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Show Coffee Drinkers Preferred v Page 258 of 307 "Yes, I have been told that families are forever. What does it have to do with anything?" I said. "Do you have a true testimony of The Church..." I'm sorry that I have to cut off his sentence there but he put the nine words that I am never supposed to put in one particular order into the forbidden ' order. You can probably guess by now what those words are. One of them is latter. I didn't know exactly what his game was. I think he thought that if he could connect to me from a religious perspective that maybe the two of us would just fall on our knees and I would tell him where Sariah was. We were both clearly out of our elements. He seemed to have always been able to intimidate people into getting what he wanted. I cannot claim that I was making any kind of valiant stand against this monster but I was at least holding him at bay and even this seemed to confuse him. "I have a testimony," I said. "Of course I do. My name is Nephi." He stood there, holding his gun on me and asked, "So, you believe that the church is true?" I had always felt that there was a gun pointed at me every other time I had heard that question, so answering it while an actual gun was pointed at me gave me a sort of peculiar satisfaction that is really hard to explain. It was dark and the bay water lapped all around us, gently knocking the boats around and here we were, having the same |