Tagata Matutua Nofofua

E toatele le Au Paia o Aso e Gata Ai i le vaitaimi o le Alualu i Luma o le amataga o le seneturi lona 20 sa saili e faaleleia atili le lalolagi e ala i faalapotopotoga ma polokalama. Sa fatuina e tagata auai i faalapotopotoga eseese o le Ekalesia ni polokalama e faaaumea ai ma lagolagoina tagata matutua nofofua lea na iu lava ina tuputupu ae i ni uarota ma siteki a tagata matutua nofofua. I le 1913, na lagolagoina ai e le Aualofa se fale mo tamaitai talavou nofofua o e na o mai i le Aai o Sate Leki e saili ni galuega po o se fale. O le taumafaiga e saunia se malutaga mo tamaitai e ono vaivai na faalauteleina i le 1920 i le toe faaleleia o le Maota o le Ofagapi, lea na avea muamua ma nofoaga o Polika Iaga ma lona aiga toatele, e avea o se fale mo tamaitai talavou nofofua. I le taimi lava lea e tasi, na aumaia ai e nisi o faalapotopotoga ma faalapotopotoga a tamaitai mo le Au Paia o Aso e Gata Ai ia tamaiti aoga i kolisi ma faifeautalai ua toe foi mai i ni vaega faaagafesootai lea na tutusa ma “seminare a le kolisi,” lea na avea ma Inisitituti o Mataupu Faalelotu, lea na faatuina e taitai o le Ekalesia i nisi o lotoa o iunivesite. Na faatupulaia polokalama o gaoioiga faatasi ai ma le faatupulaia o le aofai o talavou matutua na auai i le kolisi.

O le Huntington Park, Kalefonia, vaega o Gleaner Girls, o se uluai faalapotopotoga mo tamaitai nofofua o le Au Paia o Aso e Gata Ai, e faamanatuina la latou taumafataga faaletausaga, 1930.

E oo atu i le vaitau o le 1950, na mafaufau ai taitai o le Ekalesia i auala e tuufaatasia ai le faatulagaga faalelotu o uarota ma siteki ma le olaga i le lotoa. I le 1956, na faavaeina ai le Siteki a le BYU mo talavou matutua e le’i faaipoipo e auai i le Iunivesite o Polika Iaga. E lei umi ae talimalo ona uarota e sefululua i tamaiti aoga e i ai aiga talavou ma tausia le tele o faalapotopotoga lava ia e tasi o loo maua i uarota masani, e pei o le Aoga Sa ma le Peraimeri. E ese mai lotoa o kolisi, o isi siteki e talimalo i uarota na faatulagaina muamua lava mo tagata matutua nofofua.

A o faatupulaia faalapotopotoga faaaumea e fesootai ma le lotoa, sa iloa e taitai o le Ekalesia i le vaitau o le 1970 ni auala e mafai ai e tagata matutua nofofua o vaitausaga uma ona faamanuiaina mai se galuega e tusa ai ma o latou manaoga, mea e fiafia i ai, ma popolega. E toatele tagata matutua e le’i faaipoipo na faailoa mai lagona o le faaesea mai le auai i se nuu e masani ona faasino i le tulaga faaipoipo o se tasi. O se tamaitai ua oti lana tane i le taimi lea na toe mafaufau mulimuli ane i le auala na “le tutusa ai lava le auai i le Ekalesia” mo tagata e le’i faaipoipo. Na fatuina e le Mutuale Improvement Association (MIA) ni vaega o le “M Men” ma le “Gleaner Girls” mo alii ma tamaitai talavou matutua. I le 1972, o taumafaiga e faamaopoopo le MIA ma korama a le perisitua na tulai mai ai se polokalama fou mo tagata matutua nofofua. I le faailoaina atu o lenei polokalama, na toe faamatala ai e Elder James E. Faust le faalogo atu i tagata nofofua o le Au Paia o Aso e Gata Ai o lipoti mai le lagonaina o le tuulafoaiina ma le lotovaivai. “E tatau ona tatou amata i le taumafai e aapa atu i le toatasi,” o lana tala lea. “Matou te mananao ia lagona e tagata uma o i latou o ni tagata o le Ekalesia.” O tagata e le’i faaipoipo e 18 i le 25 tausaga na faavasegaina o “Talavou Nofofua Matutua” ma o i latou e 26 tausaga ma matutua atu sa faavasegaina o ni “Mea e Fiafia Faapitoa i ai.” Sa fatuina e epikopo i le lotoifale ni vaega o afiafi faaleaiga mo tagata nofofua e le o nonofo faatasi ma o latou aiga na tupuga mai ai. I eria e lava talavou nofofua matutua, o nisi taimi e faatulaga ai e peresitene o siteki ma epikopo ia vaega o le Aoga Sa ma le Aualofa. A o sili atu le aofai o uarota a talavou nofofua matutua (YSA) i uarota a tamaiti aoga i le amataga o le seneturi lona 21, sa litaea uarota a tamaiti aoga. E oo atu i le 2016, o talavou nofofua matutua, pe na auai i aoga pe leai, na auai i le silia ma le 1,300 iunite o le YSA i le lalolagi atoa.

E oo atu i le 2021, o le vaaiga faafuainumera mo tagata matutua o le Ekalesia na siitia atu i le toatele o i latou o ni tagata nofofua. I le amataga o le vaitau o le 1980, sa faamoemoe taitai e faalauteleina faalapotopotoga o le YSA ma mea e fiafia i ai faapitoa ina ia ofi ai se suiga faapena. Sa latou faia taumafaiga i tausaga na sosoo ai e faaleleia atili ai polokalama faaaumea ma gaoioiga ina ia faaaofia ai ma lagolagoina lelei ai tagata matutua nofofua. I se faasalalauga Faafesagai i le 2021 mo tagata nofofua e silia ma le 30 tausaga, na saunoa ai taitai mai le Korama a le Toasefululua ma le Au Peresitene Aoao o le Aualofa i le suiga o le tulaga o tagata auai o le Ekalesia i le lalolagi atoa. “O tagata uma o le ekalesia, e tusa lava po o a o latou tulaga,” o le tala lea a Sharon Eubank i lea taimi, “e tele naua mea e saofaga ai ma e matou te faamoemoe ia iloa lelei lenei mea e tagata o le Ekalesia.”

Punaoa o le Ekalesia

Tagata Nofofua o le Ekalesia, ChurchofJesusChrist.org).

Lisi o Punaoa

O lomiga nei o loo tuuina atu ai nisi faamatalaga faaopoopo e uiga i lenei autu. I le faasino atu po o le faafesootaia o oe i nei punaoa, matou te le faamaonia pe faamautinoa atu le anomea po o manatu o tusitala.

Lawrence A. Young, “Single Adults,” i le Daniel H. Ludlow, ed., Encyclopedia of Mormonism: The History, Scripture, Doctrine, and Procedure of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 5 vols. (New York: Macmillan, 1992), 3:1316–19.

Autu Fesootai: Seminare ma Inisitituti

1. Natalie Kaye Rose, “‘Our Utah Girls’: Girls and Young Women in the Transitional Mormon Church” (PhD diss., Iunivesite o le Setete o Michigan, 2016), 240–41.

2. Laura Lee Smith, “O Le AAG ’Eleni’: Lambda Delta Sigma ma Sigma Gamma Chi,” Liahona, Sete. 1986, 27–31; E ala i le Suesue ma le Faatuatua Faatuatua Foi: One Hundred Years of Seminaries and Institutes of Religion (Salt Lake City: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 2015), 33–84; tagai i le Autu: Seminare ma Inisitituti. Tagai foi Thomas W. Simpson, American Universities and the Birth of Modern Mormonism, 1867–1940 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2016).

3. R. Scott Lloyd, “Church’s First Student Stake Commemorated in Special Devotional,” Church News, 10 Ian., 2016, 3–4.

4. Elizabeth J. Mott, “Singlehood,” i le Claudia L. Bushman and Caroline Kline, eds., Mormon Women Have Their Say: Essays from the Ee Oral History Collection (Salt Lake City: Greg Kofford Books, 2013), 45–71.

5. Mott, “Nofofua,” 51–52.

6. “Ward M Man-Gleaner Council,” Priesthood Bulletin, Aok. 1972, 9–10; Rebecca de50s, “Holding to the ’Chosen Generation’: The Mormon Battle for Youth in the Late 1960s and Early 1970s,” i le Patrick Q. Mason and John G. Turner, eds., Out of Obscurity: Mormonism since 1945 (Niu Ioka: Oxford University Press, 2016), 278–301.

7. James E. Faust, i le Conference Report, Ape. 1973, 112–15.

8. “Meetings for Single Adult Women,” ma le “Guidelines for Young Adult Sunday School Classes,” Priesthood Bulletin, Oke. 1973, 2–3, 8–10. Tagai Autu: Afiafi Faaleaiga.

9. Lloyd, “Siteki a Tamaiti Aoga Muamua a le Ekalesia,” 3–4.

10. “Tagata Matutua Nofofua Faafesagai ma Elder Andersen, Sister Bingham ma Sister Eubank,” Potu o Talafou, 13 Iuni, 2021, newsroom.ChurchofJesusChrist.org.