Tanner Yost

Six chapters

My Story

Nobody is argued into faith. What follows is just what happened, in the order it happened.

Tanner Yost and four friends outside the Rexburg Idaho Temple at dusk, the temple lit behind them.
Rexburg Idaho Temple

The story Enos 1:3

  1. 01

    Before

    What would you like here?

    Behold, it came to pass that I, Enos, knowing my father that he was a just man — for he taught me in his language, and also in the nurture and admonition of the Lord — and blessed be the name of my God for it.

    Enos 1:1

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  2. 02

    A Testimony of My Own

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    And according to his faith there was a mighty change wrought in his heart. Behold I say unto you that this is all true.

    Alma 5:12

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  3. 03

    The Call

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    Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying: Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then I said: Here am I; send me.

    2 Nephi 16:8 · Isaiah 6:8

    This is the verse on @tanner_yost21.

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    • Called to serve

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    • Missionary Training Center

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    • Set apart

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  4. 04

    Tennessee

    What would you like here? – What would you like here?

    Yea, I know that I am nothing; as to my strength I am weak; therefore I will not boast of myself, but I will boast of my God, for in his strength I can do all things.

    Alma 26:12

    Two years in the Tennessee Nashville Mission. Partway through, the mission’s own account filmed him with a guitar, explaining what he had learned about the love of Christ by getting good at something and then giving it away.

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    The mission in full, and the guitar clip →

  5. 05

    Coming Home

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    I know that which the Lord hath commanded me, and I glory in it. I do not glory of myself, but I glory in that which the Lord hath commanded me; yea, and this is my glory, that perhaps I may be an instrument in the hands of God to bring some soul to repentance; and this is my joy.

    Alma 29:9

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  6. 06

    Now

    Present

    The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me; because the Lord hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek.

    Isaiah 61:1

    That verse sits on The Great Mediator, the account he runs now — short videos about the Restoration, living prophets, temples, family history, and the gathering of Israel.

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    About The Great Mediator →

“And I would not that ye think that I know of myself—not of the temporal but of the spiritual, not of the carnal mind but of God.”

— Alma 36:4

Keep reading

02 The Mission 03 Testimony 05 Beliefs

Everyone has a story like this one. Most people just never get asked for it.