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Recent BYU grad Lauren Willardson uses missionary attack to ‘go forth and serve’

June 23, 2025 06:15 AM
In August of 2020, two sister missionaries for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints were stabbed in their Houston apartment in the middle of the night. Despite the traumatic event, one missionary has turned the experience into a faith-building story for herself and many others.
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Sister missionary, stabbing victim shares miracles despite traumatic experience

November 18, 2020 12:00 AM
BYU student Lauren Willardson, 19, had been serving her mission in Houston, Texas for about two months when a man entered her and her companion's home in the middle of the night and started stabbing them.
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