That year, he started working at Memorial Medical Center, where he still works as a respiratory therapist. By 1989, he and other area immigrants from Vietnam and China started traveling to each other's homes for religious services. Ten years later, they bought a one-story house along U.S. 80 in a strip of homes of similar size and shape. They converted it into their first temple and opened in January 2000. Sitting in the temple earlier this week, Nguyen compared his beliefs of self-sufficiency of making personal improvements through his own efforts to flowers.
Flowers push through dirt, but still blossom and smell wonderful.
You have to do it. No one can do it for you. Faith reporter Ann Stifter may be reached at 652-0332.