When he was 11 years old growing up in Britain, Aly Conteh visited a cemetery in northern France where British and Commonwealth soldiers from World War II were buried.

Though not a “child who was into answering big philosophical questions,” he felt weighty curiosity as he walked among the gravestones.

“What happens to us after we die? What’s the purpose of our time here on earth?”

“I’d been taught by my mum to pray,” he said. “So from time to time, I would pray and ask Heavenly Father those questions.”

Three years later, missionaries from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints were in his home “teaching us the truths of the gospel.” After he was given a pamphlet with the testimony of the Prophet Joseph Smith, Conteh read it.

“There were no fireworks,“ he recalled, “I just k

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