BYU Basketball Star Jonathan Tavernari Shares His Miracle at a Snowy Train Station
Jonathan Tavernari grew up a Catholic altar boy in São Paulo, coached by his own mother, one of the most decorated youth basketball coaches in Brazilian history. At 16 he boarded a one-way flight to America with his mother's gold cross around his neck, and he left BYU as the program's winningest player and its all-time leader in three-pointers made. But the turning point of his life was not a championship. It was a lost necklace, a finished Book of Mormon, and a 17-year-old kneeling to ask God if it was all true. The vision that answered him led to his baptism into The Church of Jesus Christ…
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