Francisca ortega biography of rory
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“Out of Darkness into Light”
Francisca Ortega and Francisco Dominguez Peña of Las Palmas, Canary Islands, were first introduced to the gospel and the Book of Mormon in the mid-1970s by Jesús Gómez Vega, a close friend who had been baptized in 1973 while working in Madrid.
Francisca sometimes came home from work late at night to find Francisco reading the Book of Mormon, his eyes red from crying.
Francisca ortega biography of rory
“I want you to read this book and to know how beautiful it is,” Francisca recalled him saying. Though she teased him that what he called a beautiful book seemed to be only about wars and people fighting, Francisco encouraged his wife to continue reading.
She grew to love the words of Moroni and the other prophets, and when she read a pamphlet about Joseph Smith, Francisca recalled, “I knew he was a prophet because of the intense feelings I had as I read.”
Francisca remembered being afraid of what would happen and how people would react when she and her husband decided to change religions.