TARAWA, Kiribati — In the hours before Elder Quentin L. Cook of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles stood to speak on Thursday, May 23, at Moroni High School in Tarawa, Kiribati, people began converging on the school’s outdoor gym.
The first 600 seats in the gym filled with eager Latter-day Saints while the sun was still high in the sky and hot. More seats and tents were set up behind the gym. Those quickly filled, as well. Then seats and tents filled up to one side of the gym and the other. Every available chair from the school was put…
