At 19, Jake Garn, oldest son of Senator Jake Garn, stood in his grandmother's Salt Lake home as his father delivered the news that his mother had been killed in a rollover accident. Jake had drifted from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for years by then, one reluctant yes to a cousin at 14 leading him a step at a time away from the faith of his childhood. His father, a decorated Navy pilot, the mayor of Salt Lake City, and the first sitting member of Congress to fly in space, could not hand down the one thing his son needed most, a witness of his own.

In this episode of Why We Believe, Jake shares the impression that pressed in from beyond his own mind, the prompting that stopped him putting away his Book of Mormon, and the quiet no thank you on a canoe that opened his way to a mission at 23. He also tells his father's story, sixteen sunrises a day over a world with no borders, a kidney given to his daughter Susan, and a letter from President Reagan quoting the book of Alma. Through it all runs one witness Jake carries today, that Heavenly Father does not get it wrong and does not leave His children alone.

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