Hawaii's labor missionaries made great contributions
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LAIE, Hawaii — Percy TeHira is a wiry, upbeat New Zealander who came to Hawaii in 1960, a missionary called to build the kingdom, literally, by laboring on construction projects.
TeHira was already an experienced labor missionary in his own country, called in 1956 to help built the Church College of New Zealand and the New Zealand Temple. He didn't know that much about what he was getting into with the call to Hawaii, but he was satisfied with a verse of scripture in the Pearl of Great Price: "I know not, save the Lord commanded me."
The Mormon community in Laie was experiencing a prophetic growth spurt. David O. McKay, then president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, first envisioned a university in Laie in 1921. Ground was broken on a college campus in 1955; and late in 1958, President McKay dedicated the first permanent buildings of the new Church College of Hawaii — today's BYU-Hawaii.
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