LDS conversion story, joining the Church of Jesus Christ, Mormon missionaries, baptism, kindness, service, faith in Jesus Christ, repentance, temple, gospel truths, relationship with God Bobby wasn’t searching for God. Raised in a California farm town by a single mother, he grew up with two rules—don’t lie and don’t steal—and almost no understanding of church, scripture, or the kind of people who built their lives around either one. By his early twenties, Bobby had found a very different way to live. Yet wherever he went, Latter-day Saints seemed to appear. They helped strangers. They quietly served. They lived by convictions Bobby didn’t understand—and their goodness made him wonder what they wanted. Then two missionaries knocked on his door. Their message was simple enough. Some of it even made sense. But Bobby had spent too much of his life relying on himself to be easily persuaded by a few lessons about God. And then, on a day when everything was falling apart, those missionaries came back. What they did next left Bobby facing a possibility he had never seriously considered: What if these people were not merely talking about Jesus Christ? What if they actually knew Him? Following that question would require Bobby to reconsider nearly everything he believed about goodness, repentance, and the kind of God who might still want a man like him. He thought the missionaries had come to teach him a religion. He had no idea they were about to show him an entirely different way to live.
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