Spiritual History
MY SPIRITUAL HISTORY Barry McCombs I want my posterity to have an account of some of the events of my life that have given me guidance and have provided me with a sure testimony of the Gospel of Jesus Christ as taught by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. When I was born, February 3, 1950, my mother was not a member of the Church and my father, although a baptized member and descendent of Mormon pioneers, was inactive. With the help of my grandmother McCombs my mother was baptized in 1953. It must have taken some time for my father to become an active member because I recall sitting with him behind our house in Spokane, Washington and asking him why he smoked cigarettes. He told me he shouldn’t and gave me a puff on his cigarette to show me how bad it was. I had to have been about 6 years old at that time. I remember receiving a Father’s blessing from my grandfather McCombs and being big enough to sit on a chair and to receive this bles...