Danny Boy
When we moved into the ward 6 years ago there was a shy young man who had just been baptized. Shortly thereafter his family stopped attending church.
Danny comes from a highly dysfunctional family that didn't have two cents to rub together. Over and over he defied all our predictions and kept coming to church, all by himself.
We kept the encouragement up and went out of our way to say hi each week. But few of us believed he would stick with it as a became a full-fledged teenager.
When he dropped out of high school we knew it was over. But it wasn't.
When he joined the Navy that was surely it. But there was a grace period so we got him un-enlisted and back he came.
On Friday night I sat in the Temple and watched Danny Alvarado go through as he prepared to serve his Mission in Mexico. There was no family there that night, nor was there any family on Sunday when he gave an inspiring farewell talk.
He beat the odds and proved us all wrong.
What would I have done if left completely on my own?
2 comments:
I love stories like that!
You don't want me to answer that do you?
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