Mormon Life - Conversion tag

Missionary work in London reaching those from many countries

Mon, 23 Apr 2012 09:00:00 -0600

source: deseretnews.com

Rejoice Osaremwimba was wandering through shops near the Peckham High Street in London. She was only 19 years old when she left her native Nigeria, hoping to find better employment and education opportunities in London than at home.

At times she was lonely for her parents and siblings who remain in Nigeria, but with a few new friends and great optimism, she continued to work nights in a local restaurant and was saving money to begin studying at the local university within a few months.

Vietnamese chef finds the LDS Church, his foundation and a desire to help others

Fri, 13 Apr 2012 10:18:00 -0600

source: MormonTimes.com

Hai Fitzgerald places a steaming dish of pasta in sauce in front of a customer at Thyme & Seasons Market Place. He turns away to check on another dish as the man takes his first bite. As the diner tastes the food, he exclaims, "Holy cow!"

Fitzgerald whips back around. "No!" he says, with mock sternness. "That is holy chicken, not holy cow!"

When it comes time for dessert, the diner says he is full and can't eat another bite. Fitzgerald offers him a flourless Belgian chocolate cupcake, which he accepts and eats.

"Whenever people are full, they always somehow have room for dessert," Fitzgerald observes.

Al Fox's Spiritual Experiment: Always There

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 10:48:00 -0700

source: youtube.com

Mormon Life says: We love her story.

Woman's journey from minister-in-training to Mormon-in-motion

Fri, 21 Oct 2011 13:15:00 -0600

source: sltrib.com

Mormon Life says: A cool story about one woman's journey to - and continued journey in - the gospel. As a child, Jana Riess could not have imagined herself as any kind of saint, let alone a latter-day one.

She was reared in a purely secular Illinois home by a nonreligious mom and an angry atheist dad.

But step by inexorable step, God beckoned her, Riess says, toward belief in Jesus Christ, degrees in religious studies, a possible career in the ministry and, ultimately, Mormonism.

Like a flowing tributary, Riess said in a 2007 speech at the annual Sunstone Symposium, “my faith is in flux … usually moving forward, spilling over such obstacles as it may encounter in its wake. It contributes to the river that is the LDS Church — also constantly in motion — which in turn has something to offer to the wide and salty sea that is the worldwide body of Christ.”

In Her Own Words: Sarah E. Tollerton Buck Rand, 1939

Fri, 21 Oct 2011 11:29:00 -0600

source: keepapitchinin.org

Mormon Life says: One woman's conversion story that started when she listened to Music and the Spoken Word. Love her candor. In order to make it perfectly clear how far the Lord has taken me on my road to happiness, let me describe myself before He placed His hand on my shoulder and said, “You’re wrong.”

In the first place I had been taught nothing of a religious nature. God was not mentioned in our home and Christ very seldom. I was taught to live the good life: that we must be good because it is right. How lacking in strength and resistance that doctrine is I have found to my cost. Without Christ by our side we can’t really live the good life.

At last, after living a selfish, self-centered life, I came to the end of my active career. Ill and without any outlook I felt it would be perfectly fair to the world to utterly destroy myself. I became obsessed with the idea. Death ends all! Why wait?

I was in just such an attitude of mind one Sunday morning when a friend came in silently and tuned the radio to “The Salt Lake Tabernacle Choir and Organ,” station KSL.