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Clubs

Recently revived Converts Club fosters faith, friendship at BYU

Elsa Bray
By Elsa Bray
February 01, 2024 12:00 AM
Grace Templeton revived the BYU Converts Club, which focuses on providing a community for converts and lifelong members to strengthen their faith and cultivate a sense of belonging, in 2023.
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Photo Galleries

Engineering faith: BYU grad from Thailand shares journey of conversion

By Makenzie Gudmundson
January 19, 2024 12:00 AM
Boongkey Kittiyopas Freeze is a mother, valedictorian, mechanical engineer, medical device researcher and convert to The Church Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
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Campus Events

Club provides comfortable place for converts at BYU

By Mickey Randle
October 29, 2019 12:00 AM
Converts to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints can find themselves in the deep end of a new culture at BYU. To help with that, students have created a club to help converts feel at home.
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Golf

BYU men's golfers convert to Church

February 08, 2019 12:00 AM
Senior Spencer Dunaway and sophomore Andrew Chin, both members of the BYU golf team, have become members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints within the last year.
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Local

Al Fox Carraway tells her story of choosing God despite loneliness

By Kristine Hoyt
January 17, 2017 12:00 AM
Al Fox Carraway addresses UVU students at a devotional on Friday, Jan. 13, 2017. Carraway is known as 'the Tattooed Mormon' to many Mormons. (Ari Davis)
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Featured

BYU students watch convert prepare to enter mission field

By Emily Ashmead
September 29, 2016 12:00 AM
Emily Goddard, left, and Natalie Schereck, right, taught Oscar Rodriguez, middle, about the LDS Church two years ago. Rodriguez is now preparing to serve in the Peru Huancayo Mission. (Natalie Schereck)
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Campus

RMs keep the badge on their hearts, think back to mission converts

By Jacob Molnar
March 12, 2015 12:00 AM
Addison Blair served in Brazil as a missionary for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints when he first met Korine and Everton. The couple lived out of wedlock in poor conditions. Korine was searching for the truth. Soon she and her partner were meeting with the missionaries.
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