White Nights
Richard M. Romney
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April 1999
π FTSOY
Summary: At 13, Sasha longed to know God and prayed for months. After two missionaries spoke in her school class, she felt their message could bring happiness, attended church with her motherβs permission, and invited her entire class to a lesson. Three months later, she and two friends were baptized.
Sasha Strachova tells a story of her own about finding the light. When she was 13 years old, she began to feel a yearning to know God. She prayed for months. Then one day two LDS missionaries spoke in her school class. They quoted 2 Nephi 2:25 [2 Ne. 2:25]: βMen are, that they might have joy.β
βI felt they knew how we could be happy,β she remembers. Her mother granted Sasha permission to attend a Church meeting.
βI felt love there,β Sasha says. βI felt life in the people. I wanted to feel what they were feeling.β
To convince her mother to let the missionaries teach them a lesson, Sasha washed the floors every day for a month. And when the missionaries arrived, they were surprised to find the apartment crowded with teenagers. Sasha had invited her entire school class! Three months later, with parental approval, she and two of her friends were baptized.
π€ Missionaries
π€ Parents
π€ Youth
π€ Friends
Baptism
Book of Mormon
Conversion
Happiness
Missionary Work
Prayer
Testimony