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When Hope is Gone: Real People Finding Real Hope in Pocatello
When Hope is Gone Real People Finding Real Hope in Pocatello Author:Various When Hope is Gone: Real People Finding Real Hope in Pocatello opens with this hair-raising declaration: On the night of May 28, 1998, they came for my father. We heard neither the drone of their four-wheel drive nor the thump of boots on our front porch. But in our normally quiet, upper-middle-class neighborhood, we felt their presence. People d... more »isappeared. Some survived unbelievable torture and eventually returned broken and marred forever. In the first of seven stories of real people searching for hope, Makena s family was forced to flee persecution again and again from war-torn Ethiopia. Their last hope for freedom was seeking asylum in the United States, a place where they could worship God without fear of government reprisal. For Pocatello resident Annette, sorrow lined her haggard face, her dark eyes twin pools of pain as she gazed at her reflection in the mirror. Her endless pursuit for happiness in one failed relationship after another was filling her life with nothing but emptiness until she discovered true hope in a relationship that transcended all the others. Kelsey was a model student at Idaho State University, a chemistry major on track to complete both a bachelor s and master s degree, quickly establishing herself as a top student in the department. She thought she had all the answers for her life until a friendly discussion between a Christian friend and a member of the Latter-day Saints church nagged her conscience and she began a relentless chase to find answers for her own life. Their circumstances are widely diverse. But each of the seven people within these pages discovered hope in amazing ways when they thought hope was gone.« less