In the summer of 2023, professional skateboarder Sean Sheffey was resting at a skatepark in Encinitas, California, when two missionaries from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints approached and asked if they could pray with him.
Sheffey had been approached by missionaries and Latter-day Saints before and turned them away. But this time it felt different, and he was open to hearing their message.
“I was missing a lot of my prayers and Bible study for some years then. It was just absent in my life by choice, and I thought at that point I had room to welcome God and religion back in my life,” said the 52-year-old Sheffey, who was recently elected to the Skateboarding Hall of Fame.
Meeting the missionaries signaled the beginning of Sheffey’s journey towards joining the Church, a process that was years in the making.
“This is a story about someone who has found personal peace by finding a new life with Jesus Christ,” said Bishop Jared Archibald of the San Dieguito Ward in California.
Read the rest of the article at the Church News.
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