The correct answer to this open question is the following.
What Felix Lohitai's oral history reveal about the relationship between a refugee's personal connections and their resettlement are that it was important for him to have a connection that helped him to settle in another place because he previously had tried to do all the procedures and formalities on his own, and he had never been successful.
Felix tells in the interview that he received the help of Mary Mason, a Church missionary from the Church of Brethren. She helped him with tuition bu she had to move to Puerto Rico. However, she spoke with Phil and Louie Reiman, who contacted Felix. and told him to call an important official at the UNHCR to talk about his resettlement.
In 2015, Juliet Linderman from the "Voice of Witness" interviewed Felix Lohitai, a South Sudanese refugee, who finally could move to Erie Pennsylvania.