LDS TEMPLE
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Sometimes, as the new Pago Pago American Samoa Temple was taking shape, Irva Auapaau and her husband would drive past at night just to look at it.
“Especially when the lights were on,” she remembered. “It just brightens up that area.”
For Auapaau, having a temple so...

![Irva and Faapito Auapaau with their four children in 2019. The couple have made temple worship an important part of their family life as their children have grown. [photo: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints] Auapaau family](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/gaisoa_family_0.jpg?itok=5rsCHDXp)