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March 30th, 2010 by admin

A Boundless Conversation

Stephanie Soper

Raised as a Catholic in Rhode Island, Stephanie Soper experienced a powerful communication with God that led her to join the Church twenty years ago. Since then, she has developed her gifts of communicating with God and has used these gifts to provide intuitive readings and emotional healing work for others in the Church.

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Posted in: 41 - 50 years old, 51 - 60 years old, Conversion Stories, English, Lives of Service, Lives of Service, Single, United States - Tags: atonement, conversion, convert, faith, Holy Ghost, Mormon women, personal revelation, prayer, single, washington DC

January 26th, 2010 by admin

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The Cycle is Broken

Myrna Castellar

After two sets of twins and a divorce, Myrna sought solace with her family. But she found little comfort at home: she fell prey to the family’s drug dealing business and lost 27 years of her life to heroin addiction. Three years ago, at the age of 51, she fell to her knees and felt the Lord’s loving embrace. She discusses the effects of her baptism on her ravaged body, her repentance process and the effect her conversion has had on her children.

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Posted in: Conversion Stories, Personal Challenges - Tags: addiction, conversion, convert, divorce, drugs, faith, missionaries, Mormon women, New York, prayer, recovering adict

December 11th, 2009 by admin

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“They Came!”

Dominique Lam-Yam

A 1983 issue of Reader’s Digest introduced Dominique Lam-Yam to the Church while she was living with an abusive father on the French island of Reunion in the Indian Ocean. She spent the next three years searching for the Church organization, with no success. Finally, two missionaries knocked on her door, launching her on a path of hope and triumph over challenge.

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Posted in: Conversion Stories, Personal Challenges, Sisters Abroad - Tags: conversion, Europe, family, Mormon women, single

December 3rd, 2009 by admin

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A Road to Redemption

Brittney Poulsen Carman

For almost four years Brittney has been writing about the 18 months she spent in Venezuela as a missionary. While she was there, her father, who was excommunicated from the Church when she was 14 and from whom she had been estranged for years, began sending her letters, photocopies from the journal he kept as a missionary in Colombia between 1973-75. This began a reconnection and reconciliation of their relationship which, by the end of her time in Venezuela, would become the most poignant and enduring conversion of her mission.

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Posted in: 31 - 40 years old, Conversion Stories, Conversion Stories, English, Married with children, Personal Challenges, Personal Challenges, Professional Paths, Professional Pursuits, United States, Venezuela - Tags: graduate school, Idaho, mission, writing

November 13th, 2009 by admin

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The Small World of the Gospel

Faustina Otoo

The first time Faustina Otoo went to church, in Nigeria in 1985, the members’ love made her feel like she was in a “wonderland”. Since that day, Faustina’s journey in the church has taken her back to her native land of Ghana where she now serves as the front office receptionist at the Africa West Area office complex at the Accra Ghana temple. As the single mother of two children, Faustina is especially proud that her daughter is about to graduate from college.

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Posted in: 51 - 60 years old, Conversion Stories, Conversion Stories, Divorced, English, Ghana, Magnifying Motherhood, Magnifying Motherhood, Personal Challenges, Sisters Abroad, Sisters Abroad - Tags: Africa, conversion, divorce, Mormon women, temple

November 3rd, 2009 by admin

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Lost in Learning

Eva Koleva Timothy

As a teenager in Sophia, Bulgaria, Eva sought for truth and found the restored Gospel. Now a mother of three living in the United States, Eva’s passion for learning continues to drive her personal and professional pursuits: “Lost in Learning”, the culmination of her work as a professional photographer, features the original manuscripts and objects used by the world’s great discoverers as they too sought for truth. Eva homeschools her children so that they can share in her search for knowledge.

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Posted in: 31 - 40 years old, Artistic Women, Artistic Women, Bulgaria, Conversion Stories, Conversion Stories, English, Magnifying Motherhood, Married with children, Professional Paths, Professional Pursuits, Sisters Abroad, Sisters Abroad, United States - Tags: careers, conversion, Europe, home schooling, Massachusetts, Mormon women, motherhood, photography

November 3rd, 2009 by admin

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Spirit in the Law

Robin Lunt

Robin joined the Church after September 11, 2001, when she reasoned that “if there could be such a force of organized darkness in the world then there has to be an equal opposite force of organized good.” That same year, at age 22, she married a member of the Church and cemented her life to the Gospel. Since attending law school, Robin has worked in energy regulation in Washington D.C. while passionate about resource and environmental issues.

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Posted in: 20 - 30 years old, Conversion Stories, Conversion Stories, English, Married with children, Professional Paths, Professional Pursuits, United States - Tags: careers, convert, legal, washington DC

September 22nd, 2009 by admin

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Faith Unto Salvation

Patricia Joseph

In December 2004, Patricia’s oldest son was charged with murdering his girlfriend. Tormented with grief and unable to sleep, Patricia saw a late-night infomercial for the Church on television and called for a Book of Mormon. What she has learned about forgiveness, compassion and the warm embrace of the Saints has carried her through the crushing experience.

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