Tommy King was found by the missionaries when knocking door to door. Tommy felt impressed to let the missionaries in after turning them away before and from there on they continued to meet every week.
Although Tommy didn’t show much interest at first, after a couple trials of faith he began to progress and his testimony started to grow immensely. Tommy soon attended sacrament meeting and was able to connect with members instantly. After making it to church for the first time, he had a desire to continue to go weekly.
While Tommy was at church one morning, he had an onset to a stroke while in the building. He had a blockage in his right temporal vein. The ambulance was called, and while they were on their way the missionaries felt impressed to give him a priesthood blessing. The blockage in the vein had unclogged itself and Tommy attributes that happening to the priesthood blessings that he had received.
After that experience Tommy continued to come to church and grow closer and closer to the members of the branch. Tommy felt a huge difference in the love that was shown towards him with his new church family compared to anywhere else he had been. This inspired him to continue to come to church and to make life changing decisions including following the Word of Wisdom and receiving the associated blessings.
Along with coming to church weekly, Tommy began praying and reading from the Book of Mormon daily and said, “The Book of Mormon correlates with the Bible and that any misconceptions I have heard were false!” As Tommy got closer to his baptismal date his testimony of the Book of Mormon, and of the Restoration grew stronger and stronger.
Tommy was then baptized on May 11, 2024. Since then, he has been attending church weekly, has received the priesthood, and is preparing to go to the temple for his first time.
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