This is a really neat story Sam shared in his email this week! (Every week he tells us about a memeber in Apopka. He has met A LOT of really neat members there!)
The apopka member real quick is brother Shaw, but anyways he served his mission in Alabama when he was 26 and he is the absolute funniest coolest returned missionary ever, just the other day he finally told me why he waited soo long to go, he started smoking when he was 12, he went straight down hill from there, he ended up traveling the united states for 10 years living on the streets and doing drugs, he said you name it and i did it, i hit rock bottom, and then one day when i was laying down on someones coach in the middle of nowhere on the east coast early in the morning and i finally gave up, i rolled over and i kneeled down and prayed for god to take me, but he wouldnt, then an overwhelming feeling came over him and he then said that he would do absolutley anything to make things right with God and Change his life around, to make a long story short he cleaned up completely, had a really good job, his own home, two trucks, and a really good girlfriend at age 26, he went to a fireside at UofU with a friend in Utah, and Afterward they were behind the building trying to see if they could meet any of the general authorities and Boyd K. Packer and his wife walked to their car right by them, his wife got in the car and he was about to get in the car when he stoped half way, turned around and reached out for brother shaws hand, he gripped it firmly and looked him in the eyes and said 'you need to serve a mission', so at age 26 he broke up with his girlfriend, sold everything he had, and got special permision to serve from the first presidency! he served for two years and now he has two nice homes, his own business, the girl of his dreams, a couple of good cars, and a beautiful little girl, he is amazing, i love hearing him bear his testimony! Man, The church is soo true!
The apopka member real quick is brother Shaw, but anyways he served his mission in Alabama when he was 26 and he is the absolute funniest coolest returned missionary ever, just the other day he finally told me why he waited soo long to go, he started smoking when he was 12, he went straight down hill from there, he ended up traveling the united states for 10 years living on the streets and doing drugs, he said you name it and i did it, i hit rock bottom, and then one day when i was laying down on someones coach in the middle of nowhere on the east coast early in the morning and i finally gave up, i rolled over and i kneeled down and prayed for god to take me, but he wouldnt, then an overwhelming feeling came over him and he then said that he would do absolutley anything to make things right with God and Change his life around, to make a long story short he cleaned up completely, had a really good job, his own home, two trucks, and a really good girlfriend at age 26, he went to a fireside at UofU with a friend in Utah, and Afterward they were behind the building trying to see if they could meet any of the general authorities and Boyd K. Packer and his wife walked to their car right by them, his wife got in the car and he was about to get in the car when he stoped half way, turned around and reached out for brother shaws hand, he gripped it firmly and looked him in the eyes and said 'you need to serve a mission', so at age 26 he broke up with his girlfriend, sold everything he had, and got special permision to serve from the first presidency! he served for two years and now he has two nice homes, his own business, the girl of his dreams, a couple of good cars, and a beautiful little girl, he is amazing, i love hearing him bear his testimony! Man, The church is soo true!
