We were invited along with another missionary couple, the Roberts, to share family home evening with the mission president and his wife in their beautiful home. Pres. and Sister Almonte shared a wonderful conversion story.

President Almonte was having his car repaired and some missionaries approached him. He felt something positive with them. That same day, Sister Almonte had been praying for help in finding the truth. She and her husband were having financial trouble and she was upset with him. That day a neighbor invited them to have the missionaries come and visit them. She told the neighbor to have them come over and since she was mad at Pres. Almonte, it did not matter to her what he thought. He was pleased that they came. They took the discussions and had completed everything necessary to get baptized except attend church. They kept promising and promising to go but their extended families were so involved with family get togethers on Sundays that they never remembered to go to church. Finally, one Sunday morning at about 7:00AM, the two elders who had been teaching them parked their car next to the wall and got on top of the car to climb over the wall and knocked on the Almonte’s door. They told them that they were there to take them to church. The Almonte’s told the elders that they would come but the elders were insistent that they could wait. So they did for 2 hours and the Almonte’s have not missed a meeting since.