This experience was given by Brother Splane of the Governing Body at an assembly in Oahu.
They said, everyone at the assembly was tearing up.
In an Eastern European country in 1989Â there was a huge 8.9 earthquake.
30,000 people died in 4 minutes. It happened in the morning and a man
had just returned from taking his small son to school. After he made sure his
wife was alright, he went straight back to the school to find his son.
When he got there he saw the school was completely flattened like a pancake.
Just rubble. He stood there devastated, completely destroyed.
Then he remembered a promise he made to his son sometime back. He told him that as long as there was life
and breath in his body he would always be there for him. So with that promise in his mind he
went around to the northeast side of the rubble where his son's classroom had been and started digging through the debris.
The neighbor came out and said, " Sir, I know you're distraught but you have to accept that your child is dead.
There's nothing you can do."Â The man didn't stop digging, he just looked at the neighbor and said,
"Are you going to help me ?"
Later the fire chief came and told him and he had to stop, there was no one
left alive and he was putting himself in danger. Again, the father simply ask
"Are you going to help me now ?"
After many hours of digging the chief of police came and told him he was putting other people in danger and
ordered him to go home and to leave it to the professionals. The man again said nothing but,
"Are you going to help me now ?"
Finally, after 38 hours of digging through concrete and twisted metal the man moved a final boulder.
There he found a small space where several children have been protected. His son was among them.
The first thing he said to his father was, "Daddy, I told them not to be scared. I told them you would come."
Brother Splane paused then he said... " The faithful slave is engaged in a massive search and rescue mission.
It is an enormous task, and what they are asking from you and me is,
"Are you going to help me now?"Â -Â Then he walked off the stage."Â ------
