With Real Intent: An Unexpected Gift

Authors

Larry Echohawk, Brigham Young University

Keywords

Book of Mormon, Modern Church, Conversion Stories

Abstract

The Pawnee people endured many hardships through the years, but EchoHawk explains that out of that pain was born promise. During his childhood, EchoHawk and his family had no expectation of achieving a higher education, but he, along with all of his siblings, was able to attend college. Through a football accident in high school, he gained the personal testimony he hadn’t possessed when he was baptized at 14. His testimony and his football took him to Brigham Young University, where President Spencer W. Kimball influenced him to become a lawyer, and later the attorney general of Idaho, to help his people and to be an instrument in God’s hands.

BYU ScholarsArchive Citation

Echohawk, Larry (2007) "With Real Intent: An Unexpected Gift," Journal of Book of Mormon Studies: Vol. 16: No. 1, Article 10.
Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/jbms/vol16/iss1/10