Spiritual Conversion

Catherine K. H. Hood's prayerful guidance to the Church

Published October 21, 2026 at 1:10 AM

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Catherine K. H. Hood, who was born into the United Free Church of Scotland and remained unsatisfied with the religious teaching she received there, prayed that she might be directed to the true Church. After a period of waiting, a Latter-day Saint elder visited her home with a tract, leading to a family meeting and her conversion to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

In Their Own Words

“Believing that our heavenly Father answered the prayer of an honest heart, I asked in prayer that 1 might be directed to the true Church. For some time, however, I did not receive an answer to my petition, and I concluded I was not yet in a fit condition to receive the gospel in its fulness. After a few months, however, a "Mormon" elder came to my home with a tract. My father asked the elder to come in, and, after a conversation, he invited him to come back in the evening and meet his family. I bless the day I was privileged to meet that "Mormon" elder: for, through thorough investigation, I found that at last this was an answer to my prayer.— Millennial Star 79:11”

Sources & References

The Latter-day Saints' Millennial Star (Manchester, later Liverpool, England, May 1840–1970), Vol. 79, No. 11 (1917). https://archive.org/details/millennialstar7911eng (account extracted verbatim from the issue's Internet Archive OCR text; research confidence: high)

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