Matthew 19:26 says, "Jesus looked at them and said, 'With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.'”

My ancestors and grandparents were mormons. When I was eight years old I was baptized into the mormon church. In 1975 my family moved to Utah from Colorado. My brother died in April. We received a phone call from the family home teacher from Colorado. Because of the circumstance of my brother’s death he said my brother had gone to hell. I asked why would you call a grieving family and tell us this, I said please don’t call here again. I never went back to the mormon church. I was devastated by his statement but I never believed it. Several years later in the fall of 1995 I had a friend that I would walk with, her name was Lisette, she started sharing the gospel of Christ Jesus with me. Lisette invited me to a bible study at her home, I went every week. We would study GOD's Word and pray together.

In May of 1996 I accepted Christ Jesus as my Lord and Savior and became a born again Christian. In the fall of 1997 my husband Rick also accepted Christ Jesus into his life and became a born again Christian also. In October of 1999 Rick and I and our son Lucas were baptized. A few days before the baptism I found a booklet from a vacation bible school my brother and I attended in 1971, it was a statement of faith showing that my brother who died and I had both accepted Christ into our lives at the age of twelve and ten. Praise God my brother was saved and is in heaven with Jesus. My life now is blessed beyond anything I could imagine because of my daily walk with Jesus.

Gods Blessings,
Tammy McDonald