 He had little contact with his supervising mission president and nearly drowned when pushed out of a boat during a major storm; he also suffered from exhaustion frequently.Groberg was denied an extension to his mission that would have allowed him to accompany a group of church converts to the New Zealand Temple.Groberg wrote a book about his mission from his memoirs called "In the Eye of the Storm", which was adapted into the 2001 Disney film "The Other Side of Heaven".