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    The restored gospel answered Jozsef’s deepest questions. But embracing it would change nearly everything about his life.
        
            
    
        
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    From a Marxist to Mongolia’s first stake president, Ochirjav Odgerel’s story is a remarkable one. 
        
            
    
        
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    After a lunch meeting with his colleagues, Ryan had an unexpected spiritual experience. 
        
            
    
        
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    When her baby was hospitalized, Sethrina of Accra, Ghana, turned to the Book of Mormon.
        
            
    
        
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    “I remember standing in my living room and telling God, ‘I need help. I just can’t do this anymore.’”
        
            
    
        
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    In 2024, 308,000 people joined the Church—the highest number of converts in a quarter century.
        
            
    
        
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    Three of these leaders joined the Church after an invitation to play ping-pong.
        
            
    
        
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    The baptisms took place in a pristine jungle river.
        
            
    
        
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    At age 21, Allison was disowned by her father. Then, only two years later, she was stranded by her first husband in an unfamiliar country. 
        
            
    
        
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    Weekly attendance at a nearby meetinghouse has more than doubled.
        
            
    
        
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    “When I received my endowment, I felt warm and tingling and kept whispering, ‘Thank you, Jesus! Thank you, Jesus!’”
        
            
    
        
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    “I remember when she walked in the door,” Travis says. “She was the most beautiful thing I’d ever seen in my life.” 
        
            
    
        
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    To Rachel’s horror, she’d joined the ranks of women who suffer from a condition that’s been described as the leprosy of the twenty-first century.
        
            
    
        
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    This counsel ignited Sierra’s conversion to Christ, ultimately preparing her to be among the 1st female military chaplains endorsed by the Church.
        
            
    
        
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    “I never went back to striving for being number one in the world, like I wanted to. I just got a totally different perspective.”
        
            
    
        
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    Like Lehi before him, Amos Makulu started to share what brought him so much happiness with others in the refugee camp, building a “family” of interested learners. 
        
            
    
        
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    When asked why she wanted to serve a mission, her response was, “Because it’s the right thing to do.”
        
            
    
        
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    God wants us to live with joy, not guilt that we are not doing enough. Find peace by noticing the subtle signs of progress in your life.
        
            
    
        
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    In June 2024, the Montoya family reunited with the families who introduced them to the gospel 50 years ago.
        
            
    
        
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    As a teen, Phong risked his life to escape communism. He then was led to the only One who could heal the painful memories of his childhood.
        
            
    
        
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    After his own baptism in 2005, Bishop Miliate set a goal to help 3 people join the Church each year. So far this year, he’s helped 13.
        
            
    
        
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    After years of exploring other faiths, YouTuber David Boice concluded that there was something undeniably different about Latter-day Saints.
        
            
    
        
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    A family once trapped by darkness was lovingly shown a way to invite light.
        
            
    
        
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    My grandparents were initially nervous about my decision, but how they kept nourishing our relationship inspires me.
        
            
    
        
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    Derek Ryan is frequently asked about his faith in the locker room. He knows of no other Latter-day Saints in the NHL as long as he has played.
        
            
    
        
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    A series of remarkable promptings and experiences led a world-class cellist back to the faith she’d decidedly left more than 20 years earlier.
        
            
    
        
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    Ariana and Briana Mendez share a lot of things as twins, but they never anticipated finding and sharing a belief in the restored gospel.
        
            
    
        
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    Abish started out with God and eventually found the Church. I started out with the Church and have spent my life searching for God.
        
            
    
        
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    Carol shares how her path to baptism started with seeing the Osmonds on TV, but nearly ended when she learned of the priesthood and temple restriction. 
        
            
    
        
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    Being a mother in a mixed-faith marriage has given Ashli unique insight into agency, eternity, and God’s never-ending love.
        
            
    
        
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    I was hoping for an international church experience in Japan—but I got a very different outcome instead.
        
            
    
        
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    No one is ever too old to step into the waters of baptism. Whether you’re 8 or 108, a covenant relationship with God is something to celebrate. Here are 19 products to help a friend or family member cherish their baptism and remember the promises they made.
        
            
    
        
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    In 1967, Isaac Thomas walked onto the Missouri Valley College campus on fraternity pledge night. As one of only 32 black students at the school, he stood out starkly, but, being an outgoing young man fresh from an all-black high school, Thomas didn’t think anything of it. He had never come face to face with the violence and hatred racism breeds—until that night.
        
            
    
        
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    Eduardo Maradiaga didn’t know it then, but the photo he took of the Saratoga Springs Utah Temple was about to go on a journey that would give him and his family hope as they started new lives in the US. 
        
            
    
        
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    In his early thirties, Jon made two important discoveries that helped him to no longer feel alone: he was Autistic, and he belonged in the gospel of Jesus Christ
        
            
    
        
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    Editor’s note: The following excerpt has been adapted from Voice of the Saints in Mongolia, the first comprehensive history of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in that nation.
        
            
    
        
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    A recent convert in Spain. A Farsi-speaking sister missionary in California. An accidental but special phone call to bring them together.
        
            
    
        
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    After Batchimeg told Soyolmaa that they could serve a mission, they decided to put in their mission papers together around March or April 1995.
        
            
    
        
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    Elder Carlos A. Godoy’s story comes to life with clever and nostalgic animations reminiscent of the aesthetic and pop culture of the 1970s.
        
            
    
        
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    When Chris Schoebinger was a senior in high school, he moved out of his home and into the home of, unbeknownst to him, members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
        
            
    
        
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    When an unfamiliar woman came to Steven Collis’s book signing, he had no idea she would reveal an ending to the story more miraculous than he imagined.
        
            
    
        
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    A distraught teenager sought to leave his troubles behind and find relief in the US.  He would not only find peace in the gospel but also help introduce it to South Dakota.
        
            
    
        
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    Leonard Bagalwa watched as the rebel officers who had captured him and forced him to train as a child soldier walked away to drink at a shop. With his captors’ backs turned, he heard a voice in his mind repeat, “You need to run.”
        
            
    
        
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    Ralph Flores was waiting to deplane a flight in San Francisco when he saw a man struggling to get his luggage off the rack. As he went to help him, the stranger warmly and excitedly greeted him. Ralph had never seen this man before, but the man insisted he knew him, saying, “I never forget a face. I met you in Fairbanks, Alaska.”
        
            
    
        
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    I met a former German soldier, Joseph F. Beuchert of Heidelberg, who was a young man when he was conscripted into the German army. He spent four years as a prisoner of war, an experience filled with physical deprivation. In hindsight, he came to regard one of the POW camps as a gateway to an abundant and fulfilling life. In that camp, he found one of his greatest blessings: knowledge of the gospel of Jesus Christ.
        
            
    
        
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    After losing his grandfather and struggling through a divorce, Matt was at a low point in his life. As a divorce attorney, he had seen the way marriages and families collapsed and divided. But when one woman told Matt she believed in marriages that lasted not only through this life but through eternity, he had to know more. Check out this powerful video from mormon.org.
        
            
    
        
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    In November 2016, I joined The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. It was the best, and I mean the best, decision I have ever made in my life.
        
            
    
        
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    The following story was originally published on Jason F. Wright's blog in 2015and has been republished with permission.
        
            
    
        
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