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Mission Farewell Talk May 23, 2021

on June 27, 2023

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Cute Promo Video Made About Sam & Spelling

Elders Tuia and Li made this cute video about Sam! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97_50RABK5M

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Mission Homecoming Talk June 25, 2023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Scy7zTIf4Io I am Mindy Chiou and this is Samuel Chiou. Samuel has cerebral palsy and nonspeaking autism and his body has a lot of challenges. Until just a few years ago most experts assumed he was also intellectually disabled. However, the reason we are up here reporting on a two-year mission is that when he was fifteen, Samuel started showing us that he was fully intelligent and “in there” by starting to learn how to talk using a letterboard [show boards] with the training of teacher Dawnmarie Gaivin, or DM for short. (I've included as many of Samuel's own words in this talk as I could, which were generously pre-recorded by my son-in-law, Scott.) Eventually Sam was able to spell clearly that he wanted to be baptized, which happened when he was seventeen. And when we asked him what he wanted for his birthday, after deflecting and making several witty jokes, he spelled that he wanted: THE FAITH TO INTEND TO COMPLETE A MISSION SOMETIME. Over th...

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Mission Farewell Talk May 23, 2021

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