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Top Mormon Student Says, ‘Hard Work Works’

Samoan Mormon Student Receives Award from New Zealand Government

“A Mormon student from Samoa, Ryder Afele Fuimaono, has received the New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (M.F.A.T.) Award for the Highest Performing N.Z.A.I.D sponsored Pacific student at Otago in 2013,” the Samoa Observer reported recently.

“A second year Medicine student, Mr. Fuimaono, who hails from Ululoloa, received 92 per cent average.”

“He is a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Pesega 5th Ward).”

Read the full article at the Samoa Observer.

 

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