So she organized a Bible study with our family, my mother being the oldest of 12. And we also knew that Aunt Rene was very gifted in the Gospel, and so we loved hearing her talk about, you know, the churches and the gospel of Jesus Christ. Because we were Baptist, we love the Bible. But she didn't know which members were going to join the Church. I remember Aunt Rene telling us that she had another vision, and in this vision, she saw that members of our family were going to join the Church. You were a little girl at this time, do you remember much about what she taught? So when she came back to Louisiana, from what I understand, she began teaching members of your family what she was learning. The Lord was guiding her and she knew that she was doing the right thing by joining the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She can see visions, and she can have divine revelations. SheвЂ“all of her life she's been a very religious person, and she's one of those people that has the gifts of the Spirit. But Aunt Rene had already had her divine revelation. So when she joined the Church, they weren't welcoming her. And so I guess they weren't ready for African Americans to be in the Church. This was the earlyвЂ“this was like 1976 timeframe, and so the revelation had not been received where all worthy males could receive the priesthood. I think that people weren't ready to receive African Americans in the Church. Is that right?ДЄnd she had to write President Kimball to get permission to be taught by missionaries.ДЄnd this is because this was pre-1978, is that your understanding? Eventually she gets back to her home in New Orleans, Louisiana, and she finds the Church, and she's baptized on Christmas Day in 1976.ДЄnd when she originally came to Church, people wouldn't even speak to her. She didn't know at the time that there was a church associated with that book. So she had a divine revelation that the Book of Mormon was true and that it was something that she should believe. And she was flooded with scriptures that she had read, and at the end of the voice that was telling her all these scriptures that she had read it said, 'Catherine, believe all things.' And as she stretched out her hands to throw the book into the trash, she said something shocked her. And she started reading about baptisms, and they weren't baptizing the people in the name of Jesus Christ, and we were raised Baptist, and so we believe that you should be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ.ДЄnd so, Aunt Rene said, when she got to that part of the Book of Mormon, she felt that it was really good but it wasn't the book. And so Aunt Rene starts reading the Book of Mormon, and she loves what she's reading. And a friend eventually gave her a Book of Mormon. And so Aunt Rene started reading different religious books, like the Quran, and other religious organization documents.ДЄnd she just couldn'tвЂ“she wasn't satisfied with any of them. And the Lord put it in her heart to find another book. She is my mother's sister, and she was living in Connecticut in the late 1960s. Yes, Aunt Rene, her name is Katherine Warren. So I wondered if we could start there, and if you could tell me a little bit about your aunt's conversion to the gospel of Jesus Christ. Well, this is so fun to be here in Louisiana and with you, and I want to start outвЂ“because your story starts in Louisiana, but really the story of you joining the Church starts in the northeast with your aunt. Sister Amos, thank you so much for being willing to do this. This is All In an LDS Living podcast where we ask the question, what does it really mean to be all in the Gospel of Jesus Christ? I'm Morgan Jones, and I am so thrilled to be with Sister Amos today. She and her husband, John, are the parents of three children. She was the chairperson of NASA's Black employee Strategy Team, and she worked on Perseverance, the Mars 2020 rover, as a systems engineer. In 2002 she won an All-Star Award at NASA's women of color government and defense technology awards conference. Michelle Amos is an electronics design engineer for NASA. 30 years into her career at the Kennedy Space Center, she still loved going to work every day until she received what she calls 'A higher calling,вЂќ the call to serve with her husband as mission leaders of the Louisiana Baton Rouge mission. But in college she fell in love with a boy named John Amos, and in an effort to be close to him, she applied for a job at NASA. It wasn't that she didn't have big dreams, she just wanted to work for IBM. Some people grow up their whole lives dreaming of working for NASAвЂ“not Michelle Amos.

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