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Show 11, 1983 Sunday, December Local and worldwide church news and commentaries Religion N It's tempting to put Helvi Temiseva on a pedestal. She wanted so badly to be able to attend Brigham Young University that she completed the equivalent of five years of high school and junior college work in Finland in less than about a year and a half .year. And when she did get to BYU she earned both a bachelor's and a master's degree, in spite of the IF 3 pV - rf o paper i sill n language difficulties. She's even translated many LDS church books to Finnish, including part of the Doctrine Nobody gets your dishes j"f- Dual Wash cleaner! Regular Cycle for tough and Covenants. If you're not impressed yet, take a close look at the pictures. Helvi did it all while confined to a wheelchair. Helvi is afflicted with a se--' vere form of juvenile arthritis which has left her almost completely immobile. Helvi was struck with polio when she was eight years old, but after a year thought she had recovered "quite well." At age 11, however, illness struck again, this time as crippling arthritis which confined her to a wheelchair. "In three months there was not a joint in my body that was not affected," she said. "This form of juvenile arthritis has its good side, too," she said: "After four or five years it stops." Helvi said the only pain she feels now is some muscle ache "when pressure comes in. I always know one or two days before it rains." Until 1976, Helvi had many helpers who "came and went," she said. Finally, a friend gave her the name of Rose Marie Daigle, an acquaintance in Maine, and Helvi gave her a 61 kill $mth Helps Survival Though Handicap By LAURA M. JANNEY Herald Staff Writer - Page THE HERALD, Provo, Utah, Saver Dry Cycle j- i i znPPjfilffRtor circulates j 1 call. Helvi told Rose she wmmmmMmm mamwmm fc ik I d ! w mm kj-- k w m w w NOW and receive our special installation price for your Buy any model Maylae Jetelean Dishwasher mal replacement installation! Special Savings on Maytag washers and dryers too! nor- mm needed an assistant and Rose immediately agreed to come to Provo to fill the position. Since then', the two have been inseparable. "She's my all and all," Helvi said. .Helvi credits the gospel of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-da- y Saints with giving her much of her strength. "It has influenced my life in every way," she said. "It's not only spiritual. It has given me a purpose and a meaning in life." Her first experience with the church came when she living in Finland. A neighbor, who had met the LDS missionaries at a meeting of the local Finnish-America- n Society, sometimes invited the missionaries to her house to visit. "She wasn't interested in religion," Helvi said. "She just wanted to be hospitable." One day the missionaries wanted to show her a film about America, and, not ing them to waste their time showing the film to one person, asked Helvi's family to join li 'T r ' - Phil Shurtleff Photo Helvi Temisiva discusses to long time, maybe a half-yea year. Sometimes I would ask them questions about things that interested me. I noticed that the missionaries would change sometimes, and I began to wonder what they had to say that would make them want to come to Finland at their own expense. I started asking more ar her. questions." showed the film they began dropping by Helvi's home "just to sayJHi'," she said. "The fellowshiping went on for a passed Shortly after her father After the missionaries some insight she has received since joining the LDS Church. sion. in Finnish," she said, "so I The incident that finally asked for one in Swedish. As I helped her make her decision read it I got a testimony about was a minister's reaction to it." the idea. "When I talked to the She still wasn't ready to join minister he got so upset that he the church, though. "It took a finally lost his temper," she long time for me to make the said. "I decided that if a minissaid. she "I hadn't decision," ter could react that way there had the opportunity to make must be something wrong with decisions in my life. All the what he was teaching." major decisions had been made whether I would by others live at home or in an institution, what was to be done about my education, and others. This was my first independent deci away, Helvi and her mother began investigating the church more intently. "They didn't have a Book of Mormon After she made her decision she talked to another member of her family who was active in a protestant (Continued on Page 62) fruvuQGiJliQGZ OVEN SAVING MICROWAVE COUNTER to be baptized Cooks by time or to temperature 10 Yr. Warranty A iY ll fCjJ J , : ' B&. I k- ' -- - ROTAWAVE" YOUR "BUCK" STOPS HERE! J ?v J Y Patented jVmOn 47. 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