ʻElisiva Fusipala Vahaʻi, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetʻElisiva Fusipala Vahaʻi
member of Tonga's royal family
Date of Birth: 
Place of Birth: Nuku'alofa, Tonga
About ʻElisiva Fusipala Vahaʻi
- Princess 'Elisiva Fusipala Tauki'onetuku Tuku'aho Vaha'i of Tonga (12 June 1949 – 2 October 2014), normally referred to as Princess Fusipala or even just Fusipala, was a daughter of Fatafehi Tu?ipelehake.
- Fusipala was one of the Tu?i Pelehake's six children, four of whom were girls. On the occasion of her marriage to Hahano-ki-Mala'e Kula-'a Sione Ngu Namoa, Lord Vaha'i (1936–2005), the Vaha?i of Fo?ui, a member of the Tongan nobility, John H.
- Groberg, then the mission president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) in Tonga, gave Fusipala and Hahano a copy of the Standard Works of the LDS Church as a wedding present.
- This was in 1968. In 1989 Fusipala joined the LDS Church.
- ?Isileli T.
- Kongaika, who was president of the Tongan Mission at the time of Fusipala's baptism, said that she was the first member of Tonga's royal family to join the LDS Church.
- Her main period of learning about the denomination was while visiting Sepiuta and Larripotoa Fehoko in Santa Ana, California.
- The Fehokos took Fusipala to church with them at the Santa Ana 6th (Tongan-speaking) branch.
- Her instruction in the gospel was done by branch president Heilala T.
- Finau.
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