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By Peter J. Lineham

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Meeting of Mormon Church members at Nuhaka

Stuart (Te Tuati) Meha was born at Wanstead, Hawkess Bay, probably on 29 December 1878. His father,

Arapata Meha, a prominent member of Ngati Kahungunu and Ngati Ruatotara of Rangitane, was a

successful sheepfarmer and landowner from Te Tapairu, near Waipawa. His mother, Mere Te Hau, was of

Ngati Rakaipaaka. The family had a distinguished ancestry and before Stuart was born it was prophesied

that he would save his ancestors: this was later seen as a prediction of the Mormon practice of baptism for

the dead.

Missionaries of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints arrived in Wairarapa in 1883 and soon

made an impact among Ngati Kahungunu. Stuarts parents were baptised into the church on 15 July 1885

within two weeks of hearing George S. Taylor and Edward Newby preach in southern Hawkes Bay. Stuart

was baptised when he was eight. Mormon missionary diaries record that early converts greatly enjoyed the

church's teaching and despised the traditional churches, but retained many Maori customs and did not

accept all the Mormon practices. This was the world in which Stuart Meha grew up.

After attending Te Aute College he assisted on his fathers small farm, eventually taking it over. Highly

respected within his own tribe, he served as chairman of the Waipawa marae committee and on various

other Maori bodies including a committee that was set up to discuss the rating of Maori land. At 19 he

married Meri Hineiturama Tapihana of Te Arawa at Dannevirke. They had at least three sons and a

daughter. Meri died in July 1912, and at Waipawa on 28 April 1914 Meha married Rosina Jane EdithMorris of Te Aitanga-a-Mahaki and Te Aitanga-a-Hauiti. The couple had three boys and a girl when

Rosina died in July 1920. The following year, at Dannevirke on 5 October, Meha married Rosinas sister,

Ivory Tepora Morris. They had four daughters and three sons; Ivory died in February 1937.

The Mormons had a strong following among Maori in southern Hawkes Bay. In 1913 the area became the

home of the churchs Maori Agricultural College, which was destroyed in the 1931 earthquake. Meha was

secretary to the colleges board of education from 1913 to 1924, and assistant secretary in 1931. He served

on the board from 1925 to 1929.

Meha was one of the few Maori to visit Salt Lake City before 1920: he attended the temple ordinances

(baptism of the dead) there in 1913 along with five others. His temple sealing was of great importance to

him and he later attained the office of high priest. From December 1916 he also had the unusual distinction,

not normally permitted to Maori, of serving on a mission, which visited various villages. With his mentor

and friend Wiremu Duncan, he was involved between 1917 and 1919 with the American missionary

Matthew Cowley in revising the Maori translation of The book of Mormonand two other Mormon classics:

Doctrine and covenantsand The pearl of great price.In 1921 when one of the Mormon apostles visited

New Zealand and attended the annual Easter hui, Meha translated his messages.

In the 1920s many Mormons drifted out of the church and followed T. W. Ratana. Meha read the Ratana

covenant to the 1929 Mormon hui, but the mission president rejected Ratanas suggestion that the two
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churches join together. Meha remained loyal to his own church. He was first counsellor to Eriata Nopera,

the first Maori president of a Mormon district in New Zealand; Nopera was appointed president of the

Hawkes Bay district in 1928. In due course Meha succeeded to this position.

After 1928 the leadership of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in New Zealand gradually

passed into the hands of Maori at local level and Meha was a key associate of the American leaders of the

church. He constantly worked to make a bridge between it and the Maori world. He loved Maori traditionsand reinterpreted them in the light of his Mormon values. He visited many old tohunga to search out

information about the ancestors and legends of his people. In 1932 he was appointed head of a mission

genealogy committee set up to encourage Maori to explore their genealogy for use in temple ordinances:

increasing numbers of Maori were going to the Mormon temple in Laie, Hawaii, the temple nearest to New

Zealand. Through his efforts, the names of thousands of his ancestors were placed in Mormon temples.

This work was his major contribution to the church.

During the Second World War Meha became a close associate of Matthew Cowley, the mission president

who cemented the Maori identity of the Mormon church. In the postwar years Meha was respected by

Mormon Maori as a great patriarch: when the site for the New Zealand temple was being chosen by the

church president in 1955, he had the honoured role of giving voice to an old prophecy that Hamilton would

be the site. Yet he saw that American church leaders were undergoing a dramatic turn-around in policy:

they were abandoning respect for Maori values. Soon after the arrival of a new president, Gordon Young,

in 1948, most of the elderly Maori district presidents including Meha were dismissed. As an act of

appeasement, Meha was recognised, along with three other rangatira within the church, as a special

Nephite missionary to travel among Maori Mormons, who warmly honoured him.

Stuart Meha died on 7 November 1963 in Waipukurau, survived by 10 children. A short, solidly built

farmer with an air of great dignity, Meha was the symbol of the time when the Mormon church in New

Zealand was a Maori church.

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October 25, 2011

John Elkington


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Brothers and Sisters Aloha,

I am grateful for the opportunity to share with you my feelings and thoughts in devoting this hour in

testifying of the Savior and the Gospel of Jesus Christ. For the past month I have fostered feelings of doubt

and much anxiety, and have wondered whether to attribute this to preparing to address you at this

devotional or in supporting the All Blacks in their quest to win the rugby world cup that was being played

in New Zealand. Well, the All Blacks have won the world cup and the butterflies are still here. Our Laie 8th

Ward theme for this year seems most appropriate, "Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the

feeble knees" (Hebrews 12:12). I am therefore thankful for the opening prayer and the introduction and

testimony of my eternal companion, Debbie. I ask for Heavenly Fathers guidance that in some way my

words may convey and share with you my feelings and allow the spirit to be present this morning.

As I look out into the student body, I see young students preparing to make the most important decision of

your lives. I am taken aback thirty six years to when I had graduated from this University. With a degree in

finance, I had been accepted into the management training program with a local bank. The dress code was

aloha shirt attire, as you will all be aware when starting out in the real world, pay was minimal, and even

then the cost of aloha shirts was beyond our budget. So my wife, Debbie decided to use her sewing skills

and proceeded to buy the fabric that was on sale from our local stores. In the Seventies, safari shirt patterns

were the rage and polyester material was plentiful and affordable. The challenge was that the inexpensive

fabric had pastel colors. To tell the truth it must have been a sight, going to work wearing aloha shirts that

were pink and lime green and royal blue. I must have been naive, but I didn't mind, because they were new

and fresh and clean. Maybe it was because my shirts were the handiwork of my companion.

During my first year in the management training program our banks' branch decided to celebrate Christmas

by going to a dinner, which also included a show. After the dinner we were entertained with a floor show.

As the show unraveled, it soon became obvious that the show was burlesque in nature. My wife turned to

me and to this day I remember her words, "I want to go home to our children, I will wait in the car." To

you young students, there are moments of truth that you will face and management training programs do

not prepare you for these moments. Do I stand up and leave with my wife under the gaze of my fellowemployees or do I shrink back and wait for a more convenient and less conspicuous time? The prophets

Lehi and Nephi knew about this moment and I am so thankful that Debbie and I knew about Lehi and

Nephi.

".... .behold, he saw other multitudes pressing forward; and they came and caught hold of the end of the rod

of Iron; and they did press their way forward, continually holding fast to the rod of iron, until they came

forth and fell down and partook of the fruit of the tree.... .And great was the multitude that did enter into

that strange building. And after they did enter into that building they did point the finger of scorn at me and

those that were partaking of the fruit also; but we heeded them not" (1 Nephi 8:30, 33).

We left that floorshow together, and I knew that the person in whose embrace I had placed my faith for theupbringing of our children, though tenuous and full of challenges, was in safe hands.

I am grateful for being taught at the feet of living prophets and apostles and embracing their teachings and

modern day revelations. In 1993 the Hawaii State Supreme Court found the states refusal to grant same sex

marriage licenses, discriminatory. In 1998 a constitutional amendment granting the Hawaii State

Legislature the power to reserve marriage to opposite sex couples was voted on, however prior to the vote

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of Hawaii were invited to rally and show their support for the Constitutional Amendment. On two

occasions I was privileged to witness our BYU-Hawaii students raising banners supporting traditional

marriage as we marched along the medial strip along Kahekili Highway in Kaneohe and Kuulei Road in

Kailua. I heard the jeers and sneers and abusive words of non traditionalists, however the reassuring

message from the Teachings of Joseph F. Smith buoys me up,

".... ..the people of God know the voice of the true shepherd, and the stranger's voice they will not heed, nor

the counsels of him who assumes authority that does not belong to him. None such will they ever follow.

The Latter-Day Saints know the spirit of the gospel; they understand the spirit of truth. They have learned

their duty, and they will stand by truth, no matter what may come."

I witnessed a young married student mother holding aloft her baby. Standing next to them was the baby's

grandmother, three generations in support of an amendment, similar to what has become known as the

Family Proclamation issued by our modern day Prophets and apostles,

"The family is ordained of God. Marriage between man and women is essential to his eternal plan. Children

are entitled to birth within the bonds of matrimony and to be reared by a father and a mother who honor

marital vows with complete fidelity."

As I witnessed these events, for me it was not unlike envisioning Moroni in the Book of Mormon,

"And it came to pass that he rent his coat, and he took a piece thereof and wrote upon it - In memory of our

God, our religion, and freedom, and our peace, our wives and our children.... .Behold, whosoever will

maintain this title upon the land, let them come forth in the strength of the Lord, and enter into a covenant

that they will maintain their rights and their religion that the Lord God may bless them" (Alma 46:12,

20).

As a result of this support, the Hawaii State Legislature passed a law that banned same sex marriages.

Today, Same sex marriages are prohibited by Hawaii State statutes. The words of hymnal #254, True to the

Faith, remind us of the battles that lie ahead,

"While we know the power's of darkness seek to thwart the work of God. Shall the children of the promise,

cease to grasp the iron rod? No, True to the faith that our parents have cherished, true to the truth for which

martyrs have perished, to God's command, soul heart and hand. Faithful and true we will ever stand."

I am grateful for teachers at all levels of learning in whose embrace we place our faith as they share their

knowledge and testimony about truth and divinity. In a tribute and memory of Dr. Karl G. Maeser, which I

believe is a tribute to all teachers, perhaps the noblest of all professions, is the text penned by Annie Pine

Greenwood with music by L.D. Edwards,

"Come lay his books and papers by, he shall not need them more.... . per chance, when death its change

hath wrought, and this brief race is run his voice again shall teach, who thought the teachers work was

done."

In 1960 as I was nearing my 12th birthday and getting ready to graduate as a Top Pilot from Primary, I had

not completed memorizing the last and longest article of faith, the 13th. It didn't seem to matter to me that

the pin recognizing this accomplishment would not be added to my green primary bandelo. I was more


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concerned with joining my buddies, who had moved up from the Primary program. The Sunday was fast

approaching when our Branch President would welcome us into the Young Men program. That Saturday

night my mother received a call from my primary teacher, Sister Becky Modelick. I do not remember the

level of conversation except that she told me, "Tomorrow morning at 7:00am, get yourself ready and go on

over to Sister Modelicks home." Needless to say at 7:00am the next morning under the tutelage of my

faithful Primary teacher I completed and passed off the 13th article of faith. I will always be grateful and

remember Sister Modelick.

I know many of you living here on campus will have wonderful learning experiences. I would like to share

two examples with you. In March 1998 our housing office received this letter,

"I was a student there in l985, when I arrived, I was given one too many blankets. When I checked out, I

was only required to turn in the one. I took the other blanket with me when I returned home. I can't explain

my actions. It was wrong. I am sorry. I recently came across the blanket at my parent's home in some old

storage and felt the only way to right the wrong was to return it. I ask for your forgiveness and hope you

will accept my apology and find use again for the blanket."

Our housing office received this letter in September 2004.

"I was a student at BYU-Hawaii 1979-1980, my freshman year. After school was out but before I returned

to the mainland I took a case of toilet paper out of a supply closet and together with a couple of friends

proceeded to "TP" the open air courtyard of our dorm, Hale II. I am sorry for my actions done at the time.

After returning from a successful mission to Brazil, I went to BYU. Now some twenty years later here is

the first part of my repentance process. In an effort to correct this juvenile indiscretion, I ask the

University's forgiveness and I have enclosed a check to pay for that case of toilet paper, plus interest."

Living in the resident halls is not just about brick and mortar, regardless of the size or age of your room you

can experience blessings reserved for you. In preparing a room in her home for the prophet Elisha, the

widow women's description fits your rooms perfectly,

"Let us make a little chamber, I pray thee on the wall; and let us set for him there, a bed, and a table, and a

stool, and a candlestick: and it shall be, when he cometh to us, that he shall turn in thither" (2 Kings

4:10).

I am grateful for the missionaries who came to New Zealand in the late 1800's and embraced our culture

and learned our language, as they did in all of Polynesia.

"Send forth the elders of my church unto the nations which are afar off; unto the islands of the sea; send

forth unto foreign lands; call upon all nations, first upon the Gentiles, and then upon the Jews" (D&C

133:8).

"Know ye not that there are more nations than one? Know ye not that I, the Lord your God, have created all

men, and that I remember those who are upon the Isles of the sea...." (2 Nephi 29:7).

In March 1881 a convention was held at a Maori village near Masterton in the Waiarapa District, north of

Wellington. Among the subjects that were discussed between the Maori chiefs, who belonged to the

Catholic, Methodist, Presbyterian and Anglican churches is if all Christianity was of Christ, why were not


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all Christians affiliated with but one church? The same question the boy Prophet Joseph Smith asked,

"Which is the Church? Which one should the Maori join?" After much discussion and debate the question

was directed to one chief, Paora Potangaroa. His answer was "Taihoa" which means "wait" or "wait a

while." The chief left the assembly, and retired to his own residence. There for three days he was

occupied in prayer, fasting and meditation. After the three days Potangaroa returned to the convention.

Freely translated these were his words, "My friends, the church for the Maori people has not yet come

among us. You will recognize it when it comes. Its missionaries will travel in pairs. They will come from

the land of the rising sun. They will learn the language and teach us the gospel in our own tongue. When

they pray they will raise their right hands."

I owe my membership in the church to the missionaries Elders Edward Newby and George S. Taylor who

baptized my great grandparents, grandma Huitaus' parents, Albert Meha and Mary TeHau in 1885. With

regards to the missionary effort, my grandfather James Rongatoa wrote in his journal,

"When I think of the gospel, the Plan of Salvation, of the early missionaries who introduced it to my

grandfather Roma Ruruku and mother Wetekia, and later my father John Arthur, baptized July 25, 1889, I

feel as my ancestors felt, but in the modern posture on bended knees, humble and reverently offer my heart

and all that I have in gratitude to my Father in Heaven for my membership in the Church"

For missionaries like George Q. Cannon, whose figure graces the entrance to this building, along with

Jonathan Napela holding aloft the Book of Mormon, we owe a sense of gratitude. The mural in the David

O'Mckay foyer depicts the arrival of ten missionaries, within two to three months five became discouraged

and left the mission. Elder Cannon was not among them. After learning the language Elder Cannon along

with other Hawaiian members, notably Jonathan Napela, translated the Book of Mormon in the Hawaiian

Language. Following his mission George Q. Cannon also supervised the printing of the Book of Mormon

which was completed in January 1856.

September of last year, I returned home to New Zealand to attend the funeral of a remarkable man, his

name is Junior Wineera. In March, 1944 Junior was the youngest of thirteen children born to Raha andLeah Wineera. His parents noticed very early in his development that his reflexes were slow and he did not

respond to movement. Baby Junior was taken to an eye specialist who confirmed their fears, he had been

born blind. Raha was not active in the church and Leah belonged to the Anglican faith. In 1945 President

Matthew Cowley of the New Zealand Mission visited the Porirua Branch. Upon hearing that President

Cowley was attending the church services, Raha took his 9 month baby to the meeting that Sunday. He

said, "Brother Cowley, our baby hasn't been blessed yet; we'd like you to bless him." President Cowley

said, "Why have you waited so Long?" Raha responded, "Oh, we just didn't get around to it." President

Cowley said, "All right, what's his name?" Raha gave him the name and just as President Cowley was to

start the blessing Raha said, "By the way, give him his vision when you give him a name, he was born

blind." After the initial shock President Cowley said to himself, "Why not, I had faith in that father's

faith."

A few years later, when visiting the area, President Cowley asked the Branch President about thestatus of Junior. He remarked, "Brother Cowley, the worst thing you ever did was to bless that child to

receive his vision, he's the meanest kid in the neighborhood, always getting into mischief."

I had the privilege of growing up in the neighborhood with Junior, he may at one time been the meanest

kid, but he was without guile. Every Sunday morning his mother Leah, who remained true to her Anglican

faith, laid out a clean, ironed white shirt in preparation for Junior to attend his Sunday morning Priesthood

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duties. When he was a Priest he would often repeat the Sacrament prayer several times, he slowly

articulated the words until he eventually got them right. He was not conscious of how long it took and

neither were we. Junior never received his driver's license and would often be seen walking to Titahi Bay

or Porirua city, four mile hikes. He just enjoyed walking and meeting and talking with people, often

addressing them with this salutation, "How might you be today, Sir." He would have enjoyed the Kahuku

Bike path. I am not sure how the locals would have responded to his salutation. He loved his Priesthood

and excursions to the Temple. He had embraced the simplicity of his father's faith with good works. Junior

knew he had received a special blessing but to him being a worthy member of the church was special.

Elder Cowley often said, "The Gospel of Jesus Christ is beautifully simple and simply beautiful."

Three days ago I attended the baptism of an 8 year old member of our ward; she was baptized and

confirmed by her father. I have pondered the significance of the covenants that she is making with our

Heavenly Father at such a young age. The faith that she has placed in her parents and family, in her

teachers, in her older siblings, in her leaders, in the teachings of the prophets and apostles and in her

Heavenly Father and his Son Jesus Christ. This is the faith that is spoken of by Alma and Paul,

".... faith is not to have a perfect knowledge of things; therefore if ye have faith ye hope for things which

are not seen, which are true" (Alma 32:21).

"Faith is the substance of things hoped for the evidence of things not seen" (Hebrews 11:l).

In her lifetime this young women will understand the significance of the prophet, President Spencer W.

Kimball's statement,

"It takes a great faith to pay tithes when funds are scarce and demands are great. It takes faith to fast and

have family prayers and to observe the Word of Wisdom. It takes faith to do home teaching, missionary

work, and other service, when sacrifice is required. It takes faith to fill full-time missions. But know this

-all these are of the planting, while faithful devout families, spiritual security, peace, and eternal life are the

harvest...."

I am grateful for the opportunities of learning and service that BYU-Hawaii and the Laie community has

provided for my family and I. Please take advantage of your time while you are here. As you increase in

knowledge and wisdom continue to build your testimony of the Gospel. It is a blessing that many of you

take the time to serve and attend the temple. When we place our faith and trust in our Heavenly Father and

his Son, Jesus Christ, he has promised us that our burdens and challenges will be made lighter and

bearable.

President Uchtdorf's message to us is so true,

"The gospel of Jesus Christ has the answers to all of our problems. The gospel is not a secret. It is not

complicated or hidden.... It is not someone's theory or proposition. It does not come from man at all. It

springs from the pure and everlasting waters of the Creator of the universe, who knows truths we cannot

even begin to comprehend. And with that knowledge, He has given us the gospel - a divine gift, the

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I bear you my testimony that Jesus Christ is the god shepherd, he is our Good Samaritan, he is the chief

steward of the vineyard and we plant today and in whose embrace we have placed our faith.

In the name of Jesus Christ, amen.

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Nga Tau e Waru meeting house at Te Ore Ore Marae. During the meeting, Paora Te Potangaroa spoke of

the spiritual impotency of theChristianmissionariesthat had visited the Mori. When some of the

attendees pressed Potangaroa on which was the church for the Mori, he retired to his nearby residence for

three days offasting,meditation,andprayer.

Potangaroa reconvened the meeting on March 16 and announced that he had received knowledge of a

coming church for the Mori: "There is a religious denomination coming for us; perhaps it will come from

there, perhaps it will emerge here. ... [T]here will be a time when a religion will emerge for you and I and

the Mori people."[1]Another reported account elaborated:

"You will recognize it when it comes. Its missionaries will travel in pairs. They will come from the rising

sun. They will visit with us in our homes. They will learn our language and teach us the gospel in our own

tongue. When they pray they will raise their right hands.[2]

Potangaroa also set down in writing "He Kawenata" "the covenant" which included other signs that

would let his followers know that his prophecy had been fulfilled within forty years.[2][3][4]The covenantpredicted that 1881 would be the "day of the fulness", 1882 would be a "year of the sealing", 1883 would

be a "year of great faith", and that through these events the Mori "will learn of the Scepter of Judah ... of

the Kingdom of Heaven [and] of the sacred church with a large wall surrounding."[1]The covenant was

sealed in a monument at the Te Ore Ore Marae.[3][4]

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Shortly after uttering his prophecy, Potangaroa died. Later that same year, missionariesfromThe Church of

Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saintsmade initial contacts with individuals from Ngti Kahungunu. Some of theMaori who converted to Mormonismbelieved that the coming of the Mormon missionaries was a

fulfillment of Potangaroa's prophecy.[3]Potangaroa's "day of the fulness" was identified as the missionaries

bearing the "fulness of the Gospel"; the "year of the sealing" was identified as the time the Mori learned of

the Latter-day Saint sealingordinances; and the "sacred church with a large wall surrounding" was

identified as theSalt Lake Temple,which is located onTemple Square,surrounded by a high wall.[2]It was

also pointed out by believers that the Mormon missionaries had come in pairs from "the rising sun" (the

United States, to the east), that the missionaries taught the Ngti Kahungunu in theMori languagein their

own homes, and that they raised their arms when they prayed.[5]
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By 1883 Potangaroa's "year of great faith" hundreds of Ngti Kahungunu had joined the LDS Church

in the Wairarapa.[4]An apostleof the LDS Church would later claim that by 1921, the fortieth anniversary

of Potangaroa's prophecy, only Mori from Ngti Kahungunu had joined the LDS Church and received

templeordinances, and that Mori from other tribes began receiving these sealing ordinances only after the

forty-year "covenant" of Potangaroa had been fulfilled.[2]

OthersOther religious groups that have been seen as fulfillments of the prophecy include the Ratanachurch,

founded by Tahupotiki Wiremu Ratana;theRingatuchurch, founded byTe Kooti;and the Church of the

Seven Rules of Jehovah, founded by Simon Patete.[3]
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