Conversions at Sacred Places

   At the end of a Whitmer Farm tour with four visitors, two parents, a fifteen year old girl, and an older man, the father said that the older man was going to receive his endowment that night. Though they lived in Florida, the man said he had to be endowed, sealed to his deceased wife, and to his parents in Palmyra because in 1982 he visited the Hill Cumorah by happenstance, and talked to a senior elder there. The truth sunk deep in his heart.

   He was baptized when he returned home to Florida. All of these years he stayed close to the church, paid his tithing, but attended sporadically. A couple of years ago he had a friend who was killed in a tragic car accident. This jolted him and he decided to commit himself again to the Lord and His church.

   He explained to me that the senior missionary in 1982 was so gentle and explained things so well, that he still remembers how he felt during the conversation. He said that feeling gives him strength more than forty years later.