![(Bottom) Peter Patrick Salas with members of Yigo District at the SGI- USA center in Tamuning, Guam, January 2020. With the COVID-19 pandemic, they transitioned to meeting virtually without ever losing sight of their mission for kosen-rufu.](https://www.worldtribune.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/Yigo-District-January-2020.jpeg-300x175.jpg)
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Like Guam’s Beautiful Sun
In spite of the COVID-19 pandemic halting activities in early 2020, members have continued to engage in one-to-one encouragement and help their friends start practicing Nichiren Buddhism. From the small western Pacific island of Guam—where Ikeda Sensei established the SGI in 1975—Marianas Region Young Men’s Leader Peter Patrick Salas and Leonard-John Ventura, a young man