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| Church news article | 23 May 2007 |
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The following missionary moment was in the Church News. I hope I typed all the names correctly: Cousins baptize cousins Stephen Jenkins and his second cousin Jonathan Frioux met for the first time a few years ago during a family reunion. Their conversation was brief, each sharing his excitement to serve a mission. To his surprise about a year later, Elder Frioux arrived in the Ukraine Donetsk Mission to find his forgotten cousin, Elder Jenkins, already serving. Their paths didn’t cross much, each filling his assignment in the distant reaches of the mission. One day in early April, a young man of Asian descent entered the mission home seeking gospel answers. Elder Jenkins and his companion, Elder Luke Warnock, recognized the young man as Cheng who attended the weekly English classes. They invited him to sit down and began teaching about Joseph Smith, employing hand signals and a mixture of Russian and English expressions to communicate. Cheng absorbed the gospel as fast as the elders could teach. Two days later, he returned with a friend, Jian, whose faith was equally as deep. Both accepted challenges to read and study, and frequently expressed their budding testimonies. Unknown to these elders, across the mission in a less-known city of Lygansk, Elder Frioux, and his companion, Elder Louri Svinoukhov, were teaching a man named Yong, coincidentally, an older cousin to Cheng. Yong accepted the gospel like an old friend. He had always conducted his life according to gospel principles and found the commandments to be a source of joy. When President Dale E. Andersen learned that cousins were teaching cousins, he arranged for Yong, Cheng and Jian, to be baptized in the same services in Donetsk on May 4. “This week was probably the most fulfilling of my mission, and I’m very grateful to god for granting me such a privilege of teaching of teaching these elect men,” wrote Elder Jenkins to his parents. Speaking of Yong, Elder Frioux said, “He has the strongest testimony. He is ready to live all the commandments.” --Shaun Stahle |
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