by Elder Kwant
During his personal studies on the morning of January 13th, Elder Richins had a name that was impressed on his mind. The name was Howard.
Elder Richins asked me (Elder Kwant) if I knew any friends whose name was Howard. I told him I didn’t know anyone by this name. We checked in our records of people who had been taught previously and found information for the name Howard Grantham.
Howard had met with missionaries on and off for five years prior to January 13, 2024. Missionaries had stopped meeting with him because he didn’t have time to consistently meet with them, so we had never met him. We stopped by his home, shared a message, and he agreed to begin meeting with us again.
We taught Howard for several weeks. He had lost several family members over the last five years. We mentioned baptism during one of the lessons and Howard said he wasn’t sure if that was what he wanted to do. So we decided to invite him to come to a church tour where we could show him the church building in Farragut. Howard agreed and we set up the time for the church tour.
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We had a great experience at the church tour. After the tour, Howard explained to us that he had a dream. “I could see myself and I was walking on this dark path and couldn’t see. It was very dark and I couldn’t see anything. It felt like I was being led down this path, and then I was brought to where I could see a light. I started walking towards the light, and that was the end of the dream.”
Howard said it took some time for him to interpret what this dream meant for him. When he told the missionaries us about the dream, he said he knew that God was telling him he was moving towards light, and he needed to be baptized.
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As he had originally started meeting with missionaries in 2019, there is a long list of missionaries who taught Howard. He was originally found by Sarah Krey and Victoria Hendricks. He was taught by Erica Parker, Caleb Shelton, Carson Hagberg, Logan Ward, Bryan Cox, Benjamin Huish, Rozlyn Hilton, Brekyn Goodman, Solomon Sleater, Milo Stanfield, Jayden Bohnam, Mathew Richins, Kaleb Kwant, and Spencer Scott.
I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.
John 8:12
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