![]() ![]() ![]() My second oldest brother, Bob, told me that there was a God in a heaven and that everything was going to be alright. I was crying one night after a funeral because I was afraid to die. How easy? Being passionate about the visual fine arts, when the missionaries showed me a Book of Mormon, all I had to do was look at its illustrations by Arnold Friberg and I instantly knew the book was true! My conversion story started when I was a very young child of four or five years. Unlike closet doubters, agnostics, unbelievers, and atheists that I have known, my faith in Jesus Christ and his Gospel plan always come easy for me. ![]() As Louis Pasteur cogently said, “Chance favors the prepared mind.” While a Seventy and Branch Mission Leader in Auburn, Alabama, I saw that it took several preparatory events or crises before anyone was really ‘ready’ for the restored gospel in their lives. Spiritual preparation led to spiritual growth, which in turn led to spiritual opportunities of which I could then take advantage. Like most people, my conversion story and testimony came in bits and pieces, finally welding themselves into believing faith. When Professor Daniel Peterson of the BYU Department of Asian and Near Eastern Languages asked me to share my testimony from a scholar’s perspective, I was very pleased because I’ve never shared it in this manner before. ![]()
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