strong> veisoqosoqo yaga tale eso. Ena 1942,<br />
e sivia na 10,000 na marama ena <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong><br />
<strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> era vakacavara na matavuli eso <strong>ni</strong><br />
Kauveilatai Damudamu me baleta na veiqaravi<br />
vakanasi e vale, na veivuke taumada, kei
Gertrude Zippro, e loma, kei na tacina kei na luvena<br />
na kakana bulabula. A cicivaka talega na Lotu na kena<br />
valuti na vakatavako kei na gunu yaqona <strong>ni</strong> valagi me<br />
taqomaki kina na nodra bula na Yalododonu Edaidai era<br />
veiqaravi tiko ena mataivalu. Mai na nodra tokona na<br />
veiparokaramu oqo kei na nodra veiqaravi ena yalololoma<br />
kei na loloma cecere, era rawata kina na marama<br />
ena <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> na bulabula vinaka kei na<br />
vakanuinui donu.<br />
Oqo e dua na gauna <strong>ni</strong> cakacaka vata vakalevu vei ira<br />
na marama ena <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>, ena veitikotiko<br />
ka vakakina vata kei ira na veiliutaki <strong>ni</strong> matabete. E kaya<br />
kina o Sisita Amy Brown Lyman, ka a veiqaravi vakaikawalu<br />
<strong>ni</strong> peresitedi raraba <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> ena<br />
dua na iwase levu <strong>ni</strong> iKarua <strong>ni</strong> iValu Levu:<br />
“<strong>Na</strong> noda marau tawamudu<br />
ena tautauvata<br />
kei na ivakarau eda soli<br />
keda kina ena nodra<br />
vukei na ta<strong>ni</strong>.”<br />
George Albert Smith<br />
Ena Conference Report,<br />
Okot. 1936, 71<br />
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“Au vakabauta <strong>ni</strong> dua vei ira na ka au dau<br />
taleitaka vakalevu duadua . . . oya na veitoko<strong>ni</strong><br />
era dau ciqoma na marama ena <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong><br />
<strong>Veivukei</strong> mai vei ira na matabete—mai vei ira<br />
na Vakaitutu Raraba <strong>ni</strong> Lotu ka vakatalega kina<br />
mai vei ira na matabete ena noda veivanua,<br />
vakabibi mai vei ira na bisopi <strong>ni</strong> veitabanalevu.<br />
“Era sa dau solia na Vakaitutu Raraba vei ira<br />
na marama veiliutaki <strong>ni</strong> Moma<strong>ni</strong> ena veimataisoqosoqo<br />
sega walega na veimadigi digitaki<br />
ena loma <strong>ni</strong> Lotu, ia era sa vakayaloqaqataki ira<br />
talega ena nodra cakacaka vata kei na veitabana<br />
<strong>ni</strong> veiqaravi raraba.” 20<br />
E dua na ivakaraitaki <strong>ni</strong> duavata oqo sai koya<br />
na nodra mai vakatikori na gonevuli <strong>ni</strong> Idia,<br />
ka tekivu ena 1947 ena veitoko<strong>ni</strong> nei Elder Spencer<br />
W. Kimball, ka se lewe kina <strong>ni</strong> Kuoramu<br />
<strong>ni</strong> iApositolo Le Ti<strong>ni</strong>karua. Ena parokaramu<br />
oqori, era sureti kina na itabagone <strong>ni</strong> Idia mai<br />
na veitikotiko lalai me ra mai tiko vata kei ira<br />
na veimatavuvale Yalododonu Edaidai ena veivanua<br />
e rawarawa kina na vuli kei na veivanua<br />
talega sa tauyavu vinaka tu kina na Lotu. <strong>Na</strong><br />
veiparokaramu oqori era vakayaloqaqataki kina<br />
na itabagone oqo me ra vakarabailevutaka na<br />
nodra kila, ka vulici talega kina me ciqomi na<br />
duidui <strong>ni</strong> itovo <strong>ni</strong> bula.<br />
Era veivuke na veiliutaki ena <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong><br />
<strong>Veivukei</strong> vakauasivi vei Sisita Belle S. Spafford,<br />
na ikaciwa <strong>ni</strong> peresitedi raraba <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong><br />
<strong>Veivukei</strong> ena ruku <strong>ni</strong> veiliutaki nei Elder Kimball<br />
ena kena cicivaki na parokaramu. E vuqa na<br />
marama era veiqaravi vakadodonu vei ira na<br />
itabagone ena nodra susugi ira me vaka ga <strong>ni</strong><br />
ra luvedra dina. A toma<strong>ni</strong> tiko na parokaramu<br />
oqo me yacova na 1996. A qai dikeva e muri<br />
o Peresitedi Boyd K. Packer ena Kuoramu <strong>ni</strong><br />
iApositolo Le Ti<strong>ni</strong>karua: “Sa rawata vakavinaka<br />
Amy Brown Lyman<br />
iKawalu <strong>ni</strong> Peresitedi Raraba <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong><br />
“Era sega <strong>ni</strong> kila vakavinaka sara na lewe taumada <strong>ni</strong><br />
isoqosoqo . . . na ituvaki cecere ena yaco kina na nodra<br />
<strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> loma<strong>ni</strong>.”<br />
Relief Society Magazine, Maji 1944, 139
“Ia sa vu mai vei Karisito na loloma sa uasivi sara”<br />
(Moronai 7:47).<br />
na kena inaki na parokaramu <strong>ni</strong> veivakatikori<br />
vei ira na gonevuli <strong>ni</strong> Idia, ka sa mai muduki.<br />
Ni sa yaco qori. . . . Eda sa biuta sobu na<br />
ikabakabaka <strong>ni</strong> sa oti na tara vale.” 21<br />
“<strong>Na</strong> Loloma Savasava i<br />
Karisito”: Loloma Cecere<br />
<strong>ni</strong> Cakacakataki<br />
Era sotava na marama ena <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong><br />
<strong>Veivukei</strong> mai Iurope na veivakacaca<strong>ni</strong> levu ena<br />
iKarua <strong>ni</strong> iValu Levu. Era vakaraitaka talega<br />
na yaloqaqa e dodonu me vakacaucautaki<br />
ena nodra veiqaravi vei ira vakataki ira e dina<br />
<strong>ni</strong> ra sotava tu na ituvaki <strong>ni</strong> bula vakaloloma.<br />
Era yalodina tikoga ka vakararavi ki na nodra<br />
ivakadinadina kei na Veisorovaki i Jisu Karisito.<br />
E veivakauqeti dina na nodra bula kei na nodra<br />
ivakadinadina mai na gauna oya.<br />
Ni oti na ivalu, a vola vaqo o Maria Speidel,<br />
ka a veiqaravi vakaperesitedi <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong><br />
<strong>Veivukei</strong> ena Tikina na Germany Stuttgart:<br />
“Sa bau gauna dredre dina na lima na<br />
yabaki sa sivi oqo sa yaco me keimami vakayalomalumalumutaki<br />
kina. Sa yaco me duru<br />
<strong>ni</strong> neimami kaukauwa na neimami vakararavi<br />
vua na Turaga kei na neimami ivakadinadina<br />
<strong>ni</strong> Nona Lotu. Sa maroroi keimami tiko ena<br />
Nona loloma cecere, e dina <strong>ni</strong> levu tu na veika<br />
rarawa keimami sotava, sa solia vei keimami<br />
o Koya e dua na ivakarau <strong>ni</strong> Nona kaukauwa.<br />
Eso vei keimami sa yali vakadua na iyau kece<br />
vakavuravura, na veika vakayago keimami dau<br />
vakamareqeta, <strong>ni</strong> keimami kaya <strong>ni</strong> vinaka cake<br />
me da lako vata kei na Kalou ena butobuto mai<br />
na noda sega <strong>ni</strong> lako vata kaya ena rarama,’<br />
keimami kila na veika keimami tukuna tiko. . . .<br />
“. . . Ena marau keimami lagata tiko na sere<br />
kei Saio<strong>ni</strong> ka vakabauta na Turaga. Sa vakavinakataka<br />
o Koya na ka kecega.” 22<br />
A lako vata kei na Kalou o Gertrude Zippro,<br />
e dua tale na peresitedi <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong><br />
<strong>ni</strong> tikina ena vuqa na bogi butobuto me loma<strong>ni</strong><br />
ira ka qaravi ira na tacina. A vakaitikotiko<br />
mai Oladi ena gauna e liutaki tu kina vakaivalu<br />
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na mata<strong>ni</strong>tu oya. Me vaka <strong>ni</strong> ra dau tarovi ira<br />
ka vakadikevi ira na dauveilakoyaki na sotia, sa<br />
dau kauta voli e dua na kena ivakatakilakila me<br />
rawa kina <strong>ni</strong> sikova na <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong><br />
ena veitabana ena tikina.<br />
E kaya na luvei Sisita Zippro tagane o John <strong>ni</strong><br />
sa “yaco me rerevaki sara na lako voli ena bogi<br />
<strong>ni</strong> toso tiko na veiliutaki vakaivalu ena lima na<br />
yabaki.” Ni nanuma na nona yalodina na tinana,<br />
e kaya kina, “E rawa beka <strong>ni</strong> o vakasamataka<br />
na nona dau vorata na tinaqu na ituvaki<br />
oya ka dau vodo baisikeli ya<strong>ni</strong> vakavuqa ena<br />
bogi, me sikova e dua tale na tabana?” E nanuma<br />
lesu o koya: “Veitalia na veika e vakila se<br />
na ituvaki e sotava, ena qarava ga na nona itavi.<br />
Sa dua na marama ka iliuliu cecere o koya! Au<br />
sega <strong>ni</strong> vakabekataka ena gauna oqo <strong>ni</strong> a digitaki<br />
koya sara ga mai na Turaga me Peresitedi <strong>ni</strong><br />
<strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> ena gauna ko ya.”<br />
E dikeva o Sisita Zippro, “E rairai <strong>ni</strong> a vakararavi<br />
sara ga vakatabakidua vua na Turaga me<br />
rawa kina <strong>ni</strong> lako ya<strong>ni</strong> ena veigauna ena ituvaki<br />
oya, ka sega tu <strong>ni</strong> kila na leqa e rawa <strong>ni</strong> sotava.” 23<br />
Mai Denmark, e vinaka cake sara na nodra<br />
ituvaki <strong>ni</strong> bula na Yalododonu mai na vuqa na<br />
veimata<strong>ni</strong>tu. E tu vei ira na kakana, era dau wasea<br />
kina vei ira na wekadra era sega soti tu <strong>ni</strong><br />
kalougata. E kaya vaqo o Eva M. Gregersen, na<br />
peresitedi <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> ena Tabana<br />
<strong>ni</strong> Kaulotu na Da<strong>ni</strong>sh: “Keimami sa taura me<br />
neimami itavi ena gauna <strong>ni</strong> valu me keimami<br />
dau vukei ira era waloloi tu ena viakana mai<br />
Norway na neimami vanua veitaci<strong>ni</strong>. Keimami<br />
dau cakacaka vata kei na vale<strong>ni</strong>volavola <strong>ni</strong> kaulotu<br />
ena kena soli na ilavo me baleta na inaki<br />
oqo ia ena veivula sa dau kau na isole kakana<br />
vivinaka vei ira na ganei keimami kei na taci<br />
kemami mai Norway, ka ra sega <strong>ni</strong> dau vakamacalataka<br />
rawa na nodra vakavinavinaka.” 24<br />
O Peresitedi Hugh B. Brown e dua na ivakadinadina<br />
taumada <strong>ni</strong> loloma cecere vakaoqori.<br />
A veiqaravi vakaperesitedi <strong>ni</strong> tabana <strong>ni</strong> Kaulotu<br />
na British mai na 1937 ki na 1939, vakakodineita<br />
<strong>ni</strong> nodra isoqosoqo <strong>ni</strong> sotia na Yalododonu<br />
Edaidai e Iurope mai na 1939 ki na 1945, ka<br />
peresitedi tale <strong>ni</strong> Tabana <strong>ni</strong> Kaulotu na British<br />
mai na 1945 ki na 1946. E muri a qai veiqaravi<br />
ena Kuoramu <strong>ni</strong> iApositolo Le Ti<strong>ni</strong>karua kei na<br />
Mataveiliutaki Taumada. A tuku<strong>ni</strong>ka me baleta<br />
na veiqaravi a raica vei ira na marama ena <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong><br />
<strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> ena iKarua <strong>ni</strong> iValu Levu:<br />
“E drau na marama <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong><br />
ena vanua <strong>ni</strong> ivalu ka tadravi tu na nodra bula<br />
ena veika rerevaki, na veivakatovolei kei na<br />
bula dredre, ka rawa <strong>ni</strong> vakatautauvatataki kei<br />
na kena era sotava na noda tagane ena buca <strong>ni</strong><br />
ivalu. Era toso tiko ga na marama yaloqaqa oqori<br />
ena veivanua dredre vakaca sara <strong>ni</strong> bula. . . .<br />
“Me da tekiduru vata kei ira na marama oqo<br />
ena masu ka rogoca na nodra vakavinavinaka<br />
vua na Kalou ena veivakalougatataki lalai, na<br />
maroroi tiko <strong>ni</strong> nodra bula kei na nodra bula na
nodra dauloma<strong>ni</strong>, kei na veika lalai e soli me ra<br />
bula kina kei na nodra veivale sega <strong>ni</strong> vakatubaleka<br />
sa dau veivakauqeti ka veivakavulici<br />
vua e vuqa vei keimami ka sivia vakalevu sara<br />
na veika e tu eke na veika e tu vei keimami, ia<br />
keimami dau vosakudrukudru <strong>ni</strong> sega e vica na<br />
veika talei <strong>ni</strong> bula.” 25<br />
O Hedwig Biereichel, e dua na marama<br />
ena Tokalau kei Jama<strong>ni</strong>, e dau vakarautaka na<br />
kakana me baleti ira na kaivesu <strong>ni</strong> ivalu <strong>ni</strong> Rusia<br />
ka ra waloloi tu, e dina <strong>ni</strong> a rawa me ratou bala<br />
ki vale<strong>ni</strong>veivesu se lauvana o koya kei na nona<br />
matavuvale ena ivalavala <strong>ni</strong> loloma cecere oya. 26<br />
Ena vica na yabaki i muri, a vakatarogi me baleta<br />
na veika a sotava, ka vakakina e vica vata tale<br />
era a sotava na veivakatovolei vata vaqori ena<br />
iKarua <strong>ni</strong> iValu Levu. Ni cava na veivakatarogi<br />
yadua, ena taroga o koya e veivakatarogi tiko,<br />
“O maroroya rawa tiko vakacava e dua na ivakadinadina<br />
ena gauna <strong>ni</strong> veivakatovolei vaqori?”<br />
E qai umana vata o koya e veivakatarogi na isau<br />
kece <strong>ni</strong> taro oqori a ciqoma: “Au a sega <strong>ni</strong> maroroya<br />
tiko e dua na ivakadinadina ena veigauna<br />
oqori—a maroroi au tiko na ivakadinadina.” 27<br />
Ni mai cava na iKarua <strong>ni</strong> iValu Levu ena<br />
1945, era sotava na marama ena <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong><br />
<strong>Veivukei</strong> e vuqa na veika rarawa kei na veivakuwai.<br />
Ena loma <strong>ni</strong> veika kece oqori, era ia<br />
tikoga na veiqaravi vei ira vakataki ira, vaqaqacotaki<br />
<strong>ni</strong> matavuvale, ka vakatataki cake na<br />
ivakadinadina.<br />
Me vaka <strong>ni</strong> dua na ivakadinadina bula <strong>ni</strong> veika<br />
rarawa kei na veiqaravi sega <strong>ni</strong> nanumi koya<br />
ga, e kaya kina o Sisita Amy Brown Lyman:<br />
“<strong>Na</strong> [noqu] ivakadinadina sa noqu ikelekele<br />
ka noqu ivakadei, na noqu ivakavakacegu<br />
ena gauna <strong>ni</strong> reki kei na marau, na noqu<br />
ivakalogavinaka ena gauna <strong>ni</strong> yaluma kei na<br />
yalolailai. . . .<br />
“Au vakavinavinaka ena vuku <strong>ni</strong> veimadigi<br />
eso e soli vei au meu veiqaravi kina . . . ena<br />
<strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> na vanua au sa cakacaka<br />
kina ena mamarau kei na vakacegu kei ira na<br />
udolu vakaudolu na lewena ena noqu gauna <strong>ni</strong><br />
bula vaqase. Au dau veisiko ena nodra veivale,<br />
moce ena nodra imocemoce, ka kana ena nodra<br />
teveli, kau sa vulica mai kina na totoka <strong>ni</strong> nodra<br />
ivakarau <strong>ni</strong> bula, na nodra sega <strong>ni</strong> dau nanumi<br />
ira ga, na yalodra dauveiciqomi, na nodra yalodina,<br />
kei na nodra solibula. Au sega <strong>ni</strong> vakamacalataka<br />
rawa na noqu rokova na veitaci<strong>ni</strong><br />
vakamarama cecere oqo <strong>ni</strong> veiqaravi.” 28<br />
Ena veigauna <strong>ni</strong> vakatovolei kei na veilecayaki,<br />
era sa muria na veitaci<strong>ni</strong> marama ena<br />
<strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> e vuravura raraba na<br />
ivakasala nei Moma<strong>ni</strong> me ra “kabita na loloma,<br />
<strong>ni</strong> sa uasivi sara.” Era sa vakaraitaka <strong>ni</strong> ra sa<br />
kila deivaki sara “<strong>ni</strong> na mudu mai na ka kecega<br />
. . . ia sa vu mai vei Karisito na loloma sa uasivi<br />
sara, ka sa ia tikoga ka sega <strong>ni</strong> mudu.” 29 Era sa<br />
dau dinata tiko ga na nodra ibole ena veigauna<br />
kecega: “Sa sega <strong>ni</strong> mudu na loloma.”<br />
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WASE 6<br />
E Dua na iWiri<strong>ni</strong><br />
<strong>ni</strong> Veitaci<strong>ni</strong> <strong>Marama</strong><br />
e Vuravura Raraba<br />
<strong>Na</strong> iwiri<strong>ni</strong> cecere <strong>ni</strong> veitaci<strong>ni</strong> marama<br />
oqo ena itataqomaki vei kemu<strong>ni</strong> yadua kei na<br />
nomu<strong>ni</strong> matavuvale. Ena vakatautauvatataki beka<br />
na <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> kei na dua na ivakaruru—<br />
na vanua <strong>ni</strong> veimaroroi kei na veitaqomaki—na<br />
idrodro <strong>ni</strong> veigauna makawa. O na taqomaki<br />
vinaka e lomana. Ena vakavolivolita na<br />
marama yadua me vaka e dua<br />
na bai veitaqomaki.<br />
Boyd K. Packer
WASE 6<br />
E Dua na iWiri<strong>ni</strong> <strong>ni</strong> Veitaci<strong>ni</strong><br />
<strong>Marama</strong> e Vuravura Raraba<br />
Ni sota vata kei ira na marama ena iSoqo-<br />
soqo <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> mai <strong>Na</strong>uvoo, e vakavuvulitaka<br />
na Parofita o Josefa Simici me ikuri <strong>ni</strong> nodra<br />
veiqaravi vakayago, me ra vaqaqacotaki ira ta-<br />
lega na tamata vakayalo (raica na wase 2). Ni ra<br />
yavutaki ena ivakavuvuli oqo, era sa kunea na<br />
marama ena <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> na loloma<br />
kei na veitaqomaki mai na cava <strong>ni</strong> bula na no-<br />
dra veiqaravi vata. Era sa veiwasei vei ira vaka-<br />
taki ira ena kosipeli i Jisu Karisito ka vakakina<br />
vei ira era tu wavoliti ira. Sa yaco me ivakaruru<br />
mai vuravura na <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>—e dua<br />
na ivakavakacegu—ka rarama ki vuravura—e<br />
dua na vanua <strong>ni</strong> veivakauqeti.<br />
Ena dua na soqo<strong>ni</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong><br />
mai Ogden e Utah, a vakacaucautaka kina<br />
vakalevu sara o Sisita Eliza R. Snow, na ikarua<br />
<strong>ni</strong> peresitedi raraba <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> na<br />
nodra sasaga na marama me ra veivaqaqacotaki<br />
vakataki ira ena veika vakayago kei na veika<br />
vakayalo. A tukuna vei ira <strong>ni</strong> dina ga <strong>ni</strong> sega<br />
<strong>ni</strong> volaitukutukutaka tu na Lotu na cau yadua<br />
era vakayacora me ra vukei kina na vakaleqai<br />
tu, e volaitukutukutaka tu vakavinaka sara na<br />
Turaga na nodra cakacaka <strong>ni</strong> veivakabulai:<br />
Era na kunea na marama ena <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> na<br />
loloma ka ra taqomaki mai na cava <strong>ni</strong> bula ena nodra<br />
veiqaravi vata.<br />
“Au kila vinaka tu <strong>ni</strong> levu sara na cau e sega<br />
<strong>ni</strong> volaitukutukutaki. E kaya o Peresitedi Josefa<br />
Simici <strong>ni</strong> a tauyavutaki na isoqosoqo oqo me<br />
vakabulai kina na yalo. <strong>Na</strong> cava era sa cakava na<br />
marama me ra lesu tale mai kina o ira era sa lako<br />
sese tu?—me vakatakata na yalodra o ira era sa<br />
batabata mai ena kosipeli?—E maroroi tu e dua<br />
tale na ivola me baleta na nomu<strong>ni</strong> vakabauta, na<br />
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94<br />
nomu<strong>ni</strong> yalovinaka, na nomu<strong>ni</strong> cakacaka vinaka,<br />
kei na vosa. E dua tale na ivolatukutuku sa ma-<br />
roroi tu. E sega <strong>ni</strong> dua na ka e yali.” 1<br />
E dua tale na ivolatukutuku vakalomalagi<br />
sa maroroi tu me baleta na nodra cakacaka na<br />
marama ena <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> ena nodra<br />
dolele ya<strong>ni</strong> vei ira sa batabata mai na yalodra<br />
ka ra gadreva na vakabauta, na yalovinaka, na<br />
cakacaka vinaka, kei na vosa vinaka.<br />
Veitaci<strong>ni</strong> <strong>Marama</strong> e<br />
Vuravura Raraba<br />
Ena loma <strong>ni</strong> 1900 vakacaca, <strong>ni</strong> sotava tu na<br />
vuravura na revurevu <strong>ni</strong> veivaluvaluti kei na<br />
veileqa sega <strong>ni</strong> namaki, sa rabailevu tikoga na<br />
cakacaka <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>. Ni dina<br />
tiko ena inaki <strong>ni</strong> isoqosoqo—vakalevutaki cake<br />
na vakabauta kei na buladodonu <strong>ni</strong> tamata<br />
yadua, vaqaqacotaki <strong>ni</strong> matavuvale kei na<br />
vuvale, ka vakasaqarai ka ra vukei o ira era<br />
vakaleqai tu—a vakarautaka na <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong><br />
<strong>Veivukei</strong> e dua na ivakaruru vei ira na marama<br />
ena <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> ka veivakauqeti ena<br />
veika vinaka. Ena 1947 eratou vakavuvulitaka<br />
kina na mataveiliutaki raraba <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong><br />
<strong>Veivukei</strong> (o Sisita Belle S. Spafford, Marianne<br />
Sharp, kei Gertrude Garff), “<strong>Na</strong> noda na itavi <strong>ni</strong><br />
veivakabulai ka gadrevi kina e dua na uto levu,<br />
na tatara <strong>ni</strong> yalovinaka, na yalo tudei.” 2<br />
Ena gauna oya, eso na mata<strong>ni</strong>tu era sa vakaduria<br />
na vakatatabu vakapolitiki ka ra biuta sara<br />
ga eso na bai. <strong>Na</strong> vakatatabu eso oqori kei na bai,<br />
ka ra kilai tu ena yacadra me vaka na iLati Kaukamea<br />
kei na Bai kei Berili<strong>ni</strong>, a kena inaki me<br />
ra vakatabui kina eso na tamata ka ra vakuwai<br />
eso tale. <strong>Na</strong> kena veibasai, o ira na marama ena<br />
<strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> era tara na bai vakayalo<br />
ka kedra inaki me veitaqomaki ka veitoko<strong>ni</strong>.<br />
Era lako vata mai ena dua na iwiri<strong>ni</strong> <strong>ni</strong> veitaci<strong>ni</strong><br />
marama ka sureti eso tale me ra oka vata kei ira.<br />
Ena veimata<strong>ni</strong>tu sara mada ga ka tu kina na<br />
iyalayala vakapolitiki kei na lawa ka vakatabui<br />
kina na vakaitavi raraba ena lotu, era vakila na<br />
lewe <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> na kedra isema<br />
vei ira na marama e veiyasai vuravura. Era dinata<br />
tikoga na nodra ivakadinadina <strong>ni</strong> kosipeli vakalesui<br />
mai kei na inaki <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>.<br />
Ena 1980, erau a sikova kina e dua na <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong><br />
<strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> mai Czechoslovakia (sa kilai tu<br />
ena gauna oqo me Czech Republic kei Slovakia)<br />
o Peresitedi Boyd K. Packer ena Kuoramu<br />
<strong>ni</strong> iApositolo Le Ti<strong>ni</strong>karua kei na watina o<br />
Donna. A qai nanuma lesu o koya e muri:<br />
“A sega <strong>ni</strong> rawarawa na kena sagai na visa,<br />
ka keirau qarauna sara vakavinaka me keirau<br />
kua <strong>ni</strong> vakaleqa na nodra taqomaki vinaka kei<br />
na nodra tiko vinaka na noda lewe<strong>ni</strong>lotu, ka ra<br />
sotava mai na veika dredre vakalevu sara ena<br />
nodra tovolea tiko mai ena vica vata na itabatamata<br />
me ra vakabula tiko na nodra vakabauta<br />
ena ituvaki <strong>ni</strong> bula ka sega <strong>ni</strong> vakamacalataki<br />
rawa na levu <strong>ni</strong> veisaqasaqa e sotavi kina.
Era soqo<strong>ni</strong> vata mai na marama ena <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> ena dua<br />
na iwiri<strong>ni</strong> vakaveitaci<strong>ni</strong> <strong>ni</strong> marama.<br />
“<strong>Na</strong> soqo<strong>ni</strong> guilecavi dredre duadua a vakayacori ena<br />
dua na rumu e cake. E dumu tu na ilatilati. Ena bogi sara<br />
mada ga, o ira na mai tiko ena bose era dui lakolako mai,<br />
e dua mai na dua na yasana ka dua mai na dua tale, me<br />
kakua kina <strong>ni</strong> kilai.<br />
“Eratou tiko rawa e 12 na marama. Keimami lagata na<br />
sere<strong>ni</strong>lotu kei Saio<strong>ni</strong> mai na ivola<strong>ni</strong>sere—qaqana ga ka<br />
sega na kena ivakatagi—tabaki ena sivia na 50 na yabaki<br />
sa oti. [E dua na leso<strong>ni</strong>] a vakavulici ena vakarokoroko mai<br />
na drau<strong>ni</strong>pepa <strong>ni</strong> dua na ivolavakarau caka ga e liga. . . .<br />
“Au tukuna vei iratou na marama oya <strong>ni</strong> ratou okati ki<br />
na isoqosoqo levu duadua ka sega talega <strong>ni</strong> vakataratutu<br />
<strong>ni</strong> isoqosoqo cecere duadua <strong>ni</strong> marama e vuravura.<br />
Au cavuta na nona vosa na Parofita o Josefa Simici ena<br />
gauna era tauyavutaka kina kei ira na turaga Veitaci<strong>ni</strong> na<br />
<strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>. . . .<br />
“O <strong>ni</strong> sa digitaki mo<br />
<strong>ni</strong> marama digitaki <strong>ni</strong><br />
Kalou ena noda gauna,<br />
mo <strong>ni</strong> biuta laivi na<br />
veika sega na betena, na<br />
kakase, na dau nanumi<br />
koya ga, na veika sega<br />
<strong>ni</strong> dodonu, kei na veika<br />
kecega e sega <strong>ni</strong> vakalou.<br />
Kila na nomu<strong>ni</strong> dodonu<br />
vakalou ko <strong>ni</strong> sucu kaya<br />
mai <strong>ni</strong> ko <strong>ni</strong> luvena<br />
yalewa na Tamada<br />
Vakalomalagi.”<br />
Howard W. Hunter<br />
Ensign, Nove. 1992, 97<br />
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96<br />
“A tiko kina na Yalotabu. A tagi e matanalevu<br />
na marama totoka ka a veiliutaki ena yaloma-<br />
lua kei na vakarokoroko.<br />
“Au tukuna vei iratou <strong>ni</strong>u na lesu mai au<br />
sa lesi tu meu vosa ena dua na ko<strong>ni</strong>feredi<br />
<strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>; e rawa beka <strong>ni</strong>u<br />
tukuna e dua na itukutuku mai vei iratou? E<br />
vica vata vei iratou era sa volavola; na iva-<br />
karaitaki yadua, o iratou kece, e tu vei ira na<br />
yalo <strong>ni</strong> solisoli—ka sega <strong>ni</strong> kerea e dua na ka.<br />
Au na sega <strong>ni</strong> guilecava vakadua na ka e vola<br />
e dua na marama: ‘E dua na iwiri<strong>ni</strong> lailai <strong>ni</strong><br />
marama era vakauta ya<strong>ni</strong> na yalodra kei na<br />
nodra vakanananu vei ira kece na marama ka<br />
vakatakekere vua na Turaga me vukei keitou<br />
me keitou toso ki liu.’<br />
“<strong>Na</strong> mala<strong>ni</strong>vosa oqori, iwiri<strong>ni</strong> <strong>ni</strong> marama,<br />
e vakauqeti au. Au rawa <strong>ni</strong> raici ira <strong>ni</strong> ra tu<br />
wavoki ena dua na iwiri<strong>ni</strong> ka yacova ya<strong>ni</strong> na tautuba<br />
<strong>ni</strong> rumu oya ka wavokita na vuravura.” 3<br />
Ni nanuma lesu na soqo<strong>ni</strong> oya, e kaya kina<br />
o Peresitedi Packer, “Au a tu vakalailai ena<br />
iwiri<strong>ni</strong> oya ka vakila na tatuki <strong>ni</strong> vakabauta<br />
kei na yaloqaqa kei na loloma ka lako mai ena<br />
yasana ruarua.” 4<br />
<strong>Na</strong> mataqali vakabauta kei na yaloqaqa kei<br />
na loloma vakaoqori era dau kumu<strong>ni</strong> vata me<br />
tarai cake kina na nodra iyau na marama ena<br />
<strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> ena veivanua kecega. E<br />
vakayaloqaqataki ira na marama ena <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong><br />
<strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> o Peresitedi Henry B. Eyring, e dua<br />
na dau<strong>ni</strong>vakasala ena Mataveiliutaki Taumada<br />
Belle S. Spafford<br />
iKaciwa <strong>ni</strong> Peresitedi Raraba <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong><br />
“Ena veiyabaki, sa dau tudei na <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong><br />
ena kena inaki me vaka ga na tudei <strong>ni</strong> dina. <strong>Na</strong> inaki<br />
eratou a nanuma e vica na marama mai <strong>Na</strong>uvoo <strong>ni</strong> ka<br />
bibi e se bibi tikoga vei ira na marama e vuravura raraba.<br />
Oqori na cakacaka mana <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>. Au sa<br />
cakacaka ena <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> ena vuqa na yabaki,<br />
kau sa qai tekivu raica tiko mai na kena cecere.”<br />
Ensign, June 1974, 15
“Se vanua cava ga e lako kina e dua na matavuvale,<br />
ena waraki ira tu mai e dua na matavuvale ena Lotu”<br />
(Boyd K. Packer).<br />
me ra wasea na iyau oqo. “O na veisolitaka<br />
tiko ya<strong>ni</strong> na iyau oqo ena nomu vukei ira tale<br />
eso me ra ciqoma na isolisoli <strong>ni</strong> loloma cecere<br />
e yalodra,” e kaya o koya. “Sa na qai rawa kina<br />
me ra solia ya<strong>ni</strong> vei ira tale eso. E volai tu na<br />
itukutuku <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> ena veimala<strong>ni</strong>vosa<br />
kei na mata<strong>ni</strong>fika, ia na iyau e soli mai<br />
na yalo ki na yalo.” 5 Oqori e yaco ena iwiri<strong>ni</strong> <strong>ni</strong><br />
veitaci<strong>ni</strong> marama ena <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>.<br />
E Dua na iVakaruru<br />
Me tekivu mai na veisiga taumada <strong>ni</strong> iSo-<br />
qosoqo <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>, era dau vakarautaka na<br />
marama e dua na ivakaruru—e dua na vanua<br />
<strong>ni</strong> veivakabulai, loloma, yalovinaka, veikauwaitaki,<br />
kei na veiyalo<strong>ni</strong>. E <strong>Na</strong>uvoo, era dau<br />
kunea na marama na ivakaruru ena <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong><br />
<strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> ena nodra vakararavi ki na nodra<br />
dui vakabauta kei na maqosa kei na nodra<br />
veiwaseitaka na kakana kei na isulu. E toma<strong>ni</strong><br />
tiko oqo ena nodra kosova na bucabuca kei na<br />
nodra tauyavutaki ira ena yasayasa vaka-Utah.<br />
Oqo, <strong>ni</strong> sa tubu na Lotu e vuravura raraba, era<br />
sa dau kunea tikoga na marama na ivakaruru<br />
ena <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>.<br />
E kaya o Peresitedi Boyd K. Packer: “<strong>Na</strong><br />
iwiri<strong>ni</strong> levu <strong>ni</strong> marama oqo ena itataqomaki vei<br />
kemu<strong>ni</strong> yadua kei na nomu<strong>ni</strong> matavuvale. E<br />
rawa <strong>ni</strong> vakatauvata<strong>ni</strong> na <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong><br />
kei na dua na vanua <strong>ni</strong> vakaruru—na vanua me<br />
da maroroi ka taqomaki kina—na idrodro <strong>ni</strong><br />
veigauna makawa. O na taqomaki vinaka kina.<br />
E virikovuta na marama yadua me vaka e dua<br />
na bai veitaqomaki.” 6<br />
Ena 1999, eratou a toki o Bobbie Sandberg<br />
e dua na marama radi<strong>ni</strong>vale gone ka tina kei<br />
na nona matavuvale mai Amerika ki Taiwan. E<br />
dina <strong>ni</strong> na tiko voli ga mai kea me ono na vula<br />
<strong>ni</strong> rau veivakavulici kina kei na watina ena dua<br />
na kalasi <strong>ni</strong> vosa Vakavalagi, era a virikovuti<br />
koya na tacina marama <strong>ni</strong> Taiwan ena veivakauqeti<br />
veitaqomaki <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>.<br />
A vakavotukana na veitaqomaki oqori<br />
<strong>ni</strong> kurea na mata<strong>ni</strong>tu oya e dua na uneune<br />
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98<br />
rerevaki ka volekata sara ga na nodratou itikotiko<br />
na Sandberg na utona. Era kakasurasura<br />
na veivale e yasa ruarua <strong>ni</strong> koro<strong>ni</strong>vuli eratou<br />
vakaitikotiko kina. Ni oti ga e vica na auwa mai<br />
na imatai <strong>ni</strong> sakure levu, sa basika ki nodratou<br />
matavuvale na nona peresitedi <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong><br />
<strong>Veivukei</strong> o Sisita Sandberg me vaka e dua na<br />
agilosi dauloloma cecere me dikeva na veika<br />
eratou gadreva ka vukei iratou. Baleta <strong>ni</strong> sa<br />
vakarusai tu e vuqa na gau<strong>ni</strong>sala kei na veivale<br />
ka sa vakacaca<strong>ni</strong> na sala kece <strong>ni</strong> veitaratara, e<br />
vakayagataka na peresitedi dau veikauwaitaki<br />
oqo na sala duadua ga <strong>ni</strong> veilakoyaki e raica<br />
rawa. A vodoka na nona basikeli ena maliwa<br />
<strong>ni</strong> icaca <strong>ni</strong> veivale me yacova <strong>ni</strong> sa sikovi ira e<br />
vuqa na marama ena tabanalevu.<br />
Ena loma <strong>ni</strong> bula yavavala vakayago, a toka<br />
o Sisita Sandberg ena veitaqomaki vinaka <strong>ni</strong><br />
<strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>. A kauwaitaka na nona<br />
peresitedi <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> na nodra<br />
taqomaki vinaka kei na nodra gagadre na marama<br />
yadua ena nona tabanalevu.<br />
E vuqa na Yalododonu Edaidai e veiyasai<br />
vuravura era rawa <strong>ni</strong> vakadinadinataka na dina<br />
<strong>ni</strong> itukutuku oqo mai vei Peresitedi Packer,<br />
me vakataki Sisita Sandberg: “Sa dua dina<br />
na vakacegu levu me da kila <strong>ni</strong> veitalia ga na<br />
vanua e [gole kina e dua na matavuvale], sa<br />
na waraki ratou tu mai e dua na matavuvale<br />
ena Lotu. Mai na siga ga eratou yaco ya<strong>ni</strong> kina,<br />
ena okati o koya ki na dua na kuoramu <strong>ni</strong><br />
Relief Society Building, Salt Lake City, Utah, 1956<br />
matabete ka okati na marama ki na <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong><br />
<strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>.” 7<br />
E Dua na Vanua <strong>ni</strong> Veivakauqeti<br />
A kacivi me ikaciwa <strong>ni</strong> peresitedi raraba <strong>ni</strong><br />
<strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> o Sisita Belle S. Spafford<br />
ena Epereli <strong>ni</strong> 1945, ka vakatikori o Peresitedi<br />
George Albert Smith me ikawalu <strong>ni</strong> Peresitedi<br />
<strong>ni</strong> Lotu <strong>ni</strong> oti e ono na macawa. A vakayaloqa-<br />
qataki Sisita Spafford kei ira kece na marama<br />
ena <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> o Peresitedi Smith<br />
me ra vakarautaka na veitoko<strong>ni</strong> vakayago vei<br />
ira na tamata era se vakaleqai tikoga mai na<br />
revurevu <strong>ni</strong> iKarua <strong>ni</strong> iValu Levu. E kerei ira<br />
talega me vakilai na nodra veivakauqeti vei ira<br />
na marama kece e vuravura raraba. E kaya kina,<br />
“Ni wirica na Parofita o Josefa Simici na idola<br />
<strong>ni</strong> nodra vagalalataki na marama, sa wirici kina<br />
me baleta na vuravura taucoko.” 8
<strong>Na</strong> Vale <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>,<br />
na Vale <strong>ni</strong> Veivakauqeti<br />
Ena Okotova <strong>ni</strong> 1945, sa kacivaki na itu-<br />
vatuva me tara e dua na vale <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong><br />
<strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>. 9 Ena Okotova <strong>ni</strong> 1947, eratou a<br />
vakadonuya kina na Mataveiliutaki Taumada<br />
e dua na ituvatuva a vakatura o Sisita Belle S.<br />
Spafford: era a kerei kina na lewe yadua <strong>ni</strong><br />
<strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>, ka kena iwiliwili ena<br />
gauna oya e 100,000, me ra solia e lima na dola<br />
ki na sasaga oqo. Era vakauta ya<strong>ni</strong> na nodra<br />
cau na marama mai na veiyasai vuravura. Eso<br />
era vakauta mai na cakacaka <strong>ni</strong> liga mai na<br />
nodra veivanua me ukutaki kina na loma <strong>ni</strong><br />
vale. Ena dua na yabaki era sa kumuna rawa<br />
na marama e $554,016.<br />
E kaya kina o Sisita Spafford: “Sa dua na<br />
iwase levu <strong>ni</strong> ilavo e rawa oqo, ia e sega <strong>ni</strong> ilavo<br />
walega. E rawa eke e vuqa sara na veika talei<br />
vakayalo—na veika talei ka cecere sara na kena<br />
isau—na vakavinavinakataki <strong>ni</strong> itutu dokai e<br />
nodra na marama ena ituvatuva <strong>ni</strong> kosipeli; na<br />
ivakadinadina <strong>ni</strong> kena vakalou na cakacaka <strong>ni</strong><br />
isoqosoqo; kei na vakavinavinaka me baleta na<br />
madigi e soli vei ira na marama ena Lotu me ra<br />
veiqaravi . . . ; na yalodina vei ira na veiliutaki;<br />
na yalodina ka sega kina na nanumi koya ga<br />
ki na dua na inaki cecere. Sa iyaloyalo <strong>ni</strong> veika<br />
cecere ka ukutaki tu kina na isoqosoqo.” 10<br />
<strong>Na</strong> vale ka toka ena vua-i-cake <strong>ni</strong> Valetabu e<br />
Salt Lake, a vakatabui ena ika 3 <strong>ni</strong> Okotova, 1956.<br />
Ena nona masu <strong>ni</strong> vakatatabu, a tukuna kina o<br />
Peresitedi David O. McKay, na ikaciwa <strong>ni</strong> Peresitedi<br />
<strong>ni</strong> Lotu, na veivakauqeti <strong>ni</strong> vuravura taucoko<br />
ena basika mai na vale oqo: “Me mana vakalevu<br />
cake kina na nodra veiqaravi vei ira na vakaleqai<br />
tu kei ira era kune rarawa ena Lotu kei ira e Vuravura,<br />
sa tarā kina na <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> ena<br />
nodra veivuke na lewe <strong>ni</strong> Lotu raraba na itikotiko<br />
totoka oqo <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>.” 11<br />
Me tekivu mai na 1984 sa vakavaletaki talega<br />
tiko ga kina ena vale oqo na vale<strong>ni</strong>volavola <strong>ni</strong><br />
Sisita Belle S. Spafford, imawi, ena dua na soqo<strong>ni</strong> <strong>ni</strong><br />
Matabose Raraba <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Marama</strong><br />
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mataveiliutaki raraba <strong>ni</strong> Goneyalewa kei na<br />
mataveiliutaki raraba <strong>ni</strong> Lalai.<br />
Veivakauqeti Vei Ira ena Matavakabauta Ta<strong>ni</strong><br />
A vulica o Sisita Spafford e dua na leso<strong>ni</strong><br />
cecere mai vei Peresitedi George Albert Smith<br />
me baleta na kena wasei na veika talei me<br />
baleta na Lotu vei ira na marama <strong>ni</strong> vura-<br />
vura. Ni qai oti wale toka na nona toko<strong>ni</strong> me<br />
peresitedi raraba <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>, “a<br />
yaco mai e dua na ivola mai na Matabose<br />
<strong>ni</strong> <strong>Marama</strong> ena Mata<strong>ni</strong>tu (<strong>Na</strong>tional Council<br />
of Women), ka tuku<strong>ni</strong> mai kina na nodra<br />
bose vakayabaki me vakayacori mai Niu Ioka<br />
(New York).<br />
“Sa dau tiko ena veisoqo<strong>ni</strong> vakaoqo o Sisita<br />
Spafford e liu, ia mai na veika sa dau sotava oti<br />
e liu, eratou a vakasamataka sara kina vakavi-<br />
naka kei rau na nona dau<strong>ni</strong>vakasala ena vica na<br />
macawa na veisureti oqori.<br />
“Eratou sa ma<strong>ni</strong> lewa vata kina me ratou vakatura<br />
vua na Peresitedi <strong>ni</strong> Lotu me sa muduka<br />
na <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> na nona lewena na<br />
veimatabose oqori. Eratou vakarautaka e dua<br />
na itukutuku <strong>ni</strong> vakatutu, ka vola na vuna kece<br />
sara me vakayacori kina.<br />
“Ena sauta<strong>ni</strong><strong>ni</strong> kei na veilecayaki, a biuta kina<br />
o Sisita Spafford na tiki<strong>ni</strong>pepa ena teveli nei<br />
Peresitedi George Albert Smith, ka kaya, ‘Eratou<br />
gadreva na Mataveiliutaki <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong><br />
me ratou vakatura ki na Matabose Raraba<br />
me muduka na nona lewena tiko na Matabose<br />
<strong>ni</strong> Mata<strong>ni</strong>tu kei na Matabose Raraba <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Marama</strong>,<br />
na vuna sa tuvai koto ena pepa oqo.’<br />
“A wilika sara vakavinaka o Peresitedi Smith<br />
na pepa. E sega beka <strong>ni</strong> ratou sa lewena tiko<br />
ena sivia na veimama <strong>ni</strong> se<strong>ni</strong>jiuri? e taroga.<br />
“E vakamacalataka o Sisita Spafford na kena<br />
isau levu na lako ki Niu Ioka, na gauna e taura,<br />
ka vakamacalataka na veivakacaca<strong>ni</strong> eratou dau<br />
sotava ena so na gauna. E vakatura o koya me<br />
ra sa vakasuka baleta <strong>ni</strong> sega <strong>ni</strong> dua na ka eda<br />
rawata mai na veimatabose oqo.’<br />
<strong>Marama</strong> ena <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> kei ira na daukaulotu<br />
tudei mai San Anto<strong>ni</strong>o e Texas, rauta na 1950
“A vakala ki muri na nona idabedabe na parofita vuku<br />
qase oqo ka raici koya ena mata tarotaro. Dou sa via<br />
vakasuka baleta <strong>ni</strong> sega <strong>ni</strong> dua na ka dou rawata mai<br />
kina?’ e taroga.<br />
“‘Oqori na neitou nanuma,’ e sauma ya<strong>ni</strong>.<br />
“‘Tukuna mada vei au, ‘e kaya ya<strong>ni</strong>, ‘na cava dou sa<br />
cakava tiko kina?<br />
“‘I Sisita Spafford,’ e tomana ya<strong>ni</strong>, ‘o vakidacalataki au<br />
sara. O dau vakasamataka tu beka ga na veika o rawa<br />
<strong>ni</strong> rawata mai kina? O sega beka <strong>ni</strong> dau vakasamataka<br />
talega na veika e rawa <strong>ni</strong> o solia?’<br />
“E vakasuka vua na pepa oya ka dodoka ya<strong>ni</strong> na ligana.<br />
Ena domo kaukauwa vakarauta e kaya ya<strong>ni</strong>, ‘Tomana<br />
tiko na nomu<strong>ni</strong> lewena na veimatabose oqori ka cakava<br />
me ra vakila na nomu<strong>ni</strong> veivakauqeti.’” 12<br />
A cakava dina me ra vakila na nona veivakauqeti. A<br />
vakaitavi ena Matabose <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Marama</strong> ena Mata<strong>ni</strong>tu kei<br />
na Matabose Raraba <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Marama</strong> ka taura na veitutu <strong>ni</strong><br />
veiliutaki ena veisoqosoqo oqori ena vuqa na yabaki.<br />
A tutaka vakaukauwa na ivakavuvuli <strong>ni</strong> kosipeli i Jisu<br />
Karisito kei na inaki eso <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>.<br />
Ena veigauna kece e dau lako kina o Sisita Spafford<br />
ki na Matabose Raraba <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Marama</strong> (MRM), e dau lesi<br />
ki na iwasewase <strong>ni</strong> “welefea <strong>ni</strong> bula raraba kei na bula<br />
savasava.” E nanuma lesu o koya:<br />
“Ena dua na gauna au sa kudruvaka na noqu lako tale<br />
ki na iwasewase <strong>ni</strong> welefea <strong>ni</strong> bula raraba kei na bula savasava,<br />
ena gauna ko ya keirau sa veiyalo<strong>ni</strong> vinaka sara<br />
tiko kina kei na peresitedi <strong>ni</strong> MRM. . . . Au ma<strong>ni</strong> kaya,<br />
‘Au sa dau lako ga ena veigauna ki na iwasewase oqo, ka<br />
sa dragali mai au sa vinakata kina me veisau mada.’ Qai<br />
“Ni da vakadinadinataki<br />
keda ena noda bula<br />
kilikili, <strong>ni</strong> da sasaga tiko<br />
ena vakabauta ka sega <strong>ni</strong><br />
dua na lomalomarua me<br />
qaravi vakavinaka na<br />
itavi eda lesi kina, <strong>ni</strong> da<br />
vakasaqara na Nona<br />
veivakauqeti o koya sa<br />
cecere sara ena kena<br />
qaravi na noda itavi,<br />
eda na rawata na<br />
cakacaka mana.”<br />
Thomas S. Monson<br />
Ena Conference Report,<br />
Epe. 1988, 52; se Ensign,<br />
Me 1988, 43.<br />
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kaya o koya, ‘Io, o gadreva dina na veisau, kau<br />
na raica me soli vei iko.’<br />
“Oti qai lesu tale mai ka kaya, Keitou sega <strong>ni</strong><br />
rawa <strong>ni</strong> vakadonuya na nomu kerekere baleta o<br />
iratou sara ga na nomu matabose eratou kerea<br />
tiko mo tiko ga ena welefea raraba kei na bula<br />
savasava.’ Qai kaya o koya, ‘O na taleitaka<br />
beka mo kila na vuna. E kaya na peresitedi mai<br />
nomu vanua <strong>ni</strong> o dau tutaka ga na nanuma <strong>ni</strong><br />
nomu Lotu ena veika vakaoqo ia era kila o ira<br />
na nanuma <strong>ni</strong> Lotu Moma<strong>ni</strong> ka ra nanuma <strong>ni</strong><br />
vinaka mo tiko ga eke.’” 13<br />
Era kila na marama ena isoqosoqo oqo <strong>ni</strong><br />
nodra itoka<strong>ni</strong> o Belle Spafford ena dau tutaka<br />
ga na ivakavuvuli <strong>ni</strong> Lotu, ka ra gadreva na<br />
mataqali yalomatua kei na igu vakaoqori. Ena<br />
1954 a digitaki o koya me nodra iliuliu na<br />
matataki Amerika mai ki na Matabose Raraba<br />
<strong>ni</strong> <strong>Marama</strong> mai Helsinki e Finland. Ni liutaka<br />
e dua na tayabe levu ena idola <strong>ni</strong> ko<strong>ni</strong>feredi, a<br />
lesu tale na nona vakanananu:<br />
“Niu raici ira ya<strong>ni</strong> na vakarorogo o ira na<br />
tamata mai na veimata<strong>ni</strong>tu . . . , au qai nanuma<br />
mai vakasauri na nodra vosa na iliuliu pai<strong>ni</strong>a<br />
ena (<strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>] . . . ‘<strong>ni</strong> ra tucake tu<br />
me vakataki keimami e liu vei ira na marama<br />
e vuravura,’ . . . ‘me baleta na nodra dodonu<br />
na marama e Saio<strong>ni</strong> kei na nodra dodonu na<br />
marama <strong>ni</strong> veimata<strong>ni</strong>tu kecega.’ . . . Au kila <strong>ni</strong><br />
a soli vei ira na noda marama iliuliu taumada<br />
ena rai vakalou me ra kila na vanua ena yaco<br />
kina na <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>. . . . Au sa<br />
vakadeitaka kina <strong>ni</strong> sa yaco mai na gauna me<br />
vakilai kina e vuravura raraba na nodra veivakauqeti<br />
na marama.” 14<br />
Ena 1987 eratou a veivakasalataki kina na<br />
Mataveiliutaki Taumada vei ira na <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong><br />
<strong>Veivukei</strong> me ra sa vakasuka mai na Matabose <strong>ni</strong><br />
<strong>Marama</strong> ena Mata<strong>ni</strong>tu kei na Matabose Raraba<br />
<strong>ni</strong> <strong>Marama</strong>. Sa yaco mai na gauna vei iratou na<br />
mataveiliutaki raraba <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong><br />
me ratou vagolea vakalevu cake na nodratou<br />
igu ki na nodratou isoqosoqo <strong>ni</strong> vuravura<br />
raraba sa tubu sara tiko vakatotolo, mai na<br />
kena vagolei tiko ki na inaki eso vakamata<strong>ni</strong>tu<br />
se inaki <strong>ni</strong> vuravura raraba. Ia <strong>ni</strong> sa tubu tiko na<br />
Lotu, era sa tomana tiko na marama Yalododonu<br />
Edaidai me vakilai na nodra veivakauqeti<br />
e vuravura taucoko—ena nodra veitikotiko,<br />
veikoro<strong>ni</strong>vuli, kei na veisoqosoqo yaga tale eso<br />
ena noda veivanua. Era sa muria tiko na ivakarau<br />
erau sa virikotora tu o Peresitedi Smith<br />
kei Sisita Spafford, ena nodrau vakasamataka<br />
na veika e rawa <strong>ni</strong> rau solia, ka sega <strong>ni</strong> veika e<br />
rawa <strong>ni</strong> rau rawata.<br />
Susugi ka Vakavulici O Ira na Vakadikeva<br />
Tiko kei ira na Curuvou Mai<br />
Ena tubu tiko <strong>ni</strong> Lotu e vuravura, sa yaco na<br />
<strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> me vanua <strong>ni</strong> veivakauqeti<br />
vei ira na vakadikeva tiko kei ira na curuvou mai.<br />
<strong>Na</strong> veivakauqeti oqo e oka kina na kena soli vei
Me vakataki ira na iApositolo Makawa <strong>ni</strong> iVakabula, e rawa talega <strong>ni</strong> ra iyaya <strong>ni</strong> cakacaka ena ligana na Kalou o ira na<br />
marama ena <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>.<br />
ira na lewe<strong>ni</strong>lotu vou na madigi me ra veiqaravi<br />
ka veiliutaki. A tuku<strong>ni</strong> tinana o Sisita Silvia H.<br />
Allred e dua na dau<strong>ni</strong>vakasala ena mataveiliu-<br />
taki raraba <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>, o Hilda<br />
Hilda Alvarenga<br />
Alvarenga, ka veiqaravi voli<br />
vakaperesitedi <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong><br />
<strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> e San Salvador,<br />
El Salvador:<br />
“O tinaqu e se qai curu vou<br />
mai ki na Lotu ena gauna<br />
e kacivi kina me peresitedi <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong><br />
<strong>Veivukei</strong> ena neitou tabana lailai e San Salva-<br />
dor. E tukuna vua na peresitedi <strong>ni</strong> tabana <strong>ni</strong><br />
sega vua na kila, sega tu <strong>ni</strong> vakarau, ka sega <strong>ni</strong><br />
ga<strong>ni</strong>ti koya. Sa yabaki 30 vakacaca tiko, ka lailai<br />
sara na nona vuli, ka vagolei vakatabakidua ga<br />
na nona bula vua na watina kei na vitu na luve-<br />
drau. Ia a kacivi koya ga na peresitedi <strong>ni</strong> tabana.<br />
“Au raica na nona sotava na tinaqu na ka e<br />
gadrevi vua. Ni veiqaravi tiko, a vulica na maqosa<br />
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eso <strong>ni</strong> veiliutaki ka vakatorocaketaka na isoli-<br />
soli vovou eso me vaka na veivakavulici, vosa e<br />
matana levu, kei na tuvai ka cicivaki <strong>ni</strong> soqo<strong>ni</strong>,<br />
itaviqaravi, kei na cakacaka vakaveiqaravi. A<br />
vakauqeti ira na marama ena tabana. A qaravi<br />
ira ka vakavulici ira me ra dau veiqaravi vei ira<br />
vakataki ira. Era loma<strong>ni</strong> koya ka dokai koya na<br />
marama. A vukei ira eso tale na marama me<br />
ra raica, vakayagataka, ka vakatorocaketaka na<br />
isolisoli kei na taledi, a vukei ira ko koya me ra<br />
tara cake na mata<strong>ni</strong>tu kei na veimatavuvale qaqa<br />
ka vakayalo. A yalodina tikoga ki na veiyalayalati<br />
<strong>ni</strong> valetabu a vakayacora. Ena gauna e takali ya<strong>ni</strong><br />
kina, erau sa veisaututaki oti kei Koya a buli koya.<br />
“Qai volavola mai vua e dua na marama ka<br />
a veiqaravi vata kaya vakadau<strong>ni</strong>vakasala ena<br />
<strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> ena vica na yabaki ki muri:<br />
‘<strong>Na</strong> tinamu a vakavulica vei au na ivakarau meu<br />
yacova kina na vanua au sa tu kina <strong>ni</strong>kua. Au<br />
vulica mai vua na loloma cecere, na yalovinaka,<br />
na dina, kei na itavi <strong>ni</strong> noda veikacivi. O koya<br />
na noqu idusidusi ka noqu ivakaraitaki. Au sa<br />
yabaki 80 oqo, ia au se yalodina tikoga vua na<br />
iVakabula kei na Nona kosipeli. Au sa kaulotu oti,<br />
ka sa vakalougatataki au vakalevu na Turaga.’” 15<br />
<strong>Na</strong> peresitedi yalodina <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong><br />
oqo a veivuke ena kena vaqaqacotaki na<br />
nodra ivakadinadina na marama era sa lewena<br />
rawa tu na tabana. A susuga cake talega na<br />
nodra vakabauta na marama era a vakadikeva<br />
tiko na Lotu kei ira era se qai papitaiso walega<br />
ka vakadeitaki. A liutaka o koya na sasaga me<br />
Elaine L. Jack<br />
iKati<strong>ni</strong>karua <strong>ni</strong> Peresitedi Raraba <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong><br />
“Eda tiki <strong>ni</strong> dua na ka e taucoko ka cecere. Eda veinuitaki<br />
vakataki keda me taucoko kina na isema vakaveitaci<strong>ni</strong>.<br />
Ni da dolele ya<strong>ni</strong> me da taura na ligadra na tacida, eda<br />
sa dolele ya<strong>ni</strong> ki na veimata<strong>ni</strong>tu. Eda sa vauci ena noda<br />
tovolea me da kila na veika e vinakata na Turaga me<br />
tukuna vei keda. E duidui na noda ivosavosa, ia eda dua<br />
na matavuvale ka rawa <strong>ni</strong> duavata na yaloda.”<br />
Ensign, Me 1992, 91
vanua <strong>ni</strong> veikidavaki ka veivakatataki cake na<br />
<strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>.<br />
Vakauqeti Ira na Ta<strong>ni</strong> ena Wasei <strong>ni</strong> Kosipeli<br />
Sega <strong>ni</strong> dede mai na nodrau veisiko o<br />
Peresitedi kei Sisita Packer vei ira ena iwiri<strong>ni</strong><br />
lailai <strong>ni</strong> marama oya mai Czechoslovakia, a<br />
vakayarayarataki kina ki na iwiri<strong>ni</strong> oqori e dua<br />
na goneyalewa ka a vaqara voli e dua na iva-<br />
karuru vakayalo, na loloma, kei na ibalebale<br />
<strong>ni</strong> nona bula. <strong>Na</strong> yacana ko Olga Kovářová,<br />
ena gauna koya a vuli vu<strong>ni</strong>wai voli kina ena<br />
dua na u<strong>ni</strong>vesiti ena siti o Brno. E vakavulici<br />
vei ira na gonevuli ena u<strong>ni</strong>vesiti oqo <strong>ni</strong> sega<br />
na Kalou. E nanuma o Olga <strong>ni</strong> lala tu na<br />
nodra bula na gonevuli kei ira kecega era tu<br />
wavoliti koya. E gadreva o koya e dua na bula<br />
vakayalo titobu cake, ka vakila na gagadre<br />
vata oqori vei ira na nona itoka<strong>ni</strong> kei ira era<br />
vuli vata.<br />
Ena gauna <strong>ni</strong> tiko nei Olga ena u<strong>ni</strong>vesiti,<br />
erau a sota kina kei Otakar Vojkuvka, e dua na<br />
turaga yabaki 75 Yalododonu Edaidai. A qai<br />
nanuma lesu e muri: “E rairai yabaki 75 vei au<br />
ia na yalona se qai voleka beka <strong>ni</strong> ti<strong>ni</strong>kawalu ka<br />
sinai tu ena reki. Oqori e ka matalia sara mai<br />
Czechoslovakia donumaka na gauna oqori <strong>ni</strong><br />
sega <strong>ni</strong> veivakabauti. . . . Au raica rawa <strong>ni</strong> sega<br />
walega <strong>ni</strong> vuli vakavinaka ia e kila na ivakarau<br />
<strong>ni</strong> bula mamarau.” E tarogi koya kei na nona<br />
matavuvale me baleta na ibalebale <strong>ni</strong> bula, ka<br />
ratou qai vakaveikilaitaki koya vei ira eso tale<br />
na lewe <strong>ni</strong> Lotu. E vinakata me kila se ratou<br />
kunea vakacava na marau ka ratou wilika mai<br />
vei na veika e baleta na Kalou. Eratou solia vua<br />
e dua na iVola i Moma<strong>ni</strong>, ka tekivu sara me<br />
wilika ena yalo vakanuinui.<br />
Sa saumaki o Olga ki na kosipeli vakalesui<br />
mai, ka nanuma me sa papitaiso. Me sa na<br />
laki papitaiso ena loma <strong>ni</strong> veikau ena bogi me<br />
kakua kina <strong>ni</strong> laurai levu <strong>ni</strong> caka tiko e dua na<br />
itaviqaravi vakalotu. E kalouca, <strong>ni</strong> ra a tiko voli<br />
e loma <strong>ni</strong> veikau e vuqa na dauqoli ena bogi<br />
me caka kina na papitaiso. Ia <strong>ni</strong> ratou wawa<br />
E rawa <strong>ni</strong> veisautaka na vuravura me vinaka cake na<br />
veiqaravi.<br />
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voli ka qai yaco mai na gauna me cabori kina<br />
na masu, era sa dui lako ya<strong>ni</strong> na dauqoli.<br />
A tarogi Olga e dua na lewe <strong>ni</strong> Lotu ka a tiko<br />
ena papitaiso, “O kila beka na vuna era a tiko<br />
voli kina e yasa <strong>ni</strong> wai e vuqa na dauqoli <strong>ni</strong>-<br />
kua?” Oti qai kaya, “O nanumi Jisu, ena nona<br />
lako voli ena bati <strong>ni</strong> wai mai Kaleli, a kaya vei<br />
Saimo<strong>ni</strong> Pita kei Adriu, ka rau a biu lawa tiko<br />
ki waitui, ‘Muri au mai, au na qisi kemudrau<br />
mo drau gonedau <strong>ni</strong> tamata.’” E vakila o Olga<br />
<strong>ni</strong> “kena ibalebale <strong>ni</strong> sega <strong>ni</strong> dede sa dodonu<br />
me yaco o koya me iyaya ena liga <strong>ni</strong> Kalou ena<br />
nodra kau mai na itabagone ki na Lotu.”<br />
A vakayacora sara ga o Olga na veika oqori.<br />
A vakauqeti ira e vuqa era vaqara tiko na dina<br />
kei na marau. Me vaka <strong>ni</strong> sega <strong>ni</strong> vakatarai<br />
ena nodra vanua na kaulotu ki na veivale,<br />
eratou a cicivaka e dua na kalasi o koya kei<br />
iratou na matavuvale na Vojkůvka ka ratou<br />
vakatoka me “Koro<strong>ni</strong>vuli <strong>ni</strong> Yalomatua.” Ena<br />
veigauna oqori, erau vakavuvulitaka kina na<br />
ivakavuvuli <strong>ni</strong> bula savasava kei na itovo <strong>ni</strong><br />
bula dodonu me vukei ira na tamata me ra<br />
kunea na veika vakayalo kei na reki ena nodra<br />
bula. Era vakila e vuqa na nodratou gonevuli<br />
na veivakauqeti <strong>ni</strong> Yalotabu, ka dau tadola na<br />
madigi eso <strong>ni</strong> veitalanoa kei ira na vica era<br />
digitaki me baleti Tamada Vakalomalagi kei na<br />
kosipeli i Jisu Karisito. 16<br />
E muri, <strong>ni</strong> veiqaravi tiko vakaikati<strong>ni</strong>kadua<br />
<strong>ni</strong> peresitedi raraba <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> o<br />
Sisita Barbara W. Winder, a donumaki koya na<br />
madigi me lako ki Czechoslovakia kei na turaga<br />
watina o Richard W. Winder, ka a veiqaravi mai<br />
kea vakadaukaulotu cauravou ena veiyabaki<br />
ya<strong>ni</strong> i liu. Ni rau curuma ya<strong>ni</strong> e dua na itikotiko<br />
ka na vakayacori kina e dua na soqo<strong>ni</strong>, a kidavaki<br />
rau mai e dua na goneyalewa waribariba<br />
ka kaya, “Drau bula vinaka! <strong>Na</strong> yacaqu o Olga,<br />
o au na peresitedi <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>.”<br />
Erau raica o Baraca kei Sisita Winder na serau<br />
<strong>ni</strong> kena irairai kei na Yalo <strong>ni</strong> Turaga e tu vua. Ni<br />
peresitedi <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> ena nona<br />
tabana lailai, sa dau veivakauqeti ena veika<br />
vinaka o Olga Kovářová ena dua na vuravura<br />
<strong>ni</strong> veisaqasaqa vakapolitiki kei na vakacaca<strong>ni</strong><br />
<strong>ni</strong> veimatalotu, ka dau veivuke ena vakarautaki<br />
<strong>ni</strong> ivakaruru vei ira era curu mai ki na Lotu ka<br />
yaco me ra lewe <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>. A<br />
veivuke ena kena vakabulai na yalodra eso ena<br />
nona kauti ira mai vei Karisito.<br />
<strong>Na</strong> italanoa <strong>ni</strong> nona saumaki mai kei na<br />
nona cakacaka <strong>ni</strong> kaulotu o Sisita Kovářová sai<br />
koya na kena vakataucokotaki e dua na tiki <strong>ni</strong><br />
nona parofisai o Peresitedi Spencer W. Kimball,<br />
na ikati<strong>ni</strong>karua <strong>ni</strong> Peresitedi <strong>ni</strong> Lotu: “E vuqa<br />
na tubu lelevu ena yaco mai ki na Lotu ena<br />
iotioti <strong>ni</strong> gauna, ena yaco mai baleta <strong>ni</strong> vuqa<br />
na marama vinaka <strong>ni</strong> vuravura (ka dau tu e<br />
lomadra vakavuqa na vakanananu e loma <strong>ni</strong><br />
bula vakayalo) era na vakayarayarataki mai ki<br />
na Lotu vakalewelevu. Ena yaco oqo <strong>ni</strong> ra sa
Sa vukei ira na marama me ra vakavinakataka cake na kedra<br />
ituvaki, vulica na kosipeli, ka vakavulici ira na luvedra, na nodra<br />
rawa <strong>ni</strong> wilivola.<br />
vakaraitaka tiko ena nodra bula na marama na bulado-<br />
donu kei na madila vakavosa ka vakakina <strong>ni</strong> sa rairai<br />
tiko <strong>ni</strong> ra duata<strong>ni</strong>—ena veisala mamarau eso—mai vei<br />
ira na marama <strong>ni</strong> vuravura.” 17<br />
Vakauqeti Ira na Ta<strong>ni</strong> ena Veiqaravi<br />
Ena 1992, era a marautaka kina na marama e vuravura<br />
raraba na ika 150 <strong>ni</strong> yabaki <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> ena<br />
nodra vakaitavi ena veicakacaka vakaveiqaravi ena nodra<br />
veitikotiko. Ena sasaga oqori, ka cicivaki ena ruku <strong>ni</strong> nodra<br />
vakatulewa na veiliutaki raraba kei na veiliutaki e veivanua<br />
“O <strong>ni</strong> lewena na isoqosoqo<br />
cecere duadua <strong>ni</strong> marama<br />
e vuravura taucoko, e<br />
dua na isoqosoqo ka tiki<br />
bibi <strong>ni</strong> mata<strong>ni</strong>tu <strong>ni</strong> Kalou<br />
e vuravura, e tauyavu ka<br />
cicivaki me vukei ira<br />
na lewena yalodina<br />
me ra rawata na bula<br />
tawamudu ena nona<br />
mata<strong>ni</strong>tu na Tamada.”<br />
Joseph Fielding Smith<br />
Relief Society Magazine,<br />
Tise. 1970, 883<br />
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108<br />
Lagasere tiko ena Valecavu mai Salt Lake e dua na matasere <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>, 1956<br />
<strong>ni</strong> matabete, era sa wasea kina na marama na<br />
veivakauqeti <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> e vuravura<br />
raraba. E kaya o Sisita Elaine L. Jack, ka a veiqaravi<br />
tiko vakaikati<strong>ni</strong>karua <strong>ni</strong> peresitedi raraba <strong>ni</strong><br />
<strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> ena gauna oya:<br />
“Keimami kerei ira na noda veitaba<strong>ni</strong>lotu<br />
yadua me ra raica na veika e gadrevi ena nodra<br />
veitikotiko ka ra vakatulewataka se veiqaravi<br />
cava ena gadrevi vakalevu duadua. E rawa beka<br />
<strong>ni</strong> o raitayaloyalotaka na ka ena yaco ki vuravura<br />
mai na veika oqori?<br />
“E dua vei ira na noda peresitedi <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong><br />
<strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> a lako ki na matabose <strong>ni</strong> koro<br />
ena dua na siti mai Califor<strong>ni</strong>a ka kaya, ‘<strong>Na</strong> cava<br />
soti o nanuma <strong>ni</strong> gadrevi ena itikotiko oqo e<br />
rawa <strong>ni</strong> keimami cakava?’ Qai kaya na turaga<br />
oya, ‘O kaya tiko <strong>ni</strong> 20,000 na ilawalawa ena<br />
vuravura oqo era na cakava tiko na ka vata<br />
oqo?’ E kaya o koya io. Qai kaya [e dua na lewe<br />
<strong>ni</strong> matabose <strong>ni</strong> koro], ‘O <strong>ni</strong> na veisautaka na<br />
vuravura.’ Au vakabauta <strong>ni</strong> keimami a cakava<br />
vakakina . . . ka vinaka cake kina. Oqori e dua
vei ira na ka a veivakaduavatataki. Ia e dua na<br />
ka na levu <strong>ni</strong> veimataqali veiqaravi. . . . Era caka<br />
ibe lalai [na marama] mai Sauca Aferika me<br />
baleti ira na qase ena veivale <strong>ni</strong> veiqaravi. . . .<br />
Era tei se<strong>ni</strong>kau wavokita na vale<strong>ni</strong>kaloko mai<br />
Samoa. Ka ra cakava e vuqa tale na ka me vaka<br />
nodra ivakaruru na sega <strong>ni</strong> vakavale se soli na<br />
ivola me baleti ira na gone se boro <strong>ni</strong> nodra<br />
vale na tina sega <strong>ni</strong> vakawati, na veika vaqori.<br />
Keimami vakila <strong>ni</strong> cakacaka vakaveiqaravi sa<br />
dua na ka cecere e vuravura raraba, vei ira na<br />
marama ka vakakina ena itikotiko.” 18<br />
Vakauqeti Ira na Ta<strong>ni</strong> ena Wilivola kei<br />
na Volavola<br />
Ni ra tauyavutaka na marama ena iSoqo-<br />
soqo <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> na cakacaka vakaveiqaravi ena<br />
veitikotiko, eratou vakanamata o Sisita Jack kei<br />
rau na nona dau<strong>ni</strong>vakasala ena dua na sasaga<br />
<strong>ni</strong> veiqaravi e vuravura raraba: me ra vukei na<br />
marama me ra vulica na wilivola. “Keimami<br />
nanuma <strong>ni</strong> dodonu me ra rawa <strong>ni</strong> wilivola na<br />
marama kece e vuravura, <strong>ni</strong> lewevuqa e sega tu<br />
<strong>ni</strong> rawa,” e kaya o koya. “E rawa beka <strong>ni</strong> o <strong>ni</strong> vakasamataka—kevaka<br />
era sega <strong>ni</strong> kila na wilivola,<br />
era na vakavulici ira vakacava na luvedra, era na<br />
vakavinakataka cake vakacava na kedra ituvaki,<br />
e rawa vakacava <strong>ni</strong> ra vulica na kosipeli? Keimami<br />
sa nanuma kina <strong>ni</strong> sega tale <strong>ni</strong> dua na ka<br />
ena yaga vakalevu cake me vaka na kena tutaki<br />
na sasaga <strong>ni</strong> vuli wilivola. . . . Ia na neimami<br />
inaki talega me vakayaloqaqataki na vuli ena<br />
bula taucoko me baleti ira yadua na marama.” 19<br />
A sotava ena dua na gauna o Peresitedi<br />
Thomas S. Monson, na ikati<strong>ni</strong>kaono <strong>ni</strong><br />
Peresitedi <strong>ni</strong> Lotu, e dua na<br />
marama mai Monroe e<br />
Louisiana, ka sa vakalougatataki<br />
ena veiqaravi oqo <strong>ni</strong><br />
<strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> ka<br />
Thomas S. Monson wasea ya<strong>ni</strong> na veivakalougatataki<br />
oqo vei ira tale eso. A lako ya<strong>ni</strong> vua ena<br />
dua na rara <strong>ni</strong> waqavuka ka kaya: “I Peresitedi<br />
Monson, <strong>ni</strong> bera <strong>ni</strong>u curuma na Lotu ka yaco<br />
me lewena na <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>, au a sega<br />
“<strong>Na</strong> loloma cecere dina sai koya na loloma e cakacakataki.<br />
<strong>Na</strong> loloma cecere e gadrevi ena veivanua kecega”<br />
(Thomas S. Monson).<br />
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tu <strong>ni</strong> rawa <strong>ni</strong> wilivola. Au sega <strong>ni</strong> rawa <strong>ni</strong><br />
volavola. E sega <strong>ni</strong> dua ena noqu matavuvale e<br />
rawa.” E tukuna vei Peresitedi Monson <strong>ni</strong> ra sa<br />
vakavulici koya na marama ena <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong><br />
<strong>Veivukei</strong> me wilivola ia ena gauna oqo sa vukei<br />
ira tale eso me ra vulica na wilivola. Ni oti na<br />
nodrau veitalanoa, a vakasamataka o Peresitedi<br />
Monson “na marau vakaivua ena vakila ena<br />
nona cereka na nona iVolatabu ka wilika ena<br />
imatai <strong>ni</strong> gauna na vosa <strong>ni</strong> Turaga. . . . Ena siga<br />
ko ya mai Monroe e Louisiana,” e kaya o koya,<br />
“Au ciqoma kina na veivakadeitaki <strong>ni</strong> Yalotabu<br />
Ena vakilai na loloma cecere ena veisureti “Lako mai—mai dabe ike.”<br />
me baleta na nomu<strong>ni</strong> inaki vakacerecerei <strong>ni</strong><br />
kena vakavinakataki cake na wilivola vei ira na<br />
tacimu<strong>ni</strong> marama.” 20<br />
Vakauqeti Ira ka Vaqaqacotaki Ira na<br />
<strong>Marama</strong> ena Veitabanalevu kei na Tabana<br />
Ni ra sa veivakauqeti tiko na marama ena<br />
<strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> ena nodra veitikotiko<br />
ka vakakina e vuravura raraba, era sega <strong>ni</strong> gui-<br />
lecava me ra veivaqaqacotaki vakataki ira ena<br />
nodra dui tabanalevu kei na tabana. A kunea<br />
o Sisita Julie B. Beck, ka a qai veiqaravi e muri
vakaikati<strong>ni</strong>kalima <strong>ni</strong> peresitedi raraba <strong>ni</strong> iSoqo-<br />
soqo <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> na bula vakaveitaci<strong>ni</strong> marama,<br />
na ivakaruru, kei na veivakauqeti ena iSoqo-<br />
soqo <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> <strong>ni</strong> se marama dauqaravi vale<br />
ka tina gone ka lecaika. E nanuma lesu kina:<br />
“Sa dodonu me tauyavutaki, vakadodonu-<br />
taki, ka tosoi na <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> me<br />
vaqaqacotaka na matavuvale ka vukea me<br />
ra vanua <strong>ni</strong> ivakaruru dokai mai vuravura<br />
na noda veitikotiko. Au vulica rawa oqo ena<br />
vuqa na yabaki sa oti <strong>ni</strong>u qai vakawati wale.<br />
Erau tukuna na noqu itubutubu, ka rau a tiko<br />
volekati keitou ga, <strong>ni</strong> rau sa vakarau toki ki na<br />
dua tale na yasai vuravura. Au dau vakararavi<br />
voli ga ena nona ivakaraitaki veivakadeitaki,<br />
yalomatua, ka veivakayaloqaqataki na tinaqu.<br />
Sa vakarau oqo me yali tu ena dua na gauna<br />
balavu sara. Oqo <strong>ni</strong> se bera na imeli, misi<strong>ni</strong><br />
<strong>ni</strong> vakau itukutukuvolai, selevo<strong>ni</strong>, kei na<br />
itaba <strong>ni</strong> i<strong>ni</strong>taneti, ka berabera na vakaumeli.<br />
Ena dua na siga <strong>ni</strong> bera <strong>ni</strong> lako, keirau dabe<br />
ka veitagicaki tiko au qai tarogi koya, ‘O cei<br />
ena qai tinaqu?’ A vakasama sara vakavinaka,<br />
ena veivuke <strong>ni</strong> Yalotabu kei na kaukauwa <strong>ni</strong><br />
ivakatakila dau yaco mai vei ira na marama<br />
vakaoqori, e kaya kina vei au, ‘Kevaka au sa<br />
sega tale <strong>ni</strong> lesu mai, kevaka o sa sega tale <strong>ni</strong><br />
raici au, kevaka au sa sega <strong>ni</strong> vakavulica rawa<br />
tale vei iko e dua na ka, semati iko ki na <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong><br />
<strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>. Ena tinamu na <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong><br />
<strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>.’<br />
“E kila o nau <strong>ni</strong> kevaka au na tauvimate, era<br />
na qaravi au na marama, <strong>ni</strong>u vakaluve<strong>ni</strong>, era na<br />
vukei au. Ia na nona vakanuinui levu duadua<br />
na tinaqu me ra na noqu iliuliu qaqa vakayalo<br />
na marama ena <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>. Sa tekivu<br />
mai na gauna ko ya na noqu vuli vakalevu<br />
sara mai vei ira na marama dokai ka tudei ena<br />
vakabauta.” 21<br />
E Dua na iWiri<strong>ni</strong> Rabailevu<br />
Tikoga <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Marama</strong><br />
<strong>Na</strong> imatai <strong>ni</strong> gauna me tukuna raraba kina o<br />
Peresitedi Boyd K. Packer na veika a sotava vata<br />
kei ira na marama ena<br />
<strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> mai<br />
Czechoslovakia, a vosa tiko<br />
ena soqo<strong>ni</strong> raraba <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong><br />
<strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> ena 1980. E<br />
kaya kina o koya, “Au toboka<br />
rawa kina ena gauna ko ya na raivotu me<br />
baleta e dua na iwiri<strong>ni</strong> cecere <strong>ni</strong> marama.” 22<br />
Ena 1998 a wasea tale kina na veika a sotava<br />
oya, ena gauna oqo ena nona vosa tiko ki na<br />
Lotu taucoko ena dua na ko<strong>ni</strong>feredi raraba. A<br />
dikeva kina o koya vaqo, “<strong>Na</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong><br />
<strong>Veivukei</strong> sa sega <strong>ni</strong> dua walega na iwiri<strong>ni</strong> ena<br />
gauna oqo; sa vaka e dua na isulu sa tevu<br />
kosova na veivanua <strong>ni</strong> vuravura.” 23<br />
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O ira na marama ena <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong><br />
era tiki <strong>ni</strong> dua na isoqosoqo vakauqeti vakalou<br />
ka tauyavutaka na Parofita o Josefa Simici ena<br />
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veivakadonui <strong>ni</strong> matabete. Ni ra vakaitavi na<br />
marama ena <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> ka yalataki<br />
ira kina, era na dau vakarautaka tikoga na iva-<br />
karuru kei na isema <strong>ni</strong> veitaci<strong>ni</strong> yalewa ka ra na<br />
dau veivakauqeti kina ena vinaka. A yalataka o<br />
Peresitedi Packer na veivakalougatataki cecere<br />
vei ira na marama era veiqaravi ena inaki oqo:<br />
“Ena vakayacori taucoko na nomu<strong>ni</strong> gagadre,<br />
ena gauna oqo, kei na veigauna tawamudu;<br />
ena bokoci ta<strong>ni</strong> na vakawelewele kece sara; ena<br />
vakadodonutaki na vakasabusabu kece sara. <strong>Na</strong><br />
veika kece oqori e rawa <strong>ni</strong> yaco mai vei iko, ka<br />
na yaco totolo mai, <strong>ni</strong> o <strong>ni</strong> sa soli kemu<strong>ni</strong> ena<br />
yalodina ki na <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>.<br />
“<strong>Na</strong> veiqaravi ena <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong><br />
ena vakalevulevuya ka vakasavasavataka na<br />
marama yadua. <strong>Na</strong> nomu lewena na <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong><br />
<strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> ena tudei tu. Ni o yalataki iko ki na<br />
<strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> ka tauyavutaka ka cicivaka<br />
ka vakaitavi kina, o sa tokona tiko na inaki<br />
ka na vakalougatataki kina na marama yadua<br />
era na curuma ya<strong>ni</strong> na kena veivakauqeti.” 24<br />
Vaqaqacotaki na Veitaci<strong>ni</strong><br />
<strong>Marama</strong> ena Vakaraitaki<br />
<strong>ni</strong> Loloma Cecere<br />
Ena dua na nona vosa vei ira na marama<br />
ena <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>, a wasea o Peresitedi<br />
Thomas S. Monson eso na vakasama me baleta<br />
na sala e rawa <strong>ni</strong> vaqaqacotaki kina na isema<br />
vakaveitaci<strong>ni</strong> marama ena <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>:<br />
“Au nanuma <strong>ni</strong> loloma cecere—se ‘na loloma<br />
savasava i Karisito’—na veibasai <strong>ni</strong> veivakacaca<strong>ni</strong><br />
kei na veivakalewai. Ni da tukuna na<br />
loloma cecere, e sega <strong>ni</strong> tiko ena noqu vakasama<br />
ena gauna oqo na nodra vukei o ira era sotava<br />
tiko na leqa ena noda solia na veika e tu vei<br />
keda. Oqori, sa dina sara, e dodonu ka veiga<strong>ni</strong>ti.<br />
Ena bogi <strong>ni</strong>kua, au vakasamataka tiko na loloma<br />
cecere ka dau vakaraitaki koya ena gauna eda<br />
dau veiciqomi kina vei ira tale eso ka da vosota<br />
na nodra ivalavala, na loloma cecere e dauveivosoti,<br />
na loloma cecere e dau vosota vakadede.<br />
“Au vakasamataka tiko na loloma ka dau<br />
vakavuna na noda dau kauwai, yalololoma, ka<br />
vakila na loloma cecere, sega walega ena gauna<br />
<strong>ni</strong> tauvimate kei na vakararawataki kei na<br />
yaluma ia ena gauna talega era malumalumu se<br />
caka cala kina na ta<strong>ni</strong>.<br />
“Sa gadrevi talega vakalevu na loloma cecere<br />
ka ra kauwaitaki kina o ira era sega tu <strong>ni</strong> dau<br />
kauwaitaki, na inuinui vei ira era yalolailai, na<br />
veivuke vei ira era vakararawataki. <strong>Na</strong> loloma<br />
cecere dina sai koya na loloma e cakacakataki. E<br />
gadrevi na loloma cecere ena veivanua kecega.<br />
“E gadrevi na loloma cecere ka sega <strong>ni</strong> dau<br />
lomavinaka ena nona rogoca se me tukuna<br />
wavoki na itukutuku <strong>ni</strong> veika ca era sotava na<br />
ta<strong>ni</strong>, me caka walega kevaka ena vinaka vua e<br />
sotava na kalouca. . . .<br />
“<strong>Na</strong> loloma cecere sai koya na noda vosoti<br />
koya e vakawalena na noda veivakabauti. Sai
koya na noda vorata na yalo e dau vakacudrui<br />
vakatotolo. Sai koya na noda ciqoma na malu-<br />
malumu kei na guce. Sai koya na noda ciqomi<br />
ira na tamata ena kedra ituvaki dina. Sai koya<br />
na noda raibaleta na irairai e taudaku ka raica<br />
na ivakarau <strong>ni</strong> bula ka na sega <strong>ni</strong> kataremoremo<br />
mai <strong>ni</strong> toso na gauna. Sai koya na noda<br />
vorata na yalo <strong>ni</strong> veivakaduiduitaki.<br />
“<strong>Na</strong> loloma cecere, sai koya na loloma savasava<br />
i Karisito, e vakavotukanataki ena nodra<br />
lakova e vica na drau na maile na goneyalewa<br />
mai na dua na nodra tabanalevu na sega <strong>ni</strong> vakawati<br />
me ra tiko ena nona veibulu na tinana e<br />
dua na tacidra ena <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>. E dau<br />
vakaraitaki na loloma cecere ena nodra lesu mai<br />
e veivula, kei na veiyabaki na dauveisiko vua na<br />
marama sega <strong>ni</strong> kauwai, ka daulelewa. E dau<br />
vakadinadinataki ena nona nanumi ka dau mai<br />
kau ki na veisoqo<strong>ni</strong> <strong>ni</strong> tabanalevu kei na itaviqaravi<br />
<strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> e dua na marama<br />
yada. Ena vakilai ena gauna e sureti mai kina na<br />
marama ka dabe duadua voli ena <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong><br />
<strong>Veivukei</strong>, ‘Lako mai—mai dabe ike.’<br />
“O <strong>ni</strong> dui daramaka tu na isulu <strong>ni</strong> loloma cecere<br />
ena vica na drau na kena sala lalai. E sega<br />
<strong>ni</strong> dua vei keda e taucoko vua na vinaka <strong>ni</strong> bula.<br />
Me tu vei keda na loloma savasava i Karisito<br />
ena vukudra eda lakova vata tiko na ilakolako<br />
<strong>ni</strong> bula oqo, ka me kua na veidusi kei na veivakalewai.<br />
Me da kila <strong>ni</strong> da sa dui solia tiko na<br />
noda igu yadua me da sotava kina na bolebole<br />
e yacovi keda mai, ia me da solia nanoda dui<br />
igu me da veivuke.<br />
“Sa vakamacalataki na loloma cecere <strong>ni</strong> ‘ivakarau<br />
cecere, vakaturaga ka kaukauwa duadua<br />
<strong>ni</strong> loloma,’ na ‘loloma savasava i Karisito . . . ;<br />
ia ko koya sa laurai vua ena iotioti <strong>ni</strong> gauna,<br />
ena vinaka[ vua].’<br />
“‘Sa sega <strong>ni</strong> mudu na loloma.’ Me liutaki<br />
kemu<strong>ni</strong> ena veika kece sara o <strong>ni</strong> cakava na<br />
ibole makawa <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>, na<br />
dina <strong>ni</strong> veigauna kecega oqo. Me curuma na<br />
yalomu<strong>ni</strong> ka vakaimawe tu ena nomu<strong>ni</strong><br />
vakanananu kei na nomu<strong>ni</strong> ivalavala.” 25<br />
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“<strong>Na</strong> Lotu Savasava”<br />
Vakatawa ka Veiqaravi<br />
ena Siko Vuvale<br />
Eda vakavolivoliti mai vei ira<br />
era gadreva tu na noda kauwai, na<br />
noda veivakayaloqaqataki, noda veitoko<strong>ni</strong>,<br />
noda veivakacegui, noda yalovinaka. . . . O keda<br />
na ligana na Turaga ena vuravura oqo, na<br />
noda ilesilesi me da veiqaravi ka laveti<br />
ira cake na Luvena. Sa vakanuinui<br />
tu o Koya vei keda yadua.<br />
Thomas S. Monson
WASE 7<br />
“<strong>Na</strong> Lotu Savasava”<br />
Vakatawa ka Veiqaravi<br />
ena Siko Vuvale<br />
Ni tiko voli e vuravura ko Jisu, a vakaraitaka<br />
vei keda na ivakarau e dodonu me da bula<br />
kina. “A vakatakilakilataka na gaunaisala ka<br />
liutaka na ilakolako,” E vola vakaoqo o Sisita<br />
Eliza R. Snow. 1 E vakaraitaka vei keda ko Koya<br />
na ivakarau <strong>ni</strong> veiqaravi—na ivakarau me da<br />
veivakatawa<strong>ni</strong> ka veivaqaqacotaki kina. <strong>Na</strong><br />
Nona veiqaravi vakalotu e baleta na tamata ya-<br />
dua, yadua ena dua na gauna. E vakavuvulitaka<br />
o Koya <strong>ni</strong> dodonu me da biuta tu na ciwasagavulu<br />
kaciwa ka vakabula na dua sa lakosese<br />
voli. 2 A vakabulai ira ka vakavulici ira na tamata<br />
yadua, e tiko vata kei ira yadua na lewevuqa ka<br />
2,500 na kedra iwiliwili, ka rawa kina vei ira yadua<br />
me ra dui ciqoma e dua na ivakadinadina<br />
me baleta na Nona vakalou. 3<br />
A kacivi ira na Nona tisaipeli na iVakabula<br />
me ra cakacaka vata kei Koya ena Nona veiqaravi<br />
vakalotu, ka solia vei ira na madigi me<br />
ra veiqaravi ena vukudra na ta<strong>ni</strong> ka yaco me<br />
vakataki Koya vakalevu cake. Ena <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong><br />
<strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>, sa tu na madigi vei ira na marama<br />
yadua me ra vakatawa<strong>ni</strong> ira ka vaqaqacotaki ira,<br />
yadua na marama ena dua na gauna, ena siko<br />
vuvale. E kaya kina o Sisita Julie B. Beck, na ikati<strong>ni</strong>kalima<br />
<strong>ni</strong> peresitedi raraba <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong><br />
<strong>Veivukei</strong>, “Baleta <strong>ni</strong> da muria na ivakaraitaki kei<br />
na ivakavuvuli nei Jisu Karisito, eda sa kauwaitaka<br />
kina vakalevu na ilesilesi tabu oqo me da<br />
lomana, kila, veiqaravi, veiciqomi, veivakavulici,<br />
ka veiqaravi vakalotu ena Vukuna.” 4<br />
Ena Nona ivakaraitaki, e vakavulica kina vei keda na<br />
iVakabula na ivakarau me da veivakatawai ka veivaqaqacotaki<br />
kina.<br />
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<strong>Na</strong> iTekivu <strong>ni</strong> Siko Vuvale:<br />
Vakasokumu<strong>ni</strong> <strong>ni</strong> iSolisoli ka<br />
Tauyavutaki na Veiqaravi<br />
Ena 1843, <strong>ni</strong> sa tubu cake na iwiliwili <strong>ni</strong> lewe-<br />
<strong>ni</strong>vanua mai <strong>Na</strong>uvoo e Illinois, era sa wasewasei<br />
na Yalododonu Edaidai ena loma <strong>ni</strong> siti ki na va<br />
na tabanalevu. Ena dua na soqo<strong>ni</strong> ka vakayacori<br />
ena ika 28 <strong>ni</strong> Julai ena yabaki oya, era a lesia kina<br />
na veiliutaki <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> e dua na<br />
komiti <strong>ni</strong> veisiko ka ratou lewena e va na marama<br />
ena veitabanalevu yadua. <strong>Na</strong> nodratou itavi<br />
kilai levu duadua na komiti <strong>ni</strong> veisiko oya me<br />
ratou dikeva na leqa ka sokumuna na isolisoli.<br />
Era okati ena veika e soli mai na ilavo, kakana,<br />
kei na isulu. Ena veimacawa yadua, era<br />
dau solia na komiti <strong>ni</strong> veisiko na isolisoli era sa<br />
kumuna rawa vua na dau<strong>ni</strong>yau <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong><br />
<strong>Veivukei</strong>. E dau vakayagataka na <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong><br />
<strong>Veivukei</strong> na isolisoli oqori me veivuke kina vei<br />
ira era vakaleqai tu.<br />
Ena kena vakataucokotaki na itavi oqori, e<br />
vakaraitaka kina e dua na marama na nona<br />
vakabauta <strong>ni</strong> “noda vakabulai ena vakatau ena<br />
noda dau soli ka vei ira na dravudravua.” E<br />
vakaraitaka e dua tale na marama na nona duavata,<br />
ka kaya: “Sa dau vakadeitaka vakavuqa na<br />
Turaga. Ni sa ka <strong>ni</strong> marau Vua na noda ivalavala<br />
<strong>ni</strong> loloma cecere.” 5<br />
A toma<strong>ni</strong> tiko na ivalavala oqori me yacova<br />
ya<strong>ni</strong> na ikaruasagavulu <strong>ni</strong> se<strong>ni</strong>jiuri. Era dau<br />
lako na marama era lesi me ra laki veisiko ka<br />
kauta voli na basikete, ka ra ciqoma na iyaya<br />
eso me vaka na masese, raisi, ivakatubu, kei<br />
na tavaya vua<strong>ni</strong>kau. E vuqa na isolisoli era dau<br />
vakayagataki me sotavi kina na gagadre ena<br />
noda veivanua, ia eso era vakayagataki me ra<br />
sotavi kina na gagadre ena veivanua ka vica na<br />
drau na maile na kena yawa. Me vakaoqo, <strong>ni</strong><br />
oti na iKarua <strong>ni</strong> iValu Levu, era a soqo<strong>ni</strong> vata na<br />
marama mai Amerika, era wasewasea, botabota<strong>ni</strong>,<br />
ka vakatawana e sivia <strong>ni</strong> 500,000 na isulu<br />
ka vakau ya<strong>ni</strong> ki Iurope.<br />
Me ikuri <strong>ni</strong> nodra kumuna na isolisoli, era<br />
dau dikeva talega mai na komiti <strong>ni</strong> veisiko na<br />
leqa e tu ena veivale era sikova. Era tukuna na<br />
veika era dikeva rawa vei ira na veiliutaki <strong>ni</strong><br />
<strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>, o ira era qai vakavuna<br />
na sasaga <strong>ni</strong> veivuke.<br />
E tukuna o Peresitedi Joseph F. Smith, na<br />
ikaono <strong>ni</strong> Peresitedi <strong>ni</strong> Lotu, e dua na gauna<br />
ka raici ira kina na marama ena <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong><br />
<strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> ena nodra vakaraitaka na nodra<br />
loloma Vakarisito sega <strong>ni</strong> dau nanumi koya ga<br />
vei iratou e dua na matavuvale:<br />
“A noqu na galala ena dua na gauna lekaleka<br />
sa oti meu sikova e dua na itikotiko ena dua<br />
na iTeki kei Saio<strong>ni</strong> tu vakayawa ka basika tiko<br />
kina ena gauna oya e vuqa sara na tauvimate, e<br />
dina <strong>ni</strong> sa oti e vica na siga na neitou lako tiko<br />
ka keitou yaco ya<strong>ni</strong> ki na koro <strong>ni</strong> sa bogi sara<br />
toka, keitou a kerei me keitou lako vata kei na<br />
peresitedi me keitou sikovi ira eso na tauvimate.
Era kumuna na komiti <strong>ni</strong> veisiko na isolisoli me vukea na gagadre<br />
ena nodra veivanua.<br />
Keitou a kunea e dua na marama vakaloloma <strong>ni</strong> davo<br />
koto ena idavodavo <strong>ni</strong> tauvimate, ka sa bibi sara toka na<br />
kena ituvaki. E dabe toka ena yasa <strong>ni</strong> nona idavodavo<br />
na watina vakaloloma sa voleka sara toka me rawai ena<br />
vuku <strong>ni</strong> kena mate bibi na watina ka tinadra e vica na<br />
gonelalai era dabe vakavolivoliti rau. Sa rairai vakaloloma<br />
sara na ituvaki <strong>ni</strong> matavuvale oqo.<br />
“Sega <strong>ni</strong> dede sa curu mai e dua na marama irairai<br />
vakametere<strong>ni</strong>, ka tubera voli e dua na basikete ka tu<br />
kina na kakana bulabula kei na so na ivakalomavinaka<br />
me ratou vakayagataka na matavuvale kune rarawa tu<br />
“Me da veiloma<strong>ni</strong><br />
vakataki keda, ka laivi<br />
ira na kaukauwa me ra<br />
qaravi ira vakavinaka<br />
na malumalumu me ra<br />
kaukauwa mai, ia ko ira<br />
na rai me ra tuberi ira<br />
na mataboko me yacova<br />
<strong>ni</strong> ra sa rawa <strong>ni</strong> raica<br />
vakataki ira na sala.”<br />
Brigham Young<br />
Nodra iVakavuvuli na<br />
Peresitedi <strong>ni</strong> Lotu: Brigham<br />
Young (1997), 329<br />
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oqo. Ni keitou vakataroga keitou qai kila <strong>ni</strong> sa<br />
vakasalataki mai na <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> ena<br />
tabanalevu me vakatawa ka qarava na marama<br />
tauvimate oqo ena bogi koya. Sa vakarau tu<br />
ya<strong>ni</strong> me vakatawa<strong>ni</strong> iratou na gonelalai, me raica<br />
<strong>ni</strong> ratou sa vakasilimi vakavinaka ka vaka<strong>ni</strong><br />
ka vakamoceri; me samaka na vale ka cakava na<br />
ka kecega me logaloga vinaka kina na marama<br />
tauvimate oya kei na nona matavuvale. E tuku<strong>ni</strong><br />
talega vei keitou <strong>ni</strong> dua tale na marama vinaka<br />
ena vakasalataki me mai sosomitaki koya ena<br />
siga ka tarava; ka vakatiko oya, ena veisiga<br />
yadua, eratou qaravi tiko kina na matavuvale<br />
vakaloloma ka kune rarawa tu oqo ena veikauwaitaki<br />
<strong>ni</strong> yalovinaka mai vei ira na marama<br />
ena <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> me yacova na gauna<br />
sa na vakacegui kina na marama tauvimate ka<br />
kune rarawa tu oqo ena bula vinaka.<br />
“Qai tuku<strong>ni</strong> talega vei keitou <strong>ni</strong> sa rui tauyavutaki<br />
vinaka na <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> oqo<br />
ka vakaivakarau, o koya era sa kauwaitaki ka<br />
qaravi tiko kina na tauvimate kece sara ena<br />
itikotiko oya ena ivakarau vata oqo <strong>ni</strong> veikauwaitaki<br />
kei na veiqaravi. E se bera vakadua <strong>ni</strong>u<br />
bau raica na kena matanataki na ivakavakayagataki<br />
kei na totoka <strong>ni</strong> isoqosoqo vakasakiti<br />
oqo me vaka na kena ivakaraitaki keitou raica<br />
oqo, kau qai vakasamataka sa dua na ka uasivi<br />
na nona vakauqeta na Parofita o Josefa Simici<br />
na Turaga me tauyavutaka e dua na isoqosoqo<br />
vakaoqo ena Lotu.” 6<br />
<strong>Na</strong> Veisiko e Dua na<br />
Veiqaravi Vakayalo<br />
Era dau qarava na dausiko vuvale na gagadre<br />
vakayago <strong>ni</strong> tamata yadua kei na matavuvale, ia<br />
e dua talega na nodra inaki cecere cake. E vakavuvulitaka<br />
o Sisita Eliza R. Snow, na ikarua <strong>ni</strong><br />
peresitedi raraba <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>: “Au<br />
raica na itutu vakaqase<strong>ni</strong>vuli me dua na itutu cecere<br />
ka savasava. Au nuitaka <strong>ni</strong> raica na marama<br />
<strong>ni</strong> baleta ga na vakatakekere ena vukudra na<br />
dravudravua. O vinakata mo vakasinaiti ena Yalo<br />
<strong>ni</strong> Kalou, ena yalomatua, ena yalomalua, ena<br />
loloma, kevaka sa ma<strong>ni</strong> sega na ka me ra solia<br />
me ra kakua <strong>ni</strong> vuturitaka na nomu lako ya<strong>ni</strong>.”<br />
E nuitaka o Sisita Snow <strong>ni</strong> ra na raica na<br />
marama “e dua na duidui ena nodra vale” <strong>ni</strong> oti<br />
e dua na veisiko. 7 E vakasalataki ira na dausiko<br />
vuvale o koya me ra vakarautaki ira vakayalo<br />
<strong>ni</strong> bera <strong>ni</strong> ra laki siko vuvale me rawa kina <strong>ni</strong> ra<br />
vakadeitaka ka sotava na gagadre vakayalo ka<br />
vakakina na kena vakayago: “Sa dodonu vua e<br />
dua na qase<strong>ni</strong>vuli . . . me tu vua vakalevu na Yalo<br />
<strong>ni</strong> Turaga, me kila na mataqali yalo ena sotava<br />
ena nona curu ya<strong>ni</strong> ki na dua na loma <strong>ni</strong> vale. . . .<br />
Vakatakekere vua na Kalou kei na Yalo Tabu mo<br />
rawata na [Yalotabu] me rawa kina vei iko mo<br />
sotava na yalo e tiko ena loma <strong>ni</strong> vale oya . . . ka<br />
mo gadreva mo cavuta na vosa <strong>ni</strong> sautu kei na<br />
vakacegu, ia kevaka o raica <strong>ni</strong> dua na marama e<br />
batabata, kauti koya ki yalomu me vaka e dua na<br />
gonelailai ki lomaseremu ka vakatakatai koya.” 8
A wasea o Sarah M. Kimball, ka a veiqaravi<br />
vakaperesitedi <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> ena<br />
mua <strong>ni</strong> 1860 vakacaca, na<br />
mataqali ivakasala vata oqo<br />
vei ira na marama ena nona<br />
tabanalevu: “Sa nona itavi e<br />
dua na qase<strong>ni</strong>vuli me sikovi<br />
ira na marama [e lesi vua]<br />
vakavula, me vakataroga kina na vuavuai vinaka<br />
kei na nodra bulamarau na lewe<strong>ni</strong>lotu. Sa nodra<br />
itavi me ra cavuta na vosa <strong>ni</strong> yalomatua, <strong>ni</strong><br />
vakacegu kei na sautu.” 9 Era dau vakabibitaka<br />
na veiliutaki <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> <strong>ni</strong> o ira na<br />
dau siko vuvale me ra “kakua <strong>ni</strong> vakumuna ga<br />
mai na isolisoli ia me ra vakavulica ka veivakauqeti<br />
ena ivakavuvuli <strong>ni</strong> kosipeli.” 10 Sarah M. Kimball<br />
Ena 1916, era<br />
sa kerei kina na dausiko vuvale me ra dau<br />
veitalanoataka e dua na iulutaga vakosipeli e<br />
veimacawa ka vakarautaki na veiqaravi vakayago.<br />
Ena 1923, eratou sa tekivutaka kina na<br />
mataveiliutaki raraba <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong><br />
na itukutuku vakavula e tautauvata me ra wasea<br />
na dausiko vuvale kece sara.<br />
“<strong>Na</strong> Sucutale <strong>ni</strong> Siko<br />
Vuvale”— “E Dua na Madigi<br />
Totoka vei ira na <strong>Marama</strong>”<br />
Ena 1944, <strong>ni</strong> oti e walu na yabaki mai na<br />
kena tekivu vakayagataki na ituvatuva <strong>ni</strong><br />
welefea ena Lotu (raica na wase 5), sa tekivu<br />
Era dau segata voli ga na dausiko vuvale me ra sotava<br />
na nodra gagadre vakayalo kei na gagadre vakayago o<br />
ira era dau sikova.<br />
vakataroga o Sisita Amy Brown Lyman, na<br />
ikawalu <strong>ni</strong> peresitedi raraba <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong><br />
<strong>Veivukei</strong>, na nodra itavi tudei na <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong><br />
<strong>Veivukei</strong> me ra kumuna mai na isolisoli. Ni oti<br />
na nodratou dikeva na leqa, eratou sa ma<strong>ni</strong><br />
vakatura o koya kei rau na nona dau<strong>ni</strong>vakasala<br />
vei iratou na Matabisopi Vakatulewa me ra<br />
“vakatulewa na Vakaitutu Raraba <strong>ni</strong> Lotu ka me<br />
sa kua na <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>, me baleta na<br />
kena kumu<strong>ni</strong> na ilavo.”<br />
A kauta cake na vakatutu oqo vei iratou na<br />
Mataveiliutaki Taumada na Bisopi Vakatulewa o<br />
LeGrand Richards. E muri a qai tukuna <strong>ni</strong> ratou<br />
nanuma na Mataveiliutaki Taumada kei na<br />
Matabisopi <strong>ni</strong> “sa kilikili me ratou sa muduka<br />
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na <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> na nodratou dau<br />
kumuna tiko na isolisoli <strong>ni</strong> loloma mai vei ira<br />
na dausiko vuvale.” 11<br />
A wasea o Sisita Belle S. Spafford, ka a veiqa-<br />
ravi voli vakaikarua <strong>ni</strong> dau<strong>ni</strong>vakasala vei Sisita<br />
Lyman ena gauna oya, na nona nanuma me<br />
baleta na veisau oqo ena siko vuvale:<br />
“Eratou sa tukuna na Veitaci<strong>ni</strong> iLiuliu, ‘Me ra<br />
sa kakua tale <strong>ni</strong> kumuna na ilavo <strong>ni</strong> loloma na<br />
dausiko vuvale mai na <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>.<br />
Mo <strong>ni</strong> yaco me isoqosoqo <strong>ni</strong> veiqaravi, ka sega<br />
<strong>ni</strong> isoqosoqo <strong>ni</strong> kumu<strong>ni</strong> ilavo.’<br />
Era lako voli na dausiko vuvale mai lomai Aferika me ra<br />
sikovi ira na tacidra<br />
“. . . Au se nanuma vinaka toka na noqu dabe<br />
ena dua na siga vata kei iratou na mataveiliutaki<br />
<strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> kei na sekeriteri kei<br />
na rua se tolu vei iratou na lewe <strong>ni</strong> matabose,<br />
ena nona kaya cake e dua na marama, ‘Eratou<br />
sa qiria na lali <strong>ni</strong> mate <strong>ni</strong> siko vuvale. Kevaka<br />
era sa sega <strong>ni</strong> lako me ra kumuna vata mai me<br />
baleti ira na dravudravua, o cei ena via lako mai<br />
na dua na katuba ki na dua tale me veisiko walega?’<br />
. . . Au vosa cake ka kaya, ‘Au sega <strong>ni</strong> vakabauta<br />
<strong>ni</strong> lali <strong>ni</strong> mate. Au vakabauta <strong>ni</strong> oqo na<br />
sucu vou tale <strong>ni</strong> siko vuvale. Kau vakabauta <strong>ni</strong> o<br />
ira na marama sega <strong>ni</strong> wiliki rawa ka ra sa bese<br />
tu oqo <strong>ni</strong> siko vuvale era na marautaka me ra<br />
lako ena gauna oqo vakaitoka<strong>ni</strong> ka dauveisiko<br />
me ra dikeva na ituvaki <strong>ni</strong> vuvale ka gadrevi<br />
kina na veivuke ka sega <strong>ni</strong> vaka na vakadidike<br />
mai na tabana <strong>ni</strong> veiqaravi raraba; ka ra na sega<br />
<strong>ni</strong> nanuma voli kina me vaka <strong>ni</strong> ra kere ilavo<br />
voli. Era na kila <strong>ni</strong> ra laki tara na yalo <strong>ni</strong> vuvale.<br />
Ka na dua na madigi totoka vei ira na marama<br />
era gadreva. . . . Au sega sara ga <strong>ni</strong> vakabauta<br />
vakalailai <strong>ni</strong> oqo na lali <strong>ni</strong> mate <strong>ni</strong> siko vuvale.’<br />
“A sega <strong>ni</strong> vakakina. Mai na gauna ko ya ka<br />
lako ya<strong>ni</strong> sa tekivu me seraka mai na parokaramu<br />
ka ra kerea na marama era se bera <strong>ni</strong> dau<br />
veiqaravi e liu me ra dausiko vuvale.” 12<br />
A qai veiqaravi e muri vakaikaciwa <strong>ni</strong> peresitedi<br />
raraba <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> o Sista Spafford.<br />
A raica rawa o koya na ivakaraitaki vinaka<br />
e sega <strong>ni</strong> wili rawa e rawa <strong>ni</strong> kauta mai na siko
O Sisita Geraldine Bangerter, imawi e ra, kei ira na<br />
marama mai Brazil era a veivuke ena kena tauyavutaki<br />
na <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> ena nodra vanua<br />
vuvale ki na nodra bula na marama ena iSoqo-<br />
soqo <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>. A vakadinadinataka vaqo:<br />
“Eso na cakacaka uasivi sara era dau ca-<br />
kava na noda dausiko vuvale kei ira na noda<br />
peresitedi <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>, baleta <strong>ni</strong><br />
ra dau lako ya<strong>ni</strong> ena yalo <strong>ni</strong> nodra veikacivi ka<br />
ra matataka na <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>. . . . Era<br />
tina o ira, ka tu vei ira na kila ka vakatamata<br />
me baleti ira na marama tale eso kei na nodra<br />
rarawa. Me da kakua <strong>ni</strong> vakaqiqotaka na noda<br />
rai <strong>ni</strong> veiqaravi raraba me baleti ira walega na<br />
viakana tu kei ira na dravudravua. A tukuna vei<br />
keda na iVakabula me da dau nanumi ira era<br />
dravudravua vakayalo, se sega? Era sega beka<br />
<strong>ni</strong> dau tauvimate na vutu<strong>ni</strong>yau, me vakataki ira<br />
na dravudravua; ka sega beka <strong>ni</strong> dau dredre na<br />
nodra kunea e dua na nasi? . . . Oqori na veika<br />
e dodonu me ra cakava tiko na <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong><br />
<strong>Veivukei</strong>. Au rawa <strong>ni</strong> tukuna vei kemu<strong>ni</strong> e vica<br />
vata na italanoa me baleta na nodra qarava na<br />
dausiko vuvale na veicakacaka vakaivola ena<br />
kena vukei na leqa ena veivuvale, ena vuku ga<br />
<strong>ni</strong> nodra veikacivi.” 13<br />
E Dua na Ka Dokai, dua na<br />
iTavi, ka dua na Yalayala:<br />
Wasea na Vakasama <strong>ni</strong><br />
Siko Vuvale ki Vuravura<br />
Peresitedi Henry B. Eyring, e dua na dau<strong>ni</strong>vakasala<br />
ena Mataveiliutaki Taumada, e vakadinadinataka<br />
<strong>ni</strong> siko vuvale e tiki <strong>ni</strong> nona ituvatuva<br />
na Turaga me baleta na tamata e vuravura raraba:<br />
“<strong>Na</strong> ivakarau duadua ga e rawa <strong>ni</strong> vakayacori<br />
kina na veimaroroi kei na veivakacegui ena<br />
dua na lotu vakaitamera ena dua na vuravura<br />
duidui oya mai vei ira na italai yadua ka ra tu<br />
volekati ira na tamata era vakaleqai tu. A sa raica<br />
rawa tu ya<strong>ni</strong> na Turaga oqori ena itekitekivu<br />
<strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>.<br />
“A vakatikora e dua na kena ivakarau. Erau<br />
ciqoma e rua na marama ena <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong><br />
na ilesilesi me rau sikova e dua tale me<br />
vaka <strong>ni</strong> nona veikacivi na Turaga. A dina oqori<br />
mai na ivakatekivu. . . .<br />
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“Era sa dau vakabauti tikoga na lewe <strong>ni</strong> iSo-<br />
qosoqo <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> mai vei ira na ivakatawa <strong>ni</strong><br />
sipi ena matabete ena nodra veivanua. Sa tu e<br />
dua na peresitedi <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> me ra<br />
vakararavi kina na bisopi kei na peresitedi yadua<br />
<strong>ni</strong> tabana. Era tu na dausiko vuvale, ka ra kila tu<br />
na nodra veivakatovolei kei na nodra gagadre<br />
na marama yadua. Ena rawa vua, mai vei ira, me<br />
kila na yalodra na tamata yadua kei na veimatavuvale.<br />
E rawa vua me sotava na gagadre eso<br />
ka vukea na bisopi ena nona ilesilesi me susuga<br />
cake na tamata yadua kei na veimatavuvale.” 14<br />
Me vaka e dikeva rawa o Peresitedi Eyring, na<br />
siko vuvale sa veiga<strong>ni</strong>ti vakavinaka sara ki na<br />
tubu <strong>ni</strong> Lotu e vuravura raraba. Mai na ivakarau<br />
oqo <strong>ni</strong> vakatawa, sa tu kina vei ira yadua na marama<br />
Yalododonu Edaidai na madigi me rawa<br />
kina <strong>ni</strong> iyaya <strong>ni</strong> cakacaka ena ligana na Turaga.<br />
Era sa dau cakacaka vagumatua sara na marama<br />
ena <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> me ra tauyavutaka<br />
na siko vuvale e vuravura raraba. Me kena<br />
ivakaraitaki, <strong>ni</strong> se gone na Lotu mai Brazil, e<br />
vuqa na tabana e sega tu na kena <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong><br />
<strong>Veivukei</strong> se me ra kila na ivakarau me ra tauyavutaka<br />
kina. Baleta <strong>ni</strong> se bera sara <strong>ni</strong> matau vei<br />
ira na veiliutaki ena vanua ko ya na <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong><br />
<strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>, sa ma<strong>ni</strong> kacivi Geraldine Bangerter<br />
kina na watina o William Grant Bangerter, na<br />
peresitedi <strong>ni</strong> daukaulotu ena gauna ko ya me<br />
peresitedi <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> ena tabana<br />
<strong>ni</strong> kaulotu. A sega sara ga <strong>ni</strong> matau vua na<br />
vanua oya, sega <strong>ni</strong> rawa <strong>ni</strong> vosataka sara vakavinaka<br />
na kena vosa, ka se qai vakasucuma walega<br />
na ikavitu <strong>ni</strong> luvedrau. Ia, sa ma<strong>ni</strong> tekivu<br />
cakacaka vata kei rau na dau<strong>ni</strong>vakasala kei na<br />
dua na sekeriteri. Ena nodra veivuke na daukaulotu<br />
yalewa, era vakadewataka na vosa, era sa<br />
ma<strong>ni</strong> lewa kina na marama oqo “<strong>ni</strong> imatai <strong>ni</strong> ka<br />
era gadreva me ra cakava me ra vakavulici ira<br />
na marama ena ivakarau me ra veisikovi kina<br />
vakataki ira ka kila na veika era gadreva. Era sa<br />
ma<strong>ni</strong> kaya kina, ‘Eda na vakavulica vei ira me<br />
baleta na siko vuvale.’ . . .<br />
“Era sa ma<strong>ni</strong> lewa me ra sa na tekivu ena dua<br />
na tabana lailai [mai] São Paulo ena vanua <strong>ni</strong><br />
caka bisi<strong>ni</strong>si ena koro levu koya, ka levu ga vei<br />
ira na lewena era dravudravua. Era vakauta na<br />
mataveiliutaki na itukutuku vei iratou na lewe<br />
vica na marama ena tabana oya, ka kaya, ‘Ni<br />
yalovinaka ka sotavi keitou ena bogi oqo ena<br />
gauna oqo ena vale keitou redetaka tiko.’”<br />
Erau “draiva kosova e dua na siti ka ti<strong>ni</strong>karua<br />
na milio<strong>ni</strong> na lewena” o Sisita Bangerter kei na<br />
dua na nona dau<strong>ni</strong>vakasala. “Erau basika ya<strong>ni</strong><br />
ki na dua na tabana, ka ratou toka kina e vitu<br />
na marama yalomalumalumu.”<br />
Ni oti na kena tekivu na nodratou soqo<strong>ni</strong> na<br />
marama ena dua na sere kei na dua na masu,<br />
a tucake e dua vei rau na nona dau<strong>ni</strong>vakasala<br />
o Sisita Bangerter me veivakavulci me baleta<br />
na siko vuvale. “A taura toka e dua na pepa<br />
lailai; a sauta<strong>ni</strong><strong>ni</strong><strong>ni</strong> vakalevu ka laki sakure
kina na pepa. E tucake ka wilika na itukutuku. E taura<br />
e lima na mi<strong>ni</strong>ti.<br />
“A dabe sobu o koya, ka ratou vuki kece vei [Sisita<br />
Bangerter], qai kaya mai, ‘Au sega <strong>ni</strong> kila na vosa vaka-<br />
Potukali.’ Ia eratou vinakati koya me vakavulici iratou. E<br />
sega <strong>ni</strong> dua e tiko ena rumu oya e kila na vosa Vakava-<br />
lagi. A tucake ka tukuna na vosa vaka-Potukali ga e kila<br />
tu. E va ga na iyatuvosa ena dua na parakaravu:<br />
“‘Eu sei que Deus vive.’ Au kila <strong>ni</strong> bula na Kalou.<br />
“‘Eu sei que Jesus é o Cristo.’ Au kila <strong>ni</strong> Karisito ko Jisu.<br />
“‘Eu sei que esta é a igreja verdadeira.’ Au kila <strong>ni</strong> oqo<br />
na lotu dina.<br />
“‘Em nome de Jesus Cristo, amém. Ena yaca i Jisu<br />
Karisito, eme<strong>ni</strong>.<br />
“Oqori na imatai <strong>ni</strong> soqo<strong>ni</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong><br />
ka vakayacori ena tabana oya—e dua na vosa lima na<br />
mi<strong>ni</strong>ti ena siko vuvale mai vua e dua na marama ka se<br />
Ena nodra vakayacora na veiqaravi <strong>ni</strong> yalololoma, era sa muria kina<br />
na marama ena <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> na ivakaraitaki nei Jisu Karisito.<br />
“O cei ena nona<br />
vakanananu, e rawa<br />
<strong>ni</strong> vakasamataka na<br />
ivalavala sega <strong>ni</strong> wiliki<br />
rawa <strong>ni</strong> loloma cecere sa<br />
vakayacori oti, na kakana<br />
sa biu ena dela <strong>ni</strong> teveli<br />
lala, na vakabauta sa<br />
susugi cake ena veiauwa<br />
babalavu <strong>ni</strong> tauvimate,<br />
na mavoa sa vadreti, na<br />
mosi sa vakamamadataki<br />
cake mai na liga loloma<br />
kei na vosa malumu<br />
<strong>ni</strong> veivakadeitaki, na<br />
veivakacegui sa soli ya<strong>ni</strong><br />
ena gauna <strong>ni</strong> mate kei na<br />
galili e dau muria mai?”<br />
Gordon B. Hinckley<br />
Ensign, Maji 1992, 4<br />
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E rawa <strong>ni</strong> ra veivaqaqacotaki ka veivakatataki cake vakataki<br />
ira na dausiko vuvale kei ira era veiqaravi ena vukudra.<br />
bera <strong>ni</strong> bau dua na nona dausiko vuvale, bau<br />
raica e dua na dau siko vuvale, se a sa bau siko<br />
vuvale oti ena dua na gauna, [qai tarava] e dua<br />
na ivakadinadina <strong>ni</strong> kosipeli.<br />
“. . . Mai na ilawalawa lailai oya kei na so tale<br />
vakataki ira sa basika kina e dua na isoqosoqo<br />
vakasakiti, bulabula, ka sinai ena vakabauta <strong>ni</strong><br />
marama ena vanua o Brazil. E levu na nodra<br />
taledi, era vuli vinaka, kila ka, ka ra iliuliu uasivi,<br />
ia era na sega beka <strong>ni</strong> vakakoya ke sega na kosipeli<br />
i Jisu Karisito kei na nodra vakabauta.” 15<br />
Sa yaco na siko vuvale me dua na iwalewale<br />
me ra cakacakataka kina na marama Yalododonu<br />
Edaidai e vuravura raraba na loloma,<br />
na veivakamareqeti, kei na veiqaravi—me ra<br />
“vakayagataka kina na yalo <strong>ni</strong> loloma sa teivaka<br />
koto na Kalou e lomaseremu<strong>ni</strong>,” me vaka e<br />
vakavuvulitaka o Josefa Simici. 16<br />
Era rogoca na dausiko vuvale yalodina na<br />
nodra kaci na parofita <strong>ni</strong> gauna oqo me ia na<br />
veiqaravi Vakarisito. E vakavuvulitaka o Peresitedi<br />
Spencer W. Kimball, na ikati<strong>ni</strong>karua <strong>ni</strong><br />
Peresitedi <strong>ni</strong> Lotu: “E raici keda tiko na Kalou,<br />
ka dau vakatawai keda voli. Ia e dau sotava na<br />
noda leqa mai vua e dua tale na tamata. O koya,<br />
sa bibi kina me da dau veiqaravi vakataki keda<br />
ena mata<strong>ni</strong>tu.” 17 E kaya o Peresitedi Thomas S.<br />
Monson, na ikati<strong>ni</strong>kaono <strong>ni</strong> Peresitedi <strong>ni</strong> Lotu:<br />
“Era vakavolivoliti keda tu o ira era gadreva tu<br />
na noda kauwai, na noda veivakayaloqaqataki,<br />
na noda veitoko<strong>ni</strong>, na noda veivakacegui,<br />
na noda yalovinaka. . . . O keda na ligana na<br />
Turaga ena vuravura oqo, ka noda ilesilesi me<br />
da veiqaravi ka laveti ira cake na Luvena. Sa<br />
vakanuinui tu vei keda yadua o koya.” 18<br />
<strong>Na</strong> Siko Vuvale Nikua:<br />
<strong>Na</strong> Sasaga Tikoga <strong>ni</strong><br />
Muri Jisu Karisito<br />
E toma<strong>ni</strong> tikoga ena nodra bula na marama<br />
ena veivanua kecega na italanoa <strong>ni</strong> siko vuvale,<br />
<strong>ni</strong> ra vakataucokotaka na <strong>Marama</strong> Yalododonu<br />
Edaidai na nodra veiyalayalati me ra muri<br />
Jisu Karisito. E kaya kina o Peresitedi Dieter F.
Taro Era<br />
Rawa <strong>ni</strong> Taroga na<br />
Dausiko Vuvale<br />
<strong>Na</strong> veimataqali taro vakaoqo e rawa <strong>ni</strong><br />
vakabasikata na madigi eso vei ira na dausiko<br />
vuvale me ra solia na vakacegu, wasea<br />
na ivakavuvuli vakosipeli e salavata, ka<br />
vakarautaka na veiqaravi e vakaibalebale.<br />
<strong>Na</strong> lomaleqa se kauwai cava soti e tu<br />
vei iko?<br />
<strong>Na</strong> taro cava soti e tu vei iko me baleta<br />
na kosipeli kei na Lotu?<br />
E rawa <strong>ni</strong> o vakatara me keirau vukei<br />
iko ena ?<br />
Ni o taroga na taro vaqo, e dodonu me<br />
ra solia na dausiko vuvale na sala e rawa<br />
<strong>ni</strong> veivuke kina, me vaka na veimei ena<br />
dua na gauna lekaleka, veivuke ena<br />
dua na cakacaka <strong>ni</strong> vale, se veivuke ena<br />
kena qaravi e dua na ilesilesi. E sega soti<br />
<strong>ni</strong> veivuke vakavinaka me da kaya, “Qiri<br />
mai kevaka o gadreva e dua na ka.”<br />
Uchtdorf, e dua na dau<strong>ni</strong>vakasala ena Mata-<br />
veiliutaki Taumada: “O <strong>ni</strong> dau vakayacora na<br />
veiqaravi <strong>ni</strong> yalololoma na marama vakasakiti<br />
oqo vei ira na ta<strong>ni</strong> ena inaki eso ka sega kina<br />
na gagadre <strong>ni</strong> veika me nomu<strong>ni</strong> ga. Ena veika<br />
oqori ko <strong>ni</strong> sa vakatotomuria kina na iVakabula,<br />
o Koya, e dina ga <strong>ni</strong> tui, e sega <strong>ni</strong> vaqara<br />
na itutu, ka sega talega <strong>ni</strong> kauwaitaka ko Koya<br />
se ra raici Koya kina na tamata se sega. E sega<br />
talega <strong>ni</strong> vinakata me veisisivi vata kei ira tale<br />
eso. E dau vagolei tu ga na nona vakanananu<br />
ena nodra vukei na ta<strong>ni</strong>. E veivakavulici, veivakabulai,<br />
veivosaki [vata], ka vakarorogo vei ira<br />
na ta<strong>ni</strong>. E kila o Koya <strong>ni</strong> bula cecere e sega <strong>ni</strong><br />
yaga kina na ivakatakilakila e taudaku <strong>ni</strong> bula<br />
sautu se na itutu. E veivakavulici ka bulataka na<br />
ivunau oqo o Koya: ‘O koya sa cecere duadua<br />
vei kemudou me nomudou dauveiqaravi ga.’” 19<br />
Ena loma <strong>ni</strong> veiyabaki, era sa vulica tiko na<br />
marama <strong>ni</strong> gadrevi ena siko vuvale na lomasoli,<br />
yalodina, kei na solibula. Era sa vulica <strong>ni</strong><br />
ra gadreva na Yalotabu me veidusimaki ena<br />
nodra veisiko. Era sa raica na kaukauwa e dau<br />
yaco mai ena nodra vakavuvulitaka na dina ka<br />
wasea na nodra ivakadinadina, soli veivuke<br />
vakayago ena loloma, kei na nodra lomasoli me<br />
ra tagi vata, vakacegui ira, ka veivuke ena kena<br />
colati na nodra icolacola na tacidra.<br />
Lomasoli, Yalodina, kei na Solibula<br />
E vakabibitaka o Peresitedi Kimball <strong>ni</strong> ra<br />
gadreva na dausiko vuvale na lomasoli kei<br />
na yalodina. E kaya kina: “<strong>Na</strong> nomu<strong>ni</strong> itavi e<br />
tautauvata ena vuqa sara na sala kei na nodra na<br />
dauveituberi <strong>ni</strong> matavuvale, sai koya vakalekaleka<br />
sara me ‘dau vakaraici ira na lewe<strong>ni</strong>lotu’—<br />
me kakua <strong>ni</strong> ruasagavulu walega na mi<strong>ni</strong>ti ena<br />
dua na vula ia me veigauna— ‘dausikovi ira ka<br />
vakauqeti ira tikoga’—sega <strong>ni</strong> dua ga na tukituki<br />
e katuba, ia me da tiko vata kei ira, ka laveti ira<br />
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cake, ka vaqaqacotaki ira, ka vakaukauwataki ira,<br />
ka viribaiti ira—’me vunauci ira me ra kakua <strong>ni</strong><br />
ivalavala ca, . . . kakua <strong>ni</strong> veicudruvi, . . . kakua <strong>ni</strong><br />
lasu, veikaseti vu<strong>ni</strong>.’” 20 A raica na lomasoli vaqori<br />
o Peresitedi Kimball vei watina o Camilla, ka<br />
kaya kina na veika oqo me baleta na nona sasaga<br />
vakadausiko vuvale: “Au sa tovolea meu kakua<br />
<strong>ni</strong> tabonaka na gagadre <strong>ni</strong> kena vakayagataki na<br />
veimala<strong>ni</strong>vosa rogo vinaka se ivalavala vinaka.” 21<br />
<strong>Na</strong> siko vuvale e dua na ilesilesi ka na ia<br />
tikoga; e na sega <strong>ni</strong> rawa <strong>ni</strong> vakacavari sara<br />
vakadua. E vakavuqa <strong>ni</strong> dau namaki vei ira na<br />
dausiko vuvale me ra dau solibula ka ulabaleta<br />
na yalolailai. E dau yaco dina oqo vakauasivi <strong>ni</strong><br />
sega <strong>ni</strong> vua na sasaga, me vaka na italanoa kei<br />
Cathie Humphrey:<br />
Ni ra wasea na dina ka cavuta na nodra ivakadinadina<br />
na dausiko vuvale, era na vukei ira kina na ta<strong>ni</strong> me ra<br />
muria na iVakabula.<br />
“Ena imatai <strong>ni</strong> gauna au kacivi kina meu<br />
dausiko vuvale, a lesi vei au e dua na gone-<br />
yalewa ka sega vakadua <strong>ni</strong> dau mai lotu. . . .<br />
Ena veivula au dau lako ya<strong>ni</strong> ena yalodina<br />
ka tukituki ena nona katuba. Dau dolava na<br />
katuba mai loma ia ena sogo tu ga na katuba<br />
lawalawa. . . . ena sega <strong>ni</strong> tukuna e dua na ka.<br />
Ena tucake tu ga. Au dau mata mamarau ya<strong>ni</strong><br />
ka kaya, ‘Bula, O au o Cathie, na nomu dausiko<br />
vuvale.’ Ia me vaka <strong>ni</strong> sega <strong>ni</strong> dau tukuna<br />
e dua na ka, au na kaya ya<strong>ni</strong>, ‘Io, na nodaru<br />
leso<strong>ni</strong> <strong>ni</strong>kua na . . .’ ka tovolea vakalailai meu<br />
kaya e dua na ka e veilaveti ka rogo talei. Ni sa<br />
oti na ka au tukuna, dau kaya ga mai, ‘Vinaka,’<br />
ka sogota na katuba.<br />
“Au sega <strong>ni</strong> dau taleitaka na lako kina. . . . Ia<br />
au lako ga baleta <strong>ni</strong>u vinakata meu talairawarawa.<br />
Ni oti rauta <strong>ni</strong> vitu se walu na vula ena<br />
kena yaco tiko qo, a qiri au mai na bisopi.<br />
“‘I Cathie,’ e kaya mai, ‘na goneyalewa o dau<br />
sikova tiko sa vakasucuma e dua na gone, ia<br />
sa mate tale <strong>ni</strong> oti ga e vica na siga. Erau na<br />
vakayacora kei watina e dua na lotu e yasa <strong>ni</strong><br />
bulubulu, e kerei au meu taroga ya<strong>ni</strong> ke rawa<br />
<strong>ni</strong> o mai tiko talega kina. E kaya o koya <strong>ni</strong> o<br />
iko duadua ga na nona itoka<strong>ni</strong>.’ Au lako ki na<br />
ibulubulu. Keitou tiko ena yasa <strong>ni</strong> bulubulu na<br />
goneyalewa, na watina, na bisopi, kei au. E sega<br />
tale <strong>ni</strong> dua.<br />
“Au dau raici koya ga vakadua ena dua na<br />
vula. Au a sega <strong>ni</strong> kila rawa mai na katuba
lawalawa <strong>ni</strong> bukete tiko, ia sa vakalougatataki<br />
keirau ruarua na noqu veisiko malumalumu ka<br />
nuitaki oya.” 22<br />
Vakasaqara na Veituberi Vakayalo<br />
Ena veigauna, era dau vakasaqara ka ciqoma<br />
na veituberi vakayalo o ira na dausiko vuvale.<br />
A tukuna e dua na marama ena <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong><br />
<strong>Veivukei</strong> mai Brazil na gauna a ciqoma kina na<br />
veivuke <strong>ni</strong> Turaga:<br />
“E sega na sala meu tarai ira kina na marama<br />
ena talevo<strong>ni</strong>. E sega tu na neitou talevo<strong>ni</strong>. Au<br />
ma<strong>ni</strong> tekiduru kina ena masu meu kila na ma-<br />
rama ena gadrevi au ena macawa ko ya. E sega<br />
vakadua <strong>ni</strong> rawa <strong>ni</strong> cala. [Taura mada qo], e tiko<br />
e dua na goneyalewa loma<strong>ni</strong> ena neitou taba-<br />
nalevu ka sega tu na isulu <strong>ni</strong> luvena se qai sucu<br />
vou. Au sega <strong>ni</strong> kila na gauna ena vakasucu<br />
kina ia au kila ga <strong>ni</strong> sa voleka. Au soqona vata<br />
e dua na ilawalawa marama ka keitou cula eso<br />
na isulu me baleta na luvena lailai. Keitou sega<br />
<strong>ni</strong> vinakata me kauta mai vale na luvena ka olo<br />
tu mai ena <strong>ni</strong>usipepa. Keitou sega <strong>ni</strong> rawa <strong>ni</strong><br />
veiqiriti au sa ma<strong>ni</strong> masuta kina me tuku<strong>ni</strong> vei<br />
au na gauna meu lako kina ki vale<strong>ni</strong>bula kei na<br />
ioloolo isulu oqo. Niu yaco ya<strong>ni</strong> ki vale<strong>ni</strong>bula<br />
se qai vakasucuma wale sara toka ga na luvena<br />
kau solia vua na isulu mai vei ira na tacina ena<br />
<strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>.” 23<br />
Me vaka <strong>ni</strong> duidui tu na kedra ituvaki na<br />
marama yadua, era gadreva na dausiko vuvale<br />
E rawa <strong>ni</strong> ra dusimaki mai vua na Yalo Tabu o ira na<br />
dausiko vuvale <strong>ni</strong> ra masuta na veivuke.<br />
na veidusimaki yadua <strong>ni</strong> Yalo Tabu me rawa <strong>ni</strong><br />
ra kila kina na sala vinaka duadua me ra vukea<br />
kina na marama yadua. A rawata o Florence<br />
Chukwurah mai Nigeria na veidusimaki va-<br />
kaoqo ena gauna a “lesi kina me sikova e dua<br />
na marama ka sotava tiko na dredre ena nona<br />
bula vakawati kei na nona vuvale, e rau ma<strong>ni</strong><br />
sota ena makete me rau veivosaki. Ni vakaro-<br />
goca ka vakadikeva na veika dredre e sotava<br />
tiko na marama oqo, a kerea na watina o Sisita<br />
Chukwurah me soli vua e dua na veivakalouga-<br />
tataki <strong>ni</strong> matabete me rawa <strong>ni</strong> kila na ivakarau<br />
me vukea kina na marama lomaleqa oqo. Ni<br />
oti na veivakalougatataki a vakauqeti me<br />
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veitalanoa vata kei na marama oqo me baleta<br />
na bibi <strong>ni</strong> ikati<strong>ni</strong>. ‘A tukuna vei au ena luluvu<br />
<strong>ni</strong> sega <strong>ni</strong> dau sauma na nona ikati<strong>ni</strong> baleta <strong>ni</strong><br />
sega <strong>ni</strong> veirauti na ilavo e rawata tiko,’ qai nanuma<br />
o Sisita Chukwurah. ‘Au ma<strong>ni</strong> vakatura<br />
me keirau veitalanoataka mada na Malakai<br />
3:10 ia me keirau mai sota ena noqu vale me<br />
rawa <strong>ni</strong> keirau vakacegu ka veivosaki taurua ga.<br />
A vakadonuya o koya. Ni oti na neirau veivosaki<br />
au vakayaloqaqataki koya me cakacakataka<br />
na nona vakabauta ka sauma na nona ikati<strong>ni</strong><br />
me ono mada ga na vula. Au wasea vua na<br />
noqu ivakadinadina ena Yalotabu.’<br />
“. . . Ni oti e vica na vula mai na soqo<strong>ni</strong><br />
oqo, sa veisau sara vakalevu na kena ituvaki<br />
na marama oqo. A ciqoma na luvena yalewa<br />
e dua na sikolasivi me laki vakaotia na nona<br />
vuli torocake, a cakacaka vata kei bisopi na<br />
Mary Ellen Smoot<br />
iKati<strong>ni</strong>katolu <strong>ni</strong> Peresitedi Raraba <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong><br />
<strong>Veivukei</strong><br />
“Eda veigadrevi vakataki keda. Eda gadreva na<br />
dausiko vuvale . . . ka dau kauwaitaki ira vakaidina<br />
sara era dau sikova ka ra kila na bibi <strong>ni</strong> nodra<br />
veikacivi ena nodra segata me ra yacova ya<strong>ni</strong> na dua.”<br />
Ensign, Fepe. 2002, 47<br />
watina me rawa <strong>ni</strong> bulabula mai vakalotu<br />
ka ciqoma e dua na veikacivi, erau cakacaka<br />
vata na veiwati<strong>ni</strong> me vakavinakataki cake na<br />
nodrau bula vakailavo kei na kedrau isema,<br />
ka laki yaco sara me rau veivakauqeti vei ira<br />
tale eso.” 24<br />
Vakavuvulitaka na Dina ka Wasea na<br />
iVakadinadina<br />
E vakavuvulitaka o Peresitedi Kimball <strong>ni</strong> ra<br />
wasea na kosipeli kei na nodra ivakadinadina o<br />
ira na dausiko vuvale, e rawa <strong>ni</strong> ra vukei ira na<br />
tacidra me ra muria na iVakabula:<br />
“Sa dua na ka na kena lagilagi na nodrau curuma<br />
ya<strong>ni</strong> e dua na vuvale e rua na marama. . . .<br />
“Ena noqu rai e sega <strong>ni</strong> rawa na veivakasaurarataki<br />
ena parokaramu oqo. E ka <strong>ni</strong> veivakayaloqaqataki<br />
kei na loloma. E veivakurabuitaki
Era vakatovotovotaka na “lotu savasava” o ira na dausiko vuvale<br />
yalodina (Jemesa 1:27).<br />
na levu <strong>ni</strong> tamata eda rawa <strong>ni</strong> veisautaka ena loloma ka<br />
vakauqeta ena loloma. Me da ‘veivakasalataki, veivakavulici,<br />
veituberi ka veivunauci, io me rau vunauci . . . me<br />
ra lako vua na Karisito’ (V&V 20:59), me vaka e tukuna<br />
na Turaga ena nona ivakatakila. . . .<br />
“Me da kakua <strong>ni</strong> sa yalovakacegu ga ena veisiko, ena<br />
noda veivakaitoka<strong>ni</strong>taki; oqori, e dina sara, e tu na kena<br />
gauna. . . . <strong>Na</strong> veitoka<strong>ni</strong>, sa dina sara, e ka bibi, ia o cei e<br />
vinaka cake na noda vakaitoka<strong>ni</strong>taka e dua se na noda<br />
vakavulica vua e dua na ivakavuvuli tawamudu <strong>ni</strong> bula<br />
kei na veivakabulai? . . .<br />
“<strong>Na</strong> nomu ivakadinadina sa dua na sala daumaka. . . .<br />
E sega <strong>ni</strong> gadrevi vei iko e veigauna mo wasea ena kena<br />
ivalavala dokai; e vuqa tu na kena iwalewale. . . .<br />
“[O keda me da] vaka<strong>ni</strong><br />
ira na viakana, vakasulumi<br />
ira na luvaiwale,<br />
qaravi ira na yada, me<br />
vakamamacataka na wai<br />
<strong>ni</strong> matana na luve<strong>ni</strong>yali,<br />
vakacegui ira era rarawa,<br />
ena lotu oqo, se ena dua<br />
tale na lotu cava ga se o<br />
ira e sega na nodra lotu,<br />
ena vanua cava ga eda<br />
raici ira kina.”<br />
Josefa Simici<br />
Nodra iVakavuvuli na<br />
Peresitedi <strong>ni</strong> Lotu: Josefa<br />
Simici (2007), 426<br />
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Ena siko vuvale era na kila kina na marama ena<br />
<strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> <strong>ni</strong> tu na nodra itoka<strong>ni</strong> era<br />
kauwaitaki ira tiko.<br />
“. . . <strong>Na</strong> dausiko vuvale . . . sa dodonu me gu-<br />
matua ena igu, kei na raiyawa, kei na maqosa—<br />
kei na ivakadinadina.” 25<br />
A vakaraitaka e dua na tina gone na nona<br />
vakavinavinaka ena vukudra na dausiko vuvale<br />
era a vukei koya me lesu mai ka bulataka tale<br />
na kosipeli:<br />
“Au vakavinavinaka ki na siga oqo ena<br />
vukudrau na noqu dausiko vuvale ena nodrau<br />
loma<strong>ni</strong> au ka sega <strong>ni</strong> vakalewai au. Erau vaka-<br />
vuna meu nanuma <strong>ni</strong>u sa ka bibi sara ka dua<br />
na noqu tikina ena Lotu.<br />
“Erau dau lako mai ki vale, keitou dau dabe<br />
ka veivosaki . . . , ka rau dau biuta koto vei au e<br />
veivula e dua na itukutuku.<br />
“Ia <strong>ni</strong> rau dau lako mai e veivula, sa vakavuna<br />
na noqu nanuma <strong>ni</strong>u sa rui bibi dina ka rau sa<br />
rui kauwaitaki au vakalevu, ka rau loma<strong>ni</strong> au ka<br />
taleitaki au.<br />
“Ena nodrau dau veisiko kei na nodrau dau<br />
mai raici keitou, au sa ma<strong>ni</strong> nanuma kina <strong>ni</strong> sa<br />
kena gauna meu sa lesu tale ki lotu. Au vaka-<br />
bauta <strong>ni</strong>u a sega <strong>ni</strong> kila na sala meu lesu mai<br />
kina, ia ena nodrau dau lako mai ka dolele mai<br />
vei au, erau sa vakarautaka kina e dua na sala e<br />
rawa <strong>ni</strong>u lesu mai kina.<br />
“E dodonu me da kila <strong>ni</strong> loma<strong>ni</strong> keda na Tu-<br />
raga veitalia se o cei o keda, ka rau vukei au na<br />
noqu dausiko vuvale meu kila <strong>ni</strong> dina oqo.<br />
“Keirau sa vauci oti ena Valetabu kei na tu-<br />
raga watiqu.” 26<br />
<strong>Na</strong> siko vuvale e dua na sala me kau ya<strong>ni</strong> kina<br />
na kosipeli i Jisu Karisito ki na nodra bula na<br />
marama kei na nodra matavuvale. E kaya kina<br />
o Sisita Mary Ellen Smoot, na ikati<strong>ni</strong>katolu <strong>ni</strong><br />
peresitedi raraba <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>: “<strong>Na</strong><br />
noqu gagadre meu vakatakekere vei ira na tacida<br />
me ra kakua soti <strong>ni</strong> leqataka na qiri ena talevo<strong>ni</strong><br />
se na veisiko vakavulatolu se vakavula, se kevaka<br />
sa rauta beka oya, ka vakanamata vakalevu cake<br />
ena kena susugi cake na yalo malumalumu. <strong>Na</strong><br />
noda itavi me da raica <strong>ni</strong> na caucaudre tikoga na<br />
yameyame <strong>ni</strong> buka <strong>ni</strong> kosipeli. <strong>Na</strong> noda ilesilesi<br />
me da raica na sipi lakosese ka vukei ira me ra<br />
vakila na nona loloma na noda iVakabula.” 27<br />
E vakavuvulitaka vaqo o Peresitedi Kimball:
“E vuqa na marama era bula tiko ena isulu-<br />
taga na isulutaga vakayalo. E dodonu me nodra<br />
na veicurucuru babalavu totoka, na icurucuru<br />
balavu vakayalo. . . . Sa nomu<strong>ni</strong> galala mo <strong>ni</strong><br />
lako ki na veivale ka veisautaka na isulutaga ki<br />
na icurucuru babalavu. . . .<br />
“. . . O <strong>ni</strong> vakarau laki vakabula yalo, ia ko cei<br />
e rawa <strong>ni</strong> tukuna <strong>ni</strong> vuqa na tamata vivinaka<br />
era bulabula tu oqo ena Lotu <strong>ni</strong>kua baleta <strong>ni</strong> ko<br />
<strong>ni</strong> a lako ya<strong>ni</strong> ki na nodra veivale ka veisautaka<br />
na ivakarau <strong>ni</strong> nodra rai, na raivotu vou. O <strong>ni</strong><br />
a dreta laivi na ilati. O <strong>ni</strong> vakarabailevutaka na<br />
nodra vu<strong>ni</strong>lagi. . . .<br />
“Raica, o <strong>ni</strong> sega <strong>ni</strong> vakabulai ira walega na<br />
marama oqo, de rairai na watidra talega kei na<br />
nodra vuvale.” 28<br />
Mo Veivuke Vakayago ena Loloma<br />
<strong>Na</strong> loloma cecere na ivurevure <strong>ni</strong> veiqaravi<br />
vakayago kei na veivakatawai mai vei ira<br />
na dausiko vuvale. E vakavuqa <strong>ni</strong> dau tu na<br />
nona leqa vakayago e dua na marama kei na<br />
nona matavuvale ka dredre <strong>ni</strong> ratou sotava ga<br />
vakataki iratou. Ena yaco beka oqo <strong>ni</strong> sucu e<br />
dua na gonelailai se <strong>ni</strong> yaco mai na tauvimate<br />
se na mate vua e dua na lewe <strong>ni</strong> matavuvale.<br />
Ena siko vuvale, era na kunea kina na marama ena <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> na reki ena nodra veiqaravi vakataki ira.<br />
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Me vakataki ira na marama ena <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong><br />
<strong>Veivukei</strong> taumada mai <strong>Na</strong>uvoo ka vakakina ena<br />
sala ki na ra vaka ki na Bucabuca <strong>ni</strong> Salt Lake, e<br />
vakavuqa <strong>ni</strong> ra dau imatai <strong>ni</strong> liga <strong>ni</strong> veivuke o ira<br />
na dausiko vuvale ena gauna oqo. E kaya o Sisita<br />
Silvia H. Allred, e dua na dau<strong>ni</strong>vakasala ena<br />
mataveiliutaki raraba <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>:<br />
“Au qoroqoro <strong>ni</strong>u vakadinadinataka na ivalavala<br />
sega <strong>ni</strong> wiliki rawa <strong>ni</strong> loloma cecere ka<br />
dau vakayacori e veisiga mai vei ira na dausiko<br />
vuvale e vuravura raraba, ka ra dau guilecavi<br />
ira ena nodra qarava na nodra leqa na marama<br />
yadua kei na nodra matavuvale. Au kaya kina<br />
vei ira na dausiko vuvale yalodina oqo, ‘Ena<br />
veivalavala lalai <strong>ni</strong> loloma cecere oqori, o <strong>ni</strong> sa<br />
“Ko <strong>ni</strong> sa qaravi Koya tiko na nomu<strong>ni</strong> Kalou, ena nomu<strong>ni</strong><br />
qaravi ira tiko na wekamu<strong>ni</strong>” (Mosaia 2:17).<br />
muria kina na iVakabula ka ko <strong>ni</strong> sa iyaya kina <strong>ni</strong><br />
cakacaka ena Ligana ena nomu<strong>ni</strong> vukea, kauwa-<br />
itaka, laveta, vakaceguya, vakarorogo, vakauqeta,<br />
vakamareqeta, vakavulica ka vaqaqacotaka na<br />
marama eso o <strong>ni</strong> qarava.’Meu wasea mada e<br />
[rua] na ivakaraitaki lalai <strong>ni</strong> veiqaravi vakaoqori.<br />
“E tauvi Rosa tiko na mate <strong>ni</strong> suka dau<br />
veivakamalumalumutaki kei na mataqali mate<br />
tale eso. A curu ki na Lotu ena vica na yabaki<br />
sa oti. O koya e dua na tina sega <strong>ni</strong> vakawati<br />
kei na luvena tagane yabaki ti<strong>ni</strong>vakacaca. Ena<br />
veigauna eso e dau curu ki vale<strong>ni</strong>bula me vica<br />
na siga. Erau sega walega <strong>ni</strong> dau kauti koya ki<br />
vale<strong>ni</strong>bula na nona dausiko vuvale yaloyalo<br />
vinaka, ia erau dau sikovi koya ka dau qaravi<br />
koya e vale<strong>ni</strong>bula ena gauna vata erau vakatawana<br />
tiko kina na luvena tagane e vale vakakina<br />
e koro<strong>ni</strong>vuli. Erau qaravi koya na nona<br />
dausiko vuvale me vaka <strong>ni</strong> rau nona itoka<strong>ni</strong> ka<br />
nona matavuvale.<br />
“Ni oti na imatai <strong>ni</strong> vica nona veisiko vua e<br />
dua na marama, qai kila o Kathy <strong>ni</strong> sega tiko <strong>ni</strong><br />
kila na marama oqo na wilivola ia e vinakata<br />
me vuli. A lomasoli o Kathy me vukei koya,<br />
e dina ga <strong>ni</strong> kila tu <strong>ni</strong> na taura na gauna, na<br />
vosota, ka me vakayacori tikoga.” 29<br />
Erau vakaraitaka na dausiko vuvale nei Sisita<br />
Fife na nodrau loloma ena cakacaka vakayago<br />
ka sega <strong>ni</strong> rawa <strong>ni</strong> cakava vakataki koya. Ka<br />
ratou vaqaqacotaki vata vakavakasama ka vakayalo<br />
ena nodratou dui veiqaravi vakataki iratou.
Tagi vata Kei Ira Era Tagi, Veivakacegui, ka<br />
Veivuke ena Kena Colati na iColacola<br />
E vakavuvulitaka o Sisita Elaine L. Jack, na<br />
ikati<strong>ni</strong>karua <strong>ni</strong> peresitedi raraba <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong><br />
<strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>: “Ena siko vuvale eda dui dolele vei<br />
keda vakataki keda. E tukuna na liga na veika<br />
e sega <strong>ni</strong> rawa <strong>ni</strong> tukuna na domo. E dua na<br />
imoko e tukuna e vuqa na ka. E vakaduavatataki<br />
keda na noda dredre vata. E vakabulabulataka<br />
na yaloda e dua na gauna <strong>ni</strong> veiwasei. Eda sega<br />
<strong>ni</strong> rawa <strong>ni</strong> colata tiko e veigauna na nona icolacola<br />
e dua e vakaleqai tiko, ia e rawa <strong>ni</strong> da laveti<br />
koya cake me rawa <strong>ni</strong> colata kina vakavinaka.” 30<br />
A vakavinavinaka e dua na marama ka se qai<br />
mate wale na watina ena vukudra na dausiko<br />
vuvale ka ra a tagi vata kei koya ka vakacegui<br />
koya. A vola kina vaqo: “Au a gadreva vakalevu<br />
sara e dua me rawa <strong>ni</strong>u dolele ya<strong>ni</strong> kina;<br />
e dua ka rawa <strong>ni</strong> rogoci au. . . . Erau a rogoci<br />
au. Erau vakacegui au. Erau tagi vata kei au. Ka<br />
rau mokoti au . . . [ka] vukei au mai na yaluma<br />
titobu kei na rarawa ena vica na vula taumada <strong>ni</strong><br />
galili.” 31<br />
E dua tale na marama e umana vata na nona<br />
vakanananu ena nona ciqoma na loloma cecere<br />
dina mai vua e dua na dausiko vuvale: “Au kila<br />
<strong>ni</strong>u sega walega <strong>ni</strong> dua na iwiliwili vakaivola me<br />
sikova o koya. Au kila <strong>ni</strong> kauwaitaki au.” 32<br />
<strong>Na</strong> iVakarau<br />
Era Lomana,<br />
Vakatawana, ka Vaqaqacotaka<br />
kina e Dua na <strong>Marama</strong><br />
na Dausiko Vuvale<br />
Masulaki koya kei na nona matavuvale<br />
e veisiga.<br />
Vakasaqara na veivakauqeti mo kilai<br />
koya kei na nona matavuvale.<br />
Sikovi koya wasoma mo kila tiko na<br />
kena ituvaki ka mo vakacegui koya ka<br />
vaqaqacotaki koya.<br />
Dau veitaratara tiko e veigauna ena<br />
veisiko, talevo<strong>ni</strong>, ivola, imeli, vakau<br />
itukutukuvolai, kei na ivalavala<br />
rawarawa eso <strong>ni</strong> yalovinaka.<br />
Kidavaki koya ena soqo<strong>ni</strong> <strong>ni</strong> Lotu.<br />
Vukei koya <strong>ni</strong> yaco na leqa tubukoso,<br />
na tauvimate, kei na gagadre<br />
vakatotolotaki eso.<br />
Vakavulica vua na kosipeli mai na ivola<strong>ni</strong>kalou<br />
kei na itukutuku <strong>ni</strong> siko vuvale.<br />
Vakauqeti koya ena nomu ivakaraitaki<br />
vinaka.<br />
Tukuna vua e dua na iliuliu <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong><br />
<strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> me baleta na nodra veiqaravi<br />
kei na nona tiko vinaka vakayalo ka<br />
vakayago talega na marama oqo.<br />
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136<br />
<strong>Na</strong> Siko Vuvale ena<br />
Vakalougatataki Kina<br />
o Dausiko Vuvale<br />
Ni ra qaravi ira eso tale na marama vakadau-<br />
siko vuvale, era na vakalougatataki talega o ira.<br />
E vakavuvulitaka o Sisita Barbara W. Winder, na<br />
ikati<strong>ni</strong>kadua <strong>ni</strong> peresitedi raraba <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong><br />
<strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>: “Sa ka bibi sara me tiko na nodra<br />
dausiko vuvale na marama yadua—me vakavu-<br />
rea vua na vakasama <strong>ni</strong> gadrevi o koya, <strong>ni</strong> dua e<br />
loma<strong>ni</strong> koya ka dau vakasamataki koya tu. Ia e<br />
tautauvata ga na kena bibi <strong>ni</strong> na rawa kina vua<br />
na dausiko vuvale me tubu cake ena loloma<br />
cecere. Ena noda lesi ira na noda marama me<br />
ra dausiko vuvale, eda sa solia tiko vei ira na<br />
madigi me ra tara cake na loloma savasava i<br />
Karisito, ka rawa <strong>ni</strong> yaco me veivakalougatataki<br />
cecere duadua ena nodra bula.” 33<br />
E tukuna e dua na marama na veivakalougata-<br />
taki a sovaraki vua ena nona qaravi ira na tacina:<br />
“Ni oti vakalailai na neirau vakamau, keirau a<br />
toki kei watiqu ki New Jersey. Ni se qai imatai<br />
tiko <strong>ni</strong> nona yabaki <strong>ni</strong> vuli vu<strong>ni</strong>wai, e dau tu<br />
yadua me qai lesu mai vale na watiqu <strong>ni</strong> se bera<br />
na 11:30 ena bogi. . . . Se bera <strong>ni</strong> levu na noqu<br />
itoka<strong>ni</strong>. A dredre ka galili vakalevu sara vei au<br />
na toki oqo.<br />
“A kerei au na bisopi <strong>ni</strong> noqu tabanalevu vou<br />
meu liutaka e dua na parokaramu me baleti ira<br />
na lewe<strong>ni</strong>lotu vosa vaka-Sipe<strong>ni</strong> ena neitou tabanalevu.<br />
Kena ibalebale oqo na vakavakadewa<br />
ena soqo<strong>ni</strong> <strong>ni</strong> sakaramede, vakavulici <strong>ni</strong> kalasi<br />
<strong>ni</strong> uto <strong>ni</strong> kosipeli, kei na raici <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong><br />
<strong>Veivukei</strong>. Me kakua <strong>ni</strong> wili kina o ira e nodra<br />
vosa dina na vosa vaka-Sipe<strong>ni</strong>, o au duadua ga<br />
na marama au madila ena vosa vaka-Sipe<strong>ni</strong>.<br />
“Me ikuri <strong>ni</strong> noqu itavi, a solia vei au na<br />
peresitedi <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> e dua na<br />
ituvatuva <strong>ni</strong> veisiko ka tiko kina na yacadra e 12<br />
na marama era vakaitikotiko ena dua na nodra<br />
yasa <strong>ni</strong> koro na kai Sipe<strong>ni</strong> e tau<strong>ni</strong>. Au na kaya<br />
<strong>ni</strong>u a sega <strong>ni</strong> taleitaka sara na noqu ilesilesi vou.<br />
Au a osooso tiko ena noqu ilesilesi tale eso, kau<br />
sega <strong>ni</strong> kila se meu na dolele ya<strong>ni</strong> vakacava. . . .<br />
Ia au a lokuca eso na siko vuvale, ka sega walega<br />
<strong>ni</strong> bera au sa mai dabe toka ena nodratou<br />
rumu <strong>ni</strong> gade na Dumez.<br />
“‘O iko beka na noqu dausiko vuvale?’ a<br />
taroga mai o Sisita Dumez <strong>ni</strong> curu ya<strong>ni</strong> ki na<br />
rumu. ‘Bula vinaka mai. Sa sega tu <strong>ni</strong> dua na<br />
noqu dausiko vuvale ena rua na yabaki.’ A<br />
vakarorogo vakavinaka sara ki na itukutuku,<br />
keirau veitalanoa, ka vakavinavinakataki au<br />
vakavica ena noqu lako ya<strong>ni</strong>.<br />
“Ni bera <strong>ni</strong>u biuta mai a kacivi iratou mai na<br />
luvena e lewe lima me ratou lagata na ‘Au Luve<br />
<strong>ni</strong> Kalou’ vaka-Sipe<strong>ni</strong>. A mokoti au ka boboka<br />
na ligaqu. . . .<br />
“A vinaka cake mai na veika au a namaka tiko<br />
na imatai <strong>ni</strong> wavoki oya. Ena veivula ka tarava,<br />
<strong>ni</strong> ra kidavaki au ena yalovinaka ki na nodra<br />
veivale na marama, sa tekivu meu nanamaki
ki na noqu veisiko. Ia au a sega <strong>ni</strong> vakarautaki<br />
au ki na italanoa <strong>ni</strong> leqa kei na veika dredre au<br />
a rogoca ena gauna au sa tekivu kilai ira kina<br />
na tamata rairai vinaka oqo. Au ma<strong>ni</strong> nanuma<br />
meu bau tovolea meu vakalogavinakataka na<br />
bula vei ira na marama oqo kei na nodra dui<br />
matavuvale, e vuqa vei ira era sotava tu na<br />
dredre <strong>ni</strong> bula vakailavo. Sa tekivu meu kau disi<br />
kakana vavi ya<strong>ni</strong> ena noqu veisiko. Au veikau<br />
ena gadi vakamatavuvale. Au draivataki ira ki<br />
na iloku <strong>ni</strong> raici vei vu<strong>ni</strong>wai ka vakakina ki na<br />
sitoa <strong>ni</strong> kakana.<br />
“Sa totolo sara na noqu guilecava na noqu<br />
galili <strong>ni</strong>u veiqaravi tiko vei ira na ta<strong>ni</strong>. O ira na<br />
marama au a nanuma taumada <strong>ni</strong> ra duata<strong>ni</strong><br />
sara mai vei au sa tekivu me ra noqu itoka<strong>ni</strong><br />
loma<strong>ni</strong>. Era dau yalodina, ka ra itoka<strong>ni</strong> tudei<br />
ka dau vakavinavinakataka na veika lalai sara<br />
mada ga au dau cakava ena vukudra. Era dau<br />
tovolea me ra kila na veika au gadreva: Au dau<br />
taura na qiri kei na isolisoli mai boto <strong>ni</strong> yalodra<br />
e veigauna. E dua na marama e talia e dua na<br />
iubi lailai <strong>ni</strong> noqu teveli. E dua tale e bulia e<br />
dua na serekali me baleta na noqu siga<strong>ni</strong>sucu.<br />
“Ia, <strong>ni</strong> oti e vica na vula ena noqu ilesilesi, au<br />
rarawataka na noqu sega <strong>ni</strong> rawata meu vakavinakataka<br />
cake se vakalogavinakataka na bula<br />
vei ira na noqu itoka<strong>ni</strong>. . . .<br />
“Ena dua na bogi au a yalolailai. Au tekiduru<br />
ka masu, ka kerea vua na Turaga me vakaraitaka<br />
vei au na sala meu goleva. Au vakauqeti <strong>ni</strong><br />
vinakata na Turaga meu vukei ira na marama<br />
oqo me ra bula rawati ira ka veiqaravi vakataki<br />
ira. Au vakadinata <strong>ni</strong>u a vakataroga se na tiko<br />
beka vei ira na tamata era colata tu na icolacola<br />
bibi na igu e gadrevi me ra veilaveti kina<br />
vakataki ira, ia au kila <strong>ni</strong>u gadreva meu muria<br />
na veivakauqeti.<br />
“Au tekivu ena noqu veisautaka na parokaramu<br />
<strong>ni</strong> siko vuvale ena <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong><br />
<strong>ni</strong> vosa vaka-Sipe<strong>ni</strong>. E dua vei ira na noqu<br />
itoka<strong>ni</strong> yalodina, o Sisita Moreira, a bolea me<br />
sikova duadua e ono na marama. <strong>Na</strong> imatai <strong>ni</strong><br />
noqu vakasama meu vakasuka, ‘e sega <strong>ni</strong> rawa<br />
<strong>ni</strong> o lakova na sala qori <strong>ni</strong> sega na motoka. Sa<br />
rui yawa me taubaletaki!’ Ia au qai nanuma na<br />
noqu a vakauqeti meu laivi ira me ra dui veiqaravi<br />
vakataki ira. Au ma<strong>ni</strong> biuta na yacadratou<br />
onoono na marama ena nona lisi <strong>ni</strong> veisiko vou<br />
o Sisita Moreira.<br />
“Ni lesu mai ena nona ilakolako balavu <strong>ni</strong><br />
siko vuvale, a qiriti au mai o Sisita Moreira, <strong>ni</strong><br />
vakasinaiti tu ena Yalotabu. . . . e momosi na<br />
yavana, ia sa vakamamadataka na Turaga na<br />
nona icolacola kei na yalona.<br />
“Ni oti e vica tale na veisiko, sa vakayagataki<br />
iratou e ono tale na marama o Sisita Moreira<br />
me ratou lakova vata kei koya na sala oya. . . .<br />
“Ena gauna au tekivu vaqaqara kina, au<br />
kunea na veimataqali sala kecega meu vukei ira<br />
kina na marama oqo me ra vukei ira vakataki<br />
ira ka veivukei. . . .<br />
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138<br />
“Ena gauna sara ga sa tekivu meu raica kina<br />
<strong>ni</strong> sa basika cake mai ena kedra maliwa na<br />
lewe<strong>ni</strong>lotu ena neitou tabanalevu na tubu<br />
vakayalo, au sa ciqoma na notisi <strong>ni</strong> keirau sa<br />
na toki kei na watiqu. . . . au sega mada ga <strong>ni</strong><br />
via vakasamataka na noqu sa na biuti ira na<br />
noqu itoka<strong>ni</strong> loma<strong>ni</strong>. Au gadreva meu veiqaravi<br />
tikoga vata kei ira—keimami sa veiwaseitaka e<br />
vuqa sara na ka. Ia au sa raica na kena sa yavala<br />
tiko vakaukauwa ena nodra bula na inaki <strong>ni</strong><br />
kosipeli, ka ra sa veirairaici tiko vakataki ira. O<br />
au, kau a lako meu laki cakacaka ena veiwere,<br />
au sa lesu mai ka sinai ena ivau sila.” 34<br />
A vakavuvulitaka o Peresitedi Lorenzo Snow,<br />
na ikalima <strong>ni</strong> Peresitedi <strong>ni</strong> Lotu me ra ivakaraitaki<br />
na marama ena <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong><br />
<strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> <strong>ni</strong> lotu savasava. E<br />
kaya kina o koya: “E kaya na<br />
iApositolo o Jemesa <strong>ni</strong> ‘lotu<br />
savasava ka sega <strong>ni</strong> cala e mata<br />
<strong>ni</strong> Kalou ko Tamada sa<br />
vakaoqo: Me sa dau raici ira na luve<strong>ni</strong>yali kei ira<br />
na yada, <strong>ni</strong> ra sa rarawa, me sa qarau<strong>ni</strong> koya<br />
talega me kakua <strong>ni</strong> tauvi koya na duka <strong>ni</strong> ka<br />
vakavuravura. Au rawa <strong>ni</strong> vakadinadinataka <strong>ni</strong><br />
sega tale <strong>ni</strong> dua na ilawalawa marama savasava<br />
cake ka dau rerevaka na Kalou me vakataki ira<br />
era tu ena <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>.” 35<br />
Lorenzo Snow<br />
Era sa dau vakatawa ka veivaqaqacotaki<br />
vakataki ira na marama savasava ka dau rerevaka<br />
na Kalou ena <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> mai na kena<br />
itekivu mai <strong>Na</strong>uvoo me yacova mai na siga oqo,<br />
ena siko vuvale <strong>ni</strong> loloma ka veivakauqeti. Oqo e<br />
dua na veiqaravi e dau wasei yadua, mai na dua<br />
na yalo ki na dua tale.
WASE 8<br />
Veivakalougatataki<br />
<strong>ni</strong> Matabete<br />
Vei Keda Kece<br />
<strong>Na</strong> iSema Sega <strong>ni</strong> Cavuka<br />
Rawa ki na Matabete<br />
E tu vei ira na marama ena Lotu<br />
oqo na igu kei na kaukauwa levu. E tu<br />
kina na veiliutaki kei na idusidusi, e dua na<br />
yalo <strong>ni</strong> tu vakataki koya, ia era kune vakacegu<br />
tu <strong>ni</strong> ra tiki <strong>ni</strong> ka oqo, na mata<strong>ni</strong>tu <strong>ni</strong> Turaga,<br />
kei na nodra cakacaka vata tiko kei na<br />
matabete me tosoi ki liu.<br />
Gordon B. Hinckley
WASE 8<br />
Veivakalougatataki <strong>ni</strong><br />
Matabete Vei Keda Kece<br />
<strong>Na</strong> iSema Sega <strong>ni</strong> Cavuka<br />
Rawa ki na Matabete<br />
Sa vakalesui tale mai ki vuravura ena kena<br />
taucoko na matabete <strong>ni</strong> Kalou mai vua na Pa-<br />
rofita o Josefa Simici. <strong>Na</strong> matabete sai koya na<br />
kaukauwa tawamudu <strong>ni</strong> Kalou ka vakalougata-<br />
taki, sereki, ka vakacerecerei ira kina na Luvena<br />
ko Koya, me rawati kina na “tucake tale mai na<br />
mate kei na bula tawamudu <strong>ni</strong> tamata.” 1<br />
Era na tabaki ki na veitutu <strong>ni</strong> matabete na<br />
luvena tagane bula kilikili na Tamada Vakalomalagi<br />
ka lesi vei ira na itavi kei na ilesilesi<br />
duidui eso. Sa vakadonui vei ira me ra cakacaka<br />
ena vuku <strong>ni</strong> Yacana me ra vakatawai ira na Luvena<br />
ka vukei ira me ra ciqoma na veicakacaka<br />
vakalotu ka cakava ka rokova na kena veiyalayalati.<br />
Era na vakalougatataki vakatautauvata o<br />
ira kece na luvena tagane kei na luvena yalewa<br />
na Tamada Vakalomalagi <strong>ni</strong> ra vakayagataka na<br />
kaukauwa <strong>ni</strong> matabete.<br />
Ena dua na nona vosa <strong>ni</strong> ko<strong>ni</strong>feredi raraba,<br />
e vakavuvulitaka kina vaqo o Elder Dallin H.<br />
Oaks ena Kuoramu <strong>ni</strong> iApositolo Le Ti<strong>ni</strong>karua:<br />
“Ena so na gauna eda dau tukuna <strong>ni</strong> o ira era<br />
taura tu na matabete me ‘o ira na matabete,’<br />
me da kakua sara <strong>ni</strong> guilecava <strong>ni</strong> matabete<br />
era sega <strong>ni</strong> taukena se mulo<strong>ni</strong> tu e yagodra<br />
o ira era taura tu. E tauri ena vuku <strong>ni</strong> dua na<br />
veivakabauti bibi me na vakayagataki vakatautauvata<br />
me yaga vei ira na tagane, yalewa, kei<br />
ira na gone.” 2 A qai cavuta o Elder Oaks na<br />
vosa nei Elder John A. Widtsoe, ka a veiqaravi<br />
talega vakalewe <strong>ni</strong> Kuoramu <strong>ni</strong> Ti<strong>ni</strong>karua: “E<br />
sega <strong>ni</strong> levu cake na nodra na tagane mai vei<br />
ira na yalewa ena veivakalougatataki e vu mai<br />
na matabete kei na kena tauri tu.” 3<br />
“Vakaivotavota Taucoko<br />
ena Veivakalougatataki<br />
Vakayalo <strong>ni</strong> Matabete”<br />
E vuqa na marama <strong>ni</strong> Yalododonu Edaidai<br />
era sa wasea na nodra ivakadinadina ena<br />
veivakalougatataki <strong>ni</strong> matabete ki na nodra<br />
bula. E vakaraitaka o Sisita Elaine L. Jack, na<br />
ikati<strong>ni</strong>karua <strong>ni</strong> peresitedi raraba <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong><br />
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<strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>, na nodra nanuma na marama tale<br />
eso ena <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>. “Au taukena<br />
e dua na ivakadinadina tudei me baleta na<br />
kaukauwa <strong>ni</strong> matabete ena nodra bula na<br />
lewe<strong>ni</strong>lotu kece sara,” e kaya kina o koya. “E<br />
tuku<strong>ni</strong> vei keda ena Vunau kei na Veiyalayalati<br />
. . . <strong>ni</strong> tu ena Matabete i Melikiseteki ‘na lewa<br />
<strong>ni</strong> veivakalougatataki kei na cakacaka vakayalo<br />
ena Lotu’ (V&V 107:18). Au kila <strong>ni</strong> oqo na<br />
nona kaukauwa kei na veivakadonui na Kalou<br />
e vuravura me vakalougatataka na noda bula<br />
ka vukei keda me da semata vata na veika<br />
eda sotava tiko oqo e vuravura ki na veigauna<br />
tawamudu. Ni da ciqoma na veivakalougatataki<br />
<strong>ni</strong> matabete, eda sa tatara tiko ki na nona<br />
kaukauwa kei na loloma soli wale na Kalou.” E<br />
tomana o Sisita Jack:<br />
“Sa ka bibi kina vei au na nodra tauyavutaki<br />
na marama ena veivakadonui <strong>ni</strong> matabete. Eda<br />
tokona na matabete ka toko<strong>ni</strong> mai na kena kaukauwa.<br />
Oi keimami na marama ena Lotu . . .<br />
keimami vakamareqeta na neimami madigi me<br />
keimami vakaivotavota ena taucoko <strong>ni</strong> veivakalougatataki<br />
vakayalo <strong>ni</strong> matabete.<br />
“Ena rawa vei keda yadua me da dusimaki ka<br />
vakalougatataki ena noda itosotoso tawamudu<br />
ena noda ciqoma na veivakalougatataki oqo.<br />
<strong>Na</strong> veicakacaka vakalotu, veiyalayalati, veivauci,<br />
kei na isolisoli <strong>ni</strong> Yalo Tabu era yaga ki na noda<br />
bula vakacerecerei. Ka vuqa talega na veivakalougatataki<br />
<strong>ni</strong> matabete <strong>ni</strong> tamata yadua. <strong>Na</strong><br />
veivakalougatataki <strong>ni</strong> matabete ena dusimaki<br />
keda, ena laveta cake na ivakarau <strong>ni</strong> noda rai;<br />
ena vakayaloqaqataki keda ka vakauqeti keda,<br />
ena vakauqeta me da yalodina. Eda rawa <strong>ni</strong><br />
vakaivotavota kece ena veivakalougatataki<br />
vakayalo oqo.” 4<br />
A vakavoqataka o Sisita Sheri L. Dew na<br />
ivakavuvuli oqo: “Kemu<strong>ni</strong> na marama, eso era<br />
na tovolea me ra vakayarayarataki iko baleta <strong>ni</strong><br />
o sega <strong>ni</strong> tabaki ki na matabete, o sa lawakitaki.<br />
Era cala o ira oqori, ka ra sega <strong>ni</strong> kila na<br />
kosipeli i Jisu Karisito. <strong>Na</strong> veivakalougatataki <strong>ni</strong><br />
matabete e vakarautaki tu me baleti ira na tagane<br />
kei na yalewa buladodonu. Eda na ciqoma<br />
kece na Yalo Tabu, rawata na ivakatakila yadua,<br />
ka ciqoma na edaume<strong>ni</strong> ena valetabu, eda na<br />
curu mai kina ka ‘vakaiyaragi’ tu ena kaukauwa.<br />
<strong>Na</strong> kaukauwa <strong>ni</strong> matabete e veivakabulai, veitaqomaki,<br />
ka vakaukauwataka na veika dodonu<br />
kecega me vorata na kaukauwa <strong>ni</strong> butobuto.<br />
<strong>Na</strong> ka bibi duadua, <strong>ni</strong> rau na ciqoma ga na<br />
taucoko <strong>ni</strong> matabete ka lewe tu <strong>ni</strong> cakacaka<br />
vakalotu cecere duadua ena vale <strong>ni</strong> Turaga na<br />
tagane kei na yalewa erau sa duavata.” 5<br />
Cakacaka Vakalotu, Veiyalayalati,<br />
kei na Veivakalougatataki<br />
Ni tauyavutaka o Josefa Simici na <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong><br />
<strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> mai <strong>Na</strong>uvoo e Illinois, ena vulaitubutubu<br />
<strong>ni</strong> 1842, era lewena na marama ka<br />
ra sa vakalougatataki oti ena so na cakacaka
Ni ra veiyalayalati ka rokova tiko na marama Yalododonu Edaidai,<br />
ena vaqaqacotaki ira na Turaga me ra veiqaravi ena Nona mata<strong>ni</strong>tu.<br />
vakalotu <strong>ni</strong> matabete kei na veiyalayalati. Era sa papi-<br />
taiso oti me baleta na vakabokoci <strong>ni</strong> ivalavala ca. Era sa<br />
ciqoma na iSolisoli <strong>ni</strong> Yalo Tabu, sa soli kina vei ira na<br />
dodonu ki na veitoka<strong>ni</strong> <strong>ni</strong> Yalotabu ka vakakina me ra<br />
rawa <strong>ni</strong> tuberi ena ivakatakila yadua. Era sa vakaivota-<br />
vota ena sakaramede me ivakananumi kei Jisu Karisito<br />
kei na nodra veiyalayalati. Era sa rawata na isolisoli <strong>ni</strong><br />
Yalotabu. Eso era sa ciqoma na nodra veivakalougatataki<br />
vakapeteriaki, ka ra kila kina na nodra dui isolisoli yadua<br />
kei na veika era rawa <strong>ni</strong> rawata kei na nodra lewena na<br />
yavusa i Isireli. Sa vakabulai ira na Turaga, vakacegui<br />
ira, ka dusimaki ira me vaka na nodra gagadre, nodra<br />
vakabauta, kei na Lomana.<br />
“Ni o curu ki na valetabu<br />
ka vakaitavi ena veicaka-<br />
caka vakalotu e baleta na<br />
Vale <strong>ni</strong> Turaga, ena yaco<br />
mai vei iko na veivakalo-<br />
ugatataki eso. . . . O <strong>ni</strong><br />
na ciqoma na idola <strong>ni</strong><br />
nona kilai na Kalou.<br />
(Raica V&V 84:19–20.)<br />
O na vulica na ivakarau<br />
mo vakataki Koya kina.<br />
Io ena vakatakilai mai vei<br />
iko. (Raica V&V 84:20.)<br />
Ezra Taft Benson<br />
Ensign, Okosi. 1985, 10<br />
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O Sisita Elizabeth Ann Whitney, ka a tiko<br />
ena imatai <strong>ni</strong> Soqo<strong>ni</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>,<br />
a vulica me baleta na kosipeli<br />
vakalesui mai ena 12 na<br />
yabaki ya<strong>ni</strong> e liu, ena 1830. A<br />
qai kaya e muri, “ena gauna<br />
au rogoca kina na Kosipeli<br />
ena nodra vunautaka na<br />
iTalatala,” “Au sa kila sara <strong>ni</strong> oqo na domona<br />
na iVakatawa Vinaka.” “A papitaiso ena gauna<br />
vata ga,” ka papitaiso ena vica na siga ki muri<br />
na watina, o Newel K. Whitney. 6 Elizabeth Ann<br />
Whitney<br />
Ni vakananuma<br />
lesu na veika oqo, a tukuna na veivakalougatataki<br />
a ciqoma mai na cakacaka vakalotu<br />
<strong>ni</strong> matabete <strong>ni</strong> papitaiso kei na veivakadeitaki:<br />
“Kevaka e dua na ivakavuvuli e solia vei au<br />
na igu, kau sa vulica mai kina meu bulataka<br />
vakaidina sara e dua na bula <strong>ni</strong> gugumatua, e<br />
vaka vei au <strong>ni</strong> rawa <strong>ni</strong>u nuitaka meu wasea<br />
na reki kei na igu oqo vei ira tale eso; meu<br />
tukuna vei ira na ibalebale <strong>ni</strong> Kosipeli vei au<br />
ena veigauna sa oti kei na gauna oqo, me<br />
tekivu mai na gauna au ciqoma kina ka vulica<br />
meu bulataka na kena lawa. <strong>Na</strong> ivakatakila<br />
vovou mai vua na Yalotabu e veisiga yadua, na<br />
kena cereki na veika tawakilai ka ra a butobuto,<br />
titobu, sega <strong>ni</strong> vakamacalataki ka sega<br />
<strong>ni</strong> vakasamataki rawa; e dua na vakabauta<br />
tudei ena dua na kaukauwa vakalou, ena dina<br />
tawavakaiyalayala ka vu mai vua na Kalou na<br />
Tamada.” 7<br />
E masuta o Amanda Smith na veivuke me qarava kina<br />
na luvena tagane.<br />
iSolisoli <strong>ni</strong> Yalotabu<br />
Ena ika 28 <strong>ni</strong> Epereli, 1842, a vosa o Josefa<br />
Simici ena dua na nodra soqo<strong>ni</strong> na <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong><br />
<strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Marama</strong> e <strong>Na</strong>uvoo. E dua na<br />
tiki <strong>ni</strong> ivunau oqo a yavutaki ena nona ivakavuvuli<br />
na iApositolo o Paula ena 1 Kori<strong>ni</strong>ca<br />
12–13 me baleta na isolisoli <strong>ni</strong> Yalotabu. A<br />
vakabibitaka kina o Josefa Simici <strong>ni</strong> “ivakatakilakila<br />
eso oqo, me vaka na nodra vakabulai<br />
na tauvimate, nodra vakasevi na tevoro kei<br />
na so tale e dodonu me dau muri ira kece era<br />
vakabauta.” 8
Ni ra sa ciqoma oti na marama Yalododonu rau sa oka vata kei ira na mate o Warren kei na<br />
Edaidai na isolisoli <strong>ni</strong> Yalo Tabu, e rawa <strong>ni</strong> ra luvedrau tagane o Sardius. Sa mavoa sara tu<br />
vakasaqara ka vakalougatataki ena veisolisoli vakaca o Alma e dua tale na luvedrau tagane.<br />
vakayalo me vaka “na vosataka na vosa ta<strong>ni</strong> eso, Sa kau laivi na dibina mai na gasau <strong>ni</strong> dakai. A<br />
na parofisai, na ivakatakila, na raivotu, na vei- qai tukuna e muri o Amanda na ivakatakila a<br />
vakabulai, na vakadewataki <strong>ni</strong> vosa kei na veika ciqoma me vakabulai kina na luvena Tagane:<br />
vakaoqori.” “Au tu e kea, ena gauna kece oqori, na bogi<br />
rarawataki, kei ira na noqu mate kei na mavoa,<br />
ka sega tale ia na Kalou duadua na neimami<br />
vu<strong>ni</strong>wai ka dauveivukei.<br />
“Au tagi ka vaka, Isa Tamaqu mai Lomalagi,<br />
na cava beka meu cakava? O <strong>ni</strong> raica tu mai<br />
na luvequ gonetagane vakaloloma oqo ka kila<br />
na noqu lecaika. Isa Tamaqu mai Lomalagi <strong>ni</strong><br />
dusimaki au ena ka me caka!<br />
“Oti ga oya au qai dusimaki me vaka e dua na<br />
domo e vosa tiko mai vei au.”<br />
A dusimaki o Amanda me cakava e dua na<br />
wai<strong>ni</strong>mate, se wai<strong>ni</strong>mate <strong>ni</strong> savasava, mai na<br />
9 Ena itukutuku taucoko <strong>ni</strong> Lotu,<br />
era sa dau ciqoma na marama Yalododonu<br />
Edaidai na isolisoli <strong>ni</strong> Yalotabu ka vakayagataka<br />
me ra vakalougatataka kina na nodra matavuvale<br />
kei ira tale eso.<br />
A tiko o Amanda Barnes Smith ena ika 28 <strong>ni</strong><br />
Epereli <strong>ni</strong> 1842, ena nona vakavuvulitaka vei ira<br />
na marama ena <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> o Josefa<br />
Simici me baleta na isolisoli <strong>ni</strong> Yalotabu. A kila<br />
o Amanda na dina <strong>ni</strong> nona ivakavuvuli, <strong>ni</strong> sa<br />
vakalougatataki tu ena isolisoli <strong>ni</strong> ivakatakila<br />
rauta <strong>ni</strong> va na yabaki ya<strong>ni</strong> ki liu ena dua na<br />
gauna a gadreva kina na veivuke <strong>ni</strong> Turaga me<br />
vakabula na luvena tagane.<br />
Ena mua <strong>ni</strong> Okotova <strong>ni</strong> 1838, era lako tiko<br />
ena ilakolako ki Far West e Missouri o Amanda<br />
kei na watina o Warren, vata kei ira na luvedrau<br />
kei ira tale eso na lewe <strong>ni</strong> Lotu. Era a laki tao<br />
ena dua na iqaqi me vakavinakataki na nodra<br />
qiqidreti ena ose. Ni ra tiko voli e kea era qai<br />
kabai ira na Yalododonu Edaidai era cakacaka<br />
tiko ena iqaqi e dua na ilawalawa dauvakacaca,<br />
ka ra vakamatea kina e 17 na tagane kei<br />
na gonetagane ka vakamavoataka e 15. A lesu<br />
mai o Amanda ena nona vu<strong>ni</strong> voli, ka raica <strong>ni</strong> Valetabu e <strong>Na</strong>uvoo Illinois<br />
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O ira na liga<strong>ni</strong>cakacaka vakalotu <strong>ni</strong> valetabu ena ikabakaba <strong>ni</strong> Valetabu e Salt Lake, 1917<br />
dravusa <strong>ni</strong> nodratou matadravu me sava kina<br />
na mavoa. Oti qai dusimaki me cakava e dua<br />
na ibulu <strong>ni</strong> mavoa mai na isulu kei na drau<strong>ni</strong>kau<br />
weliwelia. Ena siga ka tarava a raica eso na<br />
dra<strong>ni</strong>kau ka sova ki na mavoa me vakamalumutaka<br />
na mosi nei Alama.<br />
“‘I Alama, na luvequ,’ Au kaya, ‘o vakabauta<br />
<strong>ni</strong> vakabula na dibimu na Turaga?’<br />
“‘Io, tinaqu.’<br />
“‘Io, e rawa <strong>ni</strong> cakava e keri e dua na ka na<br />
Turaga me sosomitaka na dibimu, o vakabauta<br />
li <strong>ni</strong> rawa vua, Alama?’<br />
“‘O nanuma <strong>ni</strong> rawa vua na Turaga, tinaqu?’<br />
e taroga na gone, ena rawarawa <strong>ni</strong> nona<br />
vakasama.<br />
“‘Io, na luvequ,’ Au sauma, ‘sa vakaraitaka<br />
kece vei au ko koya ena dua na raivotu.’<br />
“Au sa qai vukici koya vakatoboicu, ka kaya:<br />
‘Davo tu vaqori ka kakua <strong>ni</strong> yavala, ena qai<br />
cakava na Turaga e dua tale na dibimu.’<br />
“A qai davo tu vakatoboicu o Alama me<br />
lima na macawa, me yacova <strong>ni</strong> sa bula vinaka<br />
sara—sa tubu mai me sosomitaka na isema<br />
kei na sokete sa yali e dua na sui malumu
awa <strong>ni</strong> veitosoyaki, . . . e dua na ka qoroi vei ira na<br />
vu<strong>ni</strong>wai.<br />
“Ena siga sa lako tale kina au a laki taki wai mai tuba,<br />
au qai rogoca na nodra kaila na gone. Au cici lesu mai<br />
ena domobula, au curu ya<strong>ni</strong>, ka raici Alama <strong>ni</strong> sa tucake<br />
ka meke wavoki, ka ra kaila na gone ena kurabui<br />
kei na reki.” 10<br />
Ena isolisoli vakayalo <strong>ni</strong> ivakatakila, a vakavulica kina<br />
na Turaga vei Sisita Smith na ivakarau me qarava kina<br />
na luvena tagane. Me vakataki Elizabeth Ann Whitney<br />
kei ira tale eso e sega <strong>ni</strong> wiliki rawa, a rawata na “reki<br />
kei na igu” kei na “ivakatakila vovou <strong>ni</strong> Yalotabu” 11 ena<br />
vuku <strong>ni</strong> nona yalodina.<br />
Veivakalougatataki <strong>ni</strong> Valetabu<br />
E dua na nona inaki na Turaga ena kena tauyavutaki na<br />
<strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> sai koya me ra vakarautaki kina na<br />
Luvena yalewa me baleta na veivakalougatataki cecere<br />
cake <strong>ni</strong> matabete ka kunei ena cakacaka vakalotu kei<br />
na veiyalayalati <strong>ni</strong> valetabu. Era a nanamaki na marama<br />
taumada mai <strong>Na</strong>uvoo ena kena vakacavari na valetabu,<br />
<strong>ni</strong> ra kila, me vaka sa yalataka na Parofita o Josefa Simici<br />
vei Mercy Fielding Thompson, <strong>ni</strong> na kauti “ira ta<strong>ni</strong> mai na<br />
butobuto ki na rarama vakasakiti” na edaume<strong>ni</strong>.” 12<br />
A vakatakila na Turaga na veika oqo vei ira na Yalododonu<br />
Edaidai mai Kirtland e Ohio mai vua na Parofita<br />
o Josefa Simici: “Au sa vakaroti kemudou mo dou tara e<br />
dua na vale, io na vale au sa lewa me ra vakalougatataki<br />
kina ena kaukauwa mai lomalagi ko ira au sa digitaka.” 13<br />
Sa yalataka ko Koya <strong>ni</strong> na “vakalougatataki ira ena veika<br />
e vuqa” na Yalododonu yalodina,” 14 ka tukuna <strong>ni</strong> na<br />
“<strong>Na</strong> vanua ga e vuravura<br />
e rawa <strong>ni</strong> da rawata kina<br />
na taucoko <strong>ni</strong> veivakalougatataki<br />
<strong>ni</strong> matabete<br />
oya ena loma <strong>ni</strong> valetabu.<br />
Oqori duadua ga na<br />
vanua, mai na veicakacaka<br />
vakalotu savasava,<br />
eda na rawa <strong>ni</strong> ciqoma<br />
kina na veika me na<br />
rawa kina vei keda na<br />
bula vakacerecerei ena<br />
mata<strong>ni</strong>tu selesitieli.”<br />
Harold B. Lee<br />
Stand Ye in Holy Places<br />
(1974), 117<br />
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iSulu Tabu<br />
Era a kerei ira na marama<br />
yalodina mai <strong>Na</strong>uvoo me ra cula isulu<br />
tabu me vakayagataki ena cakacaka<br />
vakalotu <strong>ni</strong> valetabu. A yaco me dau<br />
nodra itavi tu na <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong><br />
ena vuqa na veiyabaki. Nikua, e se<br />
dua tikoga na nodra itavi taumada<br />
na marama me baleta na isulu <strong>ni</strong><br />
valetabu kei na qame<strong>ni</strong> <strong>ni</strong> valetabu.<br />
Era vakavuvulitaka na kena rokovi<br />
kei na qaqarau<strong>ni</strong> e dodonu me soli<br />
ki na isulu oqori. Era vakavuvulitaka<br />
talega na ivakarau rakorako <strong>ni</strong> kena<br />
daramaki na qame<strong>ni</strong>. E rawa <strong>ni</strong> sauma<br />
na taro me baleta na kena vakayagataki<br />
kei na qarau<strong>ni</strong> <strong>ni</strong> isulu tabu na<br />
peresitedi <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> ena<br />
veitabanalevu se tabana yadua, ena<br />
nodra raica na ivoladusidusi <strong>ni</strong> Lotu.<br />
<strong>Na</strong> kena dau dokai na isulu tabu sa<br />
ivakaraitaki <strong>ni</strong> kena vakarokorokotaki na<br />
veivakalougatataki <strong>ni</strong> valetabu.<br />
“nodra vale <strong>ni</strong> vakavinavinaka na lewe <strong>ni</strong> lotu,<br />
me ra tuberi kina ko ira sa kacivi ki na cakacaka<br />
<strong>ni</strong> kaulotu, kei ira sa kacivi ki na veicakacaka<br />
tale eso, io me ra tuberi kina me ra kila vinaka<br />
sara na nodra itavi; io na nodra ilesilesi kei na<br />
kena cakacaka, kei na ivakavuvuli kece sa baleta<br />
na mata<strong>ni</strong>tu <strong>ni</strong> Kalou e vuravura” na valetabu. 15<br />
A vakaroti ira tale na Yalododonu mai <strong>Na</strong>uvoo<br />
na Turaga, me ra tara e dua na valetabu,<br />
ka kaya <strong>ni</strong> na vakalesuya mai na “taucoko <strong>ni</strong><br />
matabete” ka “vakatakila na [Nona] cakacaka<br />
vakalotu” mai kea. 16<br />
Era a veivukei vakataki ira na marama ena<br />
<strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> me ra vakavakarau<br />
ki na veicakacaka vakalotu oqo kei na kena<br />
veiyalayalati e sala vata kaya. Era cau ki na tara<br />
<strong>ni</strong> valetabu, era vuli mai vua na Parofita ka<br />
vakakina mai vei ira vakataki ira ena veisoqo<strong>ni</strong><br />
<strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>, era veiqaravi vei ira<br />
vakataki ira ena yalo <strong>ni</strong> loloma cecere, ka ra<br />
segata me ra bula savasava vakalevu cake.<br />
Ni sa voleka <strong>ni</strong> oti na tara valetabu, era a<br />
kacivi e 36 na marama me ra liga<strong>ni</strong>cakacaka<br />
vakalotu <strong>ni</strong> valetabu. A nanuma lesu kina vaqo<br />
o Elizabeth Ann Whitney, e dua vei ira na<br />
imatai <strong>ni</strong> liga<strong>ni</strong>cakacaka vakalotu oqori: “Au a<br />
soli au, na noqu gauna kei na noqu vakasama<br />
ki na veiqaravi vakalotu oya. Au dau cakacaka e<br />
veisiga ena valetabu ka sega <strong>ni</strong> cegu me yacova<br />
<strong>ni</strong> sa sogo.” 17<br />
Ena veicakacaka vakalotu <strong>ni</strong> matabete cecere<br />
era ciqoma na Yalododonu ena Valetabu e<br />
<strong>Na</strong>uvoo, sa “vakatakilai mai kina na kaukauwa<br />
<strong>ni</strong> Kalou.” 18 Ni ra sa rokova tiko na Yalododonu<br />
na nodra veiyalayalati, sa vaqaqacotaki ira ka<br />
toko<strong>ni</strong> ira na kaukauwa oqo ena nodra veivakatovolei<br />
ena veisiga kei na veiyabaki sa tu mai<br />
liu (raica na wase 3).
Ena Lotu ena gauna <strong>ni</strong>kua, era sa ia tikoga<br />
na veiqaravi ena valetabu na yalewa kei na<br />
tagane yalodina e vuravura<br />
taucoko ka ra kunea na igu<br />
ena veivakalougatataki ka<br />
rawa <strong>ni</strong> rawati duadua ga ena<br />
cakacaka vakalotu <strong>ni</strong><br />
valetabu. Me vaka e tukuna o<br />
Peresitedi Joseph Fielding Smith, na ikati<strong>ni</strong> <strong>ni</strong><br />
Peresitedi <strong>ni</strong> Lotu, “Sa tu vei ira na marama ena<br />
Lotu oqo na galala me ra ciqoma na bula<br />
vakacerecerei ena mata<strong>ni</strong>tu <strong>ni</strong> Kalou ka rawata<br />
na veivakadonui kei na kaukauwa me vaka <strong>ni</strong><br />
ra ranadi ka marama bete.” 19<br />
Joseph Fielding<br />
Smith<br />
E duavata na kedrau isema <strong>ni</strong> veiyalayalati o Atama kei Ivi.<br />
Matabete ena Vuvale<br />
<strong>Na</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> e vukei ira na<br />
marama me ra vaqaqacotaka na vuvale kei<br />
na matavuvale, sa vukei tiko kina me rawati<br />
e dua na inaki bibi <strong>ni</strong> matabete. “sa vakalesui<br />
mai na dodonu <strong>ni</strong> Matabete,” e kaya o Elder<br />
Russell M. Nelson ena Kuoramu <strong>ni</strong> iApositolo<br />
Le Ti<strong>ni</strong>karua, “me rawa <strong>ni</strong> vauci kina me tawamudu<br />
na matavuvuale.” 20 E vakavuvulitaka o<br />
Elder Richard G. Scott, ena Kuoramu talega <strong>ni</strong><br />
iApositolo Le Ti<strong>ni</strong>karua: “<strong>Na</strong> matavuvale kei<br />
na vuvale erau yavu <strong>ni</strong> bula dodonu. <strong>Na</strong> matabete<br />
na kaukauwa, kei na lai<strong>ni</strong> e veisolitaki<br />
mai kina na matabete, na sala e vakarautaka<br />
151
152<br />
na Turaga me toko<strong>ni</strong> kina na matavuvale.” 21<br />
E veivuke ena cakacaka oqo na <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong><br />
<strong>Veivukei</strong> ena nodra vukei na marama kei na<br />
nodra matavuvale me ra bulataka na kosipeli<br />
ena dua na kena ivakarau me rawa <strong>ni</strong> ra ci-<br />
qoma kina na veivakalougatataki <strong>ni</strong> matabete<br />
sa yalataki tu.<br />
Tagane kei na Watina<br />
E kaya vaqo o Elder Dallin H. Oaks ena<br />
Kuoramu <strong>ni</strong> iApositolo Le Ti<strong>ni</strong>karua: “<strong>Na</strong><br />
ulumatua ka ivakamacala cecere duadua <strong>ni</strong><br />
bula vakayalewa kei na bula vakatagane e koto<br />
ena veiyalayalati vou ka tawamudu <strong>ni</strong> nodrau<br />
vakamau e dua na tagane kei na yalewa. <strong>Na</strong><br />
isema duadua <strong>ni</strong> veiweka<strong>ni</strong> oqo ena yacova<br />
ya<strong>ni</strong> na bula vakacerecerei. Me vaka e vakavuvulitaka<br />
na iApositolo o Paula, ‘Ia sa sega <strong>ni</strong> tu<br />
duadua ga na tagane ka me tu ta<strong>ni</strong> na yalewa,<br />
se tu duadua ga na yalewa me tu ta<strong>ni</strong> na tagane,<br />
ena Turaga.’” 22 <strong>Na</strong> ivola<strong>ni</strong>kalou makawa<br />
e vakadeitaka oqo ena itukutuku <strong>ni</strong> vakamau<br />
ena loma <strong>ni</strong> veiyalayalati vei iratou o Eparaama<br />
kei Serai, Aisake kei Repeka, kei Jekope kei<br />
Rejieli. <strong>Na</strong> cakacaka vakalotu <strong>ni</strong> veiyalayalati<br />
e vauci rau vata na tagane kei na watina, vei<br />
ira na luvedrau, ka vakakina vua na Tamadrau<br />
Vakalomalagi. “Oqori,” e tomana o Elder Oaks,<br />
“na inaki era duavata kina . . . na veikuoramu<br />
<strong>ni</strong> matabete kei . . . na <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong><br />
me ra vakaduavatataki kina na tagane kei na<br />
yalewa ena isema tabu vakaveiwati<strong>ni</strong> kei na<br />
Barbara B. Smith<br />
iKati<strong>ni</strong> <strong>ni</strong> Peresitedi Raraba <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong><br />
“Ena ivakasala vakamatabete ka toma<strong>ni</strong> tikoga kei ira<br />
na veiliutaki <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> ka kacivi ira na<br />
Turaga ena veivakauqeti, sa koto vei ira na marama<br />
ena <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> e dua na ivurevure vakalou<br />
<strong>ni</strong> veidusimaki me baleta na cakacaka e nodra me<br />
ra cakava, ka vakarautaka na <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> na sala me<br />
qaravi kina na cakacaka oya.”<br />
Ensign, Maji 1983, 23
<strong>Na</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> ena toko<strong>ni</strong> ira na marama ena<br />
nodra susugi ira na luvedra.<br />
matavuvale ka na basika ya<strong>ni</strong> ki na bula ta-<br />
wamudu, ‘ka cecere duadua ena nona isolisoli<br />
kece na Kalou.’” 23<br />
Ni rau sa vakalougatataki e dua na veiwa-<br />
ti<strong>ni</strong> ena madigi me rau yaco me itubutubu,<br />
erau na wasea vata e dua na itavi bibi me rau<br />
vukei ira na luvedrau me ra kila ka ciqoma na<br />
cakacaka vakalotu <strong>ni</strong> matabete kei na veiya-<br />
layalati. 24 Oi rau na noda itubutubu taumada,<br />
o Atama kei Ivi, erau sa biuta toka e dua na<br />
ivakaraitaki <strong>ni</strong> dua na isema <strong>ni</strong> veivakabauti<br />
kei na duavata ena nodrau vakavulici ira na<br />
luvedrau. E vakavuvulitaka o Elder Bruce R.<br />
McConkie ena Kuoramu <strong>ni</strong> iApositolo Le<br />
Ti<strong>ni</strong>karua:<br />
“E sega <strong>ni</strong> o Atama duadua ga, a vakaitavi<br />
ena veika oqo. . . .<br />
“A vakaitavi kina vakavinaka o Ivi. A rogoca<br />
na veika kece e tukuna o Atama. A tukuna me<br />
baleta na ‘noda ivalavala ca,’ me baleta ‘na<br />
reki <strong>ni</strong> noda sa sereki,’ me baleta na ‘kawa’ e<br />
dodonu me rau na vakacadrava, ka vakakina<br />
baleta na ‘bula tawamudu’ ka na sega <strong>ni</strong> rawa<br />
<strong>ni</strong> yaco ga mai vua e dua vei rau, ia sa dau<br />
maroroi tu ga me baleta e dua na tagane kei na<br />
dua na yalewa rau sa duavata.<br />
“Erau a masu ruarua o koya kei Atama; erau<br />
vakalougatataka ruarua na yaca <strong>ni</strong> Turaga; erau<br />
vakavulici ira vata na luvedrau; erau ciqoma<br />
vata na ivakatakila ka vakaroti rau ruarua na<br />
Turaga me rau sokalou ka qaravi Koya ena yacai<br />
Jisu Karisito me tawamudu.” 25<br />
Era sa veivakayaloqaqataki tiko na parofita<br />
kei na iapositolo <strong>ni</strong> gauna oqo vei ira na<br />
tagane vakawati kei na watidra me ra muria na<br />
ivakarau oqo ena nodra veivale: “Ena ituvatuva<br />
vakalou, me ra dabe ka vakatulewa na tama<br />
ena nodra matavuvale ena loloma kei na buladodonu<br />
ka sa nodra itavi me ra vakarautaka<br />
na veika <strong>ni</strong> bula kei na veitaqomaki me baleta<br />
na nodra matavuvale. Sa nodra itavi taumada<br />
na tina me ra susugi ira cake na luvedra. Ena<br />
itavi tabu oqo, sa nodrau icolacola na tama kei<br />
na tina me rau dau veivukei vakataki rau <strong>ni</strong> rau<br />
veitoka<strong>ni</strong> ka duabau. Ena yaga me so beka na<br />
veisau <strong>ni</strong> yaco na leqa <strong>ni</strong> bula vakayago se na<br />
153
154<br />
mate. Sa dodonu me ra veitoko<strong>ni</strong> na lewe <strong>ni</strong><br />
matavuvale voleka kevaka e gadrevi.” 26<br />
Era dau muria na Yalododonu Edaidai e<br />
vuravura raraba na ivakasala oqo ena veisala<br />
rawarawa ka qaqa. Era dau sokumu<strong>ni</strong> ira na<br />
luvedra o ira na veiwati<strong>ni</strong> me ra masu ka wilika<br />
na ivola<strong>ni</strong>kalou. Ena vuqa na veivale, era dau<br />
vakarautaka na itubutubu e dua na vanua—e<br />
dua beka na vata rawarawa ga—me maroroi<br />
kina na ivola<strong>ni</strong>kalou kei na ivurevure eso <strong>ni</strong><br />
Lotu. Era vakavuvulitaka na kosipeli mai na<br />
nodra vosa kei na nodra ivakaraitaki. Era vukei<br />
ira na luvedra me ra vakarautaki ira me ra<br />
ciqoma na veivakalougatataki <strong>ni</strong> valetabu, laki<br />
kaulotu tudei, tauyavutaka na nodra dui vuvale,<br />
ka veiqaravi tiko ga ena Lotu. Me vakataki<br />
Atama kei Ivi, era wasea na itavi <strong>ni</strong> veivakavulici,<br />
<strong>ni</strong> masu, <strong>ni</strong> veiqaravi, kei na sokalou vua<br />
na Turaga.<br />
Ena so na gauna, ena galili beka e dua na<br />
tagane se yalewa vakawati ena itavi oqo baleta<br />
<strong>ni</strong> se bera <strong>ni</strong> veiyalayalati na watina se sa lako<br />
ta<strong>ni</strong> mai na veiyalayalati sa vakayacori oti. Ena<br />
veigauna sara mada ga vakaoqori, mo <strong>ni</strong> kakua<br />
<strong>ni</strong> dau yalo galili na lewe <strong>ni</strong> matavuvale yalodina.<br />
Era sa vakalougatataki ka vaqaqacotaki<br />
mai na cakacaka vakalotu <strong>ni</strong> matabete era sa<br />
ciqoma kei na veiyalayalati era sa vakarokorokotaka<br />
tiko. E rawa talega <strong>ni</strong> ra kerea na nodra<br />
veitoko<strong>ni</strong> na lewe <strong>ni</strong> matavuale kei ira eso tale<br />
na Yalododonu Edaidai.<br />
<strong>Marama</strong> Sega <strong>ni</strong> Vakawati kei na Matabete<br />
E vuqa na Yalododonu Edaidai era se sega sara<br />
mada ga <strong>ni</strong> bau vakawati. Eso tale era tu duadua<br />
ga <strong>ni</strong> sa mate na watidra, veibiu, se veisere. Me<br />
vakataki ira kecega na lewe <strong>ni</strong> Lotu, era na<br />
vakalougatataki na lewe<strong>ni</strong>lotu oqo <strong>ni</strong> ra yalodina<br />
tikoga ki na nodra veiyalayalati ka cakava na<br />
veika kece era rawata me ra vakasaqara kina na<br />
vakasama cecere <strong>ni</strong> laki bula ena dua na matavuvale<br />
tawamudu. E rawa <strong>ni</strong> ra marautaka na<br />
veivakalougatataki, na igu, kei na veivakauqeti<br />
<strong>ni</strong> matabete ena nodra bula kei na nodra vuvale<br />
mai na cakacaka vakalotu era sa ciqoma kei na<br />
veiyalayalati era sa vakarokorokotaka tiko.<br />
E tukuna o Elder Dallin H. Oaks na yalodina<br />
nei tinana, ka a yada <strong>ni</strong> se gone toka ga. Ni sa<br />
vauci oti vei watina ena valetabu, a sega <strong>ni</strong> bau<br />
raici koya <strong>ni</strong> sega <strong>ni</strong> vakawati; ia me susugi iratou<br />
duadua cake na luvena e le tolu. E nanuma<br />
lesu vaqo o Elder Oaks:<br />
“A mate o tamaqu <strong>ni</strong>u yabaki vitu tiko. Au qase<br />
duadua vei keitou na tolu na gone ka a saga<br />
dredre na tinai keitou me susugi keitou cake.<br />
Ena gauna au tabaki kina meu diko<strong>ni</strong>, e tukuna<br />
na nona marautaka me tiko e dua na matabete e<br />
vale. Ia e liutaka tikoga na matavuvale o Tinaqu,<br />
oka kina na nona lewa o koya me masu <strong>ni</strong> keitou<br />
dau tekiduru vata e veimataka. . . .<br />
“Ena gauna e mate kina na tamaqu, a vakatulewa<br />
na tinaqu ena neitou matavuvale. E sega<br />
tu na nona itutu vakamatabete, ia <strong>ni</strong> itubutubu
ga sa bula tiko ena nona vakawati sa yaco o koya me<br />
vakaitutu vakatulewa ena nona matavuvale. Ena gauna<br />
vata oqori, sa dau vakarokorokotaka sara o koya na dodonu<br />
<strong>ni</strong> matabete e tu vua na bisopi kei ira na veiliutaki<br />
tale eso <strong>ni</strong> Lotu. E vakatulewa o koya ena nona matavuvale,<br />
ka ra vakatulewa o ira ena Lotu. . . .<br />
“E sega vakadua <strong>ni</strong> bau lomalomarua na tina yada yalodina<br />
ka susugi keitou cake me baleta na tawamudu <strong>ni</strong><br />
matavuvale. E dau rokova tu ga na nona itutu na tamai<br />
keitou sa mate. A vakayacora o koya me vakilai na kena<br />
iserau e vale. E dau tukuna me baleta na tawamudu <strong>ni</strong><br />
nodrau vakamau ena valetabu. A dau vakananuma lesu<br />
wasoma vei keitou na veika ena vinakata o ta me keitou<br />
cakava me rawa kina <strong>ni</strong> keitou kila na nona yalayala na<br />
“Me vakadeitaki e yalodra na marama yadua” na yalo <strong>ni</strong> ra lewena<br />
na <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>” (Boyd K. Packer).<br />
“Sa noqu masu me na<br />
tete ya<strong>ni</strong> ena Lotu raraba,<br />
me na nodra ivakarau <strong>ni</strong><br />
bula na Mataveiliutaki<br />
<strong>ni</strong> iTeki kei na Matabose<br />
e Cake, Matabisopi,<br />
[Dauveituberi Vakavuvale],<br />
ka vakauasivi ki<br />
na veikuoramu kei na<br />
mataisoqosoqo ena Lotu,<br />
me rawa kina <strong>ni</strong> ra<br />
duavata kece, me cavuti<br />
na vosa <strong>ni</strong> iVakabula, me<br />
vaka <strong>ni</strong> rau sa duabau<br />
kei Tamana.”<br />
David O. McKay<br />
Ena Conference Report, Epe.<br />
1937, 121–22; me laurai na<br />
Jo<strong>ni</strong> 17:21<br />
155
156<br />
iVakabula <strong>ni</strong> rawa <strong>ni</strong> keitou matavuvale me<br />
tawamudu.” 27<br />
A tukuna e dua tale na tagane na nona<br />
vakatulewa e vale na tinana: “Ni vakarau tiko<br />
meu lako ki kaulotu, a biuti keitou kei na Lotu<br />
na tamai keitou. Ena vuku <strong>ni</strong> ka oqo, sa dredre<br />
kina vei au meu biuta na neitou vale me rua<br />
na yabaki, ia au lako ga. Ia <strong>ni</strong>u qarava tiko na<br />
Turaga ena dua na vanua vakayawa, au rogoca<br />
na nona igu na tinaqu e vale. E gadreva ka marautaka<br />
na veikauwaitaki bibi e dau ciqoma mai<br />
vei ira na tagane ka ra taura tu na matabete—<br />
na tamana kei ira na ganena, na nodratou<br />
dauveituberi vakavuvale, eso tale na tagane ena<br />
tabanalevu. Ia, na nona kaukauwa levu duadua<br />
e drodro mai vua na Turaga sara ga vakataki<br />
Koya. E sega <strong>ni</strong> dau waraka me yaco mai na<br />
veisiko me rawa <strong>ni</strong> qai tiko kina ena nona vale<br />
na veivakalougatataki <strong>ni</strong> matabete, ia <strong>ni</strong> ra lesu<br />
na vulagi, e sega <strong>ni</strong> lesu vata kei ira na veivakalougatataki<br />
oqori. Baleta <strong>ni</strong> dau yalodina ki na<br />
veiyalayalati a vakayacora ena wai <strong>ni</strong> veipapitaisotaki<br />
kei na valetabu, sa dau tu ga kina ena<br />
nona bula na veivakalougatataki <strong>ni</strong> matabete. A<br />
solia vua na Turaga na veivakauqeti kei na igu<br />
ka sivia sara na nona kaukauwa, ka susugi ira<br />
cake kina na gone era sa dau maroroya tu ena<br />
gauna oqo na veiyalayalati vata ga a vakabulai<br />
koya voli.” 28<br />
Era kila na marama oqo <strong>ni</strong> ra a ciqoma na<br />
ikuri <strong>ni</strong> igu kei na veivuke mai na veiyalayalati<br />
era a cakava ka dau vakarokorokotaka.<br />
Barbara W. Winder<br />
iKati<strong>ni</strong>kadua <strong>ni</strong> Peresitedi Raraba <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong><br />
<strong>Veivukei</strong><br />
“Au vinakata ka gadreva vakakina, me da duavata,<br />
me da duavata kei na matabete, veiqaravi ka tara<br />
cake na mata<strong>ni</strong>tu <strong>ni</strong> Kalou eke <strong>ni</strong>kua ka vakateteta<br />
ya<strong>ni</strong> na marau <strong>ni</strong> kosipeli vei ira era gadreva<br />
vakalevu tu. Oqo na Nona mata<strong>ni</strong>tu. E dua na<br />
noda itavi levu me da wasea.”<br />
Ena Conference Report, Epe. 1984, 79; se Ensign,<br />
Me 1984, 59.
Veiqaravi ena Lotu<br />
O ira kece era vakaitutu ena Lotu i Jisu Ka-<br />
risito <strong>ni</strong> Yalododonu Edaidai era veiqaravi ena<br />
nodra veidusimaki kei na nodra veivakadonui o<br />
ira era taura tu na idola <strong>ni</strong> matabete, me vaka na<br />
bisopi kei na peresitedi <strong>ni</strong> iteki. Ena <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong><br />
<strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>, na ivalavala oqo a tauyavutaki ena<br />
imatai <strong>ni</strong> soqo<strong>ni</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>. Me<br />
vaka na nona veidusimaki na Parofita o Josefa<br />
Simici, a vakotora o Elder John Taylor ena Kuoramu<br />
<strong>ni</strong> iApositolo le Ti<strong>ni</strong>karua na ligana ena<br />
uludratou o Sisita Emma Smith kei rau na nona<br />
dau<strong>ni</strong>vakasala o Sisita Sarah M. Cleveland kei<br />
Sisita Elizabeth Ann Whitney, yadua ena dua na<br />
gauna. A vakalougatataki iratou me ratou tuberi<br />
ena nodratou veiqaravi. Me tekivu mai na gauna<br />
oya, era sa veiqaravi voli kina o ira na marama<br />
era veiqaravi ena veikacivi eso <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong><br />
<strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>, kei na veikacivi tale eso ena Lotu,<br />
vakakina o ira na dausiko vuvale ena nodra veivakadonui<br />
o ira era taura tu na idola <strong>ni</strong> matabete.<br />
E kaya o Peresitedi Boyd K. Packer, Peresitedi<br />
<strong>ni</strong> Kuoramu <strong>ni</strong> iApositolo Le Ti<strong>ni</strong>karua:<br />
“<strong>Na</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> e cakacaka ena<br />
ruku <strong>ni</strong> nodra veidusimaki na Matabete i<br />
Melikiseteki, <strong>ni</strong> ‘ilesilesi kei na itavi kece tale<br />
eso vakalotu, era sa okati kecega ki na itutu <strong>ni</strong><br />
matabete oqo.’ . . .<br />
“O iratou na Veitaci<strong>ni</strong> iLiuliu eratou kila <strong>ni</strong><br />
ratou lewena e dua na kuoramu ena matabete.<br />
E sa rui lewelevu na marama era nanuma, <strong>ni</strong><br />
Era dau cakacaka vata na tagane kei na yalewa ena Lotu<br />
ena yalo <strong>ni</strong> duavata.<br />
<strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> e dua ga na kalasi me<br />
ra lakova. <strong>Na</strong> vakanananu vata ga oqori <strong>ni</strong> da<br />
lewena na <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> ka sega <strong>ni</strong> dua<br />
ga na kalasi me lakovi sa dodonu me vakoti tu<br />
e yalodra na marama kecega.” 29<br />
O ira na veikuoramu <strong>ni</strong> matabete era coko-<br />
naki kina na tagane ki na dua na mataveitaci<strong>ni</strong><br />
me ra dau veiqaravi, me ra vulica ka vakayacora<br />
na nodra itavi, ka me ra vulica na ivunau <strong>ni</strong> kosipeli.<br />
<strong>Na</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> e qarava na itavi<br />
vata oqo me baleti ira na marama ena Lotu. <strong>Na</strong><br />
marama kece ena Lotu era okati ki na <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong><br />
<strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>, kevaka sara mada e tu na nodra<br />
itavi ka na dredre kina vei ira me ra dau tiko ena<br />
veisoqo<strong>ni</strong> kece sara <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>. Era<br />
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na dau vakatawa<strong>ni</strong> ka vakavulici ena mataveita-<br />
ci<strong>ni</strong> marama <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>.<br />
Duavata: “Me da Cakacaka Vata Kece”<br />
Me ra veivaqaqacotaki ka veivakaukauwataki<br />
ka cakacaka vata ena duavata na tagane kei na<br />
yalewa ena Lotu i Jisu Karisito <strong>ni</strong> Yalododonu<br />
Edaidai. E kaya vaqo na Turaga, “Mo dou dua-<br />
vata sara; kevaka dou sa sega <strong>ni</strong> duavata dou sa<br />
sega <strong>ni</strong> noqu.” 30<br />
E vakavuvulitaka na Parofita o Josefa Simici,<br />
“Me da cakacaka vata kecega, ke sega ena sega<br />
<strong>ni</strong> caka rawa e dua na ka.” 31 ka biuta koto e dua<br />
na ivakaraitaki ena noda cakacaka vata kei ira<br />
na ta<strong>ni</strong>. Sa dau vakamareqeta ena nona bula<br />
taucoko o Sisita Eliza R. Snow na ivakaraitaki<br />
oqo. A wasea vei ira na veiliutaki <strong>ni</strong> Lotu ena<br />
gauna a tauyavutaki tale kina mai Utah na<br />
<strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>. E vakavuvulitaka o koya<br />
<strong>ni</strong> dodonu me tu vei ira na bisopi na “mataqali<br />
veiweka<strong>ni</strong> vakaoqo” kei ira na <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong><br />
<strong>Veivukei</strong> ena tabanalevu me vakataki Josefa<br />
Simici vata kei ira na <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> mai<br />
<strong>Na</strong>uvoo. E vakavuvulitaka talega <strong>ni</strong> “isoqosoqo<br />
yadua . . . ena sega <strong>ni</strong> rawa <strong>ni</strong> bula ke sega na<br />
nona ivakasala na bisopi.” 32<br />
A nanuma o Sisita Bathsheba W. Smith na<br />
ivakavuvuli kei na ivakaraitaki nei Josefa Simici<br />
ena gauna a veiqaravi kina vaka ikava <strong>ni</strong> peresitedi<br />
raraba <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>. A vakaroti<br />
ira na marama ena <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> me<br />
“O ira na marama ena Lotu oqo era qaqaco vinaka ka<br />
levu na nodra kaukauwa” (Gordon B. Hinckley).<br />
ra cakacaka ena yalovata kei ira na veiliutaki <strong>ni</strong><br />
matabete. E kaya kina vaqo: “Eda gadreva ena<br />
yalomalumalumu me da vakalevulevuya na veikacivi<br />
e solia mai vei keda na Turaga, ia me rawa<br />
<strong>ni</strong> da vakayacora vakadodonu, eda na gadreva<br />
na nodra vakabauta kei na nodra veitoko<strong>ni</strong> na<br />
Mataveiliutaki Taumada <strong>ni</strong> Lotu, o ira na iApositolo,<br />
peresitedi <strong>ni</strong> iTeki kei ira na Bisopi, o ira eda<br />
dau gadreva tikoga me da tokona, kei ira eda<br />
gadreva me da cakacaka vata ena yalovata.” 33<br />
<strong>Na</strong> ivakarau oqo sa lako sivita mai e vicasagavulu<br />
na yabaki. E kaya vaqo o Peresitedi<br />
Henry B. Eyring, e dua na dau<strong>ni</strong>vakasala ena
Mataveiliutaki Taumada, “E dua na tiki talei <strong>ni</strong><br />
nodra iyau na <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> e vaka-<br />
dinadinataki ena ivakarau era dau vakaraitaka<br />
kina na matabete na nodra rokova ka ciqoma<br />
mai vei ira na <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>.” 34<br />
Ni tekivutaka o Sisita Barbara W. Winder na<br />
nona veiqaravi vakaikati<strong>ni</strong>kadua <strong>ni</strong> peresitedi<br />
raraba <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>, a kerei koya o<br />
Peresitedi Gordon B. Hinckley, ka a veiqaravi<br />
voli vakadau<strong>ni</strong>vakasala ena Mataveiliutaki<br />
Taumada me vakaduavatataki ira na marama<br />
era veiqaravi tiko ena <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>, na<br />
Goneyalewa, kei na Lalai ena ruku <strong>ni</strong> matabete.<br />
E kila kina o Sisita Winder <strong>ni</strong> duavata “e sega<br />
walega <strong>ni</strong> nodra cakacaka vata na marama, ia<br />
eda sa itoka<strong>ni</strong> vakabisi<strong>ni</strong>si kei ira na tagane ena<br />
matabete. Eda veitoka<strong>ni</strong> ena cakacaka.” 35<br />
E tukuna o Sisita Winder <strong>ni</strong> oti ga vakalailai<br />
na nona kacivi me veiqaravi vakaperesitedi<br />
raraba <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>, a kerea o Elder<br />
Dallin H. Oaks me rau sota. A kerei me vaka-<br />
rautaka e dua na itukutuku me baleta na Lotu<br />
ena dua na ka bibi, ka vakila <strong>ni</strong> dodonu me ro-<br />
goci kina na nodra vakasama na iliuliu marama<br />
ena Lotu. A vakaraitaka na nona doka kei na<br />
vakavinavinaka ena nona kila ka, vakasama, kei<br />
na veivakauqeti o Sisita Winder ena nona kerea<br />
ka vakayagataka na nona veivuke.<br />
A qai vakavuvulitaka e muri o Sisita Win-<br />
der <strong>ni</strong> ra gadreva na tagane kei na marama<br />
ena Lotu me ra dau veivukei vakataki ira ena<br />
cakacaka. “Au vulica <strong>ni</strong> gauna o sureti kina ki<br />
na dua na soqo<strong>ni</strong>,” qai vakamacalataka, “o sega<br />
<strong>ni</strong> sureti mo mai tukuna kina na leqa kece o<br />
sotava tiko, ia o sureti mo kauta mai na iwali<br />
eso <strong>ni</strong> leqa. Oti mo <strong>ni</strong> qai veitalanoataka na<br />
veivakasama eso ka raica na cava me caka. Era<br />
na namaka ka gadreva na veitaci<strong>ni</strong> ena matabete<br />
na noda rai na marama ena Lotu. Eda na<br />
gadreva me da vakavakarau ka vukei ira.” 36<br />
E vakadinadinataki na vakaduavatataki <strong>ni</strong><br />
inaki ena veimatabose eso ena Lotu. Ni ra<br />
veirogorogoci na tagane kei na marama ena<br />
veimatabose oqori, vakasaqara na yalotabu, ka<br />
cakacaka ena duavata, era na ciqoma na veivakauqeti<br />
me ra kila na ivakarau me ra sotava<br />
kina na nodra gagadre na tamata yadua kei na<br />
veimatavuvale. E kaya na Turaga, “<strong>Na</strong> tikina<br />
sa soqo<strong>ni</strong> vata kina e lewe rua se lewe tolu ka<br />
kerea e dua na ka ena yacaqu, au na tiko kina<br />
ena kedratou maliwa.” 37<br />
A vakaraitaka o Peresitedi Thomas S. Monson,<br />
na ikati<strong>ni</strong>kaono <strong>ni</strong> Peresitedi <strong>ni</strong> Lotu, e dua<br />
na ivakaraitaki <strong>ni</strong> veika e rawa <strong>ni</strong> yaco <strong>ni</strong> ra sa<br />
cakacaka vata na marama ena <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong><br />
kei na veitaci<strong>ni</strong> <strong>ni</strong> matabete ena veiqaravi<br />
vua na Turaga:<br />
“Ena ika 24 <strong>ni</strong> Okosita, [1992,] a samuta kina<br />
na baravi kei Florida ena ceva kei Miami na<br />
Cava o Adriu. E sivia na ruanadrau na maile<br />
ena dua na auwa na kaukauwa <strong>ni</strong> bati<strong>ni</strong>cagi. . . .<br />
a vakarusai e Walusagavulu kavitu na udolu na<br />
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itikotiko, sa mai sega toka kina na nodra vale e<br />
150,000. . . .<br />
“Era cokonaki ira vakatotolo na veiliutaki <strong>ni</strong><br />
matabete kei na <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> me kilai<br />
na levu <strong>ni</strong> mavoa kei na vakacaca ka ra veivuke<br />
ena sasaga <strong>ni</strong> sasamaki. E tolu na ilawalawa<br />
lelevu <strong>ni</strong> lewe<strong>ni</strong>lotu voladia, ka tiko na kedra<br />
iwiliwili ena sivia na lima na udolu, era cakacaka<br />
vakaveivolekati ena veitikotiko sa vakacaca<strong>ni</strong><br />
tu, era veivuke ena kena vakavinakataki e<br />
tolu na udolu na itikotiko, dua na vale<strong>ni</strong>lotu <strong>ni</strong><br />
Jiu, dua na vale<strong>ni</strong>lotu <strong>ni</strong> Pe<strong>ni</strong>tiko, kei na rua na<br />
koro<strong>ni</strong>vuli.” 38<br />
“Veitauriliga kei Ira na Matabete”:<br />
iVakasala Vakauqeti mai vei Ira na<br />
Parofita <strong>ni</strong> Gauna Oqo<br />
Era sa tukuna na parofita <strong>ni</strong> gauna oqo na<br />
veivakalougatataki ena yaco mai ki na Lotu ka<br />
vakakina ena veimatavuvale <strong>ni</strong> ra cakacaka vata<br />
na veitaci<strong>ni</strong> ena matabete yalodina kei ira na<br />
marama yalodina ena <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>.<br />
E kaya vaqo o Peresitedi Spencer W. Kimball,<br />
na ikati<strong>ni</strong>karua <strong>ni</strong> Peresitedi <strong>ni</strong> Lotu, “E<br />
tiko e dua na kaukauwa ena isoqosoqo oqo<br />
[<strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>] ka se bera tiko <strong>ni</strong><br />
vakayagataki sara vakavinaka me vaqaqacotaka<br />
na veivuvale kei Saio<strong>ni</strong> ka tara na Mata<strong>ni</strong>tu<br />
<strong>ni</strong> Kalou—ena sega tikoga me yacova <strong>ni</strong> ra sa<br />
toboka rawa na rai <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> o<br />
ira na marama kei na matabete.” 39<br />
E vakalekalekataka o Peresitedi Joseph<br />
Fielding Smith na isema e tiko ena maliwa <strong>ni</strong><br />
<strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> kei na veikuoramu <strong>ni</strong><br />
matabete:<br />
“O ira [na marama] e tu ga na nodra soqo<strong>ni</strong>,<br />
me vaka ena <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>, sa soli kina<br />
vei ira na kaukauwa kei na veivakadonui me ra<br />
cakava e vuqa sara na ka. . . .<br />
“Ena nona vuku na Turaga sa kacivi ira kina na<br />
marama me ra ivukevuke vei ira na Matabete.<br />
Ena vuku <strong>ni</strong> nodra dau loloma, na malumalumu<br />
<strong>ni</strong> yalodra, kei na yalovinaka, sa raici ira kina na<br />
Turaga ka solia vei ira na itavi kei na ilesilesi me<br />
ra dauveiqaravi vei ira era vakaleqai kei ira era<br />
kune rarawa. Sa dusia o Koya na sala me ra muria,<br />
ka solia vei ira na isoqosoqo cecere oqo ena<br />
tu kina vei ira na dodonu me ra veiqaravi ena<br />
ruku <strong>ni</strong> nodra veidusimaki na bisopi <strong>ni</strong> veitabanalevu<br />
ka vakakina ena duavata kei ira na bisopi<br />
<strong>ni</strong> veitabanalevu, ena kena qarau<strong>ni</strong> na nodra<br />
tiko vinaka vakayalo ka vakayago na tamata.” 40<br />
A wasea na veika oqo o Peresitedi Gordon B.<br />
Hinckley vei ira na marama ena <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong><br />
<strong>Veivukei</strong> ena gauna e veiaqaravi voli kina vakaikati<strong>ni</strong>kalima<br />
<strong>ni</strong> Peresitedi <strong>ni</strong> Lotu:<br />
“Meu tukuna mada vei kemu<strong>ni</strong> na marama<br />
<strong>ni</strong> o sega <strong>ni</strong> tu ena ikarua <strong>ni</strong> itutu ena nona<br />
ituvatuva na Tamada me baleta na nodra marau<br />
tawamudu kei na nodra tiko vinaka na Luvena.<br />
O <strong>ni</strong> sa tikina dina ka yaga vakalevu na ituvatuva<br />
oya.
“Kevaka e sega o kemu<strong>ni</strong> ena sega <strong>ni</strong> vakavo-<br />
tukana na ituvatuva. Kevaka e sega o kemu<strong>ni</strong><br />
ena veilecayaki na ituvatuva. . . .<br />
“O kemu<strong>ni</strong> yadua o <strong>ni</strong> luvena yalewa na<br />
Kalou, o <strong>ni</strong> sa vakalougatataki ena nomu<strong>ni</strong><br />
sucu mai ena lewa vakalou. E sega <strong>ni</strong> dua ena<br />
veiqatitaka kei kemu<strong>ni</strong> na itutu oqori. . . .<br />
“. . . E tu na igu kei na kaukauwa levu vei<br />
ira na marama ena Lotu oqo. E tu kina na<br />
veiliutaki kei na veidusimaki, e dua na yalo <strong>ni</strong><br />
tu vakataki koya, ia na vakacegu cecere <strong>ni</strong> da<br />
tiki <strong>ni</strong> veika oqo, na mata<strong>ni</strong>tu <strong>ni</strong> Turaga, kei na<br />
noda veitauriliga vata kei ira na matabete me<br />
baleta na kena tosoi ki liu.” 41<br />
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WASE 9<br />
“iVakatawa<br />
<strong>ni</strong> Vuvale”<br />
Vakadeitaka, Susuga, ka<br />
Taqomaka na Matavuvale<br />
Mo dua na marama bula dodonu<br />
ena iotioti <strong>ni</strong> gauna oqo ena vuravura oqo, <strong>ni</strong><br />
bera na ikarua <strong>ni</strong> nona lako mai na noda iVakabula,<br />
sa dua na ilesilesi vakaturaga.. . . Sa biu koto eke ko<br />
koya me vakavutu<strong>ni</strong>yautaka, me taqomaka, ka<br />
yadrava na vuvale—sai koya na isoqosoqo<br />
taumada ka vakaturaga duadua<br />
<strong>ni</strong> kawatamata.<br />
Spencer W. Kimball
WASE 9<br />
“iVakatawa <strong>ni</strong> Vuvale”<br />
Vakadeitaka, Susuga,<br />
ka Taqomaka na Matavuvale<br />
Ena ika 23 <strong>ni</strong> Sepiteba, 1995, a tucake kina<br />
e matadra na marama ena Lotu o Peresitedi<br />
Gordon B. Hinckley, na kati<strong>ni</strong>kalima <strong>ni</strong> Peresitedi<br />
<strong>ni</strong> Lotu ena dua na soqo<strong>ni</strong> raraba <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong><br />
<strong>Veivukei</strong>. E vakaraitaka na nona vakavinavinaka<br />
me baleta na nodra yalodina kei na gugumatua<br />
na marama Yalododonu Edaidai—gone kei na<br />
qase, vakawati kei na sega <strong>ni</strong> vakawati, vakaluve<strong>ni</strong><br />
se sega. Ni vakadinadinataka na veika dredre<br />
era sotava tiko, a veivakayaloqaqataki, veivakasalataki,<br />
ka solia na ivakasala <strong>ni</strong> qaqarau<strong>ni</strong> me vukei<br />
ira ena nodra qarava vakavinaka na nodra itavi ka<br />
kune marau ena nodra bula, e kaya kina:<br />
“Ni sa rui levu na veika lasu ka vaka na irairai<br />
<strong>ni</strong> dina, <strong>ni</strong> sa rui levu na lawaki ena noda dui<br />
ivakatagedegde kei na veika<br />
eda vakabibitaka, <strong>ni</strong> sa rui<br />
levu na veivakayarayarataki<br />
kei na veivakauqeti ki na<br />
ivalavala ca <strong>ni</strong> vuravura,<br />
Gordon B. Hinckley keimami sa nanuma kina me<br />
keimami vakasalataki kemu<strong>ni</strong> ka vakasalataki<br />
kemu<strong>ni</strong> tale. Me ikuri <strong>ni</strong> veika oqori keitou sa<br />
solia kina oqo na Mataveiliutaki Taumada kei<br />
na Matabose <strong>ni</strong> iApositolo Le Ti<strong>ni</strong>karua e dua<br />
na ivakaro ki na Lotu ka vakakina ki vuravura<br />
me ivakaro ka vakadeitaki kina na ivakatagedegede,<br />
na ivunau, kei na ivalavala <strong>ni</strong> bula e<br />
semati ki na matavuvale ka ra sa dau taleva<br />
wasoma tiko vei keda o ira na parofita, daurairai<br />
ka dauvakatakila <strong>ni</strong> lotu oqo ena kena<br />
veitabagauna kece sara.” 1 A qai wilika “<strong>Na</strong><br />
Matavuvale: Ai Vakaro ki Vuravura.” Oqo na<br />
imatai <strong>ni</strong> gauna a wiliki raraba kina na ivakaro.<br />
Ena ivakaro, eratou tukuna kina na Mataveiliutaki<br />
Taumada kei na Kuoramu <strong>ni</strong> iApositolo<br />
Le Ti<strong>ni</strong>karua <strong>ni</strong> “bula mamarau ena matavuvale<br />
ena rawa kevaka e yavutaki ena ivakavuvuli<br />
nei Jisu Karisito.” Eratou “sa vunautaka kina<br />
vakabibi <strong>ni</strong> lewa va-Kalou na nodrau vakawati<br />
na tagane kei na yalewa ka itakele <strong>ni</strong> nona<br />
ituvatuva na Dauveibuli me baleta na nodra<br />
icavacava tawamudu na Luvena.” Eratou vakananuma<br />
vei ira na veiwati<strong>ni</strong> na nodra “itavi bibi<br />
me ra dau veiloma<strong>ni</strong> ka veikauwaitaki vakataki<br />
ira ka vakakina vei ira na luvedra.” 2<br />
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Me vaka e vakabibitaki ena iulutaga <strong>ni</strong> ivakaro,<br />
a tabaki me “iVakaro ki Vuravura Raraba”<br />
—me vakananumi kina vei ira na tamata kecega,<br />
oka kina o ira na iliuliu <strong>ni</strong> veimata<strong>ni</strong>tu, me<br />
baleta na bibi tawamudu <strong>ni</strong> matavuvale. Ni oti e<br />
walu na vula mai na gauna e vakaraitaki kina na<br />
ivakaro, a vosa o Peresitedi Hinckley ena dua na<br />
nodra ko<strong>ni</strong>feredi na dau<strong>ni</strong>tukutuku mai Tokyo<br />
e Japa<strong>ni</strong>. A kaya kina o koya: “<strong>Na</strong> cava e qai soli<br />
mai kina ena gauna oqo na ivakaro <strong>ni</strong> matavuvale?<br />
Baleta <strong>ni</strong> sa bololaki tiko na matavuvale.<br />
Sa kakaseresere tiko mai na veimatavuvale e<br />
vuravura raraba. <strong>Na</strong> vanua me tekivu kina na<br />
noda vakavinakataka na bula vakatamata na<br />
vuvale. Era dau cakava kina vakauasivi cake na<br />
gone, na veika era vakavulici kina. Eda tovolea<br />
tiko me da vakavinakataka cake na vuravura<br />
ena noda vaqaqacotaka na matavuvale.” 3<br />
E vakaraitaki ena nodra ivakadinadina na<br />
<strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> me ikuri <strong>ni</strong> kena sa<br />
ivakaro ki vuravura raraba, sa vakaibalebale na<br />
veimala<strong>ni</strong>vosa vakaivunau oqo me baleta na<br />
matavuvale kei na tamata yadua ena Lotu. Sa<br />
tara na yalodra na marama ena veitagede kece<br />
sara <strong>ni</strong> bula na ivakavuvuli ena ivakaro oqo.<br />
A tiko ena Valecavu e Salt Lake o Sisita<br />
Barbara Thompson, ka a qai kacivi e muri me<br />
dau<strong>ni</strong>vakasala ena mataveiliutaki raraba <strong>ni</strong><br />
<strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>, ena gauna e wilika kina<br />
e kea o Peresitedi Hinckley na ivakaro. “Oqo e<br />
dua na soqo<strong>ni</strong> cecere,” e nanuma lesu o koya.<br />
“Au vakila na bibi <strong>ni</strong> itukutuku oya. Au qai<br />
vakasamataka, ‘Oqo e dua na idusidusi cecere<br />
Barbara Thompson<br />
vei ira na itubutubu. Sa dua<br />
talega na nodra itavi cecere na<br />
itubutubu.’ Au nanuma<br />
vakalailai <strong>ni</strong> sega <strong>ni</strong> baleti au<br />
sara me vaka <strong>ni</strong>u sega tu <strong>ni</strong><br />
vakawati ka sega na luvequ.<br />
Ia e totolo talega na noqu lai vakasamataka<br />
mai, ‘Ia sa baleti au talega. Au lewe <strong>ni</strong> dua na<br />
matavuvale. O au e dua na goneyalewa, e dua<br />
na tacidra, e dua na nei, e dua na tavale, e dua<br />
na vugona, ka makubuna. E tu talega na noqu<br />
itavi—kei na veivakalougatataki—baleta <strong>ni</strong>u<br />
lewe <strong>ni</strong> dua na matavuvale. Kevaka sara mada<br />
ga o au duadua ga na lewe <strong>ni</strong> noqu matavuvale<br />
au se bula tiko, au lewena talega na matavuvale<br />
<strong>ni</strong> Kalou, ka tiko na noqu itavi meu veivuke ena<br />
kena vaqaqacotaki na veimatavuvale tale eso.’” 4<br />
A tiko talega ena Valecavu o Sisita Bon<strong>ni</strong>e D.<br />
Parkin, o koya a qai veiqaravi e muri vakaikati<strong>ni</strong>kava<br />
<strong>ni</strong> peresitedi raraba <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong><br />
<strong>Veivukei</strong>, ena gauna a wilika kina na ivakaro o<br />
Peresitedi Hinckley. A nanuma lesu o koya: “A<br />
vakanomodi na ivavakoso ia e tiko talega na<br />
yalo nanamaki, na vakasama <strong>ni</strong> ‘io —keimami<br />
gadreva na veivuke ena neimami matavuvale!’<br />
Au nanuma lesu <strong>ni</strong>u a vakila <strong>ni</strong> sa dodonu vakavinaka.<br />
A drodrova sobu na baluqu na wai<strong>ni</strong>mata.<br />
Niu raici ira na marama era dabe volekati<br />
au, e vaka <strong>ni</strong> ra vakila tale tikoga na veika vata
“O ira na tina sai ira na uto kei na yalo <strong>ni</strong> dua na matavuvale”<br />
(James E. Faust).<br />
oya. Sa levu dina na ka e tiko ena ivakaro sa sega kina <strong>ni</strong><br />
rawa <strong>ni</strong>u waraka me dua na noqu ilavelave meu vulica. E<br />
vakadeitaki ena ivakaro na rokovi <strong>ni</strong> bula vakamarama. Ia<br />
<strong>ni</strong> da vakasamataka <strong>ni</strong> a soli taumada vei ira na marama<br />
ena Lotu ena soqo<strong>ni</strong> raraba <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>.” 5<br />
<strong>Na</strong> cava beka eratou digitaka kina na Mataveiliutaki<br />
Taumada me ratou kacivaka na ivakaro <strong>ni</strong> matavuvale<br />
ena dua na soqo<strong>ni</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>? Ni wilika<br />
oti o Peresitedi Hinckley, a vakarautaka e dua na isau <strong>ni</strong><br />
taro oya. “Oi kemu<strong>ni</strong> na ivakatawa <strong>ni</strong> vuvale,” e tukuna<br />
vei ira na marama. “Oi kemu<strong>ni</strong> o <strong>ni</strong> vakasucumi ira mai<br />
na gone. Sai kemu<strong>ni</strong> o <strong>ni</strong> susugi ira cake ka tauyavutaka<br />
e lomadra na nodra itovo <strong>ni</strong> bula. E sega tale <strong>ni</strong> dua na<br />
cakacaka me voleka duadua ki na vakalou me vaka na<br />
“Eda sa kerei ira na<br />
itubutubu me ra solia<br />
na nodra igu kaukauwa<br />
duadua ena nodra<br />
vakavulici ka susugi<br />
cake na luvedra ena<br />
ivakavuvuli <strong>ni</strong> kosipeli<br />
ka na vakavolekataki ira<br />
tikoga ki na Lotu. <strong>Na</strong><br />
vuvale e yavu <strong>ni</strong> dua na<br />
buladodonu, ka sega <strong>ni</strong><br />
dua tale na kila ka e<br />
rawa <strong>ni</strong> vakaisosomitaka<br />
se rawata na kena itavi<br />
ena kena tosoi ki liu na<br />
itavi lesi va-Kalou oqo.”<br />
Mataveiliutaki Taumada<br />
(Gordon B. Hinckley,<br />
Thomas S. Monson,<br />
James E. Faust)<br />
Ensign, June 1999, 80<br />
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168<br />
nodra susugi ka tuberi cake na luvena tagane<br />
kei na luvena yalewa na Kalou.” 6<br />
E vakuria ena ivakamacala oqo o Peresitedi<br />
James E. Faust, na ikarua <strong>ni</strong> dau<strong>ni</strong>vakasala: “Me<br />
vaka <strong>ni</strong> o <strong>ni</strong> uto ka yalo <strong>ni</strong> dua na matavuvale na<br />
tina, sa kilikili kina me wiliki [na ivakaro] taumada<br />
ena soqo<strong>ni</strong> raraba <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>.” 7<br />
E Dua na “Vakadeitaki<br />
Tale <strong>ni</strong> iVakatagedegede,<br />
iVunau, kei na iValavala”<br />
Era sega <strong>ni</strong> ka vou ena 1995 na ivakavuvuli<br />
ena ivakaro <strong>ni</strong> matavuvale. Me vaka e tukuna o<br />
Era a rawata na luvedra tagane na O<strong>ni</strong>tai Nifai Liai na<br />
vakabauta cecere mai na nodra ivakavuvuli na tinadra<br />
(raica na Alama 56:47).<br />
Peresitedi Hinckley, era sa “vakadeitaki tale <strong>ni</strong><br />
ivakatagedegede, ivunau, kei na ivalavala.” 8 Era<br />
sa “itakele <strong>ni</strong> nona ituvatuva na Dau<strong>ni</strong>veibuli”<br />
<strong>ni</strong> se bera mada ga <strong>ni</strong> bulia na vuravura. 9<br />
E vaqo na nona ivakavuvuli o Sisita Julie B.<br />
Beck, na ikati<strong>ni</strong>kalima <strong>ni</strong> peresitedi raraba <strong>ni</strong><br />
<strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>: “Ena Lotu i Jisu Karisito<br />
<strong>ni</strong> Yalododonu Edaidai, e tiko e dua na rai vaka-<br />
ivolatabu me baleta na matavuvale ka yavutaki<br />
ena Veibuli, na Lutu, kei na Veisorovaki. <strong>Na</strong> Buli<br />
<strong>ni</strong> vuravura sa vakarautaki kina e dua na vanua<br />
me ra mai bula kina na veimatavuvale. . . . <strong>Na</strong><br />
Lutu sa vakarautaki kina e dua na sala me tubu<br />
kina na matavuvale. . . . <strong>Na</strong> Veisorovaki sa rawa<br />
kina me vauci vata tawamudu na matavuvale.” 10<br />
Era sa dau dinata na yalewa kei na tagane<br />
yalodina na rai vakaivolatabu oqo <strong>ni</strong> matavuvale<br />
ka muria na ivakatagedegede, na ivunau,<br />
kei na ivalavala eso oqo ena veigauna kece e tu<br />
kina e vuravura na kosipeli. “<strong>Na</strong> tinada lagilagi<br />
o Ivi” kei na “Tamada o Atama” erau nodra iliuliu<br />
na luvedrau, ka vakavulica vei ira “na reki<br />
<strong>ni</strong> noda sereki, kei na bula tawamudu e solia<br />
na Kalou vei ira kece era talairawarawa.” 11 Erau<br />
vakadeitaka o Repeka kei Aisake me kakua <strong>ni</strong><br />
yali mai na nodrau matavuvale na veiyalayalati<br />
kei na veivakalougatataki <strong>ni</strong> matabete. 12 A rawa<br />
vua e dua na yada ena koro ko Sarifaci me<br />
qarava tiko na luvena tagane ena vuku <strong>ni</strong> nona<br />
vakabauta me talairawarawa vua na parofita<br />
o Ilaija. 13 Era vala vakaukauwa e ruanaudolu
kaono na sotia me ra taqomaka na nodra mata-<br />
vuvale, ena nodra vakabauta na nodra yalayala<br />
na tinadra <strong>ni</strong> na “vakabulai ira dina ko Koya.” 14<br />
Ni se cauravou ko Jisu Karisito “sa sinai ena<br />
vuku, a sa tu vei koya na loloma <strong>ni</strong> Kalou,” sa<br />
susugi cake ena loloma kei na kauwai <strong>ni</strong> Tinana,<br />
o Meri, kei na watina o Josefa. 15<br />
A tubucake na nodra kila ka na lewe<strong>ni</strong>lotu<br />
taumada me baleta na bibi <strong>ni</strong> matavuvale <strong>ni</strong><br />
sa vakalesui mai na kosipeli. 16 Era vulica na<br />
Yalododonu <strong>ni</strong>, ena kaukauwa <strong>ni</strong> matabete, era<br />
na ciqoma kina na veicakacaka vakalotu <strong>ni</strong><br />
valetabu kei na veiyalayalati ka na vauca vata<br />
na nodra veimatavuvale me tawamudu. <strong>Na</strong><br />
yalayala oqori e vaqaqacotaki ira na Yalododonu<br />
Edaidai ena kena qaravi na nodra itavi vakalu-<br />
vena tagane ka luvena yalewa na Kalou.<br />
Era dau veivakayaloqaqataki o ira na vei-<br />
liutaki taumada <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> vei<br />
ira na marama me ra vakayacora me itakele <strong>ni</strong><br />
nodra bula na matavuvale. A sega <strong>ni</strong> dua na<br />
luvei Sisita Eliza R. Snow, na ikarua <strong>ni</strong> peresi-<br />
tedi raraba <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>. Ia, a kila<br />
na bibi <strong>ni</strong> nona veivakauqeti e dua na tina. A<br />
vakasalataki ira kina na marama ena <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong><br />
<strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>, “Me imatai <strong>ni</strong> cakacaka mo qarava<br />
mada sai koya na nomu itavi mai vale.” 17 E<br />
vakavulici ira na marama o Sisita Zina D. H.<br />
Young, na ikatolu <strong>ni</strong> peresitedi raraba <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong><br />
<strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> me ra “cakava me dau dreta<br />
na mata <strong>ni</strong> tamata na vuvale, me dau tiko kina<br />
O Repeka, eke vata kei na tamata nei Eparaama, e kila<br />
na bibi <strong>ni</strong> vakamau ena loma <strong>ni</strong> veiyalayalati (raica na<br />
iVakatekivu 24:1–28).<br />
na yalo <strong>ni</strong> loloma, sautu, kei na duavata, ka me<br />
dau tikotiko ga kina na loloma cecere ka sega<br />
<strong>ni</strong> dau vakasamataka e dua na ka ca.” 18<br />
A vakotora o Mary Fielding Smith e dua na<br />
ivakaraitaki <strong>ni</strong> dua na tina qaqa ka dauloloma. A<br />
nanuma lesu kina na luvena tagane o Joseph F.<br />
Smith, ka a yaco me ikaono <strong>ni</strong> Peresitedi <strong>ni</strong> Lotu:<br />
“Au rawa <strong>ni</strong> nanuma lesu na tinaqu ena veigauna<br />
mai <strong>Na</strong>uvoo. Au nanuma lesu na noqu raici<br />
koya kei ira na luvena ena nodra vodo ya<strong>ni</strong> ki na<br />
dua na boto rabaraba kei na veika e rawa <strong>ni</strong> kauta<br />
ya<strong>ni</strong> mai nodratou vale <strong>ni</strong> sa tekivu me bololaki<br />
na siti o <strong>Na</strong>uvoo mai vei ira na dauvakacaca.<br />
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170<br />
Au nanuma na veika dredre a sotava na Lotu<br />
mai kea ka vakakina ena gau<strong>ni</strong>sala ki Winter<br />
Quarters, ena uciwai na Missouri, kei na nona<br />
dau masulaki koya kei na nona matavuvale ena<br />
ilakolako oca oya. . . . Au rawa <strong>ni</strong> nanuma na<br />
ka <strong>ni</strong> veivakatovolei keitou sotava ena neimami<br />
tovolea me keimami lako vata ya<strong>ni</strong> na Keba kei<br />
Isireli, neimami yaco mai ki na bucabuca oqo<br />
<strong>ni</strong> veiulu<strong>ni</strong>vanua ka sega tu na manumanu e<br />
veirauti me dreta na neimami qiqi; ka sega vei<br />
keimami na iyau me voli kina na manumanu e<br />
veiga<strong>ni</strong>ti, e vauci ira vata na nona bulumakua kei<br />
na luve<strong>ni</strong> bulumakau, ka vesuka vata e rua na<br />
qiqi, ka tekivu me keitou lako mai ki Utah ena<br />
ituvaki ca ka vakaloloma oya, qai kaya kina na<br />
tinaqu — ‘Ena dolava na Turaga na sala;’ ia na<br />
ivakarau ena dolava kina o Koya na sala e sega<br />
<strong>ni</strong> dua e kila, au se gonetagane lailai kina ena<br />
gauna oya, kau draivataki ira na manumanu ka<br />
qarava na noqu itavi <strong>ni</strong> cakacaka. Au nanuma<br />
na noqu donumaka ya<strong>ni</strong> na nona masu vu<strong>ni</strong><br />
vua na Kalou me rawa <strong>ni</strong> qarava kina vakavi-<br />
naka na nona itavi. O sega beka <strong>ni</strong> nanuma <strong>ni</strong><br />
veika oqori ena vakaimawe tu ena vakasama? O<br />
nanuma beka <strong>ni</strong> rawa <strong>ni</strong>u guilecava na ivaka-<br />
raitaki nei tinaqu? Sega; na nona vakabauta kei<br />
na nona ivakaraitaki ena serau tiko ga ena noqu<br />
vakanananu. <strong>Na</strong> cava beka na noqu nanuma!<br />
<strong>Na</strong> icegu kece au ceguva, na nanuma kece <strong>ni</strong><br />
lomaqu e talave cake vua na Kalou ena vakavi-<br />
navinaka Vua <strong>ni</strong> dua na Yalododonu na tinaqu,<br />
<strong>ni</strong> a dua o koya na marama <strong>ni</strong> Kalou, savasava<br />
Bon<strong>ni</strong>e D. Parkin<br />
iKati<strong>ni</strong>kava <strong>ni</strong> Peresitedi Raraba <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong><br />
“Kevaka e rawa <strong>ni</strong>u cakava e dua na ka kivei ira na itubutubu<br />
kei na veiliutaki <strong>ni</strong> Lotu oqo, sai koya me ra vakila na loloma<br />
<strong>ni</strong> Turaga ena nodra bula ena veisiga yadua ena nodra<br />
qaravi ira tiko na Luvena na Tamada Vakalomalagi. . . . Au<br />
sureti kemu<strong>ni</strong> ena veika kece o <strong>ni</strong> cakava, mo <strong>ni</strong> daramaka<br />
na waqawaqa <strong>ni</strong> loloma cecere, mo <strong>ni</strong> kovuta na nomu<strong>ni</strong><br />
matavuvale ena loloma savasava i Karisito.”<br />
Ensign, June 2006, 93, 97
ka yalodina, e vinaka cake vua na mate mai na<br />
nona vakawalena na veivakabauti sa nuitaki vua;<br />
<strong>ni</strong> vinaka cake vua me sotava na bula dravudravua<br />
kei na yaluma ena lekutu ena nona tauri<br />
iratou vata toka na nona matavuvale mai na<br />
nona tu ga mai Papilo<strong>ni</strong>. Oqori na yalo a dau<br />
curumi koya kei iratou na luvena.” 19<br />
iColacola Vakayago kei<br />
na iTavi Tawamudu<br />
Me sala vata kei na ivakavuvuli tawayala<strong>ni</strong><br />
me baleta na ituvaki tabu <strong>ni</strong> vuvale kei na<br />
matavuvale, ena veivuke na veikuoramu <strong>ni</strong><br />
Matabete i Melikiseteki vei ira na tagane me<br />
ra qarava vakavinaka na nodra itavi vakagonetagane,<br />
tacidra, tagane vakawati, ka tama. Ena<br />
veivuke na <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> vei ira na<br />
yalewa me ra qarava vakavinaka na nodra itavi<br />
vakagoneyalewa, tacidra, yalewa vakawati, ka<br />
tina. Era dau veitoko<strong>ni</strong> vakataki ira na marama<br />
ena nodra sasaga me vaqaqacotaki na matavuvale,<br />
vulici na maqosa eso me na vakavinakataki<br />
kina na nodra vuvale, me vanua e rawa <strong>ni</strong><br />
tiko kina na Yalotabu na nodra veivale.<br />
Susugi <strong>ni</strong> Veimatavuvale<br />
O Sisita Zina D. H. Young e dua na tina dauloloma<br />
ka dauveisusu, e vakavulica vei ira na<br />
marama ena <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> na ivakavuvuli<br />
eso ka dau dusimaka na nona sasaga mai<br />
vale. A vakasalataka kina: “Kevaka e tiko eke e<br />
dua na tina ka sega <strong>ni</strong> dau veivakavulici ka veidusimaki<br />
vakadodonu vei ira na luvena, . . . au<br />
vakatakekere vei kemu<strong>ni</strong> mo <strong>ni</strong> kitaka vakakina.<br />
Kacivi ira wavoki na luvemu . . . ka masu vata<br />
kei ira. . . . Vakasalataki ira na gone me ra qarauna<br />
na veika ca e tu vakavolivoliti ira . . . me ra<br />
kakua kina <strong>ni</strong> yaco me ra rawai mai na veika ca<br />
oqori, ia me ra tubu cake ena savasava ena mata<br />
<strong>ni</strong> Turaga.” 20 E vakavuvulitaka talega o koya: “Ni<br />
gumatuataka na itavi kecega <strong>ni</strong> bula, me vaka <strong>ni</strong><br />
o tina ka radi<strong>ni</strong>vale. . . . Me da qarauna me da<br />
vosa vakayalomatua e matadra na luveda, kakua<br />
<strong>Na</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> e vukei ira na tina ena nodra<br />
itavi tabu.<br />
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E rawa vei ira na tina kei ira na bui<strong>ni</strong>gone me ra vukei ira na luvedra yalewa kei na makubudra yalewa me ra dauveisusu.<br />
<strong>ni</strong> dau vaqara na cala, . . . ka vakabulabulataka<br />
na veitovo <strong>ni</strong> bula cecere cake ena noda bula,<br />
oqori ena laveta cake, tauvulona ka vakasava-<br />
savataka na yalo. . . . E dodonu me da vosota na<br />
kena dredre cava ga me da vakavuvulitaka vei<br />
ira na gone e Saio<strong>ni</strong> me ra dau dina, ivalavala<br />
dodonu, buladodonu ka yaco ena kena gauna ki<br />
na noda itavi; vakatalega kina me da dau gugumatua<br />
ka vakatabuya na Siga <strong>ni</strong> Vakacecegu. . . .<br />
Me kakua <strong>ni</strong> cavuta o <strong>Na</strong> e dua na mala<strong>ni</strong>vosa<br />
me vakacaca<strong>ni</strong> kina o Ta e matadra na gone, <strong>ni</strong><br />
ra dau vakadidike vakamalua o ira. Kaburaka na<br />
sore<strong>ni</strong>kau vinaka ena nodra vakasama gone ka<br />
savasava, ka dau vakayagataka vakalevu cake<br />
na ivakavuvuli mai na lawa, oqori eda na bi<strong>ni</strong>a<br />
cake kina vei keda na iyau mai lomalagi.” 21<br />
Ni veiqaravi vakaikava <strong>ni</strong> peresitedi raraba<br />
<strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> o Sisita Bathsheba W.<br />
Smith, a raica o koya na gagadre me vaqaqacotaki<br />
na veimatavuvale, sa ma<strong>ni</strong> tauyavutaka<br />
kina na nodra leso<strong>ni</strong> <strong>ni</strong> vuli na tina me baleti<br />
ira na marama ena <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>. E<br />
oka ena leso<strong>ni</strong> na ivakasala <strong>ni</strong> vakamau, na<br />
veiqaravi <strong>ni</strong> bera na vakasucu, kei na susu gone.<br />
<strong>Na</strong> veileso<strong>ni</strong> oqo e tokona na ivakavuvuli nei<br />
Peresitedi Joseph F. Smith me baleta na nodra
vukei mai na <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> na marama me<br />
baleta na nodra itavi e vale:<br />
“Ni basika na lecaika se <strong>ni</strong> sega na kila ka me baleta na<br />
matavuvale, itavi <strong>ni</strong> matavuvale, me baleta na icolacola<br />
e dodonu me tiko kei na kena e tu ena kedra maliwa na<br />
veiwati<strong>ni</strong> kei na kedra maliwa na itubutubu kei ira na<br />
gone, e keri sa tu se tu voleka kina na isoqosoqo oqo, ia<br />
mai na isolisoli kei na veivakauqeti ka nona na isoqosoqo<br />
oqori era sa vakarau tu kina me ra veivakaroti ena idusidusi<br />
ki na veitavi bibi oqo. Kevaka e dua na tina gone, ka<br />
se bera <strong>ni</strong> tu vua na kila ka e dodonu me tu vua me rawa<br />
<strong>ni</strong> susugi ira ka qaravi ira kina na luvena, se me vakarairai<br />
vinakataka me taleitaki kina na nona vale ki vua vakakina<br />
vua na watina, sa tu na isoqosoqo oqo, ena so na tikina,<br />
me solia na idusidusi vua na tina gone oqori, ka vukei<br />
koya me cakava na nona itavi ka cakava vakavinaka. Kei<br />
na veivanua kece e sega kina na kila me baleta na nodra<br />
qaravi na gone ena kakana tei, bulabula ka veiga<strong>ni</strong>ti, se<br />
<strong>ni</strong> gadrevi me soli na veidusimaki vakayalo kei na kakana<br />
vakayalo vei ira na gone, sa tu ena isoqosoqo cecere na<br />
<strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Marama</strong> <strong>ni</strong> Lotu i Jisu Karisito<br />
<strong>ni</strong> Yalododonu Edaidai kei na isoqosoqo <strong>ni</strong> tina kei na<br />
luvedra yalewa mai Saio<strong>ni</strong>, o ira era sa vakaiyaragi tu me<br />
ra solia na veidusimaki oqori.” 22<br />
<strong>Na</strong> kena rawati na veisusu e sega <strong>ni</strong> nodra ga na marama<br />
era vakaluve<strong>ni</strong>. E dikeva kina o Sisita Sheri L. Dew:<br />
“Ena vuku <strong>ni</strong> so na inaki e kila ga na Turaga, sa gadrevi<br />
kina vei ira eso na marama me ra waraka na gauna me ra<br />
qai vakaluve<strong>ni</strong> kina. <strong>Na</strong> wawa oqori e sega <strong>ni</strong> dau rawarawa<br />
vei ira na marama buladodonu. Ia na nona gauna<br />
na Turaga me baleti keda yadua ena sega <strong>ni</strong> kauta laivi na<br />
“Ena veigauna . . . e dau<br />
veirawai ka kaukauwa<br />
duadua kina vei au na<br />
veitemaki, na imatai <strong>ni</strong><br />
vakasama e dau votu<br />
mai yaloqu oqo:<br />
<strong>Na</strong>numa na loloma i<br />
tinamu. <strong>Na</strong>numa na<br />
nona a sasagataka<br />
vakaukauwa na nomu<br />
tiko vinaka. <strong>Na</strong>numa na<br />
nona a lomasoli me solia<br />
na nona bula mo vinaka<br />
kina. <strong>Na</strong>numa na veika<br />
a vakavulica vei iko ena<br />
nomu gauna <strong>ni</strong> gone.<br />
. . . Sa yaco kina me<br />
veitaqomaki na noqu<br />
nanuma oqo me baleta<br />
na tinaqu, e dua na ilati<br />
vei au kei na veitemaki.”<br />
Joseph F. Smith<br />
Nodra iVakavuvuli na<br />
Peresitedi <strong>ni</strong> Lotu: Joseph F.<br />
Smith (1998), 35.<br />
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174<br />
Sa tu na nodra itavi tabu na tina kei na tama me ra<br />
vakavulici ira ka susugi ira cake na luvedra.<br />
noda gagadre <strong>ni</strong> veisusu kei na loloma. Eso vei<br />
keda, sa dodonu me ra segata eso na sala me ra<br />
tina kina. Ka tu wavoliti keda o ira era gadreva<br />
tu me ra loma<strong>ni</strong> ka liutaki.” 23<br />
Sa nodra madigi na marama ena Lotu na<br />
veisusu na gauna era ciqoma kina na veikacivi<br />
me ra veiliutaki ka veivakavulici ka vakakina na<br />
gauna era veiqaravi kina vakadausiko vuvale.<br />
Eso na marama era solia na loloma vakatina<br />
kei na veivakauqeti vei ira na gone era a sega<br />
<strong>ni</strong> vakasucuma mai. Era sa dau tu kina ena lai<strong>ni</strong><br />
e liu <strong>ni</strong> veisasaga vakaoqo na marama sega <strong>ni</strong><br />
vakawati, ka vakalougatataka na nodra bula<br />
na gone era gadreva tu na nodra veivakauqeti<br />
na marama buladodonu. Ena so na gauna na<br />
veisusu oqori sa dau ia tu me vica vata na siga,<br />
macawa, ka vakayabaki. Mai na veiqaravi sega<br />
<strong>ni</strong> nanumi koya kei na vakabauta yadua, era sa<br />
dau veivueti kina na marama vei ira e vuqa na<br />
gone mai na veika rerevaki <strong>ni</strong> lomada, <strong>ni</strong> yaloda,<br />
ka vakakina <strong>ni</strong> yagoda.<br />
Caka na Vuvale me iTakele <strong>ni</strong> Bulaqaqaco<br />
Me tekivu mai na veisiga taumada <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong><br />
<strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> e <strong>Na</strong>uvoo mai Illinois, era<br />
soqo<strong>ni</strong> ya<strong>ni</strong> na marama me ra vulica na nodra<br />
itavi <strong>ni</strong> yalololoma kei na itavi e veisiga. Era<br />
vakatovotovotaka na maqosa eso me vukei ira<br />
ena nodra vakalevutaka na vakabauta kei na<br />
buladodonu <strong>ni</strong> tamata yadua, vaqaqacotaka na<br />
nodra matavuvale ka cakava na nodra vuvale<br />
me itakele <strong>ni</strong> bula qaqaco vakayalo, ka vukei<br />
ira era vakaleqai tu. Era vakayagataka na ivakavuvuli<br />
<strong>ni</strong> bula ma<strong>ni</strong><strong>ni</strong> kei na bula rawati koya<br />
vakayalo ka vakayago talega. Era sa tubucake<br />
talega ena bula vakaveitaci<strong>ni</strong> marama kei na<br />
duavata ena nodra sa veivakavulici vakataki<br />
ira ka veiqaravi vata. <strong>Na</strong> veituberi oqo era sa<br />
vakalougatataki kina na marama ena veituvaki<br />
kece sara <strong>ni</strong> bula. E tukuna o Sisita Bon<strong>ni</strong>e D.<br />
Parkin na ivakarau a vaqaqacotaki koya kina na<br />
veisoqo<strong>ni</strong> oqo:<br />
“Ni da lewe <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> ena Lotu<br />
i Jisu Karisito <strong>ni</strong> Yalododonu Edaidai, sa noda veivakalougatataki<br />
ka noda itavi me da susuga ka<br />
tokona na matavuvale. <strong>Na</strong> tamata kece e lewe <strong>ni</strong>
dua na matavuvale, ia na veimatavuvale yadua<br />
ena gadrevi me vaqaqacotaki ka taqomaki.<br />
“<strong>Na</strong> veivuke cecere duadua e soli vei au ena<br />
noqu yaco me dua na dauqaravi vuvale a yaco<br />
taumada mai vei tinaqu kei buqu qai tarava mai<br />
vei ira na marama ena <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong><br />
ena veitabanalevu duidui keitou a vakaitikotiko<br />
kina. Au vulica na maqosa eso; Au raica<br />
<strong>ni</strong> vakatakarakarataki na reki e yaco mai ena<br />
kena tarai e dua na vuvale era na gadreva eso<br />
tale me ra tiko kina. . . . Kemu<strong>ni</strong> na veiliutaki<br />
<strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>, raica me na vaqaqacotaka<br />
na nodra matavuvale kece na nomu<strong>ni</strong><br />
marama na itaviqaravi o <strong>ni</strong> tuva.” 24<br />
E vakananuma vei ira na marama o Sisita<br />
Barbara W. Winder, na ikati<strong>ni</strong>kadua <strong>ni</strong> peresitedi<br />
raraba <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> me baleta na<br />
veivakalougatataki vakayalo ena yaco mai ena<br />
nodra maroroya na savasava kei na ivakarau ena<br />
nodra veivale: “E tiko e dua na taledi <strong>ni</strong> dauqaravi<br />
vale. Me baleti keda kei na noda matavuvale,<br />
sa ka bibi me tiko e dua na noda ivakaruru—me<br />
dua na ivakaruru mai vuravura na vanua me da<br />
logavinaka kina ka vanua, kevaka era na lako<br />
mai kina eso tale, era na logavinaka talega.” 25<br />
O ira na marama ena <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong><br />
era sa ivakaraitaki tiko ki vei ira vakataki ira<br />
vakatamata yadua ka vakakina vakaisoqosoqo,<br />
ena sasaga <strong>ni</strong> kena vaqaqacotaki na itikotiko<br />
kei na matavuvale. E wasea o Sisita Belle S.<br />
Spafford, na ikaciwa <strong>ni</strong> peresitedi raraba <strong>ni</strong><br />
<strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> na nona ivakadinadina<br />
me baleta na itekitekivu vakalou <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong><br />
<strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> kei na kena itavi ena nodra vukei na<br />
marama me ra qarava vakavinaka na nodra itavi<br />
vakayalewa vakawati ka tina. “Au vakabauta <strong>ni</strong><br />
dua na kena veivakauqeti vinaka e vale,” e kaya<br />
o koya. “Kevaka e dua e vinaka na tinana sa na<br />
vinaka talega na nona itikotiko, ia kevaka e dua<br />
na tinana vinaka ena <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>, sa<br />
na vakadeitaki vua na yalomatua kei na veivakauqeti<br />
vinaka ena loma <strong>ni</strong> nona vale.” 26<br />
<strong>Na</strong> marama kece era wasea na itavi <strong>ni</strong> veisusu,<br />
se itavi “vakatina.” E vakavuvulitaka o Elder<br />
M. Russell Ballard ena Kuoramu <strong>ni</strong> iApositolo<br />
Le Ti<strong>ni</strong>karua: “Kemu<strong>ni</strong> na marama, o keimami,<br />
na ganemu<strong>ni</strong>, keimami sega <strong>ni</strong> rawa <strong>ni</strong> cakava<br />
na nomu<strong>ni</strong> ilesilesi vakalou mo <strong>ni</strong> mai cakava <strong>ni</strong><br />
se bera <strong>ni</strong> tauyavu na vuravura. E rawa beka <strong>ni</strong><br />
keimami tovolea, ia keimami na sega <strong>ni</strong> rawa <strong>ni</strong><br />
namaka me keimami sosomitaka na isolisoli e<br />
nomu<strong>ni</strong> duadua ga. E sega tale <strong>ni</strong> dua na ka ena<br />
vuravura oqo e ka vakatamata yadua, veivakamareqeti,<br />
se veisautaka na bula me vaka na<br />
nona veivakauqeti e dua na marama buladodonu.<br />
. . . O ira kece na marama e tu vei ira na<br />
taledi kei na dodonu me ra tina.” 27<br />
<strong>Na</strong> vosa bula vakatina e vakamacalataka na<br />
itavi tawamudu <strong>ni</strong> yalewa; e vakamacalataka na<br />
nodra bula vakadauveisusu. <strong>Na</strong> veisusu e dua<br />
na vosa vutu<strong>ni</strong>yau. <strong>Na</strong> kena ibalebale me veituberi,<br />
me veivakavulici, me veivakatorocaketaki,<br />
175
176<br />
me vakauqeta na tubu, me veivakamamautaki<br />
se veivaka<strong>ni</strong>. Sa soli vei ira na yalewa na galala<br />
cecere ka itavi oqo <strong>ni</strong> veisusu ena kena ibale-<br />
bale kece sara oqo, ka sa nona itavi na iSoqo-<br />
soqo <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> me vakavulici ira ka toko<strong>ni</strong> ira<br />
na yalewa ena nodra itavi ka ra tabaki mai kina<br />
vakalou bibi oqo vakatina ka dauveisusu. 28<br />
E vakavuvulitaka o Sisita Julie B. Beck me<br />
baleta na itavi vakadau<strong>ni</strong>veisusu: “Mo susuga e<br />
kena ibalebale mo vakabulabulataka, qarauna,<br />
ka vakatubura. O koya, sa dodonu kina vei ira<br />
na tina me ra tara cake e dua na draki <strong>ni</strong> tubu<br />
vakayalo kei na tubu vakayago ena nodra veivale.<br />
E dua tale na vosa <strong>ni</strong> veisusu sai koya na qaravi<br />
vale. <strong>Na</strong> qaravi vale e oka kina na vakasaqa,<br />
sava isulu kei na iyaya <strong>ni</strong> kana, ka maroroya na<br />
ivakarau <strong>ni</strong> vale. <strong>Na</strong> vuvale sai koya na vanua<br />
e levu duadua kina na nodra kaukauwa kei na<br />
veivakauqeti na yalewa; o koya sa dodonu kina<br />
me ra dauqaravi vale uasivi duadua e vuravura na<br />
marama Yalododonu Edaidai. <strong>Na</strong> noda cakacaka<br />
tikivi ira na gone ena qaravi vale ena tarai kina na<br />
madigi eso me vakavuvulitaki ka vakaraitaki kina<br />
na itovo vinaka eso e dodonu me ra vakamuria<br />
Julie B. Beck<br />
iKati<strong>ni</strong>kalima <strong>ni</strong> Peresitedi Raraba <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong><br />
“<strong>Na</strong> noda rawata me da vakaivotavota kina, ciqoma, ka<br />
cakacakataka na ivakatakila yadua sai koya na maqosa<br />
cecekia duadua e rawa <strong>ni</strong> da rawata ena bula oqo. . . . E<br />
gadrevi e dua na sasaga kaukauwa me tababokoci kina na<br />
veika dau veivagolei ta<strong>ni</strong>, ia <strong>ni</strong> tiko na yalo <strong>ni</strong> ivakatakila<br />
ena rawa kina <strong>ni</strong> da lakosivita na meca ka toso tikoga ena<br />
vakabauta ena veigauna dredre kei na itavi yaga <strong>ni</strong> veisiga.<br />
. . . Ni da sa cakava na noda vinaka duadua, eda se sotava<br />
tiko beka ga na rarawa, ia eda na sega <strong>ni</strong> rarawataki keda.<br />
Eda rawa <strong>ni</strong> vakadeitaka <strong>ni</strong> sa marau na Turaga ena gauna<br />
eda vakila kina <strong>ni</strong> sa cakacaka tiko vei keda na Yalotabu.”<br />
Ena Conference Report, Epe. 2010, 9; se Ensign, Me 2010, 11–12
na gone. Era kila ka vakalevu na tina dauveisusu,<br />
ia na vuli kece era rawata na yalewa ena sega na<br />
betena vei ira kevaka e sega vei ira na maqosa<br />
me ra qarava kina e dua na vale ka na tarai cake<br />
kina na draki <strong>ni</strong> tubu vakayalo. . . . <strong>Na</strong> veisusu e<br />
gadrevi kina na ituvatuva vakayalomatua, na vosota,<br />
na loloma, kei na cakacaka. <strong>Na</strong> noda vukea<br />
na tubu mai na veisusu sai koya na itavi qaqa ka<br />
veivakauqeti e soli vua e dua na marama.” 29<br />
Taqomaka na Matavuvale kei na Bula<br />
Vakatina<br />
Me ikuri <strong>ni</strong> kena vaqaqacotaki na vuvale mai<br />
loma, sa vakarautaka na <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong><br />
na veitaqomaki sega <strong>ni</strong> soreva me vorata na veika<br />
e dau bololaka na matavuvale mai taudaku.<br />
E kaya kina o Peresitedi Howard W. Hunter, na<br />
ikati<strong>ni</strong>kava <strong>ni</strong> Peresitedi <strong>ni</strong> Lotu:<br />
“E vaka vei au <strong>ni</strong> gadrevi vakalevu me ra<br />
vakauqeti na yalewa ena Lotu me ra tu vata ka<br />
tutaki ira na Veitaci<strong>ni</strong> iLiuliu ena kena vorati na<br />
ua <strong>ni</strong> ivalavala ca ka vakavolivoliti keda tu ka<br />
vakakina ena kena tosoi ki liu na cakacaka <strong>ni</strong><br />
noda iVakabula. . . .<br />
“. . . O koya keimami sa kerei kemu<strong>ni</strong> kina<br />
vagumatua mo <strong>ni</strong> veiqaravi ena nomu<strong>ni</strong> veivakauqeti<br />
kaukauwa <strong>ni</strong> vinaka ena kena vaqaqacotaki<br />
na matavuvale, na noda lotu, kei na noda<br />
veitikotiko.” 30<br />
Era sa dau vakadiloya na veiliutaki <strong>ni</strong><br />
<strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> na veisasaga eso me<br />
E rawa vei ira na marama gone ena <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong><br />
<strong>Veivukei</strong> me ra vulica na maqosa <strong>ni</strong> qaravi vuvale mai<br />
vei ira na marama qase cake.<br />
vakamalumalumutaki kina na matavuvale<br />
ka vakalolovirataka na itavi tabu <strong>ni</strong> yalewa<br />
vakawati ka tina. E vakabibitaka o Sisita Amy<br />
Brown Lyman, na ikawalu <strong>ni</strong> peresitedi raraba<br />
<strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> na kena gadrevi vei ira<br />
na tina me ra dau tiko vata kei ira na luvedra. A<br />
veiqaravi voli vakaperesitedi o koya ena iKarua<br />
<strong>ni</strong> iValu Levu, ena gauna era veivakayaloqaqataki<br />
tiko kina na veiliutaki vakamata<strong>ni</strong>tu<br />
kei na veikorokoro vei ira na yalewa me ra<br />
cakacaka ena taudaku <strong>ni</strong> nodra veivale me ra<br />
tokona kina na bula vakailavo <strong>ni</strong> nodra vanua<br />
<strong>ni</strong> ra lako tu ki vala na watidra. Eso na marama<br />
era na gadreva me ra cakacaka ena taudaku <strong>ni</strong><br />
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178<br />
nodra matavuvale me ra rawata na veika me<br />
bula kina na nodra matavuvale. E dina <strong>ni</strong> vaka-<br />
dinadinataka tu o Sisita Lyman na veika dredre<br />
oqori, a vakayaloqaqataki ira ga na yalewa me<br />
ra cakava na veika kece era rawata me ra tiko<br />
kina mai vale ka vakavulici ira na luvedra.<br />
<strong>Na</strong> itukutuku nei Sisita Lyman e tautauvata<br />
kei na nodratou ivakavuvuli na Mataveiliutaki<br />
Taumada, ka ratou vakananuma kina vei ira na<br />
lewe <strong>ni</strong> Lotu me baleta na “yalayala tabu” <strong>ni</strong><br />
bula vakatina. 31 Eratou tukuna kina o Peresitedi<br />
Heber J. Grant, na ikavitu <strong>ni</strong> Peresitedi <strong>ni</strong> Lotu,<br />
kei rau na nona dau<strong>ni</strong>vakasala, o Peresitedi<br />
J. Reuben Clark Jr. kei David O. McKay:<br />
“<strong>Na</strong> bula vakatina e voleka sara ki na bula<br />
vakalou. Sai koya na veiqaravi cecere ka savasava<br />
duadua e rawa <strong>ni</strong> cakava na tamata. E biuti<br />
koya e rokova na kena veikacivi kei na kena veiqaravi<br />
me taravi ira ya<strong>ni</strong> na agilosi. Vei kemu<strong>ni</strong><br />
na tina e Isireli keimami kaya me vakalougatataki<br />
kemu<strong>ni</strong> ka taqomaki kemu<strong>ni</strong> na Kalou, ka<br />
solia vei kemu<strong>ni</strong> na igu kei na yaloqaqa, na vakabauta<br />
kei na kila ka, na loloma savasava kei<br />
na yalodina ki na itavi, ka na rawa kina vei iko<br />
mo qarava ki na kena ivakatagedegede cecere<br />
duadua na veikacivi tabu e nomu. Vei kemu<strong>ni</strong><br />
na tina kei kemu<strong>ni</strong> o <strong>ni</strong> na tina ena dua na gauna<br />
mai muri keimami kaya: Ni bula savasava,<br />
vakasavasavataki iko tikoga, bula dodonu, me<br />
ra na kaya kina na nomu kawa ki na iotioti <strong>ni</strong><br />
tabatamata <strong>ni</strong> ko sa vakalougatataki.” 32<br />
Ena veitabagauna <strong>ni</strong> oti na iKarua <strong>ni</strong> iValu<br />
Levu, a tubu cake vakalevu sara na ca me<br />
baleta na matavuvale kei na vuvale. Ena gauna<br />
e vakatikori Sisita Barbara B. Smith kina o<br />
Peresitedi Spencer W. Kimball, na ikati<strong>ni</strong>karua<br />
<strong>ni</strong> Peresitedi <strong>ni</strong> Lotu me ikati<strong>ni</strong> <strong>ni</strong> peresitedi<br />
raraba <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>, a vakila o<br />
Sisita Smith “e dua na veivakauqeti matata me<br />
baleta na itavi . . . me taqomaki na vuvale kei<br />
na itutu <strong>ni</strong> yalewa ena iwiri<strong>ni</strong> tabu <strong>ni</strong> matavuvale.”<br />
33 Ena gauna taucoko <strong>ni</strong> nona veiliutaki,<br />
a taqomaka kina o koya na veidina vakatakilai<br />
mai me baleta na nodra itavi vakalou na yalewa<br />
kei na veivakalougatataki <strong>ni</strong> matavuvale tawamudu.<br />
Ni ra dikeva vagumatua na veika bibi<br />
<strong>ni</strong> bula vakatamata ena nodra gauna, eratou<br />
kunea kina kei rau na nona dau<strong>ni</strong>vakasala kei<br />
ira na veiliutaki <strong>ni</strong> matabete, <strong>ni</strong> veivakasama<br />
era kauta mai e lewevuqa ena sega <strong>ni</strong> taqomaki<br />
kina na nodra galala na marama ena nodra<br />
itavi vakayalewa vakawati kei na tina ka na<br />
vakamalumalumutaka na veimatavuvale.<br />
A umana e dua na dauvolaitukutuku <strong>ni</strong><br />
<strong>ni</strong>usipepa na itukutuku tokaruataki nei Sisita<br />
Smith: “‘Vakamatara na ulumu<strong>ni</strong>, kemu<strong>ni</strong> na<br />
yalewa vakawati, kemu<strong>ni</strong> na tina, kemu<strong>ni</strong> na<br />
dauqaravi vale. O <strong>ni</strong> vakasucuma mai na bula<br />
ka vakavutu<strong>ni</strong>yautaka. Kakua <strong>ni</strong> volitaka na<br />
kaukauwa rabailevu oqori ki na veiukuuku sega<br />
<strong>ni</strong> tudei ka tawayaga. Vakamareqeta, vakalevulevuya,<br />
ka vakacerecerea. O <strong>ni</strong> tu ena dua na
“<strong>Na</strong> nodrau vakamau na tagane kei na yalewa e lewa va-Kalou”<br />
(Mataveiliutaki Taumada kei na Kuoramu <strong>ni</strong> iApositolo Le Ti<strong>ni</strong>karua).<br />
itutu qaqa.’ Oqori na nona itukutuku na nodra iliuliu na<br />
marama <strong>ni</strong> Moma<strong>ni</strong>, o Barbara B. Smith.” 34<br />
Sa tubu cake na kena bololaki na savasava <strong>ni</strong> bula va-<br />
katina kei na matavuvale me tekivu mai na gauna <strong>ni</strong> ma-<br />
taveiliutaki nei Sisita Smith. Ia ena nodra vakabauta na<br />
Kalou kei na nodra kila na kena bibi tawamudu na nodra<br />
itavi, era dau tomana tiko na marama ena <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong><br />
<strong>Veivukei</strong> ena veitabayabaki na nodra tutaka ka taqomaka<br />
na dina e dau vaqaqacotaka na vuvale kei na matavuvale.<br />
Era taqomaka na savasava <strong>ni</strong> matavuvale ena vuqa na<br />
“Kemu<strong>ni</strong> na Tina e<br />
Saio<strong>ni</strong>, na nomu<strong>ni</strong> itavi<br />
e solia mai na Kalou<br />
sa bibi vakalevu sara<br />
ki na nomu<strong>ni</strong> bula<br />
vakacerecerei kei na<br />
nodra vakabulai kei na<br />
bula vakacerecerei na<br />
nomu matavuvale. E<br />
vinakata vakalevu cake<br />
e dua na gone na tinana<br />
mai na veika kecega e<br />
rawa <strong>ni</strong> voli ena ilavo.<br />
<strong>Na</strong> nomu solia na nomu<br />
gauna mo tiko kina kei<br />
ira na luvemu sai koya<br />
na isolisoli cecere<br />
duadua.”<br />
Ezra Taft Benson<br />
The Teachings of Ezra Taft<br />
Benson (1988), 515<br />
179
180<br />
itavi: <strong>ni</strong> ra tina ka bui<strong>ni</strong>gone, goneyalewa ka<br />
tacidra, <strong>ni</strong> ra nei, <strong>ni</strong> ra qase<strong>ni</strong>vuli ka veiliutaki<br />
ena Lotu. Ena gauna e vaqaqacotaka kina na<br />
nona vakabauta e dua na gone e dua na yalewa,<br />
sa cau tiko ki na qaqaco <strong>ni</strong> dua na matavuvale—<br />
ena gauna oqo kei na gauna mai muri.<br />
Parofita <strong>ni</strong> Gauna Oqo<br />
iVakavuvuli me Baleta<br />
na Matavuvale<br />
Erau taroga e dua na tama kei na tina vei ira<br />
na luvedrau na veika era taleitaka me baleta<br />
e dua na ko<strong>ni</strong>feredi raraba se qai oti. Qai<br />
kaya na luvedrau goneyalewa yabaki 16: “Au<br />
taleitaka dina! Au taleitaka <strong>ni</strong> rogoca na nodra<br />
E rawa vei ira na marama buladodonu me ra cakava na<br />
nodra itikotiko me ivakaruru e rawa <strong>ni</strong> tiko kina na Yalotabu.<br />
vakadeitaka na parofita kei na iliuliu vakauqeti<br />
ka kila ka na bula vakatina.” E lomana mai<br />
loma sara, e dau vinakata tu ga na goneyalewa<br />
oqo me tina, ia e dau leqataka tiko <strong>ni</strong> bula<br />
vakatina e sega <strong>ni</strong> dau taleitaki ka dau vosa<br />
vakacaca<strong>ni</strong> mai vei ira e vuqa na tamata e vuravura.<br />
E logavinaka ena nona rogoca na nodra<br />
veivakadeitaki na parofita kei na iApositolo ena<br />
vinaka <strong>ni</strong> ka e dau taleitaka. 35 Sa dau duavata tu<br />
ga e veigauna na nodra ivakavuvuli na parofita<br />
<strong>ni</strong> gauna oqo kei na cakacaka <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong><br />
<strong>Veivukei</strong> <strong>ni</strong> kena vaqaqacotaki na matavuvale.<br />
E dau vakavuvulitaka wasoma o Peresitedi<br />
David O. McKay, na ikaciwa <strong>ni</strong> Peresitedi <strong>ni</strong><br />
Lotu “<strong>ni</strong> sega <strong>ni</strong> dua na rawa ka ena vakaisosomitaka<br />
rawa na druka e vale.” 36<br />
E veivakasalataki talega vakakina o Peresitedi<br />
Harold B. Lee, na ikati<strong>ni</strong>kadua <strong>ni</strong> Peresitedi <strong>ni</strong><br />
Lotu, “<strong>Na</strong> cakacaka bibi duadua <strong>ni</strong> Turaga e rawa<br />
<strong>ni</strong> o cakava ena caka ena loma <strong>ni</strong> nomu vale.” 37<br />
Ni leqataka na kena sa toso tikoga na bololaki<br />
<strong>ni</strong> matavuvale, A parofisai ka veivakasalataki<br />
kina vaqo o Peresitedi Spencer W. Kimball:<br />
“E vuqa na vakatatabu <strong>ni</strong> bula vakatamata ka<br />
dau veivuke ena gauna e liu me vakaukauwataka<br />
ka tokona na matavuvale era sa waicala<br />
ka seyavu tiko ya<strong>ni</strong>. Ena yaco mai na gauna me<br />
na rawa walega vei ira e bulabula ka titobu na<br />
nodra vakabauta na matavuvale me ra maroroya<br />
na nodra matavuvale ena maliwa <strong>ni</strong> ca sa<br />
wavoliti keda tu.
O ira na marama buladodonu era na tubera cake na<br />
luvedra ena rarama <strong>ni</strong> kosipeli.<br />
“. . . Era tu o ira era na vakamacalataka vaka-<br />
sabalia na matavuvale ka ra na tukuna <strong>ni</strong> sega<br />
<strong>ni</strong> dua na ka. . . .<br />
“Oi keda mai vei ira kece na tamata . . . me da<br />
kakua <strong>ni</strong> coriti ena vakasama <strong>ni</strong> matavuvale sa<br />
dua na yavu e semati ki na dua na igacagaca <strong>ni</strong><br />
veivakatorocaketaki <strong>ni</strong> isoqosoqo vakatamata<br />
ka sa vakayacori tiko. Sa tu na galala me da<br />
vorata na veivakasama oqori ka vakacala tiko<br />
na inaki <strong>ni</strong> matavuvale ka vakamatatataka na<br />
ivakaraitaki <strong>ni</strong> dui caka nona ga. Eda sa kila <strong>ni</strong><br />
sa ka tawamudu na matavuvale. Eda kila talega<br />
<strong>ni</strong> cala e dua na ka ena matavuvale, ena laki ca<br />
na veigacagaca <strong>ni</strong> bula raraba <strong>ni</strong> tamata.” 38<br />
Era sa dau wasea na parofita <strong>ni</strong> gauna oqo na<br />
vosa <strong>ni</strong> vakanuinui me baleti ira na itubutubu<br />
ka ra sa lako ta<strong>ni</strong> mai na sala <strong>ni</strong> kosipeli na luvedra<br />
ka sala vata kei na ivakasala <strong>ni</strong> qaqarau<strong>ni</strong><br />
tonotonomata oqo. E kaya o Peresitedi James E.<br />
Faust: “Vei kemu<strong>ni</strong> na itubutubu yalorarawa<br />
oqo o <strong>ni</strong> buladodonu, gugumatua, ka daumasu<br />
ena nomu<strong>ni</strong> vakavulici ira na luvemu<strong>ni</strong> talaidredre,<br />
keimami kaya vei kemu<strong>ni</strong>, sa vakatawai<br />
ira tiko na iVakatawa Vinaka. E kila tu na Kalou<br />
na nomu<strong>ni</strong> yaluma. E tu na inuinui.” 39<br />
E vakaraitaka o Peresitedi Gordon B. Hinckley<br />
na nona nuidei <strong>ni</strong> na rawa vei ira na marama<br />
Yalododonu Edaidai, <strong>ni</strong> ra vaqaqacotaki<br />
tu mai na nodra veitoka<strong>ni</strong> ena <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong><br />
<strong>Veivukei</strong>, me ra vukea na nodra matavuvale me<br />
vorata na kena bololaki na vuvale. E vakabibitaka<br />
<strong>ni</strong> rawa vei ira na marama ena <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong><br />
<strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> me ra duavata ena kena taqomaki<br />
na matavuvale:<br />
“Sa rui ka bibi cecere me ra tudei ka kaukauwa<br />
tiko ka sega <strong>ni</strong> yavalati rawa o ira na<br />
yalewa ena loma <strong>ni</strong> Lotu me baleta na veika<br />
sa dodonu ka dina ena ituvatuva <strong>ni</strong> Turaga. Au<br />
vakabauta dei <strong>ni</strong> sega tale <strong>ni</strong> dua na isoqosoqo<br />
ena dua na vanua me tautauvata kei na <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong><br />
<strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> <strong>ni</strong> Lotu oqo. . . . Kevaka era na<br />
duavata ka vosa ena dua na domo, ena sega <strong>ni</strong><br />
vakasamataki rawa na nodra igu.<br />
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“Keimami sa kacivi kemu<strong>ni</strong> na yalewa ena<br />
loma <strong>ni</strong> Lotu mo <strong>ni</strong> tutaka vata na buladodonu.<br />
E dodonu me ra na tekivu sara ga mai na loma<br />
<strong>ni</strong> nodra vuvale. Sa rawa me ra vakavulica ena<br />
loma <strong>ni</strong> nodra kalasi. Sa rawa me ra kaburaka<br />
ya<strong>ni</strong> ki na nodra itikotiko raraba.”<br />
“Me ra nodra qase<strong>ni</strong>vuli ka nodra ivakatawa<br />
na luvedra yalewa. Me ra vakavulici na gone-<br />
yalewa oqori ena Lalai kei na veikalasi <strong>ni</strong> Go-<br />
neyalewa me baleta na veika talei <strong>ni</strong> Lotu i Jisu<br />
Karisito <strong>ni</strong> Yalododonu Edaidai. Ni o vakabula e<br />
dua na goneyalewa, o sa vakabula tiko na veita-<br />
batamata. Ena tubu cake ko koya ena igu kei na<br />
buladodonu. Ena vakamau o koya ena vale <strong>ni</strong><br />
Turaga. Ena vakavulici ira na luvena ena sala <strong>ni</strong><br />
dina. Era na lako ena nona sala ka na vakavulici<br />
ira vakakina na luvedra. Era na tu na bui<strong>ni</strong>gone<br />
vakasakiti me ra veivakayaloqaqataki.” 40<br />
“iRairai kei Lomalagi”<br />
A tarogi Peresitedi Spencer W. Kimball e<br />
dua na tagane, “O sa bau lesu mai lomalagi?”<br />
Me isau <strong>ni</strong> taro oya, e kaya kina o Peresitedi<br />
Kimball <strong>ni</strong> a vakaraitaki vua ko lomalagi ena<br />
siga sara ga oya ena nona vauci rau e dua na<br />
“Mo marama buladodonu ena iotioti <strong>ni</strong> gauna <strong>ni</strong> vuravura oqo . . . sa dua na ilesilesi vakaturaga” (Spencer W. Kimball).
veiwati<strong>ni</strong>, e dua vei rau e iotioti vei iratou e 8<br />
na veitaci<strong>ni</strong> me ciqoma na cakacaka vakalotu<br />
tabu oqo. “Era tu e kea na yalo savasava,” e<br />
kaya o Peresitedi Kimball. “E tu e kea ko loma-<br />
lagi.” E tukuna e dua na gauna a vakaraitaki<br />
kina vua ko lomalagi ena nona itikotiko e dua<br />
na peresitedi <strong>ni</strong> iteki. E lailai toka ga na vale, ia<br />
era lewelevu na matavuvale. Era cakacaka vata<br />
na gone me vakarautaki na teveli, ka cabora e<br />
dua na gone na masu mai vu <strong>ni</strong> yalona <strong>ni</strong> bera<br />
na vakayakavi. E kaya o Peresitedi Kimball<br />
<strong>ni</strong> sa vakaraitaki vua ko lomalagi ena nona<br />
veitalanoa kei na dua na veiwati<strong>ni</strong> ka a sega <strong>ni</strong><br />
rawa <strong>ni</strong> rau vakaluve<strong>ni</strong> ia erau “vakasinaita na<br />
nodrau vuvale” ena 18 na gone luve<strong>ni</strong>yali. A<br />
wasea na veigauna tale eso a vakaraitaki kina<br />
vua na lomalagi ena nodra bula na Yalododonu<br />
Edaidai ka ra a vakaraitaka na nodra<br />
ivakadinadina ena nodra vosa kei na nodra<br />
ivalavala. E vakavuvulitaka o Peresitedi Kimball<br />
<strong>ni</strong> “Lomalagi e dua na vanua, ia e dua talega na<br />
ituvaki; sai koya na itikotiko kei na matavuvale.<br />
Sai koya na veiciqomi kei na yalovinaka. Sai<br />
koya na veirogorogoci kei na veiqaravi e sega<br />
<strong>ni</strong> nanumi koya ga. Sai koya na bula malua<br />
ena ivakarau matua; na solibula yadua, na<br />
veiqaravi dina, kei na veikauwaitaki e taucoko<br />
ena vukudra na ta<strong>ni</strong>. Sai koya na bulataka na<br />
ivakaro <strong>ni</strong> Kalou ka sega <strong>ni</strong> vakalecalecataka se<br />
veivakaisi<strong>ni</strong>. Sai koya mo guilecavi iko. E baleti<br />
keda ga na veika kece oqo. Eda gadreva ga me<br />
da vakadinadinataka <strong>ni</strong> da kunea ka rekitaka.<br />
Io, taciqu loma<strong>ni</strong>, sa vuqa na gauna e vakaraitaki<br />
kina vei au ko lomalagi.” 41<br />
E vuravura raraba, era sa dau voleka cake ki<br />
lomalagi na marama ena <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong><br />
kei na nodra matavuvale ena ivakarau era<br />
bulataka kina na nodra bula.<br />
E dua na marama mai Amerika a qarava voli<br />
na tinana sa voleka tu <strong>ni</strong> mate me 3 na yabaki.<br />
Ni se bera <strong>ni</strong> oti e dua na yabaki, a tauva na luvena<br />
yalewa e dua na mate tawakilai. A qarava<br />
tu na luvena yalewa na marama yalodina oqo e<br />
veisiga ena loma <strong>ni</strong> 10 na yabaki me yacova <strong>ni</strong><br />
qai mai leqa na goneyalewa <strong>ni</strong> sa yabaki 17.<br />
E dua na marama sega <strong>ni</strong> vakawati mai Toga<br />
e dua na nona vale lailai toka ga ka susugi ira<br />
cake kina e vica na gone. <strong>Na</strong> nona gagadre<br />
levu duadua sai koya me ra qarava na Turaga<br />
na luvena tagane kei na luvena yalewa ka<br />
vakatorocaketaka na nodra bula. Ni vakamuria<br />
na ituvatuva oqori, a vukei ira na luvena me ra<br />
tauyavutaka na ivakarau vakosipeli ena nodra<br />
bula. Ena ruku <strong>ni</strong> nona veiliutaki, era a rawa ka<br />
vakavinaka ena vuli. Era dau masu, vuli ivola<strong>ni</strong>kalou,<br />
cakacaka, ka sokalou vata.<br />
E dua na marama mai Amerika e 8 na luvena<br />
era se bera <strong>ni</strong> yabaki 14. <strong>Na</strong> veisiga yadua ena<br />
sotava kina na bolebole vakayago, vakasama,<br />
vakayalo, ivakarau <strong>ni</strong> rai, kei na lomana, ia sa<br />
dau qarava o koya na veika e dodonu. Sa dau<br />
tokona na watina ena nona veiqaravi ena Lotu<br />
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184<br />
kei na nona sasaga me qarava na matavuvale.<br />
Erau dau masulaka vata na luvedrau yadua ka<br />
vakananuma na veisala me ra vukei yadua kina<br />
me ra toso ena nodra itavi yadua kei na nodra<br />
takete. Ena nona vuvale, na levu <strong>ni</strong> vakasaqa, va-<br />
katulewa, vakasama, kei na masu sa vakaitamera<br />
vua na marama oqo. Me kena ikuri, sa ciqoma<br />
o koya na itavi <strong>ni</strong> siko vuvale ka qaravi ira na<br />
marama ena nona tabanalevu era gadreva me<br />
ra laveti. Sa dau masulaki ira, lomaleqataki ira,<br />
sikovi ira, ka talevi ira vakavica ena dua na vula.<br />
E dua na matavuvale yalodina mai Mexico<br />
eratou vakaitikotiko ena dua na siti osooso<br />
ena dua na vale ka tu ena daku <strong>ni</strong> dua na bai<br />
levu ka vakamatamata kaukamea. Ena loma <strong>ni</strong><br />
lalaga , e droi<strong>ni</strong>taka kina o tinadratou e dua na<br />
iteitei totoka, kei na veivu<strong>ni</strong>kau, na se<strong>ni</strong>kau, kei<br />
na dua na mata<strong>ni</strong>wai. Ena loma <strong>ni</strong> vale eratou<br />
maroroya kina na matavuvale na ivola ena kena<br />
vata ka vakarautaki na vanua me ratou soqo<strong>ni</strong>,<br />
vuli, ka qito vata kina.<br />
E dua na marama mai Ghana e dau qarava<br />
na nodratou iteitei vakamatavuvale. E teivaka<br />
na iero ena daku <strong>ni</strong> bai. E loma e susu me<br />
kina ena kedra bai. E maroroya talega na vua<br />
<strong>ni</strong> pami (palm) ka dau vakasaqara me rawa<br />
kina na waiwai <strong>ni</strong> pami qai dau laki volitaki<br />
ena makete. <strong>Na</strong> veika kece ena loma <strong>ni</strong> nona<br />
vale e vakaraitaka na nona lomana na nona<br />
matavuvale. E dau rekitaka, samaka, ka taviraka<br />
na nona loma<strong>ni</strong>bai. Ena ruku <strong>ni</strong> dua na<br />
vu<strong>ni</strong>maqo, e toka kina e dua na idabedabe caka<br />
ga e vale ka ratou dau dabe kina ena gauna <strong>ni</strong><br />
lotu vakamatavuvale kei na veisoqo<strong>ni</strong> tale eso<br />
vakamatavuvale.<br />
E dua na marama sega <strong>ni</strong> vakawati ka vakaleqai<br />
tu na ituvaki <strong>ni</strong> yagona e vakaitikotiko<br />
ena ika 80 <strong>ni</strong> itabavale ena dua na vale cecere<br />
mai Hong Kong. E tiko duadua ga ka lewe <strong>ni</strong><br />
Lotu duadua ga o koya ena nona matavuvale,<br />
ia a tauyavutaka o koya e dua na vuvale ka<br />
ivakaruru me rawa <strong>ni</strong> ra vakila kina o koya kei<br />
ira na nona vulagi na veivakauqeti <strong>ni</strong> Yalotabu.<br />
E maroroya koto ena dua na vata lailai na nona<br />
ivola<strong>ni</strong>kalou, na nona ivolavakarau, kei na nona<br />
ivola<strong>ni</strong>sere. E dau vakasaqarai ira na tubuna ka<br />
lako ki na valetabu me cakava kina na nodra<br />
cakacaka vakalotu ena vukudra.<br />
E dua na marama mai Idia a veivuke ena<br />
kena tauyavutaki e dua na taba<strong>ni</strong>lotu ena nona<br />
siti. E peresitedi <strong>ni</strong> tabana na watina, ka peresitedi<br />
<strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> o koya vei ira<br />
e dua na ilawalawa lewe<strong>ni</strong>lotu rauta <strong>ni</strong> 20 na<br />
lewe<strong>ni</strong>lotu. Erau susuga e tolu na goneyalewa<br />
yalodina, ka ratou taqomaki mai na ivakavuvuli<br />
<strong>ni</strong> kosipeli ena nodratou vale savasava.<br />
E dua na tina mai Brazil e vakaitikotiko ena<br />
dua na vale caka mai na vatu damudamu ena<br />
dua na loma<strong>ni</strong>bai qeledamu ka vakavolivoliti<br />
ena dua na bai vatu damudamu. E rogo mai na<br />
ivakatagi <strong>ni</strong> sere <strong>ni</strong> Lalai, e robota na lalaga na<br />
iyaloyalo <strong>ni</strong> valetabu, na parofita <strong>ni</strong> Kalou, kei na
iVakabula ka koti mai na Liaona. Erau solibula<br />
kei na watina me rau vauci vata ena valetabu me<br />
rawa <strong>ni</strong> ra sucu mai kina ena loma <strong>ni</strong> veiyalaya-<br />
lati na luvedrau. <strong>Na</strong> nona masu e veigauna sai<br />
koya me vukei koya na Turaga ka solia vua na igu<br />
kei na veivakauqeti e rauta me susugi ira cake<br />
kina na luvena ena rarama, dina, kei na kaukauwa<br />
<strong>ni</strong> kosipeli me rawa kina vei ira me ra cakava<br />
ka rokova tiko na veiyalayalati erau a solibula<br />
kina o koya kei na watina me rau solia vei ira.<br />
O ira na marama oqo, ka ra matataki ira e<br />
vuqa tale, era sa, me vaka e tukuna o Peresitedi<br />
Gordon B. Hinckley, “ivakatawa <strong>ni</strong> vuvale.” 42 Sa<br />
kilikili kaya kei ira na vosa e cavuta o Peresitedi<br />
Spencer W. Kimball:<br />
“Mo marama buladodonu sa dua na ka lagilagi<br />
ena itabayabaki kecega. Mo dua na marama<br />
bula dodonu ena iotioti <strong>ni</strong> gauna oqo ena vuravura<br />
oqo, <strong>ni</strong> bera na ikarua <strong>ni</strong> nona lako mai na<br />
noda iVakabula, sa dua na ilesilesi vakaturaga.<br />
<strong>Na</strong> nodra igu na marama buladodonu <strong>ni</strong>kua e<br />
rawa <strong>ni</strong> vakati<strong>ni</strong>taki ena gauna <strong>ni</strong> bula sautu. A<br />
biu mai ke o koya me veivuke ena kena vakavutu<strong>ni</strong>yautaki,<br />
taqomaki, ka yadravi na vuvale—na<br />
isoqosoqo taumada ka vakaturaga duadua <strong>ni</strong><br />
bula vakatamata. Era na kasura beka ka soreva<br />
ya<strong>ni</strong> na veisoqosoqo tale eso <strong>ni</strong> bula vakatamata,<br />
ia e rawa <strong>ni</strong> veivuke na marama buladodonu me<br />
vakabula na vuvale, sai koya beka na ivakaruru<br />
duadua ga era kila eso na tamata ena maliwa <strong>ni</strong><br />
cava kei na bula dredre.” 43<br />
“Mo Vaqaqacotaki ki na<br />
Bolebole <strong>ni</strong> Siga Oqo”<br />
Ena bogi vakairogorogo ko ya a wilika kina<br />
o Peresitedi Hinckley na ivakaro me baleta na<br />
matavuvale, a ti<strong>ni</strong>a na nona vosa ena dua na<br />
veivakalougatataki vei ira na marama ena Lotu:<br />
“Me vakalougatataki kemu<strong>ni</strong> na ganequ<br />
loma<strong>ni</strong> na Turaga. . . . Mo <strong>ni</strong> vaqaqacotaki ki na<br />
bolebole <strong>ni</strong> siga oqo. Mo <strong>ni</strong> vakalougatataki ena<br />
vuku e sivia cake na nomu<strong>ni</strong> ena nomu<strong>ni</strong> sotava<br />
tiko na veileqa eso o <strong>ni</strong> dau sotava. Me saumi<br />
na nomu<strong>ni</strong> masu kei na nomu<strong>ni</strong> vakatakekere<br />
ena veivakalougatataki ki ulumu<strong>ni</strong> kei na uludra<br />
na nomu<strong>ni</strong> dauloma<strong>ni</strong>. Keimami laivi kemu<strong>ni</strong><br />
ena neimami loloma kei na veivakalougatataki,<br />
me vakasinaiti na nomu<strong>ni</strong> bula ena sautu kei na<br />
marau. E rawa <strong>ni</strong> vakakina. E vuqa vei kemu<strong>ni</strong> e<br />
rawa <strong>ni</strong> vakadinadinataka <strong>ni</strong> vakakina. Me<br />
vakalougatataki kemu<strong>ni</strong> na Turaga ena gauna<br />
oqo kei na veiyabaki sa bera mai, sa noqu masu<br />
malumalumu.” 44<br />
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<strong>Na</strong> Matavuvale<br />
iVakaro iVuravura Raraba<br />
<strong>Na</strong> Mataveiliutaki kei na Matabose <strong>ni</strong> iApositolo<br />
Le Ti<strong>ni</strong>karua <strong>ni</strong> Lotu i Jisu Karisito <strong>ni</strong> Yalododonu Edaidai.<br />
Oi keitou na Mataveiliutaki Taumada kei na<br />
Matabose <strong>ni</strong> iApositolo Le Ti<strong>ni</strong>karua <strong>ni</strong> Lotu i<br />
Jisu Karisito <strong>ni</strong> Yalododonu Edaidai, keitou vunautaka<br />
tiko <strong>ni</strong> sa qisia na Kalou me vakawati<br />
na tagane kei na yalewa, me vaka <strong>ni</strong> suitu tiko<br />
<strong>ni</strong> nona yavu <strong>ni</strong> bula oqo na Dau<strong>ni</strong>veibuli na<br />
tiko vakamatavuvale, me da cokonaki kina ena<br />
noda ilakolako ki na bula tawamudu na luvena<br />
vakayadua.<br />
Oi keda yadudua sara na tamata—na tagane<br />
kei na yalewa—eda a buli me ucuya na Kalou.<br />
Oi keda yadudua eda luvena yalewa se tagane<br />
loma<strong>ni</strong> vakayalo na noda itubutubu vakalomalagi,<br />
ka tu na keda dui ituvaki kei na icavacava<br />
vakalou. <strong>Na</strong> noda yalewa se tagane sa dua na<br />
tiki bibi <strong>ni</strong> keda ituvaki kei na keda inaki ena<br />
bula taumada, bula oqo kei na tawamudu.<br />
Ena gauna <strong>ni</strong> bula mai liu, era a kila ka dau<br />
qarava na Kalou me vaka <strong>ni</strong> Tamadra Tawamudu<br />
o ira na luvena vakayalo tagane kei na yalewa<br />
ka ciqoma Nona yavu ka yaco kina vei ira na<br />
Luvena me nodra e dua na yago vakalewe ka ra<br />
bulataka na bula oqo ena nodra vakacokotaki<br />
me ra taucoko ka kila deivaki kina na nodra icavacava<br />
vakalou ena bula tawamudu. Ena vakatara<br />
vei keda na ituvatuva vakalou <strong>ni</strong> bula marau<br />
me da laki tomana tale na noda veiweka<strong>ni</strong> vakamatavuvale<br />
ena tai kadua <strong>ni</strong> ibulubulu. Ena qai<br />
rawa kina vua na tamata yadua me suka lesu ki<br />
na iserau <strong>ni</strong> Kalou ka ra duavata tawamudu tale<br />
na veimatavuvale ena veicakacaka tabu vakalotu<br />
kei na veiyalayalati ena veivaletabu vakalou.<br />
<strong>Na</strong> isevu <strong>ni</strong> ivunau a solia na Kalou vei<br />
Atama kei Ivi sa baleta na nodrau rawa <strong>ni</strong> rawata<br />
na bula vakaitubutubu ena bula vakawati.<br />
Keitou vakadeitaka tale, <strong>ni</strong> se tudei tikoga na<br />
ivunau <strong>ni</strong> Kalou, me da vakatubukawa, ka vakatawai<br />
vuravura. Keitou vunautaka talega kina<br />
<strong>ni</strong> sa vakarota na Kalou, me rau qai vakayagataka<br />
walega na isolisoli vakalou oqori me rau<br />
vakatubukawa, o tagane kei yalewa <strong>ni</strong> rau sa<br />
vakamautaki vakalawa vakaveiwati<strong>ni</strong>.<br />
Keitou vakaraitaka eke <strong>ni</strong> sa lewa vakalou na<br />
ivakarau <strong>ni</strong> vakatubukawa. Keitou vakadeitaka<br />
na vakalou <strong>ni</strong> bula, kei na kena bibi ena yavu<br />
tawamudu <strong>ni</strong> Kalou.
Oi rau na veiwati<strong>ni</strong> tagane kei na yalewa sa<br />
nodrau itavi bibi me rau veiloma<strong>ni</strong> ka dauveikaro<strong>ni</strong><br />
vakairau ka vakakina vei ira na luvedrau.<br />
“Raica na gone era sa nona isolisoli na [Turaga]”<br />
(Same 127:3). Sa nodrau itavi vakalou<br />
na itubutubu me rau susugi ira na luvedrau ena<br />
loloma kei na buladodonu, ka vakarautaka na<br />
veika <strong>ni</strong> bula vakayago kei na vakayalo, ka me<br />
ra tuberi talega me ra dau veiloma<strong>ni</strong> ka veivukei<br />
vakaiira, muria na ivakaro <strong>ni</strong> Kalou, ka dau<br />
muria na lawa <strong>ni</strong> vanua cava ga era bula kina.<br />
Era na tarogi ena mata <strong>ni</strong> Kalou na turaga kei<br />
na marama vakawati—tama kei na tina—ena<br />
vuku <strong>ni</strong> itavi o <strong>ni</strong> sa vakacolati kina oqo.<br />
<strong>Na</strong> matavuvale e sa lesi mai vua na Kalou.<br />
<strong>Na</strong> nodrau vakawati na tagane kei yalewa<br />
sa yaga ki na Nona ituvatuva tawamudu. Sa<br />
dodonu me ra cadra mai vuravura na gone ena<br />
loma <strong>ni</strong> ivau <strong>ni</strong> vakamau, ka me ra mai susugi<br />
mai vua e dua na tama kei na dua na tina ka<br />
rau daudoka ena yalodrau dina taucoko na<br />
yalayala <strong>ni</strong> vakamau. Ena qai kune na marau<br />
ena bula vakamatavuvale <strong>ni</strong> sa yavutaki ena<br />
ivakavuvuli <strong>ni</strong> Turaga o Jisu Karisito. Ni sa yavu<br />
ka ivakadei <strong>ni</strong> bula vakawati kei na matavuvale<br />
e tudei na ivakavuvuli <strong>ni</strong> vakabauta, masumasu,<br />
veivutu<strong>ni</strong>, veivosovosoti, veidokai, veiloma<strong>ni</strong>,<br />
yalololoma, cakacaka, kei na golevi <strong>ni</strong> itavi qaravi<br />
vivinaka. “Sa lewa vakalou, me ra veiliutaki<br />
ena yalololoma na tama ena nodra dui matavuvale,<br />
ena loloma kei na ivalavala dodonu ka<br />
sa nodra itavi talega na kena vakarautaki na<br />
veika me ra bula ka ra taqomaki kina na nodra<br />
matavuvale”(Ensign, Nove. 1995, 102).Sa nodra<br />
itavi taumada na tina me ra susugi ira cake. Ena<br />
vuku <strong>ni</strong> itavi vakalou oqo, era sa vakacolati kina<br />
na tama kei na tina me ra veivukei vakatautauvata.<br />
Ena rawa ga <strong>ni</strong> ra qai moici na veiitavi<br />
yadudua oqo ena nona vakamavoataki, mate se<br />
na yaco <strong>ni</strong> veileqa tale eso vua e dua. Mera qai<br />
dau veivukei o ira na wekadra.<br />
Keitou vunautaka kina <strong>ni</strong> o ira na dau beca<br />
na ivakarau <strong>ni</strong> tiko savasava, vakatotoga<strong>ni</strong> watidra<br />
se luvedra, ka sega <strong>ni</strong> dau vakayacora na<br />
nodra itavi vakamatavuvale, <strong>ni</strong> ra na saumi taro<br />
kina vua na Kalou ena dua na siga. Me keitou<br />
vakadeitaka tale, <strong>ni</strong> na lutuka na tamata vakayadua,<br />
vakaitikotiko, se vakavanua na isamu<br />
<strong>ni</strong> dawa <strong>ni</strong> kena voroki na matavuvale, ka na<br />
sotavi kina na veileqa bibi era sa vunautaka tu<br />
na parofita mai liu, kei ira tale ga <strong>ni</strong>kua.<br />
Keitou KEREI kemu<strong>ni</strong> kina na noda iliuliu<br />
vakavanua, kei kemu<strong>ni</strong> na vakailesilesi vakamata<strong>ni</strong>tu<br />
e veivanua kece sara, mo <strong>ni</strong> tokona<br />
na kena vakavulici na yavu bibi eso oqo, ena<br />
vakaqaqacotaki <strong>ni</strong> matavuvale, me yavu bula<br />
<strong>ni</strong> noda kawatamata.<br />
A wiliki na ivakaro oqo me lewe <strong>ni</strong> nona itukutuku<br />
o Peresitedi Gordon B. Hinckley ena Soqo<strong>ni</strong> Raraba<br />
<strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>, ka vakayacori ena 23 <strong>ni</strong><br />
Sepiteba 1995, e Salt Lake City, Utah.<br />
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WASE 10<br />
“Bula ki na<br />
Nomu Dodonu”<br />
O <strong>ni</strong> sa koto kina oqo ena dua na<br />
itutu mo <strong>ni</strong> rawa kina <strong>ni</strong> veiqaravi me vaka<br />
na yalo <strong>ni</strong> loloma sa teivaka tu e lomamu<strong>ni</strong> na Kalou.<br />
Kevaka o <strong>ni</strong> bula mo <strong>ni</strong> sotava na ivakavuvuli oqo sa<br />
cecere dina ka lagilagi!—kevaka o <strong>ni</strong> bula ki na<br />
nomu<strong>ni</strong> dodonu, ena sega <strong>ni</strong> rawa <strong>ni</strong> ra tarovi<br />
na agilosi ena nodra mai toka<strong>ni</strong> kemu<strong>ni</strong>. . . .<br />
Kevaka o <strong>ni</strong> savasava, e sega <strong>ni</strong> dua na<br />
ka ena vakalatilati rawa.<br />
Josefa Simici
WASE 10<br />
“Bula ki na Nomu Dodonu”<br />
Ena dua na nodra soqo<strong>ni</strong> taumada na iSo-<br />
qosoqo <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Marama</strong> e <strong>Na</strong>uvoo, a va-<br />
kauqeti ira kina na marama o Josefa Simici me<br />
ra “bula ki na [nodra] dodonu.” 1 Ni kena yavu<br />
na veivakayaloqaqataki oqori, era sa vakavulici<br />
na marama ena Lotu i Jisu Karisito <strong>ni</strong> Yalododonu<br />
Edaidai me ra bula ki na nodra icavacava<br />
vakalou ena nodra vakataucokotaka na inaki<br />
<strong>ni</strong> Kalou ena vukudra. Ni sa yaco me ra kila se<br />
o cei dina o ira—na luvena yalewa na Kalou,<br />
Sa vakalougatataki ira na luvena yalewa na Kalou ena<br />
kaukauwa levu me ra dauloloma ka dauveisusu.<br />
kei na kaukauwa era sucu vata mai me ra dau<br />
loloma ka dauveisusu—era sa yacova kina na<br />
kedra icavacava vakamarama savasava. Ni tu e<br />
yalodra na loloma cecere, era sa vakataucokotaka<br />
kina na inaki <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>: me<br />
vakalevutaki cake na vakabauta kei na buladodonu<br />
yadua, vaqaqacotaki na matavuvale kei<br />
na vuvale, ka vakasaqarai ira ka vukei ira era<br />
vakaleqai tu.<br />
Ni tauyavutaki me dua na tiki bibi <strong>ni</strong> Veivakalesui<br />
mai, sa dau vukei ira na marama Yalododonu<br />
Edaidai na <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> me ra<br />
bula ki na nodra dodonu. Mai na isoqosoqo<br />
oqo, era sa ciqoma kina na marama e dua na<br />
raivotu kei na veivakadeitaki <strong>ni</strong> kedra ivakatakilakila<br />
<strong>ni</strong> ra luvena yalewa na Kalou. Era sa<br />
ciqoma talega na madigi <strong>ni</strong> veiqaravi kei na<br />
idusidusi kei na veivakadonui era gadreva me<br />
ra vakataucokotaka kina na itavi eso oqori.<br />
Luvena yalewa na Kalou<br />
E vakavuvulitaka o Josefa Simici vei ira na<br />
marama ena <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> na kedra<br />
ituvaki vakamarama <strong>ni</strong> ra luvena yalewa na Kalou,<br />
ka vukei ira me ra kila <strong>ni</strong> loma<strong>ni</strong> ira na Kalou<br />
ka tu na inaki cecere me ra vakataucokotaka.<br />
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E yaga sara vakalevu na nodra itavi na marama<br />
ena Lotu ena nona ituvatuva <strong>ni</strong> veivakabulai na<br />
Tamada Vakalomalagi—e tautauvata na kena<br />
bibi kei na nodra itavi na tagane e tu vei ira na<br />
matabete. <strong>Na</strong> Turaga sa vakalougatataki ira na<br />
yalewa ena gagadre era sucu vata mai me ra<br />
veiqaravi ka veivakalougatataki vei ira na ta<strong>ni</strong>,<br />
ka sa nuitaki ira ena dua na itavi tabu me ra<br />
vakayagataka na nodra isolisoli me ra veivuke<br />
ena nodra vakabulai na Luvena.<br />
Ena so na gauna era dau guilecava na yalewa<br />
na nodra itutu vakamarama ka ra soli ira ki na<br />
veivagolei ta<strong>ni</strong> kei na veitemaki <strong>ni</strong> vuravura.<br />
Ena nodratou leqataka tiko na ivalavala oqori,<br />
eratou vakila kina o Sisita Mary Ellen Smoot,<br />
na ikati<strong>ni</strong>katolu <strong>ni</strong> peresitedi raraba <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong><br />
<strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>, kei rau na nona dau<strong>ni</strong>vakasala<br />
o Sisita Virgi<strong>ni</strong>a U. Jensen kei Sheri L.<br />
Dew, me ra vukei na yalewa ena Lotu me ra<br />
nanuma tiko na kedra ivakatakilakila. Ena dua<br />
na soqo<strong>ni</strong> raraba <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>, era<br />
vakaraitaka kina na kena ibalebale na luvena<br />
yalewa na Kalou:<br />
“Oi keimami na luvena yalewa loma<strong>ni</strong> vakayalo<br />
na Kalou, ka vakaibalebale, vakainaki, ka<br />
muadonu tu na neimami bula. Ni keimami dua<br />
na veitaci<strong>ni</strong> marama e vuravura raraba, keimami<br />
duavata ena neimami yalodina vei Jisu Karisito,<br />
na neimami iVakabula ka iVakaraitaki. O keimami<br />
na marama vakabauta, ivalavala dodonu,<br />
raiyawa, ka dauloloma cecere ka keimami:<br />
“Vakalevutaka cake na neimami ivakadinadina<br />
me baleti Jisu Karisito ena masu kei na<br />
vuli ivola<strong>ni</strong>kalou.<br />
“Vakasaqara na igu vakayalo ena neimami<br />
muria na veivakauqeti <strong>ni</strong> Yalo Tabu.<br />
“Yalataki keimami ki na vaqaqacotaki <strong>ni</strong> bula<br />
vakawati, na matavuvale, kei na vuvale.<br />
“Kunea na bula dokai vakamarama ena bula<br />
vakatina ka kune marau ena bula vakayalewa.<br />
“Kune marau ena veiqaravi kei na caka vinaka.<br />
“Taleitaka na bula kei na vuli.<br />
“Tutaka na dina kei na buladodonu.<br />
“Tokona na matebete <strong>ni</strong> veivakadonui <strong>ni</strong><br />
Kalou e vuravura.<br />
“Reki ena veivakalougatataki <strong>ni</strong> valetabu, kila<br />
na noda icavacava vakalou, ka segata na bula<br />
vakacerecerei.” 2<br />
Era sa vakananuma tale tiko ga vei ira na<br />
marama o ira na veiliutaki <strong>ni</strong> matabete me baleta<br />
na kedra ituvaki vakalou kei na nodra itavi<br />
tabu. E kaya kina o Elder M. Russell Ballard ena<br />
Kuoramu <strong>ni</strong> iApositolo Le Ti<strong>ni</strong>karua: “Keimami<br />
vakabauta ka vakanuinui ena nomu<strong>ni</strong> vinaka<br />
kei na nomu<strong>ni</strong> igu, na nomu<strong>ni</strong> dau taleitaka<br />
na ivalavala dodonu kei na yalodoudou, na<br />
nomu<strong>ni</strong> yalovinaka kei na yaloqaqa, na nomu<strong>ni</strong><br />
igu kei na nomu<strong>ni</strong> dau cariba lesu mai. Keimami<br />
vakabauta na nomu<strong>ni</strong> itavi vakayalewa<br />
<strong>ni</strong> Kalou. . . . Keimami vakabauta <strong>ni</strong> na sega <strong>ni</strong><br />
rawata na Lotu na veika e dodonu me rawata<br />
kevaka e sega na nomu<strong>ni</strong> vakabauta kei na
Ni ra sotava na yalewa na kedra icavacava vakaluvena yalewa na<br />
Kalou, era sa vakarautaki ira tiko ki na veivakalougatataki <strong>ni</strong> bula<br />
tawamudu.<br />
yalodina, na itovo o <strong>ni</strong> sucu kaya mai ena kena vakali-<br />
uci na nodra gagadre na ta<strong>ni</strong> mai na nomu<strong>ni</strong> o kemu<strong>ni</strong>,<br />
kei na nomu<strong>ni</strong> igu vakayalo kei na nomu<strong>ni</strong> tudei. Ka<br />
keimami vakabauta <strong>ni</strong> nona ituvatuva na Kalou sai koya<br />
mo <strong>ni</strong> yaco mo <strong>ni</strong> ranadi ka ciqoma na veivakalougatataki<br />
cecere duadua e rawa <strong>ni</strong> rawata e dua na marama<br />
ena gauna oqo se na gauna tawamudu.” 3<br />
Ni ra bula na marama ki na nodra dodonu kei na<br />
nodra icavacava <strong>ni</strong> ra luvena yalewa na Kalou, era sa<br />
vakarautaki ira kina ki na veivakalougatataki <strong>ni</strong> bula<br />
“Sa dau cavuti tiko na<br />
noqu vosa <strong>ni</strong>u a tukuna,<br />
‘Cakava na kena vinaka<br />
duadua o rawata.’<br />
Ia au vinakata meu<br />
vakabibitaka me kena<br />
vinaka duadua sara.<br />
Sa rui vakalevu na noda<br />
sa lomavinaka tu ena<br />
veicakacaka e vakarauta<br />
tu ga na kena vinaka.<br />
E rawa <strong>ni</strong> vinaka cake<br />
sara vakalevu na veika<br />
eda rawata.”<br />
Gordon B. Hinckley<br />
Soqo<strong>ni</strong> <strong>ni</strong> Vuli Veiliutaki e<br />
Vuravura Raraba, 10 <strong>ni</strong> Janu,<br />
2004, 2<br />
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tawamudu. Oqo na na vanua lagilagi sa vaka-<br />
rautaka tu na Kalou me baleti ira na Luvena<br />
yalewa yalodina.<br />
<strong>Na</strong> Loloma Cecere Dina, na<br />
iSolisoli mai na Yalo ki na Yalo<br />
E vakavuvulitaka na Parofita o Josefa Simici,<br />
“O ira na marama era sucu vata mai kei na yalo<br />
<strong>ni</strong> loloma cecere.” Ena tauyavu <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong><br />
<strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> a tukuna kina vei ira na marama,<br />
“O <strong>ni</strong> sa koto kina oqo ena dua na itutu mo<br />
<strong>ni</strong> rawa kina <strong>ni</strong> veiqaravi me vaka na yalo <strong>ni</strong><br />
loloma sa teivaka tu e lomamu<strong>ni</strong> na Kalou.” 4<br />
Me seraka mai yalodra na loloma cecere dina,<br />
sa dodonu me ra wakia vata na marama na yalololoma<br />
sa tu rawa e lomadra kei na vakabauti<br />
Jisu Karisito kei na Nona Veisorovaki. E vakamacalataka<br />
o Peresitedi Henry B. Eyring, e dua<br />
na dau<strong>ni</strong>vakasala ena Mataveiliutaki Taumada,<br />
<strong>ni</strong> loloma cecere dina sai koya na nodra isolisoli<br />
na <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>:<br />
“Au na tukuna vei kemu<strong>ni</strong> . . . me baleta na<br />
isolisoli cecere era sa solia mai vei kemu<strong>ni</strong><br />
o ira era sa liu vei kemu<strong>ni</strong> ena <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong><br />
<strong>Veivukei</strong>. <strong>Na</strong> tikina . . . e vaka <strong>ni</strong> bibi duadua<br />
ka na ia tikoga oya <strong>ni</strong> loloma cecere e koto ena<br />
uto <strong>ni</strong> isoqosoqo ka dodonu me lako mai ki<br />
yaloda, me tiki sara ga <strong>ni</strong> noda bula, na lewena<br />
yadua. <strong>Na</strong> ibalebale <strong>ni</strong> loloma cecere vei ira, e<br />
sivia sara na yalo <strong>ni</strong> veiqaravi wale. <strong>Na</strong> loloma<br />
cecere e vu mai na vakabauta na Turaga o Jisu<br />
Karisito <strong>ni</strong> sa cakacaka ena yalodra na lewena<br />
na revurevu <strong>ni</strong> Nona Veisorovaki. . . .<br />
“<strong>Na</strong> isoqosoqo oqo era lewena na marama ka<br />
basika mai na nodra yalo <strong>ni</strong> loloma cecere ena<br />
kena sa veisautaki na yalodra<br />
<strong>ni</strong> sa ga<strong>ni</strong>ti ira ka ra dau<br />
rokova na veiyalayalati e soli<br />
duadua ga ena nona Lotu<br />
dina na Turaga. <strong>Na</strong> yalo <strong>ni</strong><br />
nodra loloma cecere e lako<br />
mai Vua ena Nona Veisorovaki. E dusimaki mai<br />
na Nona ivakaraitaki na nodra ivalavala <strong>ni</strong><br />
loloma cecere—ka vu mai na nodra vakavinavinaka<br />
ena Nona isolisoli tawavakaiyalayala <strong>ni</strong><br />
loloma veivueti—kei na nona Yalo Tabu, sa tala<br />
mai ko Koya me sala vata kei ira na Nona italai<br />
ena nodra cakacaka <strong>ni</strong> loloma veivueti.” 5<br />
Henry B. Eyring<br />
<strong>Na</strong> isolisoli oqo <strong>ni</strong> loloma cecere e tekivu vei<br />
ira na marama mai <strong>Na</strong>uvoo, ka ra a vakaitavi<br />
ena veicakacaka tuvalaki <strong>ni</strong> loloma cecere ka ciqoma<br />
na veiyalayalati <strong>ni</strong> valetabu. A laki toma<strong>ni</strong><br />
e Winter Quarters kei na lakolako dredre ki na<br />
Bucabuca <strong>ni</strong> Salt Lake. A toko<strong>ni</strong> ira voli na yalewa<br />
Yalododonu Edaidai ena nodra tawavanua<br />
ena veitikotiko eso, nodra vosota na veivakacaca<strong>ni</strong><br />
vakapolitiki kei na ivalu levu, kei na nodra<br />
yalonuinui tikoga ena gauna <strong>ni</strong> leqa vakailavo.<br />
Sa vakauqeta na loloma yalovinaka e vale kei<br />
na veisasaga <strong>ni</strong> veivuke e vuravura raraba. Sa<br />
vakauqeti ira na marama ena <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong>
<strong>Veivukei</strong> ena nodra veiqaravi voli ena veivale-<br />
<strong>ni</strong>bula kei na nodra veivuke ena veivakubeci,<br />
maroroi witi, veivuke raraba vakatamata, kei na<br />
welefea. Sa dau vakauqeti ira tikoga na marama<br />
ena <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> <strong>ni</strong>kua <strong>ni</strong> ra vakasoqo<strong>ni</strong><br />
vata me ra veivakavulici ka veiqaravi vei<br />
ira vakataki ira ka vakakina ena nodra veivaqaqacotaki<br />
ka veivakatawa<strong>ni</strong> yadua ena dua na<br />
gauna, na loloma savasava i Karisito.<br />
Sa yaco me ra tiki <strong>ni</strong> isolisoli oqo <strong>ni</strong> loloma<br />
na yalewa Yalododonu Edaidai yadua ka sa<br />
nodra itavi ka nodra galala me ra wasea na<br />
isolisoli oqori vei ira tale eso.<br />
E vakaraitaki ena itukutuku <strong>ni</strong> dua na matavuvale<br />
na kena a veisolitaki mai vei tina vua<br />
na luvena yalewa ena veitabatamata na iyau <strong>ni</strong><br />
<strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>. <strong>Na</strong> goneyalewa yadua<br />
era sa taura na ibole <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>,<br />
“Sa sega <strong>ni</strong> mudu na loloma.”<br />
A tekivu na isolisoli vei Elizabeth Haven<br />
Barlow, ka a curu ki na Lotu ena 1837. A yaco<br />
me lewena o Elizabeth na <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong><br />
<strong>ni</strong> <strong>Marama</strong> e <strong>Na</strong>uvoo ena ika 28 <strong>ni</strong> Epereli, 1842,<br />
ka rogoca na nona vakavulica voli na Parofita o<br />
Josefa Simici na yavu ivakavuvuli <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong>.<br />
<strong>Na</strong> veivakavuvuli oqo a toko<strong>ni</strong> koya voli ena dua<br />
“E volai tu na itukutuku <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> ena veimala<strong>ni</strong>vosa kei na mata<strong>ni</strong>fika, ia na iyau e soli mai na yalo ki<br />
na yalo” (Henry B. Eyring).<br />
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na bula ka oka kina na nodra veivakacaca<strong>ni</strong> na<br />
ilawalawa dauvakacaca, buketetaka voli e dua na<br />
gone ena ilakolako ki na Bucabuca <strong>ni</strong> Salt Lake,<br />
ka qarava tiko e dua na matavuvale gone <strong>ni</strong> lako<br />
tu ena kaulotu na watina. A veiqaravi vakapere-<br />
sitedi <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> mai Bountiful e<br />
Utah, mai na 1857 ki na 1888, tolu na yabaki mai<br />
na gauna qai mate kina <strong>ni</strong> yabaki 81 voli.<br />
Qai toma<strong>ni</strong> na italanoa vua na luvena yalewa<br />
o Pamela Barlow Thompson. Rau a kacivi o Pa-<br />
mela kei na watina me rau tawavanua e Panaca<br />
mai Nevada, a yaco me peresitedi <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong><br />
<strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> mai kea. A vakavulica vei ira na<br />
marama na maqosa eso <strong>ni</strong> qaravi vuvale, oka<br />
kina na ivakarau <strong>ni</strong> kena vakayagataki e dua<br />
Sa dau vakauqeti ira tikoga na marama ena <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong><br />
<strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> na loloma savasava i Karisito ena nodra<br />
veivakavulici ka veiqaravi vakataki ira.<br />
na misi<strong>ni</strong> vakasakiti: na misi<strong>ni</strong> <strong>ni</strong> culacula. Ni<br />
ratou vakaitikotiko voli mai Nevada, a vakamatei<br />
kina na watina. Eratou qai toki kina na nona<br />
matavuvale levu ki Bountiful e Utah, na vanua<br />
a laki kacivi tale kina me veiqaravi ena dua na<br />
mataveiliutaki <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>.<br />
A vakadewa na isolisoli oqo o Pamela vua<br />
na luvena yalewa o Theresa Thompson Call. Ni<br />
oti ga na nona vakamau o Theresa, erau sa toki<br />
sara kei watina ki Mexico. Ena dua na iwase<br />
levu <strong>ni</strong> nona bula, a veiqaravi voli kina ena dua<br />
ga na gauna vakaperesitedi <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong><br />
<strong>Veivukei</strong> ka dau<strong>ni</strong>vakasala ena mataveiliutakli<br />
<strong>ni</strong> Lalai. A dau kilai vinaka o koya ena nona veiqaravi<br />
<strong>ni</strong> yalololoma, ena nona dau kau kakana<br />
vei ira na vakaleqai tu. Sa dau nona ivakarau<br />
me dau kauta na keke vei ira na nona itoka<strong>ni</strong><br />
qase ena nodra siga<strong>ni</strong>sucu. Ena dua na gauna<br />
vakaoqori, a guilecava na nona siga<strong>ni</strong>sucu e<br />
dua na nona itoka<strong>ni</strong> me yacova <strong>ni</strong> sa gauna <strong>ni</strong><br />
vakayakavi. Ni sa dinata tu na ivakavuvuli <strong>ni</strong><br />
sa “sega <strong>ni</strong> mudu na loloma,” a waqaca tale na<br />
sitovu ka ulia e dua na keke. Ni yaco ya<strong>ni</strong> ki<br />
katuba ena bogilevu ko ya, a sorova na tagi na<br />
marama oqo ka kaya, “Au waraki iko tiko ena<br />
bogi taucoko <strong>ni</strong>kua, ka sa vakarau sara toka ga<br />
meu nanuma <strong>ni</strong> o sa guilecavi au.”<br />
E dau taleitaka talega na <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong><br />
<strong>Veivukei</strong> na luvena yalewa o Athelia Call Sears.<br />
Sa dau kusa me vakaotiva na nona yaya<strong>ni</strong> ena<br />
veimataka <strong>ni</strong> Tusiti me rawa <strong>ni</strong> tiko kina ena
soqo<strong>ni</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> ena kena yakavi.<br />
Ni yabaki 70 vakacaca, a kacivi me veiqaravi<br />
vakaperesitedi <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> ena dua<br />
na tabanalevu. Ena gauna oya a dau gadrevi me<br />
da kumu<strong>ni</strong> ilavo me baleta na iyaya kei na itaviqaravi,<br />
a liutaki ira na marama ena <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong><br />
<strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> me kumu<strong>ni</strong> na ilavo me voli kina na<br />
iyaya <strong>ni</strong> vale<strong>ni</strong>kuro <strong>ni</strong> vale<strong>ni</strong>lotu, kei na $1,000<br />
tale na dola me vakayagataka na bisopi me baleta<br />
na veika tale eso e gadrevi ena tabanalevu.<br />
A kacivi o Athelia Sears Tanner na luvei Sisita<br />
Sears yalewa, <strong>ni</strong> se tina gone, me peresitedi <strong>ni</strong><br />
<strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> <strong>ni</strong> dua na tabanalevu. E<br />
vuqa na nona veiqaravi <strong>ni</strong> yalololoma sai koya<br />
me dau qaravi ira ka kauta na kedra na tina<strong>ni</strong><br />
gone vou. E dua e tu vua na taledi vakaqase<strong>ni</strong>vuli<br />
kei na ivakadinadina tudei kei Jisu Karisito,<br />
a susugi ira cake na luvena e lewe 13 ka qaravi<br />
ira talega na ta<strong>ni</strong> ka vakabula yalo ena veitaba<br />
<strong>ni</strong> veiqaravi eso ena <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> ena<br />
nona bula taucoko.<br />
Sa toma<strong>ni</strong> tiko ena matavuvale oqo na isolisoli<br />
<strong>ni</strong> loloma cecere. O ira kece na luvei Sisita<br />
Tanner yalewa era sa veiqaravi ena yalodina ena<br />
<strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>, kei ira na makubuna<br />
yalewa era sa muria na ivakaraitaki nei tinadra. 6<br />
<strong>Na</strong> veiqaravi ena loloma cecere sa noda isolisoli<br />
vakayalo na lewe kece sara <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong><br />
<strong>Veivukei</strong>. Me vaka e vakamacalataka o Peresitedi<br />
Eyring: “O sa vakadewataka tiko ya<strong>ni</strong> na<br />
iyau ena nomu vukei ira tale eso me ra ciqoma<br />
E rawa <strong>ni</strong> ra wasea na tina na iyau <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong><br />
<strong>Veivukei</strong> vei ira na luvedra yalewa.<br />
na isolisoli <strong>ni</strong> loloma cecere e yalodra. Ena qai<br />
rawa vei ira me ra vakadewataka ya<strong>ni</strong> vei ira<br />
tale eso. <strong>Na</strong> itukutuku <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong><br />
e volai tu ena vosa kei na iwiliwili, ia na iyau e<br />
vakadewataki mai na yalo ki na yalo.” 7<br />
“Noqu Gauna <strong>ni</strong> Veiqaravi”<br />
Ni oti na nona raica lesu e vuqa na ivaka-<br />
raitaki <strong>ni</strong> tamata cecere na nodra vakabauta, e<br />
kaya na iApositolo o Paula, “Ni sa vakavolivoliti<br />
keda talega e lewe vuqa e vaka na o era sa vakaraici<br />
keda, me da biuta laivi tu na ka bibi kece<br />
kei na ivalavala ca eda sa tao rawarawa kina, ka<br />
me da ciciva tikoga na cere sa tu e matada, ka<br />
me da vakaraici Jisu o koya sa vakatekivuna<br />
ena sauma talega na noda vakabauta.” 8<br />
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Era sa vakavolivoliti tu na yalewa ena Lotu<br />
mai vei ira e lewevuqa na ivakadinadina, oka<br />
kina na “Tinada lagilagi o Ivi” kei na “vuqa na<br />
luvena yalewa yalodina era sa bula ena veita-<br />
bayabaki ka dau sokalou vua na Kalou dina ka<br />
bula.” 9 O ira na luvena yalodina na Kalou era<br />
bula ki na nodra dodonu ena nodra muria na<br />
we <strong>ni</strong> yavadra na ivakadinadina oqo, ka biuta<br />
vakatikitiki na leqa kei na veitemaki ka dau<br />
vakataotaki ira ka ciciva na cere sa vakarautaka<br />
e matadra na Turaga.<br />
<strong>Na</strong> veitabatamata kece era tu kina na yalewa<br />
vakaturaga, dauloloma cecere, yalodina ka<br />
savasava. E dina <strong>ni</strong> na vica wale vei ira na marama<br />
oqo ena volai na yacadra ena itukutuku, e<br />
kilai ira vakavinaka tu na Tamadra Vakalomalagi.<br />
Ia oqo, me vaka e tukuna o Eliza R. Snow, sai<br />
koya na ka e bibi duadua: “E vuqa vei ira na<br />
marama e sega <strong>ni</strong> kilai ena taudaku <strong>ni</strong> nodra<br />
itikotiko na nodra cakacaka ka rairai sega<br />
talega <strong>ni</strong> dau taleitaki kina, ia na cava na kena<br />
duidui? Kevaka sa ciqoma na Kalou na nomu<br />
cakacaka, se vakacava na kena rawarawa na<br />
nomu itavi, kevaka sa qaravi ena yalodina, mo<br />
kakua sara <strong>ni</strong> yalolailai kina.” 10<br />
<strong>Na</strong> italanoa oqo e dua vei ira na ivakaraitaki<br />
sega <strong>ni</strong> wili rawa <strong>ni</strong> nodra veivakauqeti na<br />
marama yalodina ena <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>.<br />
Ena italanoa oqo, e vica na yalewa era tara na<br />
nona bula e dua na goneyalewa na yacana o<br />
Lynne. Ni dau raica voli o Lynne na nodra dau<br />
veiqaravi na marama oqo, sa ma<strong>ni</strong> nanuma<br />
kina me na dau vakayacora vakakina <strong>ni</strong> sa<br />
yacova ya<strong>ni</strong> na <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>.<br />
Ni tiko na yabaki nei Lynne ena mua <strong>ni</strong> ti<strong>ni</strong>vakacaca,<br />
erau a kila kei tinana <strong>ni</strong> a mavoa vakaca<br />
sara na tamana vakube ena dua na siti vakayawa<br />
toka. Erau a vodo waqavuka ya<strong>ni</strong> vakatotolo<br />
me rau laki sikovi koya, ia a mate <strong>ni</strong> bera <strong>ni</strong> rau<br />
yacovi koya ya<strong>ni</strong>. A qai tukuna e muri o Lynne<br />
na veika a yaco ena nodrau lesu mai ki vale:<br />
“Ni keirau siro sobu mai kei tinaqu ena<br />
ikabakaba <strong>ni</strong> waqavuka ena oca kei na mosi <strong>ni</strong><br />
yalo, erau lako ya<strong>ni</strong> e dua na tagane kei na dua<br />
na yalewa ka rau duri tu ya<strong>ni</strong> ena ikelekele <strong>ni</strong><br />
waqavuka ka mokoti keirau. Oqori oi rau na<br />
peresitedi <strong>ni</strong> tabana kei na peresitedi <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong><br />
<strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>. . . .<br />
“A veilecayaki vakalevu na veisiga oqori ena<br />
neirau segata vakaukauwa me keirau ciqoma <strong>ni</strong><br />
sa mate na [tamaqu vakacabecabe]. . . . Ia e dau<br />
toka voli ga e kea e dua na marama, dau wawa<br />
voli ga—me tauri itukutuku, me dolava na katuba,<br />
me taura na ligai keirau <strong>ni</strong> keirau qiri vei<br />
ira na neirau matavuvale kei ira na itoka<strong>ni</strong>. Era<br />
a tu me ra veivuke ena neirau vakasosolo, me<br />
ra cakava na veika kece e dodonu me caka.<br />
“Ena loma <strong>ni</strong> gauna kece oqori, sa tekivu me<br />
cadra cake mai vei au e dua na yalo <strong>ni</strong> vakavinavinaka<br />
kau sega <strong>ni</strong> vakasamataka rawa na<br />
sala e rawa <strong>ni</strong>u sauma lesu kina vei ira na marama<br />
dauloma<strong>ni</strong> oqori. Au tovolea vakaukauwa
meu vakasamataka e dua na sala, ia sa guce na vaka-<br />
sama <strong>ni</strong> sa levu na oca.”<br />
Ena vica vata na yabaki e muri, <strong>ni</strong> sa vakawati o Lynne<br />
ka tolu na luvena, a kacivi me veiqaravi ena dua na ma-<br />
taveiliutaki <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>. Ena so na gauna<br />
e dau vakataroga kevaka e rawa <strong>ni</strong> sotava na gagadre<br />
kece <strong>ni</strong> nona veikacivi. Ia a qai nanuma na veiqaravi a<br />
vakayacori vua ena gauna e mate kina na tamana va-<br />
kacabecabe. “Oqo,” e vakasamataka, “na noqu gauna.”<br />
A wasea na veika oqo:<br />
“Sa mate na luvena yalewa yabaki ti<strong>ni</strong>kava e dua na<br />
marama ena tabanalevu. A kerei au o tinana meu volia<br />
“Ena vuku <strong>ni</strong> gauna oqo” (Esiteri 4:14)<br />
“Au vakabauta <strong>ni</strong> da<br />
vakatulewataka e yaloda<br />
<strong>ni</strong> da na rawata e dua na<br />
cakacaka mai na veiva-<br />
kalougatataki, vakakina,<br />
kei na veivakalougatataki<br />
<strong>ni</strong> Kalou na Tamada<br />
Vakalomalagi, ena solia<br />
na Kalou na kaukauwa<br />
me rawati kina na<br />
cakacaka oya; ia <strong>ni</strong> da sa<br />
soreva, <strong>ni</strong> da sa yalolailai,<br />
<strong>ni</strong> da raica na dela <strong>ni</strong><br />
ulu<strong>ni</strong>vanua ka kaya <strong>ni</strong><br />
sa sega <strong>ni</strong> rawa kabati<br />
me yaco ki delana, <strong>ni</strong><br />
da se bera mada ga <strong>ni</strong><br />
tovolea ena sega ga <strong>ni</strong><br />
rawa.”<br />
Heber J. Grant<br />
Nodra iVakavuvuli na<br />
Peresitedi <strong>ni</strong> Lotu: Heber J.<br />
Grant (2002), 37<br />
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e dua na ivi<strong>ni</strong>vo balavu totoka me daramaki<br />
ena yagona na luvena <strong>ni</strong> vakarau me laki bulu.<br />
A rawa <strong>ni</strong>u cakava—kau raica <strong>ni</strong> dua na ka<br />
vakaciriloloma. Sa noqu gauna <strong>ni</strong> veiqaravi, me<br />
vaka <strong>ni</strong> ra a qaravi au na [marama tale eso].<br />
“A gunuva vakasivia e dua na kena marama<br />
ena tabanalevu na mena wai<strong>ni</strong>mate ka koto<br />
kina e na dua na ituvaki ca sara me tolu na siga.<br />
Keirau a raici koya kei na dau<strong>ni</strong>vakasala tale<br />
kadua <strong>ni</strong> se bula tiko ena nona vale ka vakasavasavataki<br />
koya <strong>ni</strong> bera <strong>ni</strong> yaco mai na lori<br />
<strong>ni</strong> vale<strong>ni</strong>bula. Keirau qai tiko mai me masia na<br />
nona vale—lalaga kei na vuloa—ena wai<strong>ni</strong>mate<br />
<strong>ni</strong> sasamaki. <strong>Na</strong> noqu gauna tale.<br />
“E dua na tina gone ena tabanalevu, e dua<br />
na noqu itoka<strong>ni</strong>, a yali vakasauri na luvena e<br />
duabau ga, e dua na goneyalewa totoka yabaki<br />
tolu, ena dua na mate ka a kauta na nona bula<br />
<strong>ni</strong> ra se sega mada ga <strong>ni</strong> kila na vu<strong>ni</strong>wai na bibi<br />
<strong>ni</strong> kena mate. Keirau a lako ki na nodratou vale<br />
kei na dau<strong>ni</strong>vakasala tale kadua ena gauna vata<br />
ga keirau rogoca kina na mate nei Robin lailai.<br />
Ena veitabatamata vou yadua, e rawa <strong>ni</strong> ra kaya na marama ena <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>, “Sa neimami gauna <strong>ni</strong> veiqaravi oqo.”
Ni keirau volekata ya<strong>ni</strong> na katuba lawalawa ena<br />
varada, keirau rogoca na tamana (ka se bera <strong>ni</strong><br />
lewe <strong>ni</strong> Lotu) <strong>ni</strong> vosa tagitagi tiko vei tinana ka<br />
tu sara vakayawa. Ni rai cake, e raici keirau ka,<br />
<strong>ni</strong> se tagi tikoga, a vosa ena talevo<strong>ni</strong>: ‘Ena sega<br />
<strong>ni</strong> dua na leqa, <strong>Na</strong>. Era sa tu oqo na yalewa <strong>ni</strong><br />
Moma<strong>ni</strong>.’ Baci noqu gauna tale.”<br />
A qai tukuna e muri o Lynne <strong>ni</strong> ra dau tarogi<br />
koya na tamata ena nona nanuma me baleta<br />
na <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>, e dau tukuna vei ira<br />
na veika a sotava ena ciqomi kei na soli <strong>ni</strong> veiqaravi.<br />
E kaya o koya: “Oqori na noqu nanuma<br />
me baleta na <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> vakatitobu<br />
sara e yaloqu. Kei na vuna.” 11<br />
E tautauvata na veika era nanuma na yalewa<br />
ena <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> e vuravura raraba,<br />
“vakatitobu sara e yalodra.” Me vakataki Lynne,<br />
sa yaga vakalevu vei ira na veiqaravi mai na <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong><br />
<strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>, ka ra kila <strong>ni</strong> sa nodra gauna<br />
oqo me ra veiqaravi ena loloma cecere kei na<br />
vakabauta. Era solia na veiqaravi oqo ena veitutu<br />
duidui—<strong>ni</strong> ra goneyalewa, yalewa vakawati, tina,<br />
tacidra, nei, dusiko vuvale, veiliutaki <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong><br />
<strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>, tiko veivolekati, ka itoka<strong>ni</strong>. Eso<br />
na nodra veiqaravi e dau yaco ena nodra lako<br />
ena ilesilesi mai vei ira na veiliutaki ena Lotu,<br />
ka so na nodra veiqaravi e dau yaco ena nodra<br />
rogoca na veivakauqeti malumu <strong>ni</strong> Yalo Tabu. Ni<br />
ra raica <strong>ni</strong> ra sa “vakavolivoliti talega [vei ira] e<br />
lewevuqa e vaka na o,” era sa vakarau kina me<br />
ra “ciciva ena vosota na cere sa tu e matadra.”<br />
“Liutaka na Vuravura . . .<br />
ena Veika Kecega e Yaga<br />
me Vakacaucautaki”<br />
O Peresitedi Joseph F. Smith, na ikaono <strong>ni</strong><br />
Peresitedi <strong>ni</strong> Lotu, e vakauqeti ira na marama<br />
Yalododonu Edaidai me ra “liutaka na vuravura<br />
ia me ra liutaki ira vakauasivi cake na marama<br />
e vuravura, ena veika kecega e yaga me<br />
vakacaucautaki, na veika kecega e va-Kalou, na<br />
veika kecega e veilaveti kei na ka e veivakasavasavataki.”<br />
E kaya o koya, “O <strong>ni</strong> sa kacivi mai<br />
na domona na Parofita <strong>ni</strong> Kalou mo <strong>ni</strong> cakava,<br />
mo <strong>ni</strong> kena iveta sara e cake, mo <strong>ni</strong> cecere<br />
ka vinaka duadua, mo <strong>ni</strong> savasava duadua ka<br />
yalodina duadua ki na dodonu.” 12<br />
Ena itabagauna taucoko <strong>ni</strong> itukutuku <strong>ni</strong> Lotu<br />
vakalesuimai <strong>ni</strong> Turaga, era sa bulataka tiko na<br />
tisaipeli yalewa nei Karisito na ivakatagedegede<br />
oqo. Me vakataki Esiteri, era sa dau yalodina<br />
ka yaloqaqa tu ena gauna <strong>ni</strong> veibolebole<br />
dredre. Sa vakainaki na nodra bula, me vaka<br />
a vakayacora o Esiteri ena gauna e tarogi koya<br />
kina na tavalena ko Moatekai, “Ko cei e kila de<br />
ko sa yaco beka mo ranadi ena vuku <strong>ni</strong> gauna<br />
oqo?” 13 Me vakataki Niemaia ena Veiyalayalati<br />
Makawa, era sega <strong>ni</strong> vagolei ta<strong>ni</strong> mai na nodra<br />
itavi tabu. Ni ra tovolea na meca nei Niemaia<br />
me ra temaki koya ta<strong>ni</strong> mai na nona itavi me<br />
tara tale na bai kei Jerusalemi, a sauma vaqo o<br />
koya, “Au sa kitaka tiko e dua na cakacaka levu,<br />
au sa dredre kina <strong>ni</strong> lako sobu: me mudu me<br />
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202<br />
icavai na cakacaka <strong>ni</strong>u sa biuta ka lako sobu vei<br />
kemudrau?” 14 Era temaki koya tikoga na nona<br />
meca, ia a kaukauwa ka tudei tiko ga ena nona<br />
cakacaka bibi. Sa dau tovolea na vuravura me<br />
vakayarayarataki ira na marama me ra biuta<br />
tu na nodra itavi e solia na Kalou, ia era sega<br />
<strong>ni</strong> dau “lako sobu” na marama yalodina ena<br />
<strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>.<br />
<strong>Na</strong> ivakaro me ra liu ena veika kecega e yaga<br />
me vakacaucautaki, va-Kalou, veilaveti, ka<br />
veivakasavasavataki e dredre toka. Sa dau vaka<br />
tu ga kina. Ia era sega <strong>ni</strong> tu duadua na marama<br />
ena <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> ena nodra ciqoma<br />
na ivakaro oqo. Era tiki <strong>ni</strong> dua na isoqosoqo<br />
cecere, ka tauyavutaki ena veivakadonui <strong>ni</strong> ma-<br />
tabete qai vaqaqacotaki ena ivakavuvuli kei na<br />
nodra veivakaroti na parofita. O ira na luvena<br />
yalewa dauloma<strong>ni</strong> na Kalou ka tu na nodra<br />
itavi tabu. Era nona tamata <strong>ni</strong> veiyalayalati na<br />
Lami, “era sa vakaiyaragi ena yalododonu kei<br />
na lagilagi <strong>ni</strong> nona kaukauwa na Kalou.” 15<br />
Ni ra duavata kei ira tale eso na Yalododonu<br />
yalodina ka vuli mai na nodra ivakaraitaki o ira<br />
era sa liu ya<strong>ni</strong>, e rawa <strong>ni</strong> ra qaqa ena veibole-<br />
bole <strong>ni</strong> bula oqo. E rawa <strong>ni</strong> ra veivuke me tarai<br />
na mata<strong>ni</strong>tu <strong>ni</strong> Kalou e vuravura raraba kei na<br />
loma <strong>ni</strong> nodra vuvale. E rawa <strong>ni</strong> ra kaya, “Sa<br />
neimami gauna oqo—neimami gauna <strong>ni</strong> veiqa-<br />
ravi ka vola e dua na iwase vou ena veidrau<strong>ni</strong>-<br />
pepa <strong>ni</strong> itukutuku <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>.” Ni<br />
vakadeitaki vei ira na nona loloma na Tamada<br />
Vakalomalagi kei na ivakadinadina me baleta<br />
na kaukauwa <strong>ni</strong> Veisorovaki i Jisu Karisito, era<br />
tubu sivita kina na veivakasama kei na sasaga<br />
wale ka ra tiki <strong>ni</strong> “dua na ka matalia.” 16<br />
E dei tu na yalayala <strong>ni</strong> Turaga <strong>ni</strong> ra muria na<br />
marama na ivakasala a solia vua na imatai <strong>ni</strong><br />
peresitedi <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>: “Au sa kaya<br />
vakaidina vei iko, ko ira kecega sa vakabauta na<br />
noqu ivakavuvuli, era sa yaco me luvequ ena<br />
noqu mata<strong>ni</strong>tu. . . . Mo kakua <strong>ni</strong> domona na<br />
iyau vakavuravura, ia mo vakasaqara na iyau e<br />
uasivi sara. . . . Mo nanuma tiko na veiyalayalati<br />
ko sa cakava.” 17 Ni tukuna na Parofita o Josefa<br />
Simici vei ira na marama ena <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong><br />
“me ra bula ki na nodra dodonu,” e wakia<br />
vata na ivakasala oqori kei na dua na yalayala:<br />
“ena sega <strong>ni</strong> rawa <strong>ni</strong> ra tarovi na agilosi ena nodra<br />
mai toka<strong>ni</strong> kemu<strong>ni</strong>. . . . Kevaka o <strong>ni</strong> savasava,<br />
e sega <strong>ni</strong> dua na ka ena vakalatilati rawa.” 18
204<br />
6 <strong>ni</strong> Epereli, 1830<br />
Sa tauyavu na Lotu.<br />
1830<br />
Ciqoma o Josefa Simici<br />
e dua na ivakatakila me<br />
baleta na watina o Emma<br />
(raica na V&V 25).<br />
17 <strong>ni</strong> Maji, 1842<br />
Tauyavu na <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong><br />
<strong>ni</strong> <strong>Marama</strong> e <strong>Na</strong>uvoo; Digitaki o<br />
Emma Smith me peresitedi.<br />
1843<br />
Ratou veilesi o Emma<br />
Smith kei rau na nona<br />
dau<strong>ni</strong>vakasala vei ira<br />
na komiti <strong>ni</strong> veisiko<br />
ena veitabanalevu e<br />
<strong>Na</strong>uvoo mai Illinois.<br />
27 <strong>ni</strong> June, 1844<br />
Rau vakamatei na Parofita o<br />
Josefa Simici kei na tuakana<br />
o Hyrum ena vale<strong>ni</strong>veivesu<br />
mai Carthage.<br />
VEIKA BIBI ENA<br />
iTukutuku <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong><br />
Feperueri 1846<br />
Era sa tekivu biuti <strong>Na</strong>uvoo na<br />
Yalododonu.<br />
1846<br />
Vakatabui na<br />
Valetabu e<br />
<strong>Na</strong>uvoo.<br />
Julai 1847<br />
Ra yacova ya<strong>ni</strong> na Bucabuca <strong>ni</strong><br />
Salt Lake na imatai <strong>ni</strong><br />
kaba<strong>ni</strong> <strong>ni</strong> pai<strong>ni</strong>a.<br />
1867<br />
Vakaroti ira na bisopi o<br />
Brigham Young me ra<br />
tauyavutaka tale<br />
na <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong><br />
<strong>Veivukei</strong> ena<br />
veitabanalevu yadua.<br />
1870<br />
Sa tauyavu me baleti ira na<br />
goneyalewa na Tabacakacaka<br />
<strong>ni</strong> Goneyalewa ena Nodra<br />
<strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> Cokovata na Qase<br />
kei na Gone ena Veitoka<strong>ni</strong> <strong>ni</strong><br />
Bula Veisaui.<br />
1872<br />
Tokona na <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong><br />
na tabaki <strong>ni</strong> Woman’s Exponent.<br />
1873<br />
Era vakayaloqaqataki na marama<br />
ena <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> me ra<br />
vuli ena veiqaravi <strong>ni</strong> bula.<br />
1876<br />
Tauyavutaki na <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong><br />
Silika <strong>ni</strong> Desereti (Deseret Silk<br />
Association), ka kena peresitedi o<br />
Zina D. H. Young.
1878<br />
Tauyavu na isoqosoqo <strong>ni</strong> Lalai me<br />
baleti ira na gone.<br />
1882<br />
Tauyavutaka na <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong><br />
<strong>Veivukei</strong> na Vale<strong>ni</strong>bula <strong>ni</strong> Desereti.<br />
1890<br />
Ciqoma o Wilford Woodruff<br />
e dua na ivakatakila ka<br />
yaco kina na kena muduki<br />
na vakawati vakalevu.<br />
1893<br />
Vakatabui na Valetabu e<br />
Salt Lake Temple.<br />
1913<br />
“Sa sega <strong>ni</strong> mudu<br />
na loloma” yaco me<br />
ibole <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong><br />
<strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>.<br />
1915<br />
Tekivu tabaka na <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong><br />
<strong>Veivukei</strong> na Relief Society Magazine.<br />
1916<br />
Tekivu me ra<br />
veivosakitaka na<br />
dausiko vuvale<br />
kei ira na marama<br />
yadua e dua na<br />
itukutuku <strong>ni</strong> kosipeli<br />
e veivula<br />
1918<br />
Volitaka na <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong><br />
<strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> ki na<br />
mata<strong>ni</strong>tu o Amerika<br />
e 200,000 na<br />
ivakarau witi.<br />
1921<br />
Tauyavutaka na <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong><br />
<strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> e dua na<br />
vale<strong>ni</strong>bula <strong>ni</strong> vakasucu.<br />
1936<br />
Tauyavutaka na Mataveiliutaki<br />
Taumada na parokaramu <strong>ni</strong><br />
welefea <strong>ni</strong> Lotu.<br />
1944<br />
Mudu nodra dau kumuna na dausiko<br />
vuvale na cau ka ra vakanamata<br />
ga ena veiqaravi vakalotu vei<br />
ira na marama era dau sikova.<br />
1954<br />
Liutaka o Belle S. Spafford na<br />
ilawalawa mai Amerika ki na<br />
Matabose Raraba <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Marama</strong>.<br />
1956<br />
Vakatabui mai Salt Lake City na Vale<br />
<strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>.<br />
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1969<br />
Sa vakacurumi ki na tabana <strong>ni</strong><br />
Veiqaravi Raraba kei na Welefea <strong>ni</strong><br />
Lotu na Tabacakacaka <strong>ni</strong> Veiqaravi<br />
Raraba ena <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong><br />
1971<br />
Sa muduki na Relief Society Magazine<br />
ka vakaisosomitaki ena Ensign.<br />
1978<br />
Vakatabui mai <strong>Na</strong>uvoo na iVakananumi<br />
ki na iTeitei iVakananumi<br />
<strong>ni</strong> <strong>Marama</strong>.<br />
16 <strong>ni</strong> Sepiteba, 1978<br />
Vakayacori na imatai <strong>ni</strong> soqo<strong>ni</strong> <strong>ni</strong><br />
<strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>.<br />
1987<br />
Okati ki na mekesi<strong>ni</strong> raraba e dua<br />
na itukutuku vakavula <strong>ni</strong> veisiko (sa<br />
Liahona ena gauna oqo kei na Ensign.<br />
1992<br />
Era marautaka na marama na<br />
ika 150 <strong>ni</strong> yabaki <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong><br />
<strong>Veivukei</strong> ena nodra vakaitavi ena<br />
veicakacaka vakaveiqaravi ena<br />
nodra dui itikotiko.<br />
23 <strong>ni</strong> Sepiteba, 1995<br />
Wilika o Peresitedi Gordon B.<br />
Hinckley “<strong>Na</strong> Matavuvale:<br />
Ai Vakaro ki Vuravura<br />
Raraba” ena dua<br />
na soqo<strong>ni</strong> raraba <strong>ni</strong><br />
<strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>.<br />
1997<br />
Sa tekivu me ra vuli vata mai na<br />
dua na lewe<strong>ni</strong>vuli ena sigatabu<br />
na <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>,<br />
ilawalawa <strong>ni</strong> bete levu, kei na<br />
kuoramu <strong>ni</strong> italatala qase.<br />
2004<br />
Ra vakaitavi na peresitedi raraba <strong>ni</strong><br />
<strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>, Goneyalewa,<br />
kei na Lalai ena imatai <strong>ni</strong> soqo<strong>ni</strong> <strong>ni</strong><br />
vuli veiliutaki e vuravura raraba me<br />
baleta na mataisoqosoqo.<br />
2009<br />
Yacova na 6 na milio<strong>ni</strong> na iwiliwili<br />
<strong>ni</strong> lewe <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>.<br />
O ira na marama ena soqo<strong>ni</strong><br />
raraba <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong><br />
2011<br />
Marautaka na Lotu na ika 75 <strong>ni</strong><br />
yabaki <strong>ni</strong> parokaramu <strong>ni</strong> welefea.
Peresitedi: Emma Hale Smith, 1842–44. iMatai<br />
<strong>ni</strong> Dau<strong>ni</strong>vakasala: Sarah Marietta Kingsley<br />
Cleveland, 1842–44. iKarua <strong>ni</strong> Dau<strong>ni</strong>vakasala:<br />
Elizabeth Ann Smith Whitney, 1842–44.<br />
Peresitedi: Eliza Roxcy Snow, 1880–87. iMatai <strong>ni</strong><br />
Dau<strong>ni</strong>vakasala: Zina Diantha Huntington Young,<br />
1880–88. iKarua <strong>ni</strong> Dau<strong>ni</strong>vakasala: Elizabeth<br />
Ann Smith Whitney, 1880–82.<br />
Peresitedi: Zina Diantha Huntington Young,<br />
1888–1901. iMatai <strong>ni</strong> Dau<strong>ni</strong>vakasala: Jane Snyder<br />
Richards, 1888–1901. iKarua <strong>ni</strong> Dau<strong>ni</strong>vakasala:<br />
Bathsheba Wilson Smith, 1888–1901.<br />
Peresitedi: Bathsheba Wilson Smith, 1901–10.<br />
iMatai <strong>ni</strong> Dau<strong>ni</strong>vakasala: An<strong>ni</strong>e Taylor Hyde,<br />
1901–9. iKarua <strong>ni</strong> Dau<strong>ni</strong>vakasala: Ida Smoot<br />
Dusenberry, 1901–10.<br />
Peresitedi: Emmeline Woodward B. Wells,<br />
1910–21. iMatai <strong>ni</strong> Dau<strong>ni</strong>vakasala:<br />
Clarissa Smith Williams, 1910–21. iKarua <strong>ni</strong><br />
Dau<strong>ni</strong>vakasala: Julina Lambson Smith, 1910–21.<br />
Peresitedi: Clarissa Smith Williams, 1921–28.<br />
iMatai <strong>ni</strong> Dau<strong>ni</strong>vakasala: Jen<strong>ni</strong>e Brimhall K<strong>ni</strong>ght,<br />
1921–28. iKarua <strong>ni</strong> Dau<strong>ni</strong>vakasala: Louise Yates<br />
Robison, 1921–28.<br />
Peresitedi: Louise Yates Robison, 1928–39. iMatai<br />
<strong>ni</strong> Dau<strong>ni</strong>vakasala: Amy Brown Lyman, 1928–39.<br />
iKarua <strong>ni</strong> Dau<strong>ni</strong>vakasala: Julia Alleman Child,<br />
1928–35; Kate Montgomery Barker, 1935–39.<br />
Peresitedi: Amy Brown Lyman, 1940–45. iMatai<br />
<strong>ni</strong> Dau<strong>ni</strong>vakasala: Marcia Knowlton Howells,<br />
1940–45. iKarua <strong>ni</strong> Dau<strong>ni</strong>vakasala: Donna<br />
Durrant Sorensen, 1940–42; Belle Smith Spafford,<br />
1942–45.<br />
Mataveiliutaki<br />
Raraba <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong><br />
<strong>Veivukei</strong><br />
Peresitedi: Belle Smith Spafford, 1945–74.<br />
iMatai <strong>ni</strong> Dau<strong>ni</strong>vakasala: Marianne Clark Sharp,<br />
1945–74. iKarua <strong>ni</strong> Dau<strong>ni</strong>vakasala: Gertrude<br />
Ryberg Garff, 1945–47; Velma Nebeker Simonsen,<br />
1947–56; Helen Woodruff Anderson, 1957–58;<br />
Louise Wallace Madsen, 1958–74.<br />
Peresitedi: Barbara Bradshaw Smith, 1974–84.<br />
iMatai <strong>ni</strong> Dau<strong>ni</strong>vakasala: Janath Russell Cannon,<br />
1974–78; Marian Richards Boyer, 1978–84. iKarua<br />
<strong>ni</strong> Dau<strong>ni</strong>vakasala: Marian Richards Boyer,<br />
1974–78; Shirley Wilkes Thomas, 1978–83; Ann<br />
Stoddard Reese, 1983–84.<br />
Peresitedi: Barbara Woodhead Winder, 1984–90.<br />
iMatai <strong>ni</strong> Dau<strong>ni</strong>vakasala: Joy Frewin Evans,<br />
1984–90. iKarua <strong>ni</strong> Dau<strong>ni</strong>vakasala: Joanne<br />
Bushman Doxey, 1984–90.<br />
Peresitedi: Elaine Low Jack, 1990–97. iMatai<br />
<strong>ni</strong> Dau<strong>ni</strong>vakasala: Chieko Nishimura Okazaki,<br />
1990–97. iKarua <strong>ni</strong> Dau<strong>ni</strong>vakasala: Aileen Hales<br />
Clyde, 1990–97.<br />
Peresitedi: Mary Ellen Wood Smoot, 1997–2002.<br />
iMatai <strong>ni</strong> Dau<strong>ni</strong>vakasala: Virgi<strong>ni</strong>a Urry Jensen,<br />
1997–2002. iKarua <strong>ni</strong> Dau<strong>ni</strong>vakasala: Sheri L.<br />
Dew, 1997–2002.<br />
Peresitedi: Bon<strong>ni</strong>e Dansie Parkin, 2002–7. iMatai<br />
<strong>ni</strong> Dau<strong>ni</strong>vakasala: Kathleen Hurst Hughes,<br />
2002–7. iKarua <strong>ni</strong> Dau<strong>ni</strong>vakasala: Anne Clark<br />
Pingree, 2002–7.<br />
Peresitedi: Julie Bangerter Beck, tekivu ena 2007.<br />
iMatai <strong>ni</strong> Dau<strong>ni</strong>vakasala: Silvia Henriquez<br />
Allred, tekivu ena 2007. iKarua <strong>ni</strong> Dau<strong>ni</strong>vakasala:<br />
Barbara Thompson, tekivu ena 2007.<br />
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iKau<br />
1. Emma Smith, ena Relief Society<br />
Minute Book, <strong>Na</strong>uvoo, Illinois,<br />
17 <strong>ni</strong> Maji, 1842, Vale<strong>ni</strong>vola <strong>ni</strong><br />
iTukutuku <strong>ni</strong> Lotu, 12.<br />
2. Spencer W. Kimball, “Privileges<br />
and Responsibilities of Sisters,”<br />
Ensign, Nove. 1978, 104.<br />
3. Belle S. Spafford, A Woman’s<br />
Reach (1974), 23.<br />
4. Alama 37:6.<br />
Wase 1<br />
1. James E. Talmage, Jesus the Christ,<br />
ikatolu <strong>ni</strong> itabataba (1916), 475.<br />
2. Raica na Jo<strong>ni</strong> 19:25–27.<br />
3. Raica na Jo<strong>ni</strong> 20:1–18.<br />
4. Raica na Luke 10:38–42.<br />
5. Raica na Jo<strong>ni</strong> 11:20–27.<br />
6. Luke 8:1–3.<br />
7. 1 Timoci 5:10.<br />
8. Taito 2:4.<br />
9. Cakacaka 9:36–40.<br />
10. Raica na Roma 16:3–5.<br />
11. 1 Kori<strong>ni</strong>ca 16:19; vakuri ena vosa<br />
kala.<br />
12. Roma 16:6.<br />
13. Raica na Cakacaka 16:14–15.<br />
14. Roma 16:1–2; vakuri ena vosa<br />
kala.<br />
15. Joseph Smith, cavuti ena<br />
Sarah M. Kimball, “Autobiography,”<br />
Woman’s Exponent,<br />
1 <strong>ni</strong> Sepi, 1883, 51; raica talega<br />
Nodra iVakavuvuli na Peresitedi <strong>ni</strong><br />
Lotu: Josefa Simici (2007), 451.<br />
iVakamacala<br />
16. Eliza R. Snow, “Female Relief<br />
Society,” Deseret News, 22 <strong>ni</strong><br />
Epe., 1868, 1; vakatautauvatataki<br />
na icegu.<br />
17. Nodra iVakavuvuli na Peresitedi <strong>ni</strong><br />
Lotu: Joseph F. Smith (1998), 184.<br />
18. Lorenzo Snow, ena “Prest. Snow<br />
to Relief Societies,” Deseret<br />
Eve<strong>ni</strong>ng News, 9 <strong>ni</strong> Julai, 1901, 1.<br />
19. Julie B. Beck, “<strong>Na</strong> Veika Era Uasivi<br />
Kina na <strong>Marama</strong> Yalododonu<br />
Edaidai: Tudei ka Dredre <strong>ni</strong> Yavalati,”<br />
Liaona, Nove. 2007, 109.<br />
Wase 2<br />
1. Sarah M. Kimball, ena iVolatukutuku<br />
<strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong><br />
mai na iMatai <strong>ni</strong> kena Tauyavu<br />
ki na Ko<strong>ni</strong>feredi, 5 <strong>ni</strong> Epereli,<br />
1892, Book II, Vale<strong>ni</strong>vola <strong>ni</strong><br />
iTukutuku <strong>ni</strong> Lotu, 29; vakatautauvatataki<br />
na mata<strong>ni</strong>vola kei<br />
mata<strong>ni</strong>volalevu.<br />
2. Sarah M. Kimball, “Autobiography,”<br />
Woman’s Exponent,<br />
1 <strong>ni</strong> Sepi., 1883, 51.<br />
3. Raica na Relief Society Minute<br />
Book, <strong>Na</strong>uvoo, Illinois, 17 <strong>ni</strong><br />
Maji, 1842, 6–7; eratou a tiko ena<br />
soqo<strong>ni</strong> e ruasagavulu na marama,<br />
kei iratou e vitu eratou a sega<br />
<strong>ni</strong> tiko eratou qai ciqomi ki na<br />
isoqosoqo me tiki <strong>ni</strong> soqo<strong>ni</strong> oya.<br />
4. Josefa Simici ena Relief Society<br />
Minute Book, <strong>Na</strong>uvoo, Illinois, 17<br />
<strong>ni</strong> Maji, 1842, Vale<strong>ni</strong>vola <strong>ni</strong> iTukutuku<br />
<strong>ni</strong> Lotu, 7; sa vakatautauvatataki<br />
na mata<strong>ni</strong>vola, icegu, kei na<br />
mata<strong>ni</strong>volalevu me vaka e gadrevi<br />
ena itukutuku kece sara e tomiki<br />
mai na ivolatukutuku <strong>ni</strong> bose oqo.<br />
5. Raica na Relief Society Minute<br />
Book, <strong>Na</strong>uvoo, Illinois, 17 <strong>ni</strong><br />
Maji, 1842, 8–9.<br />
6. Vunau kei na Veiyalayalati 25:3, 7.<br />
7. Raica na Josefa Simici, ena Relief<br />
Society Minute Book, <strong>Na</strong>uvoo,<br />
Illinois, 17 <strong>ni</strong> Maji, 1842, 8.<br />
8. Raica na Vunau kei na Veiyalayalati<br />
25:2, 5–8, 10–11, 13–15.<br />
9. Vunau kei na Veiyalayalati 25:16.<br />
10. Josefa Simici ena Relief Society<br />
Minute Book, <strong>Na</strong>uvoo, Illinois,<br />
17 <strong>ni</strong> Maji, 1842, 8.<br />
11. Emma Smith, ena Relief Society<br />
Minute Book, <strong>Na</strong>uvoo, Illinois,<br />
17 <strong>ni</strong> Maji, 1842, 12.<br />
12. Raica na Relief Society Minute<br />
Book, <strong>Na</strong>uvoo, Illinois, 17 <strong>ni</strong><br />
Maji, 1842, 14.<br />
13. Josefa Simici ena Relief Society<br />
Minute Book, <strong>Na</strong>uvoo, Illinois,<br />
28 <strong>ni</strong> Epe., 1842, 40.<br />
14. Josefa Simici, ena Relief Society<br />
Minute Book, <strong>Na</strong>uvoo, Illinois,<br />
30 <strong>ni</strong> Maji, 1842, 22.<br />
15. Josefa Simici, ena Relief Society<br />
Minute Book, <strong>Na</strong>uvoo, Illinois,<br />
28 <strong>ni</strong> Epe., 1842, 38.<br />
16. Boyd K. Packer, ena Conference<br />
Report, Okot. 1978, 9–10; se<br />
Ensign, Nove. 1978, 8.<br />
17. Raica na Josefa Simici, ena Relief<br />
Society Minute Book, <strong>Na</strong>uvoo,<br />
Illinois, 17 <strong>ni</strong> Maji, 1842, 8.<br />
18. Eliza R. Snow, ena Relief Society<br />
Minute Book, <strong>Na</strong>uvoo, Illinois,<br />
28 <strong>ni</strong> Epe., 1842, 41.<br />
19. Raica na Josefa Simici, ena Relief<br />
Society Minute Book, <strong>Na</strong>uvoo,<br />
Illinois, 9 <strong>ni</strong> June, 1842, 63.
20. Josefa Simici, ena Relief Society<br />
Minute Book, <strong>Na</strong>uvoo, Illinois,<br />
9 <strong>ni</strong> June, 1842, 63.<br />
21. Josefa Simici, ena Relief Society<br />
Minute Book, <strong>Na</strong>uvoo, Illinois,<br />
9 <strong>ni</strong> June, 1842, 63.<br />
22. Josefa Simici, ena Relief Society<br />
Minute Book, <strong>Na</strong>uvoo, Illinois,<br />
28 <strong>ni</strong> Epe., 1842, 38.<br />
23. Josefa Simici, ena Relief Society<br />
Minute Book, <strong>Na</strong>uvoo, Illinois,<br />
28 <strong>ni</strong> Epe, 1842, 35.<br />
24. Vunau kei na Veiyalayalati 20:69.<br />
25. Josefa Simici, ena Relief Society<br />
Minute Book, <strong>Na</strong>uvoo, Illinois,<br />
28 <strong>ni</strong> Epe, 1842, 38.<br />
26. Vunau kei na Veiyalayalati 25:5.<br />
27. Vunau kei na Veiyalayalati<br />
68:25–28.<br />
28. Vunau kei na Veiyalayalati 93: 40,<br />
44, 49–50.<br />
29. Emma Smith, ena Relief Society<br />
Minute Book, <strong>Na</strong>uvoo, Illinois,<br />
9 <strong>ni</strong> Maji, 1844, 123.<br />
30. Josefa Simici, ena Relief Society<br />
Minute Book, <strong>Na</strong>uvoo, Illinois,<br />
28 <strong>ni</strong> Epe, 1842, 40.<br />
31. Nodra iVakavuvuli na Peresitedi <strong>ni</strong><br />
Lotu: Josefa Simici (2007), 482.<br />
32. Ena Relief Society Minute Book,<br />
<strong>Na</strong>uvoo, Illinois, 14 <strong>ni</strong> Epe, 1842,<br />
28.<br />
33. Ena Relief Society Minute Book,<br />
<strong>Na</strong>uvoo, Illinois, 5 <strong>ni</strong> Okosi.,1843,<br />
103.<br />
34. Ena Relief Society Minute Book,<br />
<strong>Na</strong>uvoo, Illinois, 13 <strong>ni</strong> Okosi.,<br />
1843, 107.<br />
35. Ena Relief Society Minute Book,<br />
<strong>Na</strong>uvoo, Illinois, Soqo<strong>ni</strong> <strong>ni</strong><br />
<strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Marama</strong><br />
<strong>ni</strong> Third Ward, sega na tiki<strong>ni</strong>siga,<br />
112.<br />
36. Vunau kei na Veiyalayalati<br />
124:27–30.<br />
37. Raica na Vunau kei na Veiyalayalati<br />
131–32.<br />
38. Sally Randall, ena Kenneth W.<br />
Godfrey, Women’s Voices: An Untold<br />
History of the Latter-day Saints<br />
(1982), 138–39.<br />
39. Maciu 25:40.<br />
40. “R. S. Reports,” Woman’s Exponent,<br />
1 <strong>ni</strong> Sepi., 1876, 50.<br />
41. Cavuta o Josefa Simici ena<br />
Edward W. Tullidge, The Women<br />
of Mormondom (1877), 76.<br />
42. Ena Relief Society Minute Book,<br />
<strong>Na</strong>uvoo, Illinois, 16 <strong>ni</strong> June, 1843,<br />
91–92.<br />
43. Josefa Simici, ena Relief Society<br />
Minute Book, <strong>Na</strong>uvoo, Illinois,<br />
28 <strong>ni</strong> Epereli, 1842, 39.<br />
44. Josefa Simici, ena Relief Society<br />
Minute Book, <strong>Na</strong>uvoo, Illinois,<br />
9 <strong>ni</strong> June, 1842, 62.<br />
45. Ellen Douglas, ivola, 14 <strong>ni</strong> Epe.<br />
1844, taipataka, Vale<strong>ni</strong>vola <strong>ni</strong><br />
iTukutuku <strong>ni</strong> Lotu.<br />
46. John A. Widtsoe, Evidences and<br />
Reconciliations, tuva.G. Homer<br />
Durham, 3 volimu ena 1 (1960),<br />
308.<br />
47. Emily Woodmansee, “<strong>Marama</strong> e<br />
Saio<strong>ni</strong>,” Sere <strong>ni</strong> Lotu, naba 192.<br />
48. M. Russell Ballard, “Women of<br />
Righteousness,” Ensign, Epe.<br />
2002, 70.<br />
49. Lucy Mack Smith, ena Relief<br />
Society Minute Book, <strong>Na</strong>uvoo,<br />
Illinois, 24 <strong>ni</strong> Maji, 1842, 18–19.<br />
Wase 3<br />
1. Vunau kei na Veiyalayalati 25:13.<br />
2. Alama 27:27.<br />
3. Brigham Young, ena History of the<br />
Church, 7:567.<br />
4. Sarah DeArmon Pea Rich, “Kena<br />
itukutuku, 1885–93,” Vale<strong>ni</strong>vola<br />
<strong>ni</strong> iTukutuku <strong>ni</strong> Lotu, 66; vakatautauvatataki<br />
na sipeli, icegu,<br />
kei na mata<strong>ni</strong>vola levu; cavuta o<br />
Richard G. Scott, ena Conference<br />
Report, Epe. 2009, 42; se Ensign,<br />
Me 2009, 44–45.<br />
5. Vunau kei na Veiyalayalati 136:4.<br />
6. Ena Charles Lanman, A Summer<br />
in the Wilderness (1847), 32.<br />
7. Vunau kei na Veiyalayalati 136:1, 8.<br />
8. Presendia Lathrop Kimball,<br />
“A Venerable Woman,” Woman’s<br />
Exponent, 1 <strong>ni</strong> June, 1883, 2.<br />
9. Drusilla Dorris Hendricks, “Historical<br />
Sketch of James Hendricks<br />
and Drusilla Dorris Hendricks,”<br />
ena Henry Hendricks Genealogy,<br />
biuta vata o Marguerite Allen<br />
(1963), 28.<br />
10. Raica na Jill Mulvay Derr, Janath<br />
Russell Cannon, kei Maureen<br />
Ursenbach Beecher, Women<br />
of Covenant: The Story of Relief<br />
Society (1992), 67.<br />
11. iVola<strong>ni</strong>veisiga nei Eliza Partridge<br />
Lyman, 14 <strong>ni</strong> Julai–12 <strong>ni</strong> Tise,<br />
1846, Vale<strong>ni</strong>vola <strong>ni</strong> iTukutuku <strong>ni</strong><br />
Lotu, 32–35.<br />
12. iVola<strong>ni</strong>veisiga nei Eliza Partridge<br />
Lyman, 38.<br />
13. iTukutuku kei Bathsheba W.<br />
Smith, taipataka, Vale<strong>ni</strong>vola <strong>ni</strong><br />
iTukutuku <strong>ni</strong> Lotu, 13; vakatautauvatataki<br />
na icegu, sipeli, kei na<br />
mata<strong>ni</strong>vola.<br />
14. Helen Mar Whitney, “Scenes and<br />
Incidents at Winter Quarters,”<br />
Woman’s Exponent, 1 <strong>ni</strong> Tise.,<br />
1885, 98.<br />
15. Wallace Stegner, The Gathering<br />
of Zion: The Story of the Mormon<br />
Trail (1981), 13.<br />
16. Alama 34:28.<br />
17. Emmeline B. Wells, “After the<br />
Days of <strong>Na</strong>uvoo,” ena Record<br />
of the Relief Society from First<br />
Orga<strong>ni</strong>zation to Conference, 5<br />
<strong>ni</strong> Epe., 1892, iVola II, Vale<strong>ni</strong>vola<br />
<strong>ni</strong> iTukutuku <strong>ni</strong> Lotu, 234–35;<br />
vakatautauvatataki na sipeli kei<br />
na mata<strong>ni</strong>vola levu.<br />
209
210<br />
18. Brigham Young, “Remarks,” Deseret<br />
News, 15 <strong>ni</strong> Okot., 1856, 252.<br />
19. Lucy Meserve Smith, “Historical<br />
Sketches of My Great Grandfathers,”<br />
itukutukuvolai, Vakasokumu<strong>ni</strong><br />
Vakatabakidua, Vale<strong>ni</strong>vola<br />
na Marriott, U<strong>ni</strong>versity of Utah,<br />
53–54; vakatautauvatataki na sipeli,<br />
mata<strong>ni</strong>vola levu, kei na icegu.<br />
20. Moronai 7:47.<br />
21. Lucy Meserve Smith, “Historical<br />
Sketches of My Great Grandfathers,”<br />
54.<br />
Wase 4<br />
1. Raica na Journal of Wilford<br />
Woodruff. 26 <strong>ni</strong> Tise, 1866, Vale<strong>ni</strong>vola<br />
<strong>ni</strong> iTukutuku <strong>ni</strong> Lotu.<br />
2. Brigham Young, “Remarks,”<br />
Deseret Eve<strong>ni</strong>ng News, 14 <strong>ni</strong><br />
Tise,1867, 2; raica talega na Nodra<br />
iVakavuvuli na Peresitedi <strong>ni</strong> Lotu:<br />
Brigham Young (1997), 131.<br />
3. Josefa Simici, ena Relief Society<br />
Minute Book, <strong>Na</strong>uvoo, Illinois,<br />
28 <strong>ni</strong> Epe, 1842, Vale<strong>ni</strong>vola <strong>ni</strong><br />
iTukutuku <strong>ni</strong> Lotu, 38; vakatautauvatataki<br />
na sipeli.<br />
4. Eliza R. Snow, “Female Relief<br />
Society,” Deseret News, 22 <strong>ni</strong> Epe,<br />
1868, 81.<br />
5. Eliza R. Snow, “Female Relief<br />
Society,” 81.<br />
6. Eliza R. Snow, ena Relief Society<br />
Minutes, Third Ward, Salt Lake<br />
Stake, 23 <strong>ni</strong> Sepi, 1868, Vale<strong>ni</strong>vola<br />
<strong>ni</strong> iTukutuku <strong>ni</strong> Lotu, 17.<br />
7. Brigham Young, cavuti ena<br />
The Personal Writings of Eliza<br />
Roxcy Snow, tabaka o Maureen<br />
Ursenbach Beecher (1995), 35.<br />
8. Vunau kei na Veiyalayalati 25:7.<br />
9. Eliza R. Snow, “<strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong><br />
<strong>Veivukei</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Marama</strong>,” 81.<br />
10. Brigham Young, “Remarks,” Deseret<br />
News Weekly, 13 <strong>ni</strong> Me, 1868,<br />
3; vakatautauvatataki na icegu.<br />
11. Ena Susa Young Gates, History of<br />
the Young Ladies’ Mutual Improvement<br />
Association (1911), 9–10.<br />
12. Eliza R. Snow, ena Se<strong>ni</strong>or and<br />
Ju<strong>ni</strong>or Cooperative Retrenchment<br />
Association Minutes, 20 <strong>ni</strong> Fepe,<br />
1875, taipataka, Vale<strong>ni</strong>vola <strong>ni</strong><br />
iTukutuku <strong>ni</strong> Lotu; vakatautauvatataki<br />
na icegu.<br />
13. iVola mai vei Eliza R. Snow ki vei<br />
Mary Elizabeth Lightner, 27 <strong>ni</strong><br />
Me, 1869, Vale<strong>ni</strong>vola <strong>ni</strong> iTukutuku<br />
<strong>ni</strong> Lotu.<br />
14. Eliza R. Snow, “An Address by<br />
Miss Eliza R. Snow,” Millen<strong>ni</strong>al<br />
Star, 13 <strong>ni</strong> Janu, 1874, 18.<br />
15. Raica na Vunau kei na Veiyalayalati<br />
132.<br />
16. Eliza R. Snow, ena Relief Society<br />
Minutes, Fifteenth Ward, Salt<br />
Lake Stake, 6 <strong>ni</strong> Janu, 1870,<br />
Vale<strong>ni</strong>vola <strong>ni</strong> iTukutuku <strong>ni</strong> Lotu,<br />
140; Vakatautauvatataki na icegu<br />
kei na mata<strong>ni</strong>vola levu.<br />
17. Ena “Great Indignation Meeting,”<br />
Millen<strong>ni</strong>al Star, 22 <strong>ni</strong> Fepe,<br />
1870, 115.<br />
18. “The Mormon Question,” New<br />
York Times, 8 <strong>ni</strong> Fepe, 1870, 1.<br />
19. “Mormon Women in Council,”<br />
New York Herald, 23 <strong>ni</strong> Janu, 1870;<br />
cavuti ena Deseret News, 16 <strong>ni</strong><br />
Fepe, 1870, 23.<br />
20. Wilford Woodruff, “Remarks,”<br />
Deseret Weekly, 14 <strong>ni</strong> Nove,1891,<br />
660.<br />
21. Dairi nei Zina D. H. Young, 6 <strong>ni</strong><br />
Okot.,1890, Vale<strong>ni</strong>vola <strong>ni</strong> iTukutuku<br />
<strong>ni</strong> Lotu; vakatautauvatataki<br />
na sipeli.<br />
22. Helen Mar Whitney, A Woman’s<br />
View: Helen Mar Whitney’s Remi<strong>ni</strong>scences<br />
of Early Church History,<br />
tabaka o Richard N. Holzapfel<br />
kei Je<strong>ni</strong> B. Holzapfel (1997), 140.<br />
23. Raica na Andrew Jenson, Latterday<br />
Saint Biographical Encyclopedia,<br />
4 vols. (1901–36), 1:695.<br />
24. Eliza R. Snow, ena Tenth Ward<br />
Relief Society Minutes, 22 <strong>ni</strong> Janu,<br />
1874, Vale<strong>ni</strong>vola <strong>ni</strong> iTukutuku <strong>ni</strong><br />
Lotu, 24; vakatautauvatataki na<br />
icegu kei na mata<strong>ni</strong>vola levu.<br />
25. Emily S. Richards, ena “General<br />
Conference Relief Society,”<br />
Woman’s Exponent, Tise. 1901, 54.<br />
26. Ena “Emily S. Richards,” Brigham<br />
Young U<strong>ni</strong>versity Bulletin: Dedicatory<br />
Services for <strong>Na</strong>ming and<br />
Dedication of Twelve Buildings,<br />
7 <strong>ni</strong> Me, 1957, 21.<br />
27. Spencer W. Kimball, “The Role<br />
of Righteous Women,” Ensign,<br />
Nove. 1979, 102.<br />
28. Raica na Nodra iVakavuvuli<br />
na Peresitedi <strong>ni</strong> Lotu: Brigham<br />
Young 167–68.<br />
29. Brigham Young, “Remarks,” Deseret<br />
News Weekly, 13 <strong>ni</strong> Me, 1868, 3.<br />
30. Eliza R. Snow, “Female Relief<br />
Society,” 81.<br />
31. Brigham Young, “Remarks,”<br />
Deseret News Weekly, 13 <strong>ni</strong> Me,<br />
1868, 3.<br />
32. Emmeline B. Wells, “Be Wise and<br />
Hearken to Counsel,” Woman’s<br />
Exponent, 1 <strong>ni</strong> Nove,1876, 84;<br />
vakatautauvatataki na icegu.<br />
33. Sarah Howard, ena “General<br />
Meeting of Central and Ward<br />
Committees,” Woman’s Exponent,<br />
1 <strong>ni</strong> Tise,1876, 99.<br />
34. John Taylor, “Discourse by Prest.<br />
John Taylor,” Deseret News, 9 <strong>ni</strong><br />
Epe, 1879, 147.<br />
35. Emmeline B. Wells, “Sisters Be<br />
in Earnest,” Woman’s Exponent,<br />
15 <strong>ni</strong> Okot, 1876, 76.<br />
36. Raica na Jill Mulvay Derr, Janath<br />
Russell Cannon, kei Maureen<br />
Ursenbach Beecher, Women<br />
of Covenant: The Story of Relief<br />
Society (1992), 165–66.<br />
37. Raica na“Church Wheat to Be<br />
Turned Over to Government,”<br />
Deseret Eve<strong>ni</strong>ng News, 20 <strong>ni</strong> Me,<br />
1918, 1.
38. Eliza R. Snow, “An Address,”<br />
Woman’s Exponent, 15 <strong>ni</strong> Sepi,<br />
1873, 63.<br />
39. Emmeline B. Wells, “Zina D. H.<br />
Young—A Character Sketch,”<br />
Improvement Era, Nove. 1901, 45.<br />
40. Eliza R. Snow, “An Address by<br />
Miss Eliza R. Snow,” 20; vakatautauvatataki<br />
na icegu.<br />
41. Emma Andersen Liljenquist, ena<br />
Our Pioneer Heritage, biuta vata.<br />
Kate B. Carter (1963), 6:445–46.<br />
42. “Deseret Hospital,” Woman’s<br />
Exponent, 1 <strong>ni</strong> Okos., 1882, 36.<br />
43. Dairi nei Emmeline B. Wells, 4 <strong>ni</strong><br />
Janu,1878, Harold B. Lee Library<br />
Special Collections, Brigham<br />
Young U<strong>ni</strong>versity; vakatautauvatataki<br />
na icegu.<br />
44. Dairi nei Emmeline B. Wells, 1 <strong>ni</strong><br />
Okos., 1895.<br />
45. Eliza R. Snow, “An Address by<br />
Miss Eliza R. Snow,” 21.<br />
46. Eliza R. Snow, Poems: Religious,<br />
Historical, and Political (1856),<br />
148–49.<br />
Wase 5<br />
1. Emmeline B. Wells, Clarissa S.<br />
Williams, kei Julina L. Smith,<br />
“Resolutions of Relief Society,”<br />
Woman’s Exponent, Nove. 1913, 79.<br />
2. 1 Kori<strong>ni</strong>ca 13:8; Moronai 7:46;<br />
raica talega na General Board Minutes,<br />
1842–2007, 3 <strong>ni</strong> Julai, 1913,<br />
Vale<strong>ni</strong>vola <strong>ni</strong> iTukutuku <strong>ni</strong> Lotu.<br />
3. Josefa Simici, ena Relief Society<br />
Minute Book, <strong>Na</strong>uvoo, Illinois,<br />
9 <strong>ni</strong> June, 1842, Vale<strong>ni</strong>vola <strong>ni</strong><br />
iTukutuku <strong>ni</strong> Lotu, 63.<br />
4. Moronai 7:47.<br />
5. Emmeline B. Wells, Clarissa S.<br />
Williams, kei Julina L. Smith,<br />
“Epistle to the Relief Society<br />
Concer<strong>ni</strong>ng These War Times,”<br />
Relief Society Magazine, Julai 1917,<br />
364.<br />
6. Raica na Moronai 7:46–47.<br />
7. Joseph F. Smith, ena Minutes of<br />
the General Board of Relief Society,<br />
17 <strong>ni</strong> Maji, 1914, Vale<strong>ni</strong>vola <strong>ni</strong><br />
iTukutuku <strong>ni</strong> Lotu, 54–55.<br />
8. Ena “Notes from the Field,” Relief<br />
Society Magazine, Sepi. 1917,<br />
512.<br />
9. Emmeline B. Wells, “The Grain<br />
Question,” Relief Society Bulletin,<br />
Sepi. 1914, 1–2.<br />
10. Amy Brown Lyman, “Social<br />
Service Work in the Relief Society,<br />
1917–1928,” taipataka, Vale<strong>ni</strong>vola<br />
<strong>ni</strong> iTukutuku <strong>ni</strong> Lotu, 2.<br />
11. Clarissa S. Williams, ena “Relief<br />
Society Gives Hard Job to General<br />
Head,” Deseret News, 23 <strong>ni</strong><br />
Sepi, 1925, wase 2, tabana 1.<br />
12. Gladys Robison Winter, ena<br />
The Life and Family of Louise Yates<br />
Robison, biuta vata o Gladys<br />
Robison Winter, Vale<strong>ni</strong>vola <strong>ni</strong><br />
iTukutuku <strong>ni</strong> Lotu.<br />
13. Raica na Evelyn Hodges Lewis,<br />
veivakatarogi o Loretta Hefner,<br />
Sepi. 1979, vola, Vale<strong>ni</strong>vola <strong>ni</strong><br />
iTukutuku <strong>ni</strong> Lotu.<br />
14. Louise Y. Robison, “Officers’<br />
Meeting,” Relief Society Magazine,<br />
Me 1935, 272.<br />
15. Heber J. Grant, ena Conference<br />
Report, Okot. 1936, 3.<br />
16. Thomas S. Monson, “Guiding<br />
Principles of Personal and Family<br />
Welfare,” Ensign, Sepi. 1986, 5.<br />
17. Harold B. Lee, “Place of the<br />
Relief Society in the Church<br />
Security Plan,” Relief Society<br />
Mag azine, Maji 1937, 143; vakatautauvatataki<br />
na icegu.<br />
18. Joseph L. Wirthlin, “Relief<br />
Society—An Aid to the Bishops,”<br />
Relief Society Magazine, June<br />
1941, 417.<br />
19. “Memo of Suggestions,” 1–6,<br />
Church U<strong>ni</strong>on Board Executive<br />
Committee Minutes, Vale<strong>ni</strong>vola<br />
<strong>ni</strong> iTukutuku <strong>ni</strong> Lotu.<br />
20. Amy Brown Lyman, ena Mayola<br />
R. Miltonberger, Fifty Years<br />
of Relief Society Social Services<br />
(1987), 2; vakatautauvatataki na<br />
mata<strong>ni</strong>vola levu.<br />
21. Boyd K. Packer, itukutuku sega <strong>ni</strong><br />
tabaki.<br />
22. Maria Speidel, ena “Notes from<br />
the Field,” Relief Society Magazine,<br />
Fepe. 1946, 123.<br />
23. John Zippro, “Life Story of<br />
John Zippro,” itukutuku sega<br />
<strong>ni</strong> tabaki, cavuti ena Jill Mulvay<br />
Derr, Janath Russell Cannon, kei<br />
Maureen Ursenbach Beecher,<br />
Women of Covenant: The Story of<br />
Relief Society (1992), 301–2.<br />
24. Eva M. Gregerson, ena “Notes<br />
from the Field,” Relief Society<br />
Magazine, Fepe. 1946, 118.<br />
25. Hugh B. Brown, ena “Notes<br />
from the Field,” Relief Society<br />
Magazine, Okot. 1944, 591–92.<br />
26. Raica na Hedwig Biereichel, ena<br />
Roger P. Minert, In Harm’s Way:<br />
East German Saints in World War<br />
II (2009), 209.<br />
27. Raica na Jen<strong>ni</strong>fer A. Heckmann,<br />
ena <strong>Na</strong>than N. Waite, “Steadfast<br />
German Saints,” BYU Magazine,<br />
Vulaibatabata 2010, 57.<br />
28. Amy Brown Lyman, In Retrospect<br />
(1945), 160–61.<br />
29. Moronai 7:46–47.<br />
Wase 6<br />
1. Eliza R. Snow, ena Weber Stake<br />
Relief Society Minutes, 30 <strong>ni</strong><br />
Okot, 1877, Vale<strong>ni</strong>vola <strong>ni</strong> iTukutuku<br />
<strong>ni</strong> Lotu, 27–28.<br />
2. Belle S. Spafford, Marianne<br />
Sharp, kei Gertrude Garff, “The<br />
New Year,” Relief Society Mag azine,<br />
Janu. 1947, 3.<br />
3. Boyd K. Packer, ena Conference<br />
Report, Epe. 1998, 94–95; se<br />
Ensign, Me 1998, 72.<br />
211
212<br />
4. Boyd K. Packer, “The Circle of<br />
Sisters,” Ensign, Nove. 1980, 109.<br />
5. Henry B. Eyring, “<strong>Na</strong> iYau<strong>ni</strong>bula<br />
Tudei <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>,”<br />
Liaona, Nove. 2009, 124–25.<br />
6. Boyd K. Packer, “The Circle of<br />
Sisters,” 110.<br />
7. Boyd K. Packer, ena Conference<br />
Report, Epe. 1998, 97; se Ensign,<br />
Me 1998, 74.<br />
8. George Albert Smith, “Address to<br />
Members of Relief Society,” Relief<br />
Society Magazine, Tise. 1945, 717.<br />
9. Raica na Belle S. Spafford, “A<br />
Relief Society Building to Be<br />
Erected,” Relief Society Magazine,<br />
Tise. 1945, 751–53.<br />
10. Belle S. Spafford, “Joy in Full<br />
Measure,” Relief Society Magazine,<br />
Nove. 1948, 725.<br />
11. David O. McKay, “Dedicatory<br />
Prayer of the Relief Society<br />
Building,” Relief Society Magazine,<br />
Tise. 1956, 789.<br />
12. Boyd K. Packer, ena Conference<br />
Report, Okot. 1978, 10; se Ensign,<br />
Nove. 1978, 8–9.<br />
13. Belle S. Spafford, veivakatarogi<br />
mai vei Jill Mulvay [Derr], 20<br />
<strong>ni</strong> Janu, 1976, ilavelavevolai se<br />
kato<strong>ni</strong>, Vale<strong>ni</strong>vola <strong>ni</strong> iTukutuku <strong>ni</strong><br />
Lotu, 127.<br />
14. Belle S. Spafford, A Woman’s<br />
Reach (1974), 98; moici na kena<br />
parakaravu.<br />
15. Silvia H. Allred, “<strong>Na</strong> <strong>Marama</strong><br />
Yadua e Gadreva na <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong><br />
<strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>,” Liaona, Nove. 2009,<br />
115–16.<br />
16. Raica na Olga Kovářová<br />
Campora, “Fruits of Faithfulness:<br />
The Saints of Czechoslovakia,”<br />
ena Women Steadfast in Christ<br />
(1992), 141–46.<br />
17. Spencer W. Kimball, “The Role<br />
of Righteous Women,” Ensign,<br />
Nove. 1979, 103–4.<br />
18. Elaine L. Jack, veivakatarogi<br />
mai vei Julie B. Beck, 10 <strong>ni</strong> Fepe,<br />
2009, ilavelavevolai se kato<strong>ni</strong>,<br />
Vale<strong>ni</strong>vola <strong>ni</strong> iTukutuku <strong>ni</strong> Lotu;<br />
vakatautauvatataki na icegu.<br />
19. Elaine L. Jack, veivakatarogi mai<br />
vei Julie B. Beck, 10 <strong>ni</strong> Fepe, 2009;<br />
vakatautauvatataki na mata<strong>ni</strong>vola<br />
levu se na icegu.<br />
20. Thomas S. Monson, “<strong>Na</strong> Qaqa e<br />
Tiko ena <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>,”<br />
Liaona, Nove. 1997, 95.<br />
21. Julie B. Beck, “Vakayacori na<br />
i<strong>Na</strong>ki <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>,”<br />
Liaona, Nove. 2008, 110.<br />
22. Boyd K. Packer, “<strong>Na</strong> iWiri<strong>ni</strong> <strong>ni</strong><br />
<strong>Marama</strong>,” 109.<br />
23. Boyd K. Packer, ena Conference<br />
Report, Epe. 1998, 95; se Ensign,<br />
Me 1998, 72.<br />
24. Boyd K. Packer, “<strong>Na</strong> iWiri<strong>ni</strong> <strong>ni</strong><br />
<strong>Marama</strong>,” 110.<br />
25. Thomas S. Monson, “Sa Sega<br />
<strong>ni</strong> Mudu na Loloma,” Ensign,<br />
Nove. 2010, 124–25; raica talega<br />
na Bible Dictionary, “Charity”;<br />
Moronai 7:46–47.<br />
Wase 7<br />
1. Eliza R. Snow, “Dokai na Vuku<br />
kei na Loloma,” Sere<strong>ni</strong>lotu, naba<br />
101.<br />
2. Raica na Luke 15:3–7.<br />
3. Raica na 3 Nifai 11:13–17;<br />
17:5–25.<br />
4. Julie B. Beck, “<strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>:<br />
E Dua na Cakacaka Tabu,”<br />
Liaona, Nove. 2009, 111.<br />
5. Relief Society Minute Book,<br />
<strong>Na</strong>uvoo, Illinois, 28 <strong>ni</strong> Julai, 1843,<br />
Vale<strong>ni</strong>vola <strong>ni</strong> iTukutuku <strong>ni</strong> Lotu,<br />
101.<br />
6. Joseph F. Smith, “Address of<br />
Pres ident Joseph F. Smith,”<br />
Woman’s Exponent, Me 1903, 93;<br />
raica talega na Nodra iVakavuvuli<br />
na Peresitedi <strong>ni</strong> Lotu: Joseph F.<br />
Smith (1998), 186–87.<br />
7. Eliza R. Snow, ena Relief Society<br />
Minutes, Sixth Ward, Salt Lake<br />
Stake, 16 <strong>ni</strong> Okosi., 1868, Vale<strong>ni</strong>vola<br />
<strong>ni</strong> iTukutuku <strong>ni</strong> Lotu, 16;<br />
vakatautauvatataki na sipeli kei<br />
na mata<strong>ni</strong>vola levu.<br />
8. Eliza R. Snow, ena Mt. Pleasant<br />
North Ward Relief Society Minutes,<br />
7 <strong>ni</strong> Okosi, 1880, Vale<strong>ni</strong>vola<br />
<strong>ni</strong> iTukutuku <strong>ni</strong> Lotu, 56; vakatautauvatataki<br />
na mata<strong>ni</strong>vola levu.<br />
9. Sarah M. Kimball, ena 15th<br />
Ward Relief Society Minutes,<br />
1868–1873, Vale<strong>ni</strong>vola <strong>ni</strong> iTukutuku<br />
<strong>ni</strong> Lotu; vakatautauvatataki<br />
na icegu.<br />
10. Jane Richards, ena “R. S. Reports,”<br />
Woman’s Exponent, Sepi.<br />
1907, 24.<br />
11. Minutes of General Board of<br />
Relief Society, 19 <strong>ni</strong> Epe, 1944,<br />
Vale<strong>ni</strong>vola <strong>ni</strong> iTukutuku <strong>ni</strong> Lotu,<br />
39–40.<br />
12. Belle S. Spafford, veivakatarogi<br />
Jill Mulvay [Derr], 1 <strong>ni</strong> Tise, 1975,<br />
ilavelavevolai se kato<strong>ni</strong>, Vale<strong>ni</strong>vola<br />
<strong>ni</strong> iTukutuku <strong>ni</strong> Lotu.<br />
13. Belle S. Spafford, vakatarogi mai<br />
vei Jill Mulvay [Derr], 8 <strong>ni</strong> Tise,<br />
1975, ilavelavevolai se kato<strong>ni</strong>,<br />
Vale<strong>ni</strong>vola <strong>ni</strong> iTukutuku <strong>ni</strong> Lotu.<br />
14. Henry B. Eyring, “<strong>Na</strong> iYau<strong>ni</strong>bula<br />
Tudei <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>,”<br />
Liaona, Nove. 2009, 123.<br />
15. Julie B. Beck, “‘Strengthen Thy<br />
Stakes’: Strong and Immovable<br />
in Faith,” ena Awake, Arise, and<br />
Come unto Christ: Talks from the<br />
2008 BYU Women’s Conference<br />
(Deseret Book, 2009), 86–87;<br />
sa veisau na vakavakadewa<br />
vaka-Potukali.<br />
16. Joseph Smith, ena Relief Society<br />
Minute Book, <strong>Na</strong>uvoo, Illinois,<br />
28 <strong>ni</strong> Epe, 1842, 38.<br />
17. Spencer W. Kimball, “Small Acts<br />
of Service,” Ensign, Tise. 1974, 5.<br />
18. Thomas S. Monson, ena Conference<br />
Report, Okot. 2009, 84; se<br />
Ensign, Nove. 2009, 86.
19. Dieter F. Uchtdorf, “<strong>Na</strong> Marau,<br />
na Nomu iVotavota,” Liaona,<br />
Nove. 2008, 120.<br />
20. Spencer W. Kimball, “A Vision of<br />
Visiting Teaching,” Ensign, June<br />
1978, 24; raica talega na Vunau<br />
kei na Veiyalayalati 20:53–54.<br />
21. Camilla Kimball, ena Caroline<br />
Eyring Miner kei Edward L.<br />
Kimball, Camilla: A Biography of<br />
Camilla Eyring Kimball (1980), 175.<br />
22. Cathie Humphrey, ena “Strong<br />
Hands and Loving Hearts,”<br />
Ensign, Tise. 2004, 36–37.<br />
23. Cavuta o Mary Ellen Smoot, ena<br />
veivakatarogi mai vei Julie B.<br />
Beck, 20 <strong>ni</strong> Me, 2009, ilavelavevolai<br />
se kato<strong>ni</strong>, Vale<strong>ni</strong>vola <strong>ni</strong><br />
iTukutuku <strong>ni</strong> Lotu.<br />
24. “Liga Kaukauwa kei na Yalo<br />
Loloma,” 39.<br />
25. Spencer W. Kimball, ”A Vision of<br />
Visiting Teaching,” 24–25.<br />
26. Ena Virgi<strong>ni</strong>a U. Jensen, “Ripples,”<br />
Ensign, Nove. 2000, 94.<br />
27. Mary Ellen Smoot, ena Conference<br />
Report, Okot. 1997, 13–14;<br />
se Ensign, Nove. 1997, 12.<br />
28. Spencer W. Kimball, “A Vision of<br />
Visiting Teaching,” 26.<br />
29. Silvia H. Allred, “Sa Sega <strong>ni</strong><br />
Mudu na Loloma,” Ensign, Nove.<br />
2011, 115–16.<br />
30. Elaine L. Jack, ena Jaclyn W.<br />
Sorensen, “Visiting Teaching—<br />
Giv ing Selfless Service in a Loving<br />
Sisterhood,” Church News, 7<br />
<strong>ni</strong> Maji, 1992, 5.<br />
31. Vivien D. Olson, “The Visiting<br />
Tea cher Who Made a Difference,”<br />
Church News, 15 <strong>ni</strong> Me, 1982, 2.<br />
32. Hope Kanell Vernon, “The<br />
Visiting Teacher Who Made a<br />
Difference,” Church News, 12 <strong>ni</strong><br />
June, 1982, 2.<br />
33. Barbara W. Winder, “Striving<br />
Together: A Conversation with<br />
the Relief Society General<br />
Presiden cy,” Ensign, Maji 1985, 12.<br />
34. Robyn Romney Evans, “In the Vineyard,”<br />
Ensign, Maji 2004, 21–23.<br />
35. Lorenzo Snow, ena “Prest. Snow<br />
to Relief Societies,” Deseret<br />
Eve<strong>ni</strong>ng News, 9 <strong>ni</strong> Julai, 1901, 1;<br />
cavuti na Jemesa 1:27.<br />
Wase 8<br />
1. Mosese 1:39.<br />
2. Dallin H. Oaks, ena Conference<br />
Report, Epe. 1992, 51; se Ensign,<br />
Me 1992, 36.<br />
3. John A. Widtsoe, Priesthood and<br />
Church Government (1939), 83.<br />
4. Elaine L. Jack, ena Conference<br />
Report, Okot. 1996, 105; se<br />
Ensign, Nove. 1996, 76–77.<br />
5. Sheri L. Dew, ena Conference<br />
Report, Okot. 2001, 13; se Ensign,<br />
Nove. 2001, 13; cavuti Vunau kei<br />
na Veiyalayalati 109:22.<br />
6. Elizabeth Ann Whitney, “A Leaf<br />
from an Autobiography,” Woman’s<br />
Exponent, 1 <strong>ni</strong> Sepi, 1878, 51.<br />
7. Elizabeth Ann Whitney, “A Leaf<br />
from an Autobiography,” Woman’s<br />
Exponent, 1 <strong>ni</strong> Okosi, 1878, 33.<br />
8. Joseph Smith, ena Relief Society<br />
Minute Book, <strong>Na</strong>uvoo, Illinois,<br />
28 <strong>ni</strong> Epe, 1842, Vale<strong>ni</strong>vola <strong>ni</strong><br />
iTukutuku <strong>ni</strong> Lotu, 36.<br />
9. Yavu <strong>ni</strong> Vakabauta 1:7.<br />
10. Amanda Barnes Smith, ena<br />
Edward W. Tullidge, The Women<br />
of Mormondom (1877), 124, 128;<br />
raica talega Our Heritage: A Brief<br />
History of The Church of Jesus<br />
Christ of Latter-day Saints (1996),<br />
47–48; na itaukei <strong>ni</strong> iqaqi e dua na<br />
turaga na yacana o Jacob Hawn.<br />
11. Elizabeth Ann Whitney, “A Leaf<br />
from an Autobiography,” Woman’s<br />
Exponent, 1 <strong>ni</strong> Okosi, 1878, 33.<br />
12. Joseph Smith, cavuta o Mercy<br />
Fielding Thompson, ena“Recollections<br />
of the Prophet Joseph<br />
Smith,” Juve<strong>ni</strong>le Instructor, 1 <strong>ni</strong><br />
Julai, 1892, 400.<br />
13. Vunau kei na Veiyalayalati 95:8.<br />
14. Vunau kei na Veiyalayalati 97:28.<br />
15. Vunau kei na Veiyalayalati<br />
97:13–14.<br />
16. Vunau kei na Veiyalayalati 124:28,<br />
40.<br />
17. Elizabeth Ann Whitney, “A Leaf<br />
from an Autobiography,” Woman’s<br />
Exponent, 15 <strong>ni</strong> Fepe, 1879, 191.<br />
18. Raica na Vunau kei na Veiyalayalati<br />
84:19–22.<br />
19. Joseph Fielding Smith, “Relief<br />
Society—an Aid to the Priesthood,”<br />
Relief Society Magazine,<br />
Janu. 1959, 5–6.<br />
20. Russell M. Nelson, ena Conference<br />
Report, Epe. 2006, 38; se<br />
Ensign, Me 2006, 37.<br />
21. Richard G. Scott, “The Doctrinal<br />
Foundation of the Auxiliaries,”<br />
Soqo<strong>ni</strong> <strong>ni</strong> Vuli Veiliutaki e Vuravura<br />
Raraba, 10 <strong>ni</strong> Janu, 2004, 5.<br />
22. Dallin H. Oaks, ena Conference<br />
Report, Epe. 1992, 51; se Ensign,<br />
Me 1992, 37; cavuti 1 Kori<strong>ni</strong>ca<br />
11:11.<br />
23. Dallin H. Oaks, ena Conference<br />
Report, Epe. 1992, 51; se Ensign,<br />
Me 1992, 37; cavuti Vunau kei na<br />
Veiyalayalati 14:7.<br />
24. Raica na Vunau kei na Veiyalayalati<br />
68:25–28.<br />
25. Bruce R. McConkie, ena Conference<br />
Report, Sydney Australia<br />
Area Conference 1976, 34; cavuti<br />
na Mosese 5:11.<br />
26. “<strong>Na</strong> Matavuvale: Ai Vakaro ki<br />
Vuravura Raraba,” tabana 167<br />
ena ivola oqo.<br />
27. Dallin H. Oaks, ena Conference<br />
Report, Okot. 2005, 24, 26, 28; se<br />
Ensign, Nove. 2005, 24, 26–27.<br />
28. iTukutuku sega <strong>ni</strong> tabaki; sega <strong>ni</strong><br />
tuku<strong>ni</strong> na yacana e vola.<br />
29. Boyd K. Packer, ena Confer ence<br />
Report, Epe. 1998, 95–96; se<br />
Ensign, Me 1998, 72–73; cavuti<br />
Vunau kei na Veiyalayalati<br />
213
214<br />
107:5kei Joseph Smith, ena<br />
Sarah M. Kimball, “Autobiography,”<br />
Woman’s Exponent,<br />
1 <strong>ni</strong> Sepi, 1883, 51.<br />
30. Vunau kei na Veiyalayalati 38:27.<br />
31. Joseph Smith, ena Relief Society<br />
Minute Book, <strong>Na</strong>uvoo, Illinois,<br />
30 <strong>ni</strong> Maji, 1842, 22.<br />
32. Eliza R. Snow, ena Relief Society<br />
Minutes, Eleventh Ward, Salt<br />
Lake Stake, 3 <strong>ni</strong> Maji, 1869,<br />
Vale<strong>ni</strong>vola <strong>ni</strong> iTukutuku <strong>ni</strong> Lotu.<br />
33. Bathsheba W. Smith, “Official<br />
Announcement,” Woman’s Exponent,<br />
1 <strong>ni</strong> Janu., 1902, 68.<br />
34. Henry B. Eyring, “<strong>Na</strong> iYau<strong>ni</strong>bula<br />
Tudei <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>,”<br />
Liaona, Nove. 2009, 123.<br />
35. Barbara W. Winder, vakatarogi<br />
mai vei Susan W. Tanner, 3 <strong>ni</strong><br />
Janu., 2011, ilavelavevolai se<br />
kato<strong>ni</strong>, Vale<strong>ni</strong>vola <strong>ni</strong> iTukutuku<br />
<strong>ni</strong> Lotu, 1.<br />
36. Barbara W. Winder, vakatarogi<br />
mai vei Susan W. Tanner, 3 <strong>ni</strong><br />
Janu, 2011, 1.<br />
37. Vunau kei na Veiyalayalati 6:32<br />
38. Thomas S. Monson, ena Conference<br />
Report, Okot. 1992, 68; se<br />
Ensign, Nove. 1992, 48–49.<br />
39. Spencer W. Kimball, “Relief Society—Its<br />
Promise and Potential,”<br />
Ensign, Maji 1976, 4.<br />
40. Joseph Fielding Smith, “Relief<br />
Society—an Aid to the Priesthood,”<br />
5.<br />
41. Gordon B. Hinckley, ena Conference<br />
Report, Okot. 1996, 90–91;<br />
se Ensign, Nove. 1996, 67–68.<br />
Wase 9<br />
1. Gordon B. Hinckley, “Stand<br />
Strong against the Wiles of the<br />
World,” Ensign, Nove. 1995, 100.<br />
2. “<strong>Na</strong> Matavuvale: Ai Vakaro ki Vuravura<br />
Raraba,” tabana e 166–67<br />
ena ivola oqo.<br />
3. Gordon B. Hinckley, cavuti ena<br />
“Inspirational Thoughts,” Ensign,<br />
Okosi. 1997, 5.<br />
4. Barbara Thompson, “I Will<br />
Strengthen Thee; I Will Help<br />
Thee,” Ensign, Nove. 2007, 117.<br />
5. Bon<strong>ni</strong>e D. Parkin, “Parents Have<br />
a Sacred Duty,” Ensign, June<br />
2006, 93.<br />
6. Gordon B. Hinckley, “Stand<br />
Strong against the Wiles of the<br />
World,” 101.<br />
7. James E. Faust, “The Grand Key-<br />
Words for the Relief Society,”<br />
Ensign, Nove. 1996, 94; vakatautauvatataki<br />
na mata<strong>ni</strong>vola levu.<br />
8. Gordon B. Hinckley, “Stand<br />
Strong against the Wiles of the<br />
World,” 100.<br />
9. “<strong>Na</strong> Matavuvale: Ai Vakaro ki<br />
Vuravura Raraba,” tabana 166<br />
ena ivola oqo.<br />
10. Julie B. Beck, “Teaching the Doctrine<br />
of the Family,” Ensign, Maji<br />
2011, 12.<br />
11. Raica na Vunau kei na Veiyalayalati<br />
138:38–39; Mosese 5:10–12.<br />
12. Raica na Ai Vakatekivu 27–28;<br />
raica talega na Julie B. Beck,<br />
“Teaching the Doctrine of the<br />
Family,” 16.<br />
13. Raica na 1 Tui 17:8–24.<br />
14. Raica na Alama 56:47–48.<br />
15. Raica na Luke 2:40–52.<br />
16. Raica na Vunau kei na Veiyalayalati<br />
68:25–28; 93:36–48; 131:1–3.<br />
17. Eliza R. Snow, “An Address,”<br />
Woman’s Exponent, 15 <strong>ni</strong> Sepi,<br />
1873, 63.<br />
18. Zina D. H. Young, ena “First<br />
General Conference of the Relief<br />
Society,” Woman’s Exponent, 15 <strong>ni</strong><br />
Epe, 1889, 172.<br />
19. Joseph F. Smith, ena Deseret<br />
Weekly, 9 <strong>ni</strong> Janu., 1892, 71; raica<br />
talega Nodra iVakavuvuli na<br />
Peresitedi <strong>ni</strong> Lotu: Joseph F. Smith<br />
(1998), 31–32.<br />
20. Zina D. H. Young, ena “Relief Society<br />
Jubilee,” Woman’s Exponent,<br />
1 <strong>ni</strong> Epe, 1892, 140.<br />
21. Zina D. H. Young, ena “First<br />
General Conference of the Relief<br />
Society,” 172.<br />
22. Joseph F. Smith, ena Minutes<br />
of Relief Society General Board,<br />
17 <strong>ni</strong> Maji, 1914, 50–51; me vaka<br />
e cavuti ena Nodra iVakavuvuli na<br />
Peresitedi <strong>ni</strong> Lotu: Joseph F. Smith<br />
(1998), 186.<br />
23. Sheri L. Dew, “Are We Not All<br />
Mothers?” Ensign, Nove. 2001, 97.<br />
24. Bon<strong>ni</strong>e D. Parkin, “Parents Have<br />
a Sacred Duty,” 97.<br />
25. Barbara W. Winder, ena “Enriching<br />
and Protecting the Home,”<br />
Ensign, Maji 1986, 20.<br />
26. Belle S. Spafford, vakatarogi mai<br />
vei Jill Mulvay [Derr], 8 <strong>ni</strong> Maji,<br />
1976, ilavelavevolai se kato<strong>ni</strong>,<br />
Vale<strong>ni</strong>vola <strong>ni</strong> iTukutuku <strong>ni</strong> Lotu,<br />
238.<br />
27. M. Russell Ballard, ena Conference<br />
Report, Epe. 2010, 17; se<br />
Ensign, Me 2010, 18.<br />
28. Raica na Sheri L. Dew, “Are We<br />
Not All Mothers?” 96–98.<br />
29. Julie B. Beck, ena Conference<br />
Report, Okot. 2007, 81; se Ensign,<br />
Nove. 2007, 76–77.<br />
30. Howard W. Hunter, “To the<br />
Women of the Church,” Ensign,<br />
Nove. 1992, 96.<br />
31. iTukutuku mai na Mataveiliutaki<br />
Taumada, ena Conference<br />
Report, Okot. 1942, 12; wilika o<br />
J. Reuben Clark Jr.<br />
32. iTukutuku mai na Mataveiliutaki<br />
Taumada, ena Conference<br />
Report, Okot. 1942, 12–13; wilika<br />
o J. Reuben Clark Jr.<br />
33. Barbara B. Smith, A Fruitful<br />
Season (1988), 55.<br />
34. George W. Cornell, “Homemakers<br />
Get a Boost,” Fresno<br />
[Califor<strong>ni</strong>a] Bee, 5 <strong>ni</strong> Epe., 1978,
C-5; cavuti ena Jill Mulvay Derr,<br />
Janath Russell Cannon, kei<br />
Maureen Ursenbach Beecher,<br />
Women of Covenant: The Story<br />
of Relief Society (1992), 361.<br />
35. Raica na Susan W. Tanner,<br />
“Strengthe<strong>ni</strong>ng Future Mothers,”<br />
Ensign, June 2005, 20.<br />
36. David O. McKay cavuti J. E.<br />
McCulloch, Home: The Savior of<br />
Civilization (1924), 42; ena Conference<br />
Report, Epe. 1935, 116.<br />
37. Harold B. Lee, “Be Loyal to the<br />
Royal within You,” ena Speeches<br />
of the Year: BYU Devotional and<br />
Ten-Stake Fireside Addresses 1973<br />
(1974), 91; raica talega na Nodra<br />
iVakavuvuli na Peresitedi <strong>ni</strong> Lotu:<br />
Harold B. Lee (2000), 134.<br />
38. Spencer W. Kimball, ena Conference<br />
Report, Okot. 1980, 3–4; se<br />
Ensign, Nove. 1980, 4.<br />
39. James E. Faust, ena Conference<br />
Report, Epe. 2003, 70; se Ensign,<br />
Me 2003, 68.<br />
40. Gordon B. Hinckley, “Tudei ka<br />
Sega <strong>ni</strong> Yavalati Rawa,” Soqo<strong>ni</strong> <strong>ni</strong><br />
Vuli Veiliutaki e Vuravura Raraba,<br />
10 <strong>ni</strong> Janu, 2004, 20.<br />
41. Raica na Spencer W. Kimball, ena<br />
Conference Report, Okot. 1971,<br />
152–56;se Ensign, Tise. 1971,<br />
36–39.<br />
42. Gordon B. Hinckley, “Stand<br />
Strong against the Wiles of the<br />
World,” 101.<br />
43. Spencer W. Kimball, “Privileges<br />
and Responsibilities of Sisters,”<br />
Ensign, Nove. 1978, 103.<br />
44. Gordon B. Hinckley, “Stand<br />
Strong against the Wiles of the<br />
World,” 101.<br />
Wase 10<br />
1. Joseph Smith, ena Relief Society<br />
Minute Book, <strong>Na</strong>uvoo, Illinois,<br />
28 <strong>ni</strong> Epe, 1842, Vale<strong>ni</strong>vola <strong>ni</strong><br />
iTukutuku <strong>ni</strong> Lotu, 38; sa vakatautauvatataki<br />
na sipeli, icegu,<br />
kei na mata<strong>ni</strong>vola levu me vaka<br />
e gadrevi ena veitikina cavuti<br />
kece mai na ivola <strong>ni</strong> itukutuku<br />
<strong>ni</strong> soqo<strong>ni</strong> oqo.<br />
2. Mary Ellen Smoot, “Rejoice,<br />
Daughters of Zion,” Ensign,<br />
Nove. 1999, 92–93.<br />
3. M. Russell Ballard, “Women of<br />
Righteousness,” Ensign, Epe.<br />
2002, 69.<br />
4. Josefa Simici, ena Relief Society<br />
Minute Book, <strong>Na</strong>uvoo, Illinois,<br />
28 <strong>ni</strong> Epe, 1842, 38.<br />
5. Henry B. Eyring, “<strong>Na</strong> iYau<strong>ni</strong>bula<br />
Tudei <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>,”<br />
Liaona, Nove. 2009, 121–25.<br />
6. Raica na Athelia T. Woolley, vata<br />
kei na Athelia S. Tanner, “Our<br />
Five-Generation Love Affair with<br />
Relief Society,” Ensign, June 1978,<br />
37–39.<br />
7. Henry B. Eyring, “The Enduring<br />
Legacy of Relief Society,” 124–25.<br />
8. Iperiu 12: 1–2.<br />
9. Vunau kei na Veiyalayalati 138:39.<br />
10. Eliza R. Snow, “Speech by E. R.<br />
Snow,” Woman’s Exponent, 1 <strong>ni</strong><br />
Me, 1891, 167; vakatautauvatataki<br />
na mata<strong>ni</strong>vola levu.<br />
11. Raica na Lynne Christy, “Now<br />
It’s My Turn,” Ensign, Maji 1992,<br />
25–27.<br />
12. Joseph F. Smith, ena Minutes<br />
of the General Board of Relief<br />
Society, 17 <strong>ni</strong> Maji, 1914, Vale<strong>ni</strong>vola<br />
<strong>ni</strong> iTukutuku <strong>ni</strong> Lotu, 54–55.<br />
13. Esiteri 4:14.<br />
14. Niemaia 6:3.<br />
15. 1Nifai 14:14.<br />
16. Emma Smith, ena Relief Society<br />
Minute Book, <strong>Na</strong>uvoo, Illinois,<br />
17 <strong>ni</strong> Maji, 1842, 12.<br />
17. Vunau kei na Veiyalayalati 25:1,<br />
10, 13.<br />
18. Josefa Simici, ena Relief Society<br />
Minute Book, <strong>Na</strong>uvoo, Illinois,<br />
28 <strong>ni</strong> Epe, 1842, 38–39.<br />
215
216<br />
Tabana e ii Karisito ena iCurucuru Damudamu, mai vei<br />
Minerva K. Teichert. © IRI. iLoloma <strong>ni</strong> Vale<strong>ni</strong>yaya<br />
Makawa <strong>ni</strong> iTukutuku <strong>ni</strong> Lotu.<br />
iKau<br />
Tabana e xi Vakavulici Meri tiko kei Marica na Karisito,<br />
mai vei Anton Dorph. © Hope Gallery.<br />
Wase 1<br />
Tabana e 1<br />
e<br />
b<br />
a. <strong>Na</strong> ilavo lalai me vaka e tuku<strong>ni</strong> ena<br />
Marika 12:41–44.<br />
b. O Meri kei na Karisito sa Vakaturi Cake<br />
Tale, mai vei Harry Anderson. © IRI.<br />
c. iCulakau, e dua na nodra iyaya <strong>ni</strong> talitali<br />
na marama. iLoloma nei Carma de Jong<br />
Anderson.<br />
a<br />
iTuvatuva <strong>ni</strong> iTaba<br />
c<br />
d<br />
f<br />
d. iSulu me vakaraitaka na mataqali isulu e<br />
dau daramaki ena gauna <strong>ni</strong> Veiyalayalati Vou.<br />
iLoloma nei Carma de Jong Anderson.<br />
e. Se<strong>ni</strong>kau na Kalokalo kei Peceliema,<br />
itaukei ki na Vanua Tabu.<br />
f. Buli tale e dua na cina waiwai tautauvata<br />
kei na kena e dau vakayagataki ena gauna i<br />
Karisito. Bulia o Andrew Watson.<br />
Tabana e 4 Kena matailalai na Rogoca o Meri na Nona<br />
Vosa, mai vei Walter Rane. © 2001 IRI.<br />
Tabana e 5 Kena matailalai na Wai<strong>ni</strong>bula, mai vei Simon<br />
Dewey. © Simon Dewey.<br />
Tabana e 6 Culacula o Tapaica, mai vei Jeremy Winborg.<br />
© Jeremy Winborg.<br />
Wase 2<br />
Tabana e 11<br />
g<br />
a<br />
a. Sabolo <strong>ni</strong> nodra icula veilatai na pai<strong>ni</strong>a.<br />
Lolomataka na Vale<strong>ni</strong>yaya Makawa <strong>ni</strong> iTukutuku<br />
<strong>ni</strong> Lotu.<br />
b<br />
c d<br />
h<br />
e f
. Kena matailalai na Josefa Simici, mai vei<br />
Kenneth Corbett. © Kenneth Corbett.<br />
c. <strong>Na</strong> ilavelave volai <strong>ni</strong> iVola <strong>ni</strong> iVakaro kei<br />
na iVakatakila <strong>ni</strong> 1830 vakacaca, ka tu kina<br />
na ivolatukutuku <strong>ni</strong> ivakatakila ka a soli mai<br />
vua na Parofita o Josefa Simici. E vuqa na<br />
ivakatakila oqori sa tu ena gauna oqo ena<br />
Vunau kei na Veiyalayalati.<br />
d. Kena matailalai na Emma Hale Smith, mai<br />
vei Lee Greene Richards. © 1941 IRI.<br />
e. <strong>Na</strong>uvoo, Illinois, 1859, mai vei John<br />
Schroder. © IRI.<br />
f. Waqana iloloma <strong>ni</strong> Vale<strong>ni</strong>yaya Makawa <strong>ni</strong><br />
iTukutuku <strong>ni</strong> Lotu.<br />
g. <strong>Na</strong> ibulukau kei na qa<strong>ni</strong>liga iloloma <strong>ni</strong><br />
Nodra <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> Raraba na Luvedra Yalewa<br />
na Pai<strong>ni</strong>a mai Utah.<br />
h. Nodra iculaliga, wa<strong>ni</strong>culacula, kei na ikoti<br />
na pai<strong>ni</strong>a lolomataka na Vale<strong>ni</strong>yaya Makawa<br />
<strong>ni</strong> iTukutuku <strong>ni</strong> Lotu.<br />
Tabana e 12 Josefa Simici ena Valetabu mai <strong>Na</strong>uvoo, mai vei<br />
Gary Smith. © Gary Smith.<br />
Tabana e 13 Kena matailalai na Emma Hale Smith, mai<br />
vei Lee Greene Richards. © 1941 IRI.<br />
Tabana e 14 Tauyavu <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>, mai vei<br />
<strong>Na</strong>dine B. Barton. © 1985 IRI.<br />
Tabana e 15 iYaloyalo kei John Taylor. Lolomataka na Vale<strong>ni</strong>vola<br />
<strong>ni</strong> iTukutuku <strong>ni</strong> Lotu.<br />
Tabana e 16 Vakalesui mai <strong>ni</strong> Matabete i Melikiseteki, mai<br />
vei Walter Rane. © IRI.<br />
Tabana e 17 Emma Smith, mai vei Robert Barrett. © 1991<br />
Robert Barrett.<br />
Tabana e 18 Kena matailalai na Come Let Us Rejoice, mai<br />
vei Walter Rane. Lolomataka na Vale<strong>ni</strong>yaya<br />
Makawa <strong>ni</strong> iTukutuku <strong>ni</strong> Lotu.<br />
Tabana e 23 Emma, na <strong>Marama</strong> Digitaki <strong>ni</strong> Veivakalesui<br />
Mai, 1839, mai vei Theodore S. Gorka.<br />
© 1996 IRI.<br />
Tabana e 26 Josefa Simici, mai vei Kenneth Corbett.<br />
© Kenneth Corbett.<br />
Wase 3<br />
Tabana e 31<br />
a<br />
a. Nodra matakau na pai<strong>ni</strong>a iloloma <strong>ni</strong><br />
Nodra <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> Raraba na Luvedra Yalewa<br />
na Pai<strong>ni</strong>a mai Utah.<br />
b. Lili seko, e dua na ivakatakilakila <strong>ni</strong><br />
<strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>. Era dau ka<strong>ni</strong>a na lili<br />
seko na tawavanua taumada ena veigauna<br />
<strong>ni</strong> walokai.<br />
c. Nodra lacadrau na pai<strong>ni</strong>a iloloma <strong>ni</strong><br />
Vale<strong>ni</strong>yaya Makawa <strong>ni</strong> iTukutuku <strong>ni</strong> Lotu.<br />
d. iVola<strong>ni</strong>sere Vakaaisiladi iloloma <strong>ni</strong> Nodra<br />
<strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> Raraba na Luvedra Yalewa na<br />
Pai<strong>ni</strong>a mai Utah.<br />
e. Valetabu e <strong>Na</strong>uvoo, mai vei Jon<br />
Mc<strong>Na</strong>ughton. © Jon Mc<strong>Na</strong>ughton.<br />
f. Waqana iloloma <strong>ni</strong> Vale<strong>ni</strong>yaya Makawa <strong>ni</strong><br />
iTukutuku <strong>ni</strong> Lotu.<br />
Tabana e 32 Kena matailalai na Valetabu e <strong>Na</strong>uvoo Illinois,<br />
mai vei M. Richard Goodwin. © Rivermills<br />
Fine Art.<br />
Tabana e 35 Wai kamica, mai vei Harold Hopkinson.<br />
© Harold Hopkinson.<br />
Tabana e 36 iTaba kei Eliza Partridge Lyman. iLoloma <strong>ni</strong><br />
Vale<strong>ni</strong>vola <strong>ni</strong> iTukutuku <strong>ni</strong> Lotu.<br />
Madonna <strong>ni</strong> Veibuca, mai vei Robert Barrett.<br />
© 1987 Robert Barrett.<br />
b<br />
d<br />
c<br />
e f<br />
217
218<br />
Tabana e 38 Kena matailalai na Bathsheba W. Smith, mai<br />
vei Lee Greene Richards. © IRI. iLoloma <strong>ni</strong><br />
Vale<strong>ni</strong>yaya Makawa <strong>ni</strong> iTukutuku <strong>ni</strong> Lotu.<br />
Tabana e 38 Wash Day on the Plains, mai vei Minerva K.<br />
Teichert. 1938. iLoloma <strong>ni</strong> Brigham Young<br />
U<strong>ni</strong>versity Museum of Art. Dodonu kece e<br />
taqomaki. Kakua <strong>ni</strong> lavetaki.<br />
Tabana e 39 Kena matailalai na Elizabeth H. Jackson:<br />
Pioneer Mother, mai vei Megan Rieker.<br />
Tabana e 40 Kena matailalai na Pioneer Garden, mai vei<br />
VaLoy Eaton. © VaLoy Eaton. iLoloma <strong>ni</strong><br />
Zions Bank. Kakua <strong>ni</strong> lavetaki.<br />
Wase 4<br />
Tabana e 45<br />
a<br />
d<br />
a. iUbi iloloma <strong>ni</strong> International Society<br />
Daughters of Utah Pioneers.<br />
b. Kedra itaba na lewe <strong>ni</strong> dua na kalasi tauri<br />
ivola ena Koro<strong>ni</strong>vuli <strong>ni</strong> Vuli <strong>Na</strong>si <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong><br />
<strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>. Lolomataka na <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> Raraba<br />
na Luvedra Yalewa na Pai<strong>ni</strong>a mai Utah.<br />
f<br />
e<br />
b<br />
c<br />
g<br />
c. Waqana iLoloma <strong>ni</strong> Nodra <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> Raraba<br />
na Luvedra Yalewa na Pai<strong>ni</strong>a mai Utah.<br />
d. Tabaki tale <strong>ni</strong> iTukutuku Vakau ena 1852<br />
iVola i Moma<strong>ni</strong> vaka-Jama<strong>ni</strong>.<br />
e. Relief Society Minute Book, <strong>Na</strong>uvoo mai<br />
Illinois, itukutuku vakau. iLoloma <strong>ni</strong> Vale<strong>ni</strong>yaya<br />
Makawa <strong>ni</strong> iTukutuku <strong>ni</strong> Lotu (Raica na<br />
tabana e 46.)<br />
f. Witi, e dua na ivakatakilakila <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong><br />
<strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>. (Raica na tabana e 52–54.)<br />
g. Pe<strong>ni</strong> vakaiqi iloloma <strong>ni</strong> Nodra <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong><br />
Raraba na Luvedra Yalewa na Pai<strong>ni</strong>a mai Utah.<br />
Tabana e 47 Kena imatailalai na Eliza R. Snow. iLoloma <strong>ni</strong><br />
Vale<strong>ni</strong>yaya Makawa <strong>ni</strong> iTukutuku <strong>ni</strong> Lotu.<br />
Tabana e 48 Vakasalataki ira na <strong>Marama</strong> ena <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong><br />
<strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> o Eliza Snow mai vei Michael T.<br />
Malm. © Michael T. Malm.<br />
Tabana e 50 Kena matailalai na masu, mai vei Walter<br />
Rane. © Walter Rane.<br />
Tabana e 52 Kena matailalai na Vuli ena Siga <strong>ni</strong> Vakacecegu,<br />
mai vei Sheri Lynn Boyer Doty. © IRI<br />
iLoloma nei Sheri Lynn Boyer Doty.<br />
Tabana e 54 Spencer W. Kimball, mai vei Judith A. Mehr.<br />
© IRI.<br />
Brigham Young, mai vei John Willard<br />
Clawson.<br />
Tabana e 57 Kena matailalai na Zina Diantha Huntington<br />
Young. iLoloma <strong>ni</strong> Vale<strong>ni</strong>yaya Makawa <strong>ni</strong><br />
iTukutuku <strong>ni</strong> Lotu.<br />
Tabana e 62 Kena matailalai na Vueti <strong>ni</strong> Lami ka Yali, mai<br />
vei Minerva K. Teichert.
Wase 5<br />
Tabana e 69<br />
a<br />
i<br />
e f<br />
c<br />
b<br />
g<br />
a. iTukuktuku ena dua na posikadi me baleta<br />
na Beaver West Ward Relief Society Hall, 1909.<br />
iLoloma <strong>ni</strong> Vale<strong>ni</strong>vola <strong>ni</strong> iTukutuku <strong>ni</strong> Lotu.<br />
b. iVola mai na matabose raraba <strong>ni</strong><br />
Soqosoqo <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> ka ra veisoliyaka na<br />
dauveisiko, ka kerei tiko kina nai sulu me<br />
vakau vei ira na yalododonu mai Iurope ena<br />
i Karua <strong>ni</strong> iValu Levu. iLoloma <strong>ni</strong> Vale<strong>ni</strong>vola<br />
<strong>ni</strong> iTukutuku <strong>ni</strong> Lotu.<br />
c. iTaba kei Karisito, mai vei Heinrich<br />
Hofmann. iLoloma <strong>ni</strong> C. Harrison Conroy<br />
Co., Inc.<br />
d. iTaba iloloma <strong>ni</strong> Vale<strong>ni</strong>vola <strong>ni</strong> iTukutuku<br />
<strong>ni</strong> Lotu.<br />
e. iVakatakilakila <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong><br />
ena dua na sitivikiti <strong>ni</strong> rawa ka ka solia na<br />
matabose raraba <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>.<br />
iLoloma <strong>ni</strong> Vale<strong>ni</strong>vola <strong>ni</strong> iTukutuku <strong>ni</strong> Lotu.<br />
f. Pi<strong>ni</strong> <strong>ni</strong> Kauveilatai Damudamu iloloma <strong>ni</strong><br />
Vale<strong>ni</strong>yaya Makawa <strong>ni</strong> iTukutuku <strong>ni</strong> Lotu.<br />
g. iVakaraitaki <strong>ni</strong> dodonu kece e taqomaki<br />
<strong>ni</strong> White trillium Gerald A. DeBoer, 2010.<br />
Vakayagataka <strong>ni</strong> vakalaise<strong>ni</strong>taki mai na<br />
Shutterstock.com.<br />
d<br />
h<br />
h. Baosi <strong>ni</strong> koi<strong>ni</strong> mai vei Harriet Barney<br />
Young. iLoloma <strong>ni</strong> Nodra <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> Raraba<br />
na Luvedra Yalewa na Pai<strong>ni</strong>a mai Utah.<br />
i. Vulaqeti lacadrau damudamu iloloma nei<br />
Carma de Jong Anderson.<br />
Tabana e 70 Kena matailalai na Emmeline B. Wells, mai<br />
vei Lee Greene Richards. iLoloma <strong>ni</strong> Vale<strong>ni</strong>yaya<br />
Makawa <strong>ni</strong> iTukutuku <strong>ni</strong> Lotu<br />
Tabana e 72 Kena matailalai na Joseph F. Smith, mai vei<br />
Albert E. Salzbrenner.<br />
Tabana e 74 Kena matailalai na Louise Y. Robison, mai vei<br />
John Willard Clawson. iLoloma <strong>ni</strong> Vale<strong>ni</strong>yaya<br />
Makawa <strong>ni</strong> iTukutuku <strong>ni</strong> Lotu<br />
Tabana e 78 Kena matailalai na Heber J. Grant, mai vei<br />
C. J. Fox. © IRI<br />
Tabana e 74 Kena matailalai na Clarissa S. Williams, mai<br />
vei Lee Greene Richards. © 1924 IRI. iLoloma<br />
<strong>ni</strong> Vale<strong>ni</strong>yaya Makawa <strong>ni</strong> iTukutuku <strong>ni</strong><br />
Lotu.<br />
Tabana e 82 Kena matailalai na Amy Brown Lyman, mai<br />
vei Lee Greene Richards. iLoloma <strong>ni</strong> Vale<strong>ni</strong>yaya<br />
Makawa <strong>ni</strong> iTukutuku <strong>ni</strong> Lotu.<br />
Tabana e 86 Kena matailalai na Vakabula na Mataboko o<br />
Karisito, mai vei Del Parson. © 1983 IRI.<br />
Wase 6<br />
Tabana e 91<br />
a<br />
c<br />
b<br />
d<br />
219
220<br />
a. iTaba mai vei Jeffrey D. Allred kei Mike<br />
Terry. © Deseret News.<br />
b. Culai vaka cakacaka<strong>ni</strong>liga na ivakatakilakila<br />
<strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>.<br />
c. iTaba <strong>ni</strong> dua na yalewa ka taura tu e dua<br />
na kato <strong>ni</strong> kumu<strong>ni</strong> ka <strong>ni</strong> Deseret Industries,<br />
1940 vakacaca iLoloma <strong>ni</strong> Vale<strong>ni</strong>vola <strong>ni</strong><br />
iTukutuku <strong>ni</strong> Lotu.<br />
d. Nodra isulutali na pai<strong>ni</strong>a iloloma mai na<br />
Vale<strong>ni</strong>yaya Makawa <strong>ni</strong> iTukutuku <strong>ni</strong> Lotu.<br />
(Raica na mala<strong>ni</strong>vosa nei Peresitedi Boyd K.<br />
Packer ena tabana e 99.)<br />
Tabana e 92 iWiri<strong>ni</strong> <strong>ni</strong> marama, mai vei David Dibble.<br />
© David Dibble.<br />
Tabana e 95 Kena matailalai na Belle S. Spafford, mai vei<br />
Alvin Gittins. iLoloma <strong>ni</strong> Vale<strong>ni</strong>yaya Makawa<br />
<strong>ni</strong> iTukutuku <strong>ni</strong> Lotu.<br />
Tabana e 96 Kacivi Pita kei Adriu na Karisito, mai vei<br />
Harry Anderson. © IRI.<br />
Tabana e 103 iTaba mai vei Elaine L. Jack © Busath.com.<br />
Tabana e 104 iTaba © Jason Swensen.<br />
Wase 7<br />
Tabana e 115<br />
f<br />
a<br />
b<br />
c<br />
d e<br />
a. Droti<strong>ni</strong> <strong>ni</strong> veitoka<strong>ni</strong> era cakava e dua na<br />
ilawalawa yalewa me ivakatakarakara <strong>ni</strong><br />
nodra veitoka<strong>ni</strong>. iLoloma <strong>ni</strong> Nodra <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong><br />
Raraba na Luvedra Yalewa na Pai<strong>ni</strong>a mai Utah.<br />
b. iVolatukutuku <strong>ni</strong> siko vuvale iloloma mai<br />
na Vale<strong>ni</strong>yaya Makawa <strong>ni</strong> iTukutuku <strong>ni</strong> Lotu.<br />
c. iTaba <strong>ni</strong> basikete © Joey Celis/Flickr/<br />
Getty Images.<br />
d. Kadi <strong>ni</strong> itukutuku lolomataka na Nodra<br />
<strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> Raraba na Luvedra Yalewa na<br />
Pai<strong>ni</strong>a mai Utah. E vaqo na ka e volai kina<br />
“E Noqu iTo na Turaga.”<br />
e. Veleti kei na itaki lolomataki na Nodra<br />
<strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> Raraba na Luvedra Yalewa na<br />
Pai<strong>ni</strong>a mai Utah.<br />
f. Koi<strong>ni</strong> <strong>ni</strong> Amerika mai na itekivu <strong>ni</strong> 1900<br />
vakacaca, ivakaraitaki <strong>ni</strong> cau era dau soqona<br />
na dausiko vuvale. iLoloma <strong>ni</strong> Carma<br />
de Jong Anderson.<br />
Tabana e 116 Vakamatailalai <strong>ni</strong> Yadudua, mai vei Walter<br />
Rane. iLoloma <strong>ni</strong> Vale<strong>ni</strong>yaya Makawa <strong>ni</strong> iTukutuku<br />
<strong>ni</strong> Lotu<br />
Tabana e 117 Yalewa Pai<strong>ni</strong>a, mai vei Julie Rogers. © Julie<br />
Rogers.<br />
Tabana e 119 Kena matailalai na Nodra Veivakayarayarataki<br />
na <strong>Marama</strong> Yalododonu, mai vei Julie Rogers.<br />
© 2009 Julie Rogers.<br />
Tabana e 121 Kena matailalai na Siko Vuvale, mai vei<br />
Shannon Gygi Christensen. © 2006<br />
Shannon Christensen.<br />
Tabana e 122 Droi<strong>ni</strong> mai vei Keith Larson. © 1992 Keith<br />
Larson.<br />
Tabana e 126 Kena matailalai na Lorenzo Snow, mai vei<br />
Lewis A. Ramsey. Vale<strong>ni</strong>yaya Makawa <strong>ni</strong> iTukutuku<br />
<strong>ni</strong> Lotu
Wase 8<br />
Tabana e 141<br />
a<br />
b<br />
a. <strong>Na</strong> ioro e cakava o Sarah Jane Casts<br />
Evans ena silika a rawata mai na manumanu<br />
<strong>ni</strong> silika. iLoloma <strong>ni</strong> Nodra <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> Raraba<br />
na Luvedra Yalewa na Pai<strong>ni</strong>a mai Utah.<br />
b. Tarai tiko <strong>ni</strong> Valetabu e Kirtland, mai vei<br />
Walter Rane, © IRI.<br />
c. Vatutaliva e vakayagataki ena kena tara<br />
tale na Valetabu e <strong>Na</strong>uvoo Illinois.<br />
Tabana e 142 Kena matailalai na Au na Sega Sara, mai vei<br />
Julie Rogers. © Julie Rogers.<br />
Tabana e 143 Kena matailalai na Joseph Fielding Smith, mai<br />
vei Shauna Cook Clinger. © 1983 IRI<br />
Tabana e 151 Rau Vakavulici Ira na Luvedrau o Atama kei<br />
Ivi, mai vei Del Parson. © 1978 IRI.<br />
Tabana e 151 Kena matailalai na Barbara B. Smith, mai vei<br />
Cloy Kent. © IRI.<br />
Tabana e 152 iTaba mai vei Barbara W. Winder © Busath<br />
Photography.<br />
c<br />
Wase 9<br />
Tabana e 163<br />
a b<br />
a. iYaloyalo kei Abbie H. Wells iloloma <strong>ni</strong><br />
Vale<strong>ni</strong>vola <strong>ni</strong> iTukutuku <strong>ni</strong> Lotu.<br />
b. Lokiti iloloma <strong>ni</strong> Nodra <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> Raraba<br />
na Luvedra Yalewa na Pai<strong>ni</strong>a mai Utah.<br />
c. iVakadewa vaka-Samoa <strong>ni</strong> “<strong>Na</strong> Matavuvale:<br />
Ai Vakaro ki Vuravura Raraba.”<br />
d. iTutuvi volavola barasitaki, cula, rokataki,<br />
ka talia o Eliza R. Snow <strong>ni</strong> se goneyalewa.<br />
iLoloma <strong>ni</strong> Nodra <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> Raraba na<br />
Luvedra Yalewa na Pai<strong>ni</strong>a mai Utah.<br />
Tabana e 164 Ni Moce, <strong>Na</strong> Noqu Cauravou Yaloqaqa, mai<br />
vei Del Parson. © Del Parson.<br />
Tabana e 168 O Repeka mai na Tobu Wai, mai vei Michael<br />
Deas. © 1995 IRI.<br />
Tabana e 169 iTaba kei Bon<strong>ni</strong>e D. Parkin © Busath.com.<br />
Tabana e 170 iTaba kei Julie B. Beck © Busath.com.<br />
c<br />
d<br />
221
222<br />
Wase 10<br />
Tabana e 189<br />
d<br />
a. Se<strong>ni</strong>kau kei na De <strong>ni</strong> Bafalo, mai vei<br />
Gary L. Kapp. iLoloma <strong>ni</strong> Vale<strong>ni</strong>yaya Makawa<br />
<strong>ni</strong> iTukutuku <strong>ni</strong> Lotu.<br />
b. Kedra itaba na yalewa e tautuba <strong>ni</strong> Valetabu<br />
e Mesa Arizona, 1920, mai vei George<br />
Edward Anderson. iLoloma <strong>ni</strong> Vale<strong>ni</strong>vola <strong>ni</strong><br />
iTukutuku <strong>ni</strong> Lotu.<br />
c. Pi<strong>ni</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>.<br />
d. Lacadrau cakava o Cristina Franco, caka<br />
me baleti iratou na mataveiliutaki raraba <strong>ni</strong><br />
Lalai.<br />
e. Tabana mai na Relief Society Minute<br />
Book, <strong>Na</strong>uvoo, Illinois, 17 <strong>ni</strong> Maji, 1842.<br />
iLoloma <strong>ni</strong> Vale<strong>ni</strong>vola <strong>ni</strong> iTukutuku <strong>ni</strong> Lotu.<br />
(Raica na tabana e 42.)<br />
Tabana e 190 Vuki na Yalo ki na Matavuvale, mai vei Anne<br />
Marie Oborn. © 1997 Anne Marie Oborn.<br />
Tabana e 175 iTaba © 2000 Steve Bunderson.<br />
a<br />
Tabana e 200 Kena matailalai na Queen Esther, mai vei<br />
Minerva K. Teichert. © William kei Betty<br />
Stokes.<br />
b<br />
e<br />
c<br />
Veika Bibi ena iTukutuku <strong>ni</strong><br />
<strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong><br />
Tabana e 204 Kena matailalai na Emma Hale Smith, mai<br />
vei Lee Greene Richards. © 1941 IRI.<br />
Kena matailalai na Tauyavu <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>,<br />
mai vei <strong>Na</strong>dine B. Barton. © 1985 IRI.<br />
Kena matailalai na <strong>Marama</strong> Pai<strong>ni</strong>a, mai vei<br />
Julie Rogers. © Julie Rogers.<br />
Kena matailalai na Nodrau vakamatei o Joseph<br />
kei Hyrum, mai vei Gary Smith. © 1984 IRI.<br />
<strong>Na</strong> iLesu <strong>ni</strong> Sala na Parley, mai vei Glen S.<br />
Hopkinson. © Glen S. Hopkinson.<br />
iTaba kei Brigham Young mai vei C. R.<br />
Savage.iLoloma <strong>ni</strong> Vale<strong>ni</strong>vola <strong>ni</strong> iTukutuku<br />
<strong>ni</strong> Lotu.<br />
Kena matailalai na Tauyavu <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong><br />
Bula Veisau mai vei Brigham Young, 1869, mai<br />
vei Dale Kilbourn. © IRI.<br />
Kena matailalai na Zina Diantha Huntington<br />
Young. iLoloma <strong>ni</strong> Vale<strong>ni</strong>yaya Makawa <strong>ni</strong><br />
iTukutuku <strong>ni</strong> Lotu.<br />
Tabana e 204 Kena matailalai na <strong>Na</strong> iMatai <strong>ni</strong> Soqo<strong>ni</strong> <strong>ni</strong><br />
<strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> Lalai, mai vei Lynn Fausett kei<br />
Gordon Cope. © IRI.<br />
iTaba <strong>ni</strong> Valetabu e Salt Lake. iLoloma <strong>ni</strong><br />
Vale<strong>ni</strong>vola <strong>ni</strong> iTukutuku <strong>ni</strong> Lotu.<br />
iTaba <strong>ni</strong> tikite <strong>ni</strong> kena vakatabui na Valetabu<br />
e Salt Lake. iLoloma <strong>ni</strong> Vale<strong>ni</strong>vola <strong>ni</strong> iTukutuku<br />
<strong>ni</strong> Lotu.<br />
Tabana e 206 Kedra itaba na yalewa era veiqaravi tiko<br />
© Jason Swensen.
A<br />
Agilosi, nodra itoka<strong>ni</strong> na marama<br />
yalodina ena <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>,<br />
189<br />
Aisake kei Repeka, vakadeitaka <strong>ni</strong> na<br />
sega <strong>ni</strong> yali na veiyalayalati, 150<br />
Allred, Silvia H., ena siko vuvale, 134;<br />
tukuna na veiqaravi nei tinana,<br />
103–104.<br />
Alvarenga, Hilda, susugi ira cake<br />
na marama ena nona peresitedi<br />
voli <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> ena<br />
tabana, 103–104<br />
Atama kei Ivi: vakavulica vata na<br />
luvedrau, 151, 153; veiyalayalati<br />
isema <strong>ni</strong>, 151<br />
B<br />
Ballard, M. Russell: ena nodra igu na<br />
marama kei na kedra icavacava<br />
vakalou, 176; ena nodra isolisoli<br />
era sucu kaya mai na marama<br />
vakadauveisusu, 175; ena nodra<br />
veiyalayalati na marama me ra tara<br />
na mata<strong>ni</strong>tu <strong>ni</strong> Kalou, 29<br />
Beck, Julie B.: ena ciqomi kei na cakacakataki<br />
<strong>ni</strong> ivakatakila yadua, 168;<br />
ena nodra muria na ivakaraitaki<br />
nei Jisu Karisito na dausiko vuvale,<br />
114; ena nona rawata na igu mai<br />
na <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> <strong>ni</strong> se<br />
tina gone, 111; ena rai <strong>ni</strong> Lotu me<br />
baleta na matavuvale, 168; ena<br />
veisusu kei na qaravi vale, 176; ena<br />
yavalati <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong><br />
me vaqaqacotaka na matavuvale,<br />
111–112; <strong>ni</strong> ra tisaipeli i Karisito<br />
na marama ena <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong><br />
<strong>Veivukei</strong>, 8<br />
iTuvatuva Vakamata<strong>ni</strong>vola<br />
Benson, Ezra Taft: ena kena vakatakilai<br />
mai na valetabu na kaukauwa vakalou,<br />
145; ena nodra dau tiko vata<br />
kei na luvedra o ira na tina, 179<br />
Biereichel, Hedwig, <strong>ni</strong> dua na ivakaraitaki<br />
<strong>ni</strong> yaloqaqa kei na vakabauta, 89<br />
Brown, Hugh B., ena ivakaraitaki <strong>ni</strong><br />
loloma cecere ena iKarua <strong>ni</strong> iValu<br />
Levu, 88<br />
Bula rawati koya: kena ivakaraitaki,<br />
vei ira na marama ena <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong><br />
<strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> ena mua <strong>ni</strong> 1800<br />
vakacaca, 51–58; tarai cake, 51;<br />
vakabulabulataki, ena gauna <strong>ni</strong><br />
Leqa Levu Vakailavo, 70–72<br />
Bula veisau: ibalebale <strong>ni</strong>, 45; vunautaka<br />
o Brigham Young kei Eliza R.<br />
Snow, 45<br />
C c<br />
Caka, silika, 52<br />
Cakacaka vakalotu, kena veivakalougatataki,<br />
15, 128–29. Raica talega<br />
Matabete; Veiyalayalati<br />
cakacaka vata kei ira na marama <strong>ni</strong><br />
Brazil o Bangerter, Geraldine me tauyavu<br />
na siko vuvale mai Brazil, 123<br />
Call, Theresa Thompson, vakadewa na<br />
isolisoli <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> ki<br />
na nona matavuvale, 196<br />
Chukwurah, Florence, ciqoma na<br />
veivakauqeti <strong>ni</strong> dausiko vuvale<br />
voli, 115–16<br />
Clark, J. Reuben Jr., sota kei ira na<br />
veiliutaki <strong>ni</strong> Lotu me veivosakitaka<br />
na kena vakarawarawataki na<br />
parokaramu kei na itaviqaravi, 74<br />
Cleveland, Sarah M., vakatikori me<br />
dua na lewe <strong>ni</strong> imatai <strong>ni</strong> mataveiliutaki<br />
<strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>, 13<br />
Cook, Margaret, kei na itekitekivu <strong>ni</strong><br />
<strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>, 11, 25<br />
Culacula, 51–52<br />
D<br />
Dew, Sheri L.: ena veivakalougatataki<br />
<strong>ni</strong> matabete ka vakarautaki tu vei<br />
ira kece na lewe <strong>ni</strong> Lotu yalodina,<br />
128; vei ira na yalewa sega <strong>ni</strong><br />
vakaluve<strong>ni</strong> ka vakasaqara voli na<br />
sala me veisusu kina, 154<br />
Digidigi, kena dodonu, 57<br />
Douglas, Ellen, solia ka ciqoma na<br />
loloma cecere ena gauna <strong>ni</strong> leqa,<br />
24–25<br />
Duavata, vei ira na tagane kei na<br />
yalewa ena Lotu, 15, 73, 138–43<br />
Dudley, Matilda, tauyavutaki ira na<br />
yalewa me ra vukei na Idia <strong>ni</strong><br />
Amerika era leqa tu, 36<br />
E<br />
Ensign mekasi<strong>ni</strong>, 58<br />
Esiteri, e dua na ivakaraitaki <strong>ni</strong> vakabauta<br />
kei na yaloqaqa, 180<br />
Eyring, Henry B.: ena loloma cecere<br />
kei na Veisorovaki i Jisu Karisito,<br />
173–74; ena veirokorokovi vei ira<br />
na marama ena <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong><br />
kei na veiliutaki <strong>ni</strong> matabete,<br />
140; ena wasei <strong>ni</strong> loloma cecere,<br />
na iyau <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>,<br />
85–86, 173–74, 176; ena ivakarau<br />
vakauqeti <strong>ni</strong> siko vuvale, 110<br />
223
224<br />
F<br />
Faust, James E.: ena veivakacegui vei<br />
ira na nodra itubutubu na gone<br />
lakosese, 160; ena vuna a vakaraitaki<br />
kina ena soqo<strong>ni</strong> raraba <strong>ni</strong><br />
<strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> na ivakaro<br />
<strong>ni</strong> matavuvale, 149<br />
Fife, Veara, ciqoma ka veiqaravi kei ira<br />
na nona dausiko vuvale, 118<br />
Fipi, <strong>ni</strong> dua na italai <strong>ni</strong> Lotu ena gauna<br />
<strong>ni</strong> Veiyalayalati Vou, 6<br />
G<br />
Grant, Heber J.: ena inaki taumada<br />
<strong>ni</strong> parokaramu <strong>ni</strong> welefea, 72; ena<br />
lakosivita na veivakayalolailaitaki,<br />
179; kei na dau<strong>ni</strong>vakasala, ena<br />
bula vakatina <strong>ni</strong> voleka sara ki<br />
na bula vakalou, 157–58; kei na<br />
dau<strong>ni</strong>vakasala, ena ivakavuvuli <strong>ni</strong><br />
bula rawati koya, 71; tokona na<br />
kena tauyavutaki na Tabacakacaka<br />
<strong>ni</strong> Veiqaravi Raraba ena <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong><br />
<strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>, 67; vakadeitaki Louise<br />
Y. Robison <strong>ni</strong> kacivi koya oti me<br />
veiqaravi ena mataveiliutaki raraba<br />
<strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>, 71<br />
Gregersen, Eva M., ena nodra veivuke<br />
na Yalododonu mai Denmark vei<br />
ira na kai Norway ena iKarua <strong>ni</strong><br />
iValu Levu, 77–78<br />
H<br />
Hendricks, Drusilla Dorris, ena<br />
tauvimate vei ira na pai<strong>ni</strong>a <strong>ni</strong><br />
Yalododonu Edaidai, 32<br />
Hinckley, Gordon B.: ena gadrevi <strong>ni</strong><br />
ivakaro <strong>ni</strong> matavuvale, 148; ena<br />
noda cakava na kena vinaka duadua<br />
eda rawata, 173; ena nodra igu<br />
na marama ena nodra cakacaka<br />
vata kei ira na turaga ena matabete,<br />
125; ena nodra kaukauwa<br />
cecere na marama kei na nodra<br />
itutu yaga ena nona ituvatuva na<br />
Tamada Vakalomalagi, 142–43;<br />
ena nodra tudei ka sega <strong>ni</strong> yavalati<br />
rawa na yalewa ena buladodonu,<br />
160; ena veiqaravi eda solia, 113;<br />
kei rau na dau<strong>ni</strong>vakasala, ena<br />
vuvale <strong>ni</strong> yavu <strong>ni</strong> dua na bula<br />
dodonu, 149; <strong>ni</strong> ra ivakatawa <strong>ni</strong><br />
vuvale na yalewa, 148–49, 165; solia<br />
e dua na veivakalougatataki vei<br />
ira na yalewa ena Lotu, 165; wilika<br />
na ivakaro <strong>ni</strong> matavuvale ena dua<br />
na soqo<strong>ni</strong> raraba <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong><br />
<strong>Veivukei</strong>, 147–49<br />
Humphrey, Cathie, vulica na nona veivakauqeti<br />
vakadausiko vuvale, 114<br />
Hunter, Howard W.: ena dodonu<br />
vakalou o <strong>ni</strong> sucu kaya mai <strong>ni</strong> ko<br />
<strong>ni</strong> luvena yalewa na Kalou, 85; ena<br />
vaqaqacotaki <strong>ni</strong> matavuvale, 157<br />
i I<br />
iBole <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>: era<br />
muria na marama ena gauna <strong>ni</strong><br />
veivakatovolei, 63–79; tauyavutaki,<br />
63. Raica talega Loloma Cecere<br />
iKarua <strong>ni</strong> iValu Levu, 858<br />
iMatai <strong>ni</strong> iValu Levu, bula sautu <strong>ni</strong><br />
yaco tiko na, 64–67<br />
iSolisoli <strong>ni</strong> Yalotabu, ciqoma na yalewa,<br />
130–31<br />
iSolisoli vakayalo. Raica iSolisoli <strong>ni</strong><br />
Yalotabu<br />
<strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> Lalai, 58<br />
<strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>: caka <strong>ni</strong> dua na<br />
ka matalia, xi; e dua na tiki yaga<br />
sara <strong>ni</strong> Veivakalesui mai, 1, 7, 171;<br />
imatai <strong>ni</strong> soqo<strong>ni</strong> <strong>ni</strong>, 12–14; inaki<br />
<strong>ni</strong>, xi, xiii, 7, 16–25, 84, 155, 171;<br />
itekitekivu <strong>ni</strong>, 11, 171; kena iliuliu,<br />
veiqaravi ena ruku <strong>ni</strong> veidusimaki<br />
<strong>ni</strong> matabete, 138; kena itauyavu<br />
vakalou, 7, 65–66, 171; kena<br />
soqo<strong>ni</strong>, vakavuvulitaki <strong>ni</strong> itavi <strong>ni</strong><br />
loloma cecere, cakacakataki, vakamatavuvale,<br />
155; kena veiqaravi <strong>ni</strong><br />
veivakabulai, 84; kena veivakauqeti,<br />
vei ira na marama ena<br />
tabanalevu kei na tabana, 96–98;<br />
muduki tu mada vakawawa, 29; <strong>ni</strong><br />
dua na ivakaruru ka dua na vanua<br />
<strong>ni</strong> veivakauqeti, 81, 83, 84; nodra<br />
nanamaki na marama taumada<br />
me ra lewena, 15; tauyavutaki ena<br />
veivakadonui <strong>ni</strong>, kei na ivakarau<br />
<strong>ni</strong> matabete, 12, 14–15, 99, 138;<br />
tauyavutaki tale, 41; vakaraitaka na<br />
lotu savasava, 123; vakatauvata<strong>ni</strong><br />
kei na kuoramu <strong>ni</strong> matabete, 138,<br />
152; vakavulica na itavi vakamatavuvale,<br />
152<br />
iSulu, tabu, 134<br />
iSulu tabu, 134<br />
iTalanoa: A ciqoma o Julie B. Beck, <strong>ni</strong><br />
se dua na tina gone, na veitoko<strong>ni</strong><br />
mai na <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>,<br />
96–98; a yaco me loma<strong>ni</strong> ira na<br />
vuqa na marama e dau sikova e<br />
dua na dausiko vuvale, 120–23;<br />
Cakacaka vata kei ira na marama<br />
mai Brazil o Geraldine Bangerter<br />
me tauyavutaki na siko vuvale mai<br />
Brazil, 111–12; Ciqoma ka solia o<br />
Eliza Partridge Lyman na vakacegu<br />
ena nodra mate na luvena, 32–33;<br />
Ciqoma na veivakauqeti o Emma<br />
Andersen Liljenquist <strong>ni</strong> nasi voli,<br />
55–56; Ciqoma o Amanda Barnes<br />
Smith na isolisoli <strong>ni</strong> parofisai me<br />
qarava na luvena tagane, 130–31;<br />
Dau veisusu vei ira na marama<br />
ena <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> <strong>ni</strong><br />
nona tabana o Hilda Alvarenga,<br />
91–92; e kerea na nona dausiko<br />
vuvale e dua na marama sega <strong>ni</strong><br />
dau veiciqomi me vukei koya,<br />
114; era cakacaka vata na yalewa<br />
kei na tagane <strong>ni</strong> oti e dua na<br />
cagilaba, 141–42; Era ciqoma na<br />
Yalododonu na veivakalougatataki<br />
<strong>ni</strong> Valetabu <strong>ni</strong> bera <strong>ni</strong> ra biuti<br />
<strong>Na</strong>uvoo, 29–30; era solia na yalewa<br />
na nodra liku katakata e loma <strong>ni</strong><br />
ra rogoca na nodra kune rarawa<br />
tu na pai<strong>ni</strong>a ena qiqidreti, 36–37;<br />
Era taqomaka na marama ena<br />
<strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> na vakamau<br />
vakalevu, 46–49; era tukuna na<br />
marama na nodra marautaka na<br />
siko vuvale, 119–20; Erau sikova
e dua na <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong><br />
mai Czechoslovakia o Boyd K.<br />
kei Donna Packer, 84–85; erau<br />
vakauqeti e rua na marama me rau<br />
kila na ivakarau me rau vukei ira<br />
kina era vakaleqai tu, 114–16; erau<br />
veiqaravi na dausiko vuvale vua e<br />
dua na marama e kune rarawa tiko<br />
ka qai vukei rau tale mai o koya,<br />
118; Era veiqaravi na marama<br />
ena <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> me<br />
ivakananumi <strong>ni</strong> ika 150 <strong>ni</strong> yabaki<br />
<strong>ni</strong> isoqosoqo, 95–96; Era veiqaravi<br />
na marama <strong>ni</strong> Arme<strong>ni</strong>a ena dela <strong>ni</strong><br />
nodra dravudravua, 69; Era vola tu<br />
na Yalododonu e dua na itukutuku<br />
ena dua na lalaga <strong>ni</strong> valetabu e<br />
<strong>Na</strong>uvoo, 30; Era wasea na Yalododonu<br />
mai Denmark na kedra<br />
kakana vei ira na Yalododonu mai<br />
Norway, 78; e vaqaqacotaki e dua<br />
na marama sega <strong>ni</strong> vakawati ena<br />
veiyalayalati a vakayacora, 137–38;<br />
e wasea e dua na matavuvale na<br />
isolisoli <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong><br />
ena veitabatamata, 174–176; itekitekivu<br />
<strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>,<br />
11–12; ivakaraitaki <strong>ni</strong> kena bulataki<br />
na kosipeli ena nodra veivale na<br />
Yalododonu Edaidai, 162–65;<br />
Kauta o Theresa Thompson Call e<br />
dua na keke vua na nona itoka<strong>ni</strong><br />
e marautaka tiko nona siga<strong>ni</strong>sucu,<br />
175–76; kila e dua na marama <strong>ni</strong><br />
laki vukea e dua mai na dua tale<br />
na vanua na lacadrau a cakava, 66;<br />
Kunea o Sally Randall na vakacegu<br />
ena nodra papitaisotaki na mate,<br />
20–21; Liutaka o tinai Dallin H.<br />
Oaks na nona matavuvale <strong>ni</strong> oti<br />
na mate nei watina, 137; Liutaki<br />
ira ka susugi ira na luvena o Mary<br />
Fielding Smith, 151–52; Liutaki<br />
ira na marama tale eso o Lucy<br />
Meserve Smith ena veivuke vei<br />
ira na pai<strong>ni</strong>a ena qiqidreti e liga,<br />
36–37; Liutaki ira na marama tale<br />
eso o Matilda Dudley ena nodra<br />
qaravi na Idia <strong>ni</strong> Amerika era leqa<br />
tu, 36; Muria o Belle S. Spafford na<br />
ivakasala nei George Albert Smith<br />
me vakilai na nona veivakauqeti,<br />
88–91; Raica o Joseph F. Smith<br />
<strong>ni</strong> ra veiqaravi tiko na marama<br />
ena <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> ena<br />
dua na matavuvale e vakaleqai tu,<br />
106–7; Saumaki mai ki na kosipeli<br />
o Olga Kovářová ka veiqaravi<br />
ena mata<strong>ni</strong>tu, 92–95; Saumaki o<br />
Elizabeth Ann Whitney ki na kosipeli<br />
vakalesui mai, 128–29; Sega<br />
<strong>ni</strong> vinakata o Niemaia me biuta na<br />
nona cakacaka <strong>ni</strong> kena tarai cake<br />
tale o Jerusalemi, 180–81; Solia ka<br />
ciqoma o Ellen Douglas na loloma<br />
cecere ena gauna <strong>ni</strong> leqa, 24–25;<br />
Soli kakana vei ira na kaivesu<br />
vakaivalu <strong>ni</strong> Rusia o Hedwig<br />
Biereichel, 78–79; Sotava o Thomas<br />
S. Monson e dua na marama ka sa<br />
yaga vua na sasaga <strong>ni</strong> vuli wilivola<br />
<strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>, 96; Sureti<br />
Marica kei Meri o Jisu Karisito me<br />
rau Nona tisaipeli, 3–4; Tauyavutaka<br />
o Josefa Simici na nodra<br />
<strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> na <strong>Marama</strong><br />
mai <strong>Na</strong>uvoo, 12–13; Tubu na<br />
yalodei i Emily S. Richards mai na<br />
vosa e matanalevu, 49–50; Tukuna<br />
o Spencer W. Kimball na gauna a<br />
raici lomalagi kina, 162; vakaraitaka<br />
e dua na goneyalewa na nona<br />
vakavinavinaka me baleta na nona<br />
ivakavuvuli na parofita ena bula<br />
vakatina, 159; Vakaraitaka o Esiteri<br />
na vakabauta kei na yaloqaqa me<br />
vakabulai ira na nona tamata, 180;<br />
Veiqaravi vakaperesitedi <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong><br />
<strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> o Gertrude Zippro<br />
dina ga <strong>ni</strong> tu na veivakatovolei kei<br />
na veika rerevaki, 76–77; Veivakadeitaki<br />
o Heber J. Grant vei Louise<br />
Y. Robison ena nona kacivi me veiqaravi<br />
ena dua na mataveiliutaki<br />
raraba <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>,<br />
71; Veivosaki vata kei Barbara W.<br />
Winder o Dallin H. Oaks ena veika<br />
bibi eso me baleti ira na marama<br />
ena Lotu, 141; vukei ira na tacina<br />
e dua na peresitedi <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong><br />
<strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> <strong>ni</strong> oti e dua na uneune,<br />
86–87; yalona e dua na marama<br />
ena <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> me sa<br />
nona gauna <strong>ni</strong> veiqaravi, 177–78<br />
iTikotiko: ivakaraitaki <strong>ni</strong> buladodonu<br />
ena, 162–65; <strong>ni</strong> iusutu <strong>ni</strong> veivaqaqacotaki,<br />
155–57. Raica talega<br />
Matavuvale<br />
iTubutubu. Raica Matavuvale<br />
iVakadinadina: igu e rawa mai na,<br />
78–79; kena wasei, ena <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong><br />
<strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>, 49–51<br />
iVakaro, 47–48<br />
iVakatakila, yadua, nodra rawata na<br />
marama yadua me ra ciqoma,<br />
45–46, 158<br />
iValu, Bula sautu <strong>ni</strong> yaco tiko, 64–67<br />
Ivi: kei Atama, rau vakavulici ira vata<br />
na luvedrau, 135, 150; kei Atama,<br />
veiyalayalati isema <strong>ni</strong>, 135; kei ira<br />
na luvena yalewa yalodina, era<br />
qarava vata na Kalou, 177<br />
iVola tabaki, 57–58<br />
J<br />
Jack, Elaine L.: ena bula vakaveitaci<strong>ni</strong><br />
marama ena <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong><br />
<strong>Veivukei</strong>, 94; ena kena vakatorocaketaki<br />
na wilivola, 96; ena noda<br />
dolele ya<strong>ni</strong> ena siko vuvale, 119;<br />
ena veiqaravi e vakayacori me marautaki<br />
kina na ika 150 <strong>ni</strong> yabaki <strong>ni</strong><br />
<strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>, 95–96; ena<br />
veivakalougatataki <strong>ni</strong> matabete,<br />
127–28<br />
Jisu Karisito: itekitekivu ka iti<strong>ni</strong>ti<strong>ni</strong><br />
<strong>ni</strong> noda vakabauta, 177; kena<br />
ivakadinadina, dusimaka noda rai,<br />
59; kena ivakavuvuli, basika ki na<br />
bulamarau ena matavuvale, 147,<br />
167; loloma kei na veikauwaitaki,<br />
me baleti ira na marama, 3; muria<br />
na ivakaraitaki nei, 105, 112; Nodra<br />
yalodina vua na marama ena<br />
<strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>, 172; nona<br />
veiqaravi vakalotu ena bula oqo,<br />
3–4; sureti Marica kei Meri me rau<br />
Nona tisaipeli, 3–4; susugi cake<br />
<strong>ni</strong> se gone mai vei rau ko Meri kei<br />
Josefa, 150; vukei ira tale eso me<br />
ra muria, 95, 116–17; vukei ira tale<br />
225
226<br />
eso me ra vakila na loloma <strong>ni</strong>, 117.<br />
Raica talega Loloma Cecere; <strong>Na</strong><br />
Veisorovaki i Jisu Karisito; Tisaipeli;<br />
Vakabauta<br />
K<br />
Kalou na Tamada. Raica Tamada<br />
Vakalomalagi<br />
Ka vakavuravura, biuta laivi, 45<br />
Kimball, Camilla, ena nona sasaga<br />
vakadausiko vuvale, 113–14<br />
Kimball, Presendia, ena lailai <strong>ni</strong> tagane<br />
me ra veivuke ena veikaba<strong>ni</strong> <strong>ni</strong><br />
pai<strong>ni</strong>a <strong>ni</strong> Yalododonu Edaidai, 31<br />
Kimball, Sarah M.: ena siko vuvale,<br />
108; kei na itekitekivu <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong><br />
<strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>, 11, 25; kei na<br />
sasaga <strong>ni</strong> maroroi witi, 53<br />
Kimball, Spencer W.: ena dua na sala<br />
<strong>ni</strong> vakabula yalo na siko vuvale,<br />
117; ena ilesilesi vakaturaga mo<br />
dua na yalewa buladodonu ena<br />
veisiga e muri, 145, 165; ena kaukauwa<br />
me tu kina na <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong><br />
<strong>Veivukei</strong>, 142; ena kena vorati na<br />
veivakayarayarataki ka dau vakamalumalumutaka<br />
na matavuvale,<br />
160; ena laurai <strong>ni</strong> lomalagi ena<br />
nodra bula na Yalododonu Edaidai<br />
buladodonu, 162; ena nodra<br />
veivakayarayarataki kaukauwa <strong>ni</strong><br />
buladodonu, e ivakaraitaki matata<br />
<strong>ni</strong> marama ena <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>,<br />
50–51, 95; ena nodra vukei<br />
ira na ta<strong>ni</strong> na dausiko vuvale me ra<br />
muria na iVakabula, 116; ena nodra<br />
vulica na ivola<strong>ni</strong>kalou na marama<br />
ena <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>, 50; ena<br />
nona sotava na Kalou na noda<br />
leqa mai vei ira eso tale na tamata,<br />
112; ena tubu <strong>ni</strong> Lotu baleta na<br />
veivakauqeti <strong>ni</strong> nodra ivakaraitaki<br />
na marama, 95; ena vakabulabulataki<br />
<strong>ni</strong> ivakarau <strong>ni</strong> bula Vakarisito,<br />
5; ena vukudra na marama era dau<br />
vakavinavinakataka na veigauna sa<br />
oti, xii; veidutaitaki na siko vuvale<br />
kei na veituberi vakavuvale, 113<br />
Kovářová, Olga, nona saumaki mai kei<br />
na veiqaravi, 92–95<br />
Kuoramu <strong>ni</strong> matabete, veidutaitaki kei<br />
na <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>, 138, 152<br />
L<br />
Lee, Harold B.: ena nodra duavata<br />
na veiliutaki <strong>ni</strong> matabete kei na<br />
veiliutaki <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>,<br />
73; ena yaco me bula rawati koya,<br />
53; <strong>ni</strong> cakacaka bibi duadua e caka<br />
mai vale, 160; <strong>ni</strong> valetabu na vanua<br />
duadua ga e vuravura eda na<br />
ciqoma kina na taucoko <strong>ni</strong> veivakalougatataki<br />
<strong>ni</strong> matabete, 133<br />
Liljenquist, Emma Andersen, ena<br />
vulici <strong>ni</strong> qaravi bula, 55–56<br />
Loloma Cecere: e marautaka na<br />
Turaga, 106; ena ibole <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong><br />
<strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>, 63, 174; ena<br />
siko vuvale, 116–20; ena vuvale,<br />
19, 151; ivakaraitaki mai vei rau<br />
o Emma kei Josefa Simici, 24;<br />
kei na Veisorovaki i Jisu Karisito,<br />
173–74; kena ivakamacala, mai<br />
vei Thomas S. Monson, 99–101;<br />
kena ivakaraitaki, ena gauna <strong>ni</strong><br />
veivakatovolei, 67–70, 74–79; kena<br />
ivakaraitaki, vei ira na Yalododonu<br />
Edaidai taumada, 21–25, 30–37; <strong>ni</strong><br />
dua na kaukauwa veitoko<strong>ni</strong> ena<br />
veivaluvaluti kei na gauna <strong>ni</strong> sautu,<br />
64–65; <strong>ni</strong> dua na yavu ivakavuvuli<br />
<strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>, 45, 63,<br />
70, 171; <strong>ni</strong> isolisoli <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong><br />
<strong>Veivukei</strong>, 86, 172–76; vakaraitaki<br />
ena veiqaravi, 176–78; vakavulici<br />
mai vei Josefa Simici, 23;<br />
vaqaqacotaka na veitaci<strong>ni</strong> marama,<br />
99–101; Vuli o Silvia Allred, mai vei<br />
tinana, 92. Raica talega Vukei ira<br />
era vakaleqai tu<br />
Luvena yalewa na Kalou: dodonu<br />
vakalou era sucu vata mai, 85, 143;<br />
kedra yaga tawavakaiyalayala, xii;<br />
kena bibi me ra nanuma tiko na<br />
marama <strong>ni</strong> ra, 171–72, 181; kila<br />
ka dau qarava na Kalou ena bula<br />
taumada, 166; vakalougatataki ena<br />
kaukauwa <strong>ni</strong> matabete, 127<br />
Lyman, Amy Brown: ena cecere <strong>ni</strong><br />
<strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>, 78; ena<br />
kaukauwa <strong>ni</strong> ivakadinadina, 79;<br />
ena nodra duavata na veiliutaki <strong>ni</strong><br />
<strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> kei na veiliutaki<br />
<strong>ni</strong> matabete, 75; ena veika e<br />
sotava <strong>ni</strong> veiqaravi voli vakailiuliu<br />
ena <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>, 79; kei<br />
na veisau ena ivakarau taumada<br />
<strong>ni</strong> siko vuvale, 108–9; vakabibitaka<br />
na kena gadrevi me ra tiko e vale<br />
na tina, 157; vaka dairekita <strong>ni</strong><br />
Tabacakacaka <strong>ni</strong> Veiqaravi Raraba<br />
ena <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>, 67<br />
Lyman, Elizabeth Partridge, ena kena<br />
ciqomi kei na soli <strong>ni</strong> veivakacegui<br />
<strong>ni</strong> ra mate na gone, 32–33<br />
M m<br />
Madigi, bula ki na, 169, 171<br />
<strong>Marama</strong>, sega <strong>ni</strong> vakawati: era vakalougatataki<br />
<strong>ni</strong> ra rokova na nodra<br />
veiyalayalati, 136–38; vakatulewa<br />
ena nodra vuvale, 137–38<br />
Marica kei Meri, <strong>ni</strong> rau tisaipeli i Jisu<br />
Karisito, xi, 3–4<br />
Matabete: <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong><br />
tauyavu ena veivakadonui <strong>ni</strong>, 12,<br />
14–15, 99, 138; na veivakalougatataki<br />
<strong>ni</strong>, baleti ira na yalewa yalodina,<br />
15, 127–33; na yavu <strong>ni</strong> dua na<br />
bula dodonu, 134; vakalougatataka<br />
vakatautauvata na tagane kei na<br />
yalewa, 127–28; vauca vata na<br />
matavuvale me tawamudu, 134<br />
matabose <strong>ni</strong> Lotu, 141<br />
Mataivalu <strong>ni</strong> Moma<strong>ni</strong>, 31<br />
Matavuvale: ivakaraitaki <strong>ni</strong> buladodonu<br />
ena, 150, 162–65; ivakaro ki<br />
vuravura ena, 166–67; ivakatakila<br />
ena, 18–20; ivakavuvuli ena,<br />
149–51, 159–61; kei na matabete,<br />
134–38; na yavu <strong>ni</strong> dua na bula<br />
dodonu, 134, 149; Nodra itavi na<br />
dausiko vuvale <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong>
<strong>Veivukei</strong> ena, 152–59; sasaga nei<br />
Josefa Simici kei ira na marama<br />
ena <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> taumada,<br />
18–21; vakarautaki <strong>ni</strong> veika<br />
<strong>ni</strong> bula vakayago, 51; veitaqomaki,<br />
157–59; veivaqaqacotaki, mai na<br />
cakacaka vakalotu <strong>ni</strong> valetabu,<br />
20–21; veivaqaqacotaki, me vaka<br />
<strong>ni</strong> yavu ivakavuvuli <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong><br />
<strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>, xi, xiii, 7, 17, 18–21,<br />
29, 41, 67–70, 75, 79, 84, 86–87,<br />
96–97, 117–18, 134, 152–59, 171,<br />
172; veivaqaqacotaki, <strong>ni</strong> dua na<br />
inaki cecere <strong>ni</strong> matabete, 134, 152;<br />
veiyalayalati isema <strong>ni</strong>, vei rau na<br />
veiwati<strong>ni</strong>, 134–36<br />
Matavuvale, na: Ai Vakaro ki Vuravura<br />
Raraba: vakadidike me baleta,<br />
147–49; vakaotia na kena itukutuku,<br />
166–67<br />
McConkie, Bruce R., ena isema <strong>ni</strong><br />
veiyalayalati vei rau o Atama kei<br />
Ivi, 135<br />
McKay, David O.: cabora na masu <strong>ni</strong><br />
kena vakatabui na Vale <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong><br />
<strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>, 88; ena duavata<br />
ena Lotu, 139; <strong>ni</strong> sega <strong>ni</strong> dua na<br />
qaqa me na sosomitaka rawa na<br />
druka e vale, 160<br />
mekasi<strong>ni</strong> na Liaona, 58<br />
Mekasi<strong>ni</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>, 57–58<br />
Monson, Thomas S.: ena inaki <strong>ni</strong><br />
parokaramu <strong>ni</strong> welefea, 72–73;<br />
ena ivakaraitaki <strong>ni</strong> loloma cecere,<br />
99–101; ena nodra cakacaka na<br />
yalewa kei na tagane ena gauna<br />
<strong>ni</strong> Cagilaba o Adriu, 141–42; ena<br />
rawati <strong>ni</strong> cakamana ena vakabauta,<br />
91; ena sasaga <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong><br />
<strong>Veivukei</strong> <strong>ni</strong> vuli wilivola, 96; ena<br />
veiqaravi vakaliga <strong>ni</strong> Turaga e<br />
vuravura, 103, 112<br />
N<br />
<strong>Na</strong>uvoo: lako ta<strong>ni</strong> mai kina, 29–30;<br />
tara mai kina na valetabu, 11;<br />
Tauyavutaki kina na <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong><br />
<strong>Veivukei</strong>, 12; veiqaravi e vakayacori<br />
kina, 21–25<br />
Nelson, Russell M., ena vauci vata<br />
<strong>ni</strong> matavuvale ena kaukauwa <strong>ni</strong><br />
matabete, 134<br />
Niemaia, e dua na ivakaraitaki <strong>ni</strong> vakabauta<br />
kei na yaloqaqa, 180–81<br />
Nodra dodonu <strong>ni</strong> digidigi na yalewa, 57<br />
O<br />
Oaks, Dallin H.: ena bibi <strong>ni</strong> vakamau<br />
kei na isema vakamatavuvale, 134;<br />
ena veiliutaki nei tinana <strong>ni</strong> sa mate<br />
na tamana, 137; ena veivakalougatataki<br />
<strong>ni</strong> matabete era vakatautauvatataki<br />
na yalewa kei na tagane,<br />
127; veivosaki kei Barbara W.<br />
Winder ena veika eso baleti ira na<br />
yalewa ena Lotu, 141<br />
P<br />
Packer, Boyd K.: ena nodra taqomaki<br />
na veitaci<strong>ni</strong> marama ena<br />
<strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>, 81, 86;<br />
ena nodra taura na marama na<br />
ivalavala dodonu <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong><br />
<strong>Veivukei</strong>, 16; ena parokaramu <strong>ni</strong><br />
nodra vakatikori na gonevuli Idia,<br />
76; ena veivakalougatataki e yaco<br />
mai vei ira na marama yalodina<br />
ena <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>, 99;<br />
ena veivakauqeti <strong>ni</strong> matavuvale<br />
<strong>ni</strong> tabanalevu se tabana, 87; ena<br />
yalo <strong>ni</strong> da lewena na <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong><br />
<strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>, 138; kei na watina,<br />
sotavi ira na iwiri<strong>ni</strong> <strong>ni</strong> marama mai<br />
Czechoslovakia, 84–85, 98–99<br />
Pai<strong>ni</strong>a: ituvaki <strong>ni</strong> bula <strong>ni</strong>, 30–35;<br />
kukuva toka na veiyalayalati ena<br />
nodra biuti <strong>Na</strong>uvoo, 29–30; veiqaravi<br />
vei ira, 32–37<br />
Parkin, Bon<strong>ni</strong>e D.: ena ivakaro <strong>ni</strong> matavuvale,<br />
148; ena rawati <strong>ni</strong> igu ena<br />
soqo<strong>ni</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>,<br />
155–56; ena tarai cake <strong>ni</strong> loloma<br />
cecere e vale, 152<br />
Parokaramu <strong>ni</strong> nodra vakatikori na<br />
gonevuli Idia, 75–76<br />
Parokaramu <strong>ni</strong> Welefea: kacivaki mai<br />
na Mataveiliutaki Taumada, 72;<br />
kena takete, 72–73; nona itavi<br />
kina na peresitedi <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong><br />
<strong>Veivukei</strong>, 73; veitoko<strong>ni</strong> kina, 73<br />
Q<br />
Qaravi <strong>ni</strong> bula kei na wai<strong>ni</strong>mate: parokaramu<br />
<strong>ni</strong> nodra tuberi na nasi kei<br />
ira na ivukevuke <strong>ni</strong> nasi, 68; vakauqeti<br />
na marama me ra vuli, 54–55<br />
Qaravi vale: kei na veisusu, 157; kena<br />
maqosa, 156<br />
R<br />
Randall, Sally, kune vakacegu ena papitaiso<br />
ena vukudra na mate, 20–21<br />
Repeka kei Aisake, vakadeitaka me<br />
kua <strong>ni</strong> yali na veiyalayalati, 150<br />
Rich, Sarah, nodra vakalougatataki<br />
na Yalododonu ena nodra biuti<br />
<strong>Na</strong>uvoo, 30<br />
Richards, Emily S., yalodei cake <strong>ni</strong><br />
vosa e matanalevu, 49–50<br />
Richards, Willard: lakova na imatai <strong>ni</strong><br />
soqo<strong>ni</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>,<br />
12; tiko ena nodrau vakamatei o<br />
Josefa kei Hyrum Smith, 29<br />
Robison, Louise Y.: ena kunei <strong>ni</strong><br />
marau ena qaravi Kalou, 70; ena<br />
vakavinavinakataki <strong>ni</strong> veiqaravi<br />
e vakayacora na mata<strong>ni</strong>tu, 72;<br />
itukutuku taumada nei, 70–71;<br />
vakadeitaki mai vei Heber J. Grant<br />
<strong>ni</strong> oti na nona kacivi me veiqaravi<br />
ena mataveiliutaki raraba <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong><br />
<strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>, 71<br />
227
228<br />
S<br />
Sandberg, Bobbie, vukei mai vei peresitedi<br />
<strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> <strong>ni</strong><br />
oti e dua na uneune, 86–87<br />
Scott, Richard G.: ena matabete me<br />
tokona na matavuvale, 134; ena<br />
vuvale na yavu <strong>ni</strong> dua na bula<br />
dodonu, 134<br />
Sears, Athelia Call, vakadewa ki na<br />
nona matavuvale na isolisoli <strong>ni</strong><br />
<strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>, 176<br />
Siko Vuvale: gadrevi na kena yalayala,<br />
113–14; itekitekivu <strong>ni</strong>, 105–6;<br />
ivakaraitaki <strong>ni</strong> vakavinavinaka me<br />
baleta, 116–17, 119–20; ka sotava<br />
na leqa vakayago ena loloma,<br />
117–18; ka vakabula yalo, 117; ka<br />
vukei ira eso tale me ra muri Jisu<br />
Karisito, 116–17; ka vukei ira eso<br />
tale me ra vakila na nona loloma<br />
o Jisu Karisito, 117; <strong>ni</strong> ka <strong>ni</strong> veivakalougatataki<br />
vei ira na dausiko<br />
vuvale, 120–23; <strong>ni</strong> veiqaravi vakayalo,<br />
108, 116–17; taro me tarogi<br />
kina, 115; vakasaqara na veituberi<br />
vakayalo kina, 114–16; vakatutu<br />
me mana kina, 123; veisau ki na<br />
kena iwalewale taumada, 108–10;<br />
veivakavulici ka vakadinadina kina,<br />
116–17<br />
Simici, Josefa: dusimaki ira na marama<br />
ena inaki <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>,<br />
16–25; ena duavata ena Lotu, 139;<br />
ena <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> na kena<br />
vakalesui mai e dua na ivakarau<br />
makawa, 1, 7; ena <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong><br />
<strong>Veivukei</strong> <strong>ni</strong> dua na isoqosoqo<br />
digitaki, 15; ena ivakatakila ena<br />
V&V 25, 14; ena kaukauwa <strong>ni</strong> yalovinaka,<br />
23; ena kena tu vei ira na<br />
marama na yalo <strong>ni</strong> loloma cecere,<br />
172; ena nodra bula ki na nodra<br />
dodonu na marama ena <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong><br />
<strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>, 169, 171; ena nodra<br />
ciqoma na yalewa na isolisoli <strong>ni</strong><br />
Yalotabu, 130; ena nodra itavi na<br />
mataveiliutaki <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong><br />
<strong>Veivukei</strong>, 13; ena nodra liu ka cecere<br />
duadua na marama ena caka<br />
vinaka, 21–22; ena nodra rawata<br />
na marama ena <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong><br />
me ra cakacaka me vaka na<br />
nodra yalo <strong>ni</strong> loloma, 16, 41, 112,<br />
173; ena nodra veitoka<strong>ni</strong> vei ira na<br />
marama ena <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong><br />
na agilosi, 181; ena nodra vukei<br />
ira na dravudravua ka vakabula na<br />
yalo na marama ena <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong><br />
<strong>Veivukei</strong>, 17, 24, 63, 83; ena nodra<br />
vukei o ira era leqa tu, 22–23, 119;<br />
ena tauyavutaki <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong><br />
<strong>Veivukei</strong>, 9, 12–15; ena vakasaqaqara<br />
ena ivola<strong>ni</strong>kalou, 47; ena<br />
veivakalougatataki <strong>ni</strong> valetabu,<br />
131–32; ivakatakila <strong>ni</strong>, ena itavi <strong>ni</strong><br />
matavuvale, 18–20; kena idusidusi,<br />
vakauqeti ira na marama pai<strong>ni</strong>a<br />
taumada, 34; liutaka na sasaga <strong>ni</strong><br />
kena tara na Valetabu e Kirtland,<br />
21; <strong>ni</strong> dua na ka vinaka cake na<br />
<strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>, 12; nona<br />
vakamatei ena vuku <strong>ni</strong> nona vakabauta,<br />
29; vakalesui na matabete<br />
mai vei, 127; vakayaloqaqataki ira<br />
na Yalododonu me ra veivuke ena<br />
kena tara na Valetabu e <strong>Na</strong>uvoo, 11<br />
Smith, Amanda Barnes, rawata na<br />
isolisoli <strong>ni</strong> parofisai me qarava kina<br />
na luvena, 130–31<br />
Smith, Barbara B.: ena nodra muria na<br />
marama ena <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong><br />
na nodra ivakasala na matabete<br />
ka ra ciqoma na veivakauqeti, 136;<br />
ena taqomaki <strong>ni</strong> matavuvale kei na<br />
bula vakatina, 158–59<br />
Smith, Bathsheba W.: ena kena rawati<br />
na ivakadinadina <strong>ni</strong> kosipeli<br />
vakalesui mai, 34; ena nodra duavata<br />
na yalewa kei na tagane ena<br />
Lotu, 140; ena nodra vakatovolei<br />
kei na vakalougatataki na pai<strong>ni</strong>a<br />
<strong>ni</strong> Yalododonu Edaidai, 33–34;<br />
tauyavutaka na nodra leso<strong>ni</strong> <strong>ni</strong> vuli<br />
na tina, 153<br />
Smith, Emma: digitaki me imatai <strong>ni</strong><br />
peresitedi <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>,<br />
12–13; dua na ivakaraitaki <strong>ni</strong><br />
veiqaravi ena loloma cecere, 24;<br />
ena nodra cakava na <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong><br />
<strong>Veivukei</strong> e dua na ka matalia, xi,<br />
14; ena nona gagadre me tuberi<br />
ena ivakatakila, 12; ena tina <strong>ni</strong><br />
vakavulica na luvena yalewa, 19;<br />
ivakatakila <strong>ni</strong>, 13–14<br />
Smith, George Albert: ena marau<br />
mai na veiqaravi, 77; ena wirica<br />
o Josefa Simici na idola <strong>ni</strong> nodra<br />
vagalalataki na marama, 87; vakasalataki<br />
Belle S. Spafford me kitaka<br />
me vakilai na nona veivakauqeti,<br />
88–91<br />
Smith, Hyrum, nona vakamatei ena<br />
nona vakabauta, 29<br />
Smith, Joseph F.: ena ituvaki vakalou<br />
<strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>, 7, 65–66;<br />
ena liutaki vuravura na <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong><br />
<strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> ena veika dau vakacaucautaki,<br />
65–66, 179–80; ena<br />
nona ivakaraitaki o tinana, 151–52;<br />
ena nona raici ira na marama<br />
ena <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> <strong>ni</strong> ra<br />
qarava tiko e dua na matavuvale e<br />
vakaleqai tu, 106–7; ena nona veivakauqeti<br />
<strong>ni</strong> veitaqomaki o tinana,<br />
155; ena vakavuvulitaki <strong>ni</strong> itavi<br />
vakamatavuvale ena <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong><br />
<strong>Veivukei</strong>, 153–54<br />
Smith, Joseph Fielding: ena isema <strong>ni</strong><br />
veiweka<strong>ni</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong><br />
kei na kuoramu <strong>ni</strong> matabete, 142;<br />
ena kena tauyavu mai na ivakatakila<br />
na <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>, 13;<br />
ena nodra ciqoma na marama na<br />
veivakalougatataki <strong>ni</strong> matabete,<br />
133; ena nodra vukei na lewe<strong>ni</strong>lotu<br />
yalodina me ra rawata na bula<br />
tawamudu mai na <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong><br />
<strong>Veivukei</strong>, 97<br />
Smith, Lucy Mack, ena veitaci<strong>ni</strong><br />
vakamarama ena <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong><br />
<strong>Veivukei</strong>, 25<br />
Smith, Lucy Meserve: ena lomasoli me<br />
ia tikoga na veiqaravi ena vukudra<br />
eso tale, 37; ena veiqaravi ena<br />
vukudra na Yalododonu era a yaco<br />
taumada mai ki na Bucabuca <strong>ni</strong><br />
Salt Lake, 36–37<br />
Smith, Mary Fielding, ivakaraitaki<br />
vakatina, 151–52
Smoot, Mary Ellen: ena kena gadrevi<br />
na dausiko vuvale yalodina, 118;<br />
ena nodra veivuke na marama<br />
ena <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> me ra<br />
vakila eso tale na nona loloma na<br />
iVakabula, 117; kei rau na dau<strong>ni</strong>vakasala,<br />
ena ibalebale <strong>ni</strong> luvena<br />
yalewa na Kalou, 172<br />
Snow, Eliza R.: ena bula veisau, 45;<br />
ena igu e rawa mai na ivakadinadina<br />
kei Jisu, 59; ena ivakatakila<br />
yadua, 45, 46; ena ivolatukutuku<br />
vakalomalagi <strong>ni</strong> veiqaravi e<br />
vakayacori, 83; ena kena tosocake<br />
tikoga na ivakarau <strong>ni</strong> veiqaravi<br />
ena <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>, 58;<br />
ena muri <strong>ni</strong> ivakaraitaki nei Jisu<br />
Karisito, 105; ena nodra buladokai<br />
na yalewa ena <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong><br />
<strong>Veivukei</strong>, 47; ena nodra duavata<br />
na yalewa kei na tagane ena<br />
Lotu, 139–40; ena nodra rawata<br />
na marama na vulici <strong>ni</strong> veiqaravi<br />
vakavu<strong>ni</strong>wai, 54, 55; ena nodra<br />
tauyavutaka na marama na ivakarau<br />
<strong>ni</strong> isulusulu, 51–52; ena nodra<br />
vakaraitaka na marama ena <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong><br />
<strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> na nodra nanuma,<br />
49; ena nodra veivakauqeti cecere<br />
na marama ena <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong><br />
<strong>Veivukei</strong>, 39, 44; ena nodra veivakauqeti<br />
na dausiko vuvale, 108;<br />
ena okati <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong><br />
ki na kena tauyavu na Lotu, 43;<br />
ena veiqaravi ka sega <strong>ni</strong> vinakata<br />
me kilai raraba, 42, 177; ena veivakauqeti<br />
<strong>ni</strong> Yalotabu ena soqo<strong>ni</strong> <strong>ni</strong><br />
<strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>, 16; ena veivakauqeti<br />
veivakasavasavataki ka<br />
veilaveti <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>,<br />
42; ena vuvale me ka bibi duadua,<br />
151; kacivi me dusimaki ira na<br />
marama, 44; kacivi me ikarua <strong>ni</strong><br />
peresitedi raraba <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong><br />
<strong>Veivukei</strong>, 44; kacivi me imatai <strong>ni</strong><br />
sekeriteri <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>,<br />
16; kacivi me vukei ira na bisopi<br />
me ra tauyavutaka na <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong><br />
<strong>Veivukei</strong> ena nodra tabanalevu, 42;<br />
maroroya na iTukutuku <strong>ni</strong> soqo<strong>ni</strong><br />
mai <strong>Na</strong>uvoo, 42; <strong>ni</strong> kena vakalesui<br />
mai e dua na ivakarau makawa<br />
na <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>, 1, 7;<br />
veivakavulici mai na iTukutuku <strong>ni</strong><br />
soqo<strong>ni</strong> mai <strong>Na</strong>uvoo, 43; vola na<br />
veilawa lalai ena nodra isoqosoqo<br />
<strong>ni</strong> culacula na yalewa, 11; vola tiko<br />
na itukutuku <strong>ni</strong> veisoqo<strong>ni</strong> taumada<br />
<strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>, 16–17<br />
Snow, Lorenzo: ena kaukauwa <strong>ni</strong><br />
vinaka ena <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>,<br />
19; ena nodra vakaraitaka na<br />
marama ena <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong><br />
na lotu savasava, 123; Ena nodra<br />
wasea na marama ena <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong><br />
<strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> na icocovi ena mata<strong>ni</strong>tu<br />
<strong>ni</strong> Kalou, 7; ena vakabauta tikoga<br />
na Kalou ka sega <strong>ni</strong> yalolailai, 43<br />
Spafford, Belle S.: ena inaki tudei <strong>ni</strong><br />
<strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>, 86; ena<br />
nodra veivakayarayarataki na<br />
dausiko vuvale, 109–10; ena nona<br />
veivakayarayarataki e dua na tina<br />
vinaka ena <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>,<br />
156; ena vale <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong><br />
<strong>Veivukei</strong>, 88; ena veika me vakaliuci,<br />
xiii; ena veisau ki na ivakarau<br />
taumada <strong>ni</strong> siko vuvale, 109; kei<br />
rau na dau<strong>ni</strong>vakasala, ena ilesilesi<br />
<strong>ni</strong> veivakabulai <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong><br />
<strong>Veivukei</strong>, 84; kumu<strong>ni</strong> vua<strong>ni</strong>kau me<br />
veisoliyaka, 73; muria na ivakasala<br />
nei George Albert Smith me vakilai<br />
na nona veivakauqeti, 88–91<br />
Speidel, Maria, ena vakabauta tikoga<br />
na Turaga ena gauna <strong>ni</strong> vakatovolei,<br />
76<br />
Stegner, Wallace, ena yalewa taumada<br />
<strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>, 34–35<br />
T<br />
Tabacakacaka <strong>ni</strong> Veiqaravi Raraba:<br />
cakacaka vata kei na mata<strong>ni</strong>tu o<br />
Amerika, 72; <strong>ni</strong> tabacakacaka <strong>ni</strong><br />
veiqaravi ka sega <strong>ni</strong> tabana <strong>ni</strong> veivuke,<br />
67–68; semati ki na Welefea<br />
<strong>ni</strong> Lotu kei na Veiqaravi Raraba,<br />
74; soli na veituberi ena welefea <strong>ni</strong><br />
matavuvale, 68<br />
Talmage, James E., ena nona loloma<br />
kei na kauwai na iVakabula me<br />
baleti ira na yalewa, 3<br />
Tamada Vakalomalagi: bula tawamudu<br />
vata kei, 97; cakacaka vakalotu <strong>ni</strong><br />
veivauci e vauca na matavuvale<br />
ki na, 134; ituvatuva <strong>ni</strong>, me baleta<br />
noda vakabulai kei na marau,<br />
xii, 51, 143, 166, 171; kilai ira na<br />
Luvena yalewa, xii, 177; loloma <strong>ni</strong>,<br />
181; masu vei, 47, 55–56, 130–31;<br />
vukei keda me rawati na veika<br />
cecere, 179. Raica talega Luvena<br />
yalewa na Kalou; Vakabauta<br />
Tanner, Athelia Sears, vakadewa na<br />
isolisoli <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> ki<br />
na nona matavuvale, 176<br />
Tapaica, e dua na ivakaraitaki <strong>ni</strong><br />
yalewa ivalavala dodonu ena<br />
Veiyalayalati Vou, 5–6<br />
Tauyavu <strong>ni</strong> isoqosoqo <strong>ni</strong> Goneyalewa, 58<br />
Taylor, John: a tiko ena nodrau vakamatei<br />
o Josefa kei Hyrum Smith<br />
ena vuku <strong>ni</strong> nodrau vakabauta,<br />
29; ena kena vakatorocaketaki na<br />
nodra welefea e so tale, 65; ena<br />
maroroi <strong>ni</strong> witi, 53–54; ena reki <strong>ni</strong><br />
sa tauyavu na <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>,<br />
14; kacivi ira na peresitedi<br />
raraba <strong>ni</strong> Goneyalewa kei na Lalai,<br />
58; vakaitavi ena imatai <strong>ni</strong> soqo<strong>ni</strong><br />
<strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>, 12–14<br />
Thompson, Barbara B., ena ivakaro <strong>ni</strong><br />
matavuvale, 148<br />
Thompson, Pamela Barlow, vakadewa<br />
na isolisoli <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong><br />
ki na nona matavuvale, 176<br />
Tina, bulavakatina: era vakayaloqaqataki<br />
na yalewa me ra tiko ga e<br />
vale, 75; nodra itavi vakayalo na,<br />
75; nodra veivakayarayarataki<br />
vei ira na cauravou yaloqaqa ena<br />
iVola i Moma<strong>ni</strong>, 150; tiki <strong>ni</strong> kedra<br />
ituvaki tawamudu na yalewa, 156;<br />
veitaqomaki, 157–59. Raica talega<br />
Matavuvale<br />
Tisaipeli: vei ira na yalewa ena Veiyalayalati<br />
Vou, xi, 3–6; vei ira na yalewa<br />
<strong>ni</strong>kua, xi, 7, 105, 180<br />
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230<br />
U<br />
Uchtdorf, Dieter F., ena nodra muria<br />
na marama ena <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong><br />
<strong>Veivukei</strong> na nona ivakaraitaki na<br />
iVakabula, 112<br />
V v<br />
Vakabauta: kei na yaloqaqa me sotavi<br />
na bolebole, 51; tubucake tiko,<br />
me vaka <strong>ni</strong> yavu ivakavuvuli <strong>ni</strong><br />
<strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>, xi, xiii, 7,<br />
17–18, 84, 155, 171; vei Tamada<br />
Vakalomalagi kei Jisu Karisito, xi, 3,<br />
17–18, 29–32, 51, 70, 159, 173–74<br />
vakadewa na isolisoli <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong><br />
<strong>Veivukei</strong> ki na nona matavuvale o<br />
Barlow, Elizabeth Haven, 195<br />
Vakaitavi vakaitikotiko, mai vei ira na<br />
marama ena <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>,<br />
65, 75–76<br />
Vakamau vakalevu: taqomaki mai vei<br />
ira na yalewa taumada <strong>ni</strong> Yalododonu<br />
Edaidai, 46–49; Vakadonuya<br />
na mata<strong>ni</strong>tu o Amerika na lawa me<br />
saqati kina na, 46<br />
Vakayagataki <strong>ni</strong> ivola oqo, xii–xiv<br />
Vale<strong>ni</strong>bula <strong>ni</strong> Desereti, 56<br />
Vale<strong>ni</strong>bula <strong>ni</strong> vakasucu, 69<br />
Vale <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>, 88<br />
Valetabu: Era vakalougatataki kina<br />
mai lagi na Yalododonu, 132; era<br />
veivuke na marama taumada ena<br />
<strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> ena nodra<br />
vakarautaki na kena tamata <strong>ni</strong>,<br />
25; kena cakacaka vakalotu, vaqaqacotaka<br />
na matavuvale, 20–21;<br />
liga<strong>ni</strong>cakacaka vakalotu ena, 133;<br />
<strong>ni</strong> ra vanua <strong>ni</strong> vakavinavinaka,<br />
veidusimaki, kei na vuli, 132; nodra<br />
vakalougatataki kina na marama<br />
yalodina, 133; vakatakilai mai<br />
kina na kaukauwa vakalou, 129;<br />
vakavakarau me curu kina, 21, 133;<br />
Vukei ira na marama na <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong><br />
<strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> me ra curuma, 133<br />
Valetabu e <strong>Na</strong>uvoo: itukutuku e volai<br />
ena kena lalaga, ena gauna era<br />
biuti <strong>Na</strong>uvoo kina na Yalododonu,<br />
30; udolu vakaudolu na Yalododonu<br />
era ciqoma kina na nodra<br />
edaume<strong>ni</strong> ka ra vauci kina, 29;<br />
vukei ira era tara, 11<br />
Veiqaravi. Raica Loloma Cecere; Siko<br />
vuvale; Vukei ira era leqa tu<br />
Veisau. Raica Bula veisau<br />
Veisorovaki i Jisu Karisito: dua na tiki<br />
bibi <strong>ni</strong> loloma cecere, 194–95; ivakadinadina<br />
<strong>ni</strong>, vukei keda me da<br />
vakavakarau <strong>ni</strong> curu ki na valetabu,<br />
42; kunea na igu ena, 84; rawa kina<br />
<strong>ni</strong> vauci tawamudu na matavuvale,<br />
168; vukei keda me da tubu sivita<br />
na veivakanananu kei na sasaga<br />
walega, 202<br />
Veisusu, kei na qaravi vale, 157<br />
Veisusu vakatina: e dua na nodra<br />
itavi na yalewa kece sara, 156; era<br />
vaqara na kena madigi na marama<br />
sega <strong>ni</strong> vakaluve<strong>ni</strong>, 154–55<br />
Veitaci<strong>ni</strong> marama ena <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong><br />
<strong>Veivukei</strong>, 79, 83–101, 139, 155, 172<br />
Veiyalayalati: igu ena, 15, 128–29, 137–<br />
38; kei na kaukauwa <strong>ni</strong> matabete,<br />
127; maroroi, mai vei Repeka kei<br />
Aisake, 150; me ra muri Jisu Karisito,<br />
vakataucokotaki ena siko vuvale,<br />
112; <strong>Na</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> e vukei<br />
ira na marama me ra vakayacora,<br />
16–17, 131, 133; na marama yadua<br />
sa vakayacora, sa nona ilesilesi me<br />
vakabula na yalo, 25; o ira na marama<br />
ena <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> vaka<br />
tamata <strong>ni</strong> veiyalayalati, 181; toko<strong>ni</strong><br />
ira na pai<strong>ni</strong>a <strong>ni</strong> Yalododonu Edaidai<br />
ena ilakolako, 29–30, 33–34<br />
Veiyalayalati Vou, yalewa ena, 3–6<br />
Vosa e matanalevu, 49–51<br />
Vukei ira era leqa tu, <strong>ni</strong> yavu ivakavuvuli<br />
<strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>, xi,<br />
xiii, 7, 17, 21–25, 84, 155, 171. Raica<br />
talega Loloma Cecere; Siko vuvale<br />
Vulici <strong>ni</strong> ivola oqo, xii–xiv<br />
Vuli ivola<strong>ni</strong>kalou, 50, 172<br />
W<br />
Wai<strong>ni</strong>mate kei na qaravi <strong>ni</strong> bula, era<br />
vakauqeti na marama me ra vulica,<br />
54–55<br />
Wells, Emmeline B.: ena maroroi witi,<br />
52–53, 54, 66; ena nodra dinata<br />
tikoga na marama na inaki <strong>ni</strong><br />
<strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>, 27, 35–36;<br />
ena nodra vukei na yalewa me ra<br />
tubu vakayalo ka vakavuli, 57; ena<br />
veiqaravi nei Zina D. H. Young ena<br />
buturara <strong>ni</strong> veiqaravi vakau<strong>ni</strong>wai,<br />
55; ena vuli mai na nodra<br />
ivakaraitaki na yalewa e liu, 64;<br />
kei rau na dau<strong>ni</strong>vakasala, ena bula<br />
sautu ena gauna <strong>ni</strong> ivalu, 64; kei<br />
rau na dau<strong>ni</strong>vakasala, ena dinati <strong>ni</strong><br />
yavu ivakavuvuli <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong><br />
<strong>Veivukei</strong>, 63; nona vakarautaki, me<br />
peresitedi raraba <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong><br />
<strong>Veivukei</strong>, 63; tauyavutaka kei rau<br />
na nona dau<strong>ni</strong>vakasala na ibole<br />
<strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>, 63; vaka<br />
edita <strong>ni</strong>Woman’s Exponent, 57<br />
Whitney, Elizabeth Ann: ena nona<br />
saumaki mai, 128–29; ena nona<br />
veiqaravi vakaliga<strong>ni</strong>cakacaka <strong>ni</strong><br />
valetabu, 133; vakatikori vakalewe<br />
<strong>ni</strong> imatai <strong>ni</strong> mataveiliutaki <strong>ni</strong><br />
<strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>, 13<br />
Whitney, Helen Mar: ena loloma <strong>ni</strong><br />
Kalou vei ira na pai<strong>ni</strong>a taumada <strong>ni</strong><br />
Yalododonu Edaidai, 34; ena nodra<br />
talairawarawa eso na marama ki<br />
na lawa <strong>ni</strong> vakamau vakalevu, 49<br />
Widtsoe, John A., ena veivuke mai na<br />
<strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>, 25<br />
Williams, Clarissa S.: ena kena<br />
vakatorocaketaki na nodra bula<br />
na veimatavuvale era vakaleqai tu,<br />
69–70; ena nodra cakacaka ena loloma<br />
na <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>, 74;<br />
nona leqataka, na ituvaki <strong>ni</strong> nodra<br />
bula na yalewa kei na gone, 66–67,<br />
69–70; vakavakarau me veiqaravi<br />
vakaperesitedi raraba <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong><br />
<strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>, 69<br />
Winder, Barbara W.: ena maqosa <strong>ni</strong><br />
qaravi vale, 156; ena nodra duavata<br />
na yalewa kei na tagane ena Lotu,
140–41; ena nodra vakaitavi na<br />
marama ena soqo<strong>ni</strong> <strong>ni</strong> matabose <strong>ni</strong><br />
Lotu, 141; ena veivakalougatataki<br />
<strong>ni</strong> siko vuvale vei ira na dausiko<br />
vuvale, 120; sikova kei na watina e<br />
dua na <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong> mai<br />
Czechoslovakia, 94–95<br />
Winter Quarters, 31<br />
Wirthlin, Joseph L., ena nona cakacaka<br />
vakawelefea e dua na peresitedi <strong>ni</strong><br />
<strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>, 73<br />
Witi: Emmeline B. Wells ena mamaroroi,<br />
52–53, 54, 66; nodra sasaga<br />
na marama me ra mamaroroi,<br />
53; Nona ivakasala o John Taylor<br />
vei ira na turaga me baleta na,<br />
53–54; Vakauqeti ira na marama<br />
o Brigham Young me ra teitei ka<br />
tatamusuki, 52; vakayagataki<br />
me ra vukei kina e lewevuqa, 54;<br />
volitaki ki na mata<strong>ni</strong>tu o Amerika,<br />
54, 66–67<br />
Woman’s Exponent, 57<br />
Woodruff, Wilford: ena nodra rawata<br />
na tamata na veika e kacivi ira kina<br />
na Kalou me ra cakava, 31; ena<br />
volai <strong>ni</strong> iVakaro, 47–48<br />
Y<br />
Yalewa: ena Veiyalayalati Vou, 3–6; itavi<br />
vakalou kei na vanua era rawa <strong>ni</strong><br />
yacova, 171–72; luvena yalewa na<br />
Kalou, 171; nodra veivakauqeti dodonu<br />
na Yalododonu Edaidai, 90;<br />
Nona loloma kei na veikauwaitaki<br />
o Jisu Karisito, 3<br />
Yalo Tabu: isolisoli <strong>ni</strong>, 128; ivakatakila<br />
yadua mai na, 128; muria na kena<br />
veivakauqeti, ena siko vuvale, 112–<br />
13, 114–16; noda veitoka<strong>ni</strong> vata<br />
kaya e veigauna, 128; veituberi kei<br />
na veivakacegui mai na, 46<br />
Young, Brigham: dau cakacaka<br />
vakabalavu e veisiga ena Valetabu<br />
e <strong>Na</strong>uvoo me vukei ira na Yalododonu<br />
me ra ciqoma na veicakacaka<br />
vakalotu, 29; dusimaki ira na<br />
marama me ra tauyavutaka e dua<br />
na isoqosoqo cokovata <strong>ni</strong> caka<br />
silika, 52; ena ivakaro <strong>ni</strong> Turaga ki<br />
na Keba i Isireli, 30–31; ena loloma<br />
cecere, 45; ena nodra kerea na<br />
bisopi na veivuke <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong><br />
<strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>, 41; ena nodra rawata<br />
na marama ena <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong><br />
<strong>Veivukei</strong> na nodra itavi, 50; ena<br />
nodra rawata na marama na vuli<br />
ena veiqaravi vakavu<strong>ni</strong>wai, 54; ena<br />
nodra tauyavutaka na marama<br />
na ivakarau <strong>ni</strong> isulusulu, 51; ena<br />
veiqaravi <strong>ni</strong> yalololoma, 107; ena<br />
veiyalayalati me da lako ena veicakacaka<br />
vakalotu kece <strong>ni</strong> Turaga, 30;<br />
ena vuki ta<strong>ni</strong> mai na veivakayarayarataki<br />
nei vuravura, 45; kacivi<br />
Eliza R. Snow me dusimaki ira na<br />
marama, 44; kacivi Eliza R. Snow<br />
me veivuke ena tauyavutaki tale <strong>ni</strong><br />
<strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>, 42; kacivi<br />
ira na Yalododonu me ra vukei na<br />
pai<strong>ni</strong>a ena qiqidreti ka ra sa tao<br />
tu, 36; vakaroti ira na marama me<br />
ra maroroi witi, 52; vakasalataki<br />
ira na Yalododonu me ra biuti<br />
<strong>Na</strong>uvoo, 29; vakasalataki ira na<br />
Yalododonu me ra tamusuka na<br />
itovo ca ka veisau, 45; vakasalataki<br />
ira na Yalododonu me ra vukei ira<br />
era vakaleqai tu, 35, 36; vakatekivuna<br />
na sasaga me tauyavutaki<br />
tale na <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> <strong>Veivukei</strong>, 41;<br />
veivakabauti, vei ira na yalewa ena<br />
Lotu, 51<br />
Young, Zina D. H.: ena bibi <strong>ni</strong> ivakadinadina,<br />
56; ena caka <strong>ni</strong> vuvale<br />
me vanua <strong>ni</strong> veika totoka, 151;<br />
ena itavi vakatina, 152–53; ena<br />
nodra rai na Yalododonu me baleta<br />
na iVakaro, 48; me peresitedi <strong>ni</strong><br />
<strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong> Silika <strong>ni</strong> Desereti,<br />
52; nona veiqaravi, ena buturara <strong>ni</strong><br />
veiqaravi vakavu<strong>ni</strong>wai, 54–55<br />
Z<br />
Zippro, Gertrude, ivakaraitaki <strong>ni</strong><br />
veiqaravi yalodina <strong>ni</strong> <strong>iSoqosoqo</strong> <strong>ni</strong><br />
<strong>Veivukei</strong>, 76–77<br />
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