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I love this story! Elder Holland Shares one Of The Most Remarkable Missionary Stories Of All Time The following is a portion of R. Scott Lloyd’s article posted on DeseretNews.com. Elder Holland of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles spoke on June 27, the fourth day of the 2017 Seminar for New Mission Presidents being held at the Provo Utah Missionary Training Center. His topic was “the Divine Companionship.” Elder Holland closed by relating a story  — being careful to protect the privacy and anonymity of the participants —  of a young man from southern Idaho.  One night the young man stormed out of the house and set off to join an infamous motorcycle gang. He succeeded in that resolve and for 20 years became immersed in a culture “of temptations yielded to and degradations explored,” never contacting his parents, who feared that he was dead. Eventually ending up in Southern California, he one day was sitting on the porch of a rented home when he ...