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The Southern Baptists Convention at the time was changing...indicating that Baptism was no longer required...at least it was filtering down to us at that time.

My parents began looking around for another Baptist Church that conformed more to their feelings about the gospel.

We had a rancher who had land abutting ours and one summer (1970) there was a large fire that burned on both of our lands through a large stand of timber and fields we shared.

While fighting the fire, he invited his wife and self over to meet us. He was a large scale rancher in the area and was very well respected by the local people.

He got to talking religion with my parents. A few days later they attended an LDS Cottage Meeting and invited missonaries who were also there to come by and talk to us.

I walked in during their presentation of the Jospeh Smith story and listened to all the discussions over time.

I talked with our paster oand others and ultimately prayed to God in Heaven in the name of Christ if the message, the Book of Moromon and other issues were true.

I had been given all sorts of anti-mormon literature, quotes, and sentiments by others I knew in the mean time.

I attended LDS meetings and found that the people there were committed to Christ and not at all like they were represented to be by most of the literature.

Ultimately, I received an answer to my prayers through the power of the Holy Ghost in the affirmative. It was a very pwoerful and personal experience in the late summer of 1970. One I have never fogotten and to which I have been true to this day.

That’s why...and I have talked of Christ, taught Christ, lived for my Savior, taught my children and now grand children the same ever since.

That’s my story.

My parents and brothers also joined. The oldest, who is the Evangelical Assoiciate Pastor now, left the church after his marriage to his high school sweetheart and returned to the Baptist Church. He was not happy there and ultimately found his home and his calling in an Evangelical Church in Denton, TX where he has done much good.

He is a professional Engineer by trade, but works hard to bring others to Christ...and I love and respect him for it.

It is that feeling, that love, that sentiment of knowing that any ground we can make, any progress we can make with our brothers and sisters in bringing them to the knowledge of Jesus Christ as their Savior is a good thing. My brother and I both understand this and accept each other as we go about doing so.

He knows I am a Chrsitian from a life-time of observation and living...and I know the same about him.

In the end, Christ will lead us to the complete truth...and you know how I feel about that, and I am content to let it occur in Christ’s way and in His time...and of course, hehehe, my brother feels ecxcatly the same about me.

We are fine with that and it enables us both to work together doing good and helping our communities and others around us.

There...that’s the tale and the sentiments.