Converts
You Are Everything To Me
The best thing that happened to me was Marjorie. I was blessed to recognize her. I was amazed when she quickly answered “yes” to my proposal. Everything is different, and infinitely better, because of her.
Read MoreFire
Fire is an interesting study. Oxidation, combustion, and explosions are all the same process. All three are simply oxygen uniting with another substance, but at different rates. The result is that new substances are produced by the union of oxygen with the original substance.
Read MoreGive Me Light
As a 19-year-old young man I was given this book. (The light-blue Book of Mormon with a golden Moroni on the front cover). Because of a voice which I had previously heard in answer to my very anguished, first-ever prayer—a voice which simply said, “Everything is going to be all right”—I knew that something was going to happen when I opened it. I took it home and stood it upright in the center of the desk in my room.
Read MorePace’s Baptism
Pace, you are light years ahead of where I was when I was eight years old. I only have one memory from that age, and it is very vivid in my mind. I was out walking in a field by my house, and was having some very deep thoughts for an 8-year-old. My mother had told me about God and Jesus and about prophets and about the Bible. I was pondering upon those things, and I had lots of questions.
Read MoreWhat Would I Tell 12-Year-Old Me?
The title of this article is a question asked in the April 2021 general conference.
Twelve-year-old me was timid, shy, afraid, unsure, ignorant, full of self doubt, weighed down by sin, and unable to break free of habits; but desirous of being good, doing good, and of becoming better.
Fuller Family Connections
Jim has asked me to write about the Fuller connection to my conversion story. I first became acquainted with him in Don Hunt’s French class in the 8th grade. Jim became my best friend in high school. He and I did many things together. He came out to my farm at Haines, but I was more often at his house on 17th Street. I became well acquainted with both Grandma Tanner, and with Grandma Burris, who lived in the house next door.
Read MoreBearers of Light
I had a wonderful visit recently with a former atheist. She is the soon-to-be-80 friend of Danny and Sarah. I asked if she had always been a member of the Church, or if she was a convert. Here is Jadine’s story:
Read MoreThe First Convert
While reading the story of king Lamoni’s conversion, it occurred to me that he was likely the first Lamanite convert to Christianity in their 500-year history. His conversion was the catalyst that led to the conversion of thousands more.
Read MoreA Long Shot
Elder Carl B. Cook, of the Presidency of the Seventy, came from a broken home. When he was six, his father left his mother with five young children. She had to go to work, get a second job, and obtain an education. There was little time for nurturing, but with the help of grandparents, uncles, aunts, bishops, home teachers, and Carl’s priesthood quorums, she managed to raise a future general authority.
Read MoreArthur Henry King
There is an entry in my journal about Arthur Henry King. Arthur Henry King was a professor at BYU for four years—the exact time that I was there as a student—and I didn’t get to have him as a professor! After reading the entry in my journal, I’m sick about that all over again. Let me tell you about Arthur Henry King.
Read MoreLighting the World
Our purpose in life is to bring light into the world.
Each person is born with the light of Christ. It is a free gift. What each individual does with that light thereafter is up to him. Many extinguish it. Many let it lie dormant, neither extinguishing nor feeding it. Some work to increase their light and the lights of others.
The Great People I Have Known
I had the privilege of serving as counselor to Howard Perry in the presidency of this stake. That was over 20 years ago.
Read MoreThe Plan of Deliverance
Alma, interestingly, in just two chapters of his book, uses five different names for God’s plan. He calls it “the plan of restoration” in Alma 41:2
Read MoreBorn Again
As a new member of the Church I had just come from darkness to light, from depression to joy, from ignorance to knowledge,
Read MoreHow the Wiegman Family Came to Be
As I scanned the list of 250 youth who will be going on the stake handcart trek, I was surprised to notice the names of two out-of-stake youth,
Read MoreThe Book of Mormon—The Best Thing That Ever Happened To Me
I had made the 8-hour drive from Oregon, U.S.A. to Provo, Utah to see my girlfriend at Brigham Young University. She took me to the fast and testimony meeting…
Read MoreThree Decisions
Three decisions have been pivotal in my life. The first was my decision to be born. Contrary to what the world will tell you…
Read MoreThe Burned Book
In 1991 Adam Rosflender was an 11-year-old boy in Vanuatu. He had a job working in the fisheries. Being the youngest employee, one of his duties was to take out the rubbish.
Read MoreThree Vanuatu Missionaries
The stories of three sister missionaries serving together in Vanuatu from the Pacific Island nations of Kiribati, Tonga, and Fiji
Read MoreJohn Bennion
The story of the Church is a story of chain reactions. One step in the process of the Restoration always leads to another. A chain reaction was initiated by Joseph Smith’s reading of James 1:5 that continues today in an ever-widening, ever-lengthening chain of events that is currently linking millions of lives in miraculous ways.
Read MoreBlessings Follow the Sacrifice
In 2009 two brothers named Tivles lived side-by-side in a remote village in the South Seas’ island nation of Vanuatu. A pair of missionaries made an exploratory hike out of their normal area and found the two Tivles families.
Read MoreThe Benefits of Seminary
Major parts of both the Bible and the Book of Mormon deal with armies and war. One is led to ask why these books of peace are so interlaced with violence. The simple answer is that we are, in fact, in the midst of an ongoing battle that began before the world was created.
Read MoreJennifer Tarohati
At the age of 20 Jennifer Tarohati was a young adult living with her widowed mother on the island of Tanna in the South Seas’ nation of Vanuatu. The year was 2000. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was new to the nation, and only a very few Latter-day Saints lived on the island.
Read MoreThe Book of Mormon
Brother Anderson asked me to speak to you about the Book of Mormon. The Book of Mormon is the reason that I’m a member of the Church.
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