Computer back

I had such a good story for yesterday and my computer wouldn't connect.  But today it is back so on with the great story.
     This is Katya Sviridova from Volgograd, Russia.  She was the translator for the Nørrungs who served a mission there and has come to visit them for a few days.

I asked her how she joined the church.
   Her father was a Russian pilot and they were living in the Ukraine when the Ukraine split off and all Russians were sent back to Russia.  They ended up with her grandparents in Volgograd, but it was very hard on the marriage and her parents were in the final steps to get divorced.
   At this time, a friend came to visit and told them about the church she had just joined.  She felt there was something wrong in the family, even though no one said anything, and asked if they would like to have the missionaries come to visit.  They refused and 3 days before Katya's father was to go to his parents in Siberia, the friend came by again,,with the missionaries.....  They visited for a bit and "accidentally" left a Book of Mormon on the table as they left.
    Katya said that when she returned to the room after saying good-bye to her friend she couldn't believe her eyes, Her parents were doing something she hadn't seen them do for months, they were sitting together on the couch reading and talking about the Book of Mormon.
    The missionaries came back and taught them every day and they set a date to be baptized.

However, her father couldn't stop smoking.  The missionaries tried everything and he decided he couldn't be baptized but that the rest of the family should.  The mother said they should do it as a family or not at all.  The week before the date, the father got up one day, threw his cigarettes in the fireplace and said he would be baptized.  They were baptized the morning that their missionary had an afternoon flight home.  A year later they were sealed in the Swedish temple and her father was bishop of their ward five years later.

Isn't the gospel wonderful!