After awhile Elder Groberg is called to serve in Ha'apai, Tonga. It was interesting to see the differences in the two different islands all said to be combined into one called Tonga. It seemed like the people in Ha'apai had a little more stuff (since Tongans don't really have money) than the people on Niuapotupatu, Tonga. Instead of just staying in one general area, he had to sail to all the different islands of Ha'apai, Tonga. He had many cool and interesting experiences there too.
I did notice that not all the scenes in the movie are in the book. The book has more in it than the movie, but like I said, it still doesn't contain all the scenes that are in the movie. It made me wonder why, and I wished the book did have those things in it. I also noticed that chapter one is different from the rest of the book.
In chapter one it talks about a time when he's at sea and a bad storm strikes. The ship overturns and he and the rest of the crew is thrown overboard. Its then that his companions and him have to swim back to dry land, when their miles away from it. As far as I remember I don't think it told when this event took place. Then after the chapter, chapter two begins and its labeled the beginning. I didn't like that I didn't know when this event took place. I thought it was supposed to be kind of like a prologue and that it would probably be repeated later in the story. The thing was that it wasn't and that one (as far as I know) event was out of chronological order.
In the end of the book Elder Groberg says he met up with Jean after he served his mission, and was later married to her. They were married in the Los Angeles Temple on September 6, 1957.
I loved this book and out of a rating of four stars, I'd rate it four stars. I learned many more things about the Tongan culture, and the author did a great job keeping up your interests in the story. There weren't many or any parts that bore you.
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