Al Carraway: Embrace the Unexpected

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  • A devotional address by Al Carraway, public speaker, author of the best-selling book, "More Than the Tattooed Mormon," and LDS Church marketing manager, delivered February 13, 2018, in the Conference Center Theater on Temple Square in Salt Lake City.
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  • @rodneycluff1348
    @rodneycluff1348 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Al
    Thank you for this message, thanks for the time you guys were in the Skyline Ward. I appreciate your enthusiasm of the Gospel.
    👍❤️

  • @rodneycluff1348
    @rodneycluff1348 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thanks Al for this talk. We were so blesed to have you in our ward in Arizona. Love ya.

  • @codykoplin5337
    @codykoplin5337 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Al I would love to speak with you. I share a powerful conversion in the Savior as well coming back into activity in 2010. I was 23 years old and almost died from alcoholism. I am writing my book on my conversion to Christ and the restored gospel of Jesus Christ. Your conversion resognates with me heavily and the first time I heard of you years ago I knew I was not alone. The spirit was palpable and I knew that you were true. Words cannot even describe what the feeling of the Holy Ghost ,our Father in Heaven and Our savior Jesus Christ when I see others who are laying the foundation for greater things and those hard difficult things you are softening the hearts of even the most thick headed people in and out the church. The sufferings and persecutions we have gone through have helped us understand what the Savior did and continues to do. I was rejected by our own people in the faith and that hurt. I know what's it's like growing up inactive and never living in Utah coming into to Utah bubble and having same warnings to stay away. Christ was rejected by his own. The prophets and apostles have thus been calling us as a church to stop this foolish behavior and treat each other with love and more respect. To not judge and to stop it.
    Al if I met you in Utah I would have felt like seeing a member of the 70 or the 12. Thank you for following those promptings and helping build the kingdom here on Earth. I would love to meet your dad and tell him what a profound impact you have had on so many people!!!!!!!
    Your light, your energy, your spirit is so bright!!!!!! My background that I have come from going through the depths of godly sorrow to now singing the song of redemption and sharing this life giving change of nature that comes from His Atonement. Feeling things that I cannot explain in such profound ways make sense only through thy Holy Ghost and feeling that fire burning in my chest. I am now 36 years young and almost 13 years sober and fully faithful and active in the Church and will never look back.
    Al thank you and bless you!!!!!!!!

  • @mikeyg1061
    @mikeyg1061 4 ปีที่แล้ว +35

    wow so powerful I've been there. i'm tattoo and pierced. I was a convert and love the church for a couple of years. but through meeting a bad member who told my little brother to step up and be the leader and so forth. that destroyed me that he would try to turn us against each other. then we had bishops that forgot about his sheep and home teachers who didn't come. I was so lost then I came across Al Carraway videos a week ago. you know what I learned from her is go back for me nobody else because my relationship with the man up stairs is important to me. i'm scared to death because I've moved far away and I've been away from the church for 17 years. will it be easy nope do I have to start over yup but i'm up for the challenge

    • @michiganabigail
      @michiganabigail 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Wow, thanks for sharing your story!!

    • @ciaobella47
      @ciaobella47 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      ♥️

    • @sherylterpend7548
      @sherylterpend7548 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Thank you for sharing this! And yes! Go back! You will be so blessed because of it! Heavenly Father, Jesus Christ and Angels are cheering you on! :)

    • @sud2492
      @sud2492 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      I hope you got back! Thank you for sharing your experience! Sending prayers all the way from Brazil! The Lord loves you and you are special to him! Do not forget that!

    • @clydekalel4284
      @clydekalel4284 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Not sure if you guys cares but if you're bored like me during the covid times then you can watch pretty much all the latest movies on instaflixxer. Have been watching with my gf lately :)

  • @adampeterson280
    @adampeterson280 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thank you!

  • @JAVIERMORALES-jw9bz
    @JAVIERMORALES-jw9bz 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Only member of my family, Same feelings, same story. Lost all my present possessions. Know the feelings, but it’s worth it. Gospel it’s not easy indeed, but willing to chance the course of our lives gives us the hope that we’ll earn the ultimate gifts from The Lord.

  • @tracyware1821
    @tracyware1821 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thanks Al. I really needed to hear this today

  • @kmm291
    @kmm291 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    What an amazing speaker. She can create the tearful voice, the joyous voice, the saddened voice. ...she can carry the audience emotions all over the place and bring it all around to her point! No wonder she travels all over and speaks for LDS ~ she’s good!!

  • @HighSeasCruiser
    @HighSeasCruiser 6 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    This is such an inspirational speech. Thank you Al Carraway and LDS Business College for sharing.

  • @robyn_marie
    @robyn_marie 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    ❤❤❤

  • @Tundralifted
    @Tundralifted 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    She needs to be bigger then she is now, she is my hero and my inspiration.

  • @danielsalmon5398
    @danielsalmon5398 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I think God totally meant for me to find this video she has such a inspiration and good speaker

  • @robmullin1128
    @robmullin1128 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    You were definitely blessed with the gift of evangelism for sure!

  • @Sound7heWarCry
    @Sound7heWarCry 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I feel so alone with my pregnancy and I’m really happy to have come across this on my feed. I feel a lot better now. Thanks so much, Al 🌻

  • @PapaKryptoss
    @PapaKryptoss 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Never in my life have a heard a woman with such a testimony. Oh my gosh. They do exist - women like like this

  • @kristenfenn4185
    @kristenfenn4185 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Love, Love, Love this !!! Thank you Al for sharing.

  • @heatherlangford4845
    @heatherlangford4845 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I absolutely LOVE this!

  • @robmullin1128
    @robmullin1128 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Gurl you make an awesome preacher!!!!

  • @american236
    @american236 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    She is a good speaker.

  • @alasdairwright1575
    @alasdairwright1575 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    What fire! What passion!!

  • @heatherluna5075
    @heatherluna5075 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Awesomeness 💙💜💚❤💛🧡

  • @chloejennings1319
    @chloejennings1319 6 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    This is amazing

    • @daleroyster2144
      @daleroyster2144 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      What could you not love about this girl?

  • @williamturner6192
    @williamturner6192 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Yeah. I would take time to get used to tattoos. I can see why she'd get that advice.
    It would just take a while. At least for me.

  • @towardcivicliteracy
    @towardcivicliteracy ปีที่แล้ว

    I’m quite sure there were taco stands.

  • @KarlaSol
    @KarlaSol 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Does anyone know the scripture she saya almost at the end, I guess IT is 32:16 (my video is stucked). She says Alma 56:36? Because I looked for IT, and says something diferent...

    • @brielyngriffeth38
      @brielyngriffeth38 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      it's alma 56:46! :)

    • @KarlaSol
      @KarlaSol 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@brielyngriffeth38 thanks!!

  • @castingmynet6134
    @castingmynet6134 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Why are you running ads in this channel? I had to see a half-dressed woman before watching this amazing video!

    • @EnsignCollege
      @EnsignCollege  11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      TH-cam ads now runs on any channel across TH-cam whether the channel is monetized or not. Unfortunately, we have no control over that we are looking into solutions currently.

    • @castingmynet6134
      @castingmynet6134 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@EnsignCollege thank you for the reply. I've wondered why all the ads on the church sites lately. And it's so upsetting because I'm getting very offensive bra ads and such.

    • @castingmynet6134
      @castingmynet6134 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@EnsignCollege also, I report and block ads left and right, but if you know somewhere that I can tell them my opinions on this forced advertising, please let me know!

  • @joshua.snyder
    @joshua.snyder 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    She has really milked her 15 minutes.

    • @MrLabodemoza
      @MrLabodemoza 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      milk...? I think it was more like "meat"...meat of the spirit of conversion.

    • @mattctr
      @mattctr 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Seems that she’s created a whole identity, attention, and income streams around having tattoos.
      Couldn’t a wealthy member step in and donate to help her start the tattoo removal process?
      At the same time, I’ve had time to lose weight, but here I am, still way too fat. I guess I should write some books about fat pride or something, then make money telling people my sins are not sins. (They are.)
      I forgive her for not knowing or doing better. We all need to repent and be better.
      Did this talk coincide with a Deseret Book product launch? Stir up some fresh attention for a new book?

    • @jsdreams4
      @jsdreams4 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@mattctr I’m confused by the “telling people my sins are not sins” part of your comment. I’ve not heard that from her messages.
      She is a talented communicator with a passionate testimony. At the time of this devotional I believe she was a full time employee of the church (not promoting a book).

  • @robyn_marie
    @robyn_marie 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    ❤❤❤