On April 5, 1947, William Checksfield, a rugged English brother, and Cecil Bruhn, an Australian, both graduates of Gilead’s eighth class, arrived in Fiji. “To welcome us,” Brother Bruhn recalls, “were members of three families who were the only Witnesses in the islands.”

Brother Checksfield continued on and became very well known throughout the main island of Viti Levu. He was able to help and train the brothers, including youngsters Len Heatley and Eunice Marriott, who was only 12 years old when the missionaries arrived.