The Baptism of the Heroin Addict

While on a mission to preach to the fundamentalists in Utah in 1980 from North Caroina,  the remarkable baptism of an albino heroin addict named George from a halfway house on State St. in Salt Lake, the miraculous change wrought physically upon his body, and his exclaiming aloud as the bands constricting his mind and soul were loosed and his soul expanded partaking of the tremendous and ineffable power which physically changed his body, he thereby tasted the love of God and was born a new creature, the old blood purged out. His face which had been pinched with unhealthy pallor became rudy, flushed with a rosey color showing forth a radiance as a sign, strikingly because of this amazing change. 40 And thus, if ye will not nourish the word, looking forward with an eye of faith to the fruit thereof, ye can never pluck of the fruit of the tree of life. 41 But if ye will nourish the word, yea, nourish the tree as it beginneth to grow, by your faith with great diligence, and with patience, looking forward to the fruit thereof, it shall take root; and behold it shall be a tree springing up unto everlasting life. 42 And because of your diligence and your faith and your patience with the word in nourishing it, that it may take root in you, behold, by and by ye shall pluck the fruit thereof, which is most precious, which is sweet above all that is sweet, and which is white above all that is white, yea, and pure above all that is pure; and ye shall feast upon this fruit even until ye are filled, that ye hunger not, neither shall ye thirst. 43 Then, my brethren, ye shall reap the rewards of your faith, and your diligence, and patience, and long-suffering, waiting for the tree to bring forth fruit unto you. (Book of Mormon | Alma 32:40–43)