Mike Foley's blog
Here are a couple of samples:
The Samata ‘fly-test’: A Miracle?
When I was a Mormon missionary in Samoa in the early months of 1967, my companion and I were assigned to live in Samata, Savaii, in the Falelima district…where we experienced what some have called a miracle. Now, I experienced a number of miracles during my missionary days in Samoa, some of them even humorous, […]
BYUH students learn about service dogs
[Story and photos by Mike Foley: Published originally in the BYU-Hawaii online “Newsroom,” March 5, 2009] Brigham Young University Hawaii Honors students learned in their colloquium on March 4 about a unique program in nearby Kahuku — one of only 40 in the world — fully accredited to train highly skilled service dogs to help […]
More “poor man’s cruise”
[Blog entry and video by Mike Foley: Originally published June 30, 2009] An earlier blog entry “inspired” me to dig out my old Hi-8 video tapes and put together a little web video of our Alaskan adventure in June 2001. After a lifetime of still photography, I was just starting to get into video at this […]
Mormon missionary life in Samoa, 1965
Story and photos by Mike Foley, originally published on December 7, 2008 Many aspects of living in most parts of Samoa in 1965 were very different for a person who grew up in an urban American environment. For example: