I became friends with Scott and asked whether he was related to the Alma Sonne who was a general authority who had interviewed me for a mission to the Far Eastern Mission (Japan). Scott said that Elder Sonne was his grandfather.

I told Scott that when my wife and I were called to serve in the Birmingham England Mission, I knew that his grandfather had also served a mission to England. I had heard that when his mission was finished he had booked passage on the Titanic. For some reason he was delayed and thereby his life was saved by taking a later ship. Scott then told me that there was more to the story.

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