The Story of My Wife's Conversion

I want to share the story of my wife's conversion.

I moved back to Texas to pursue my college sweetheart, Margaret.  I was Catholic and she attended a new age, non-denominational church.  Christ was important to both of us so we compromised and alternated churches each Sunday.

As things began to get more serious between us I realized two things: I wanted to marry this girl and I wanted to raise my children Catholic.  Thus we began having conversations about the possibility of her future conversion to Catholicism.  She resisted.  She wasn't sure she wanted to be Catholic and had lots of questions.

Unfortunately, these discussions revealed how shallow my faith was.  I couldn't defend ANY of the Catholic Church's teachings nor dispel the countless myths about the Catholic church.  All these conversations did was leave us both disgruntled.  I got nowhere in these talks.

At the same time all this was going on, my girlfriend had been worrying about her parent's souls.  She had grown up in a non-practicing Baptist household and nobody in her family had gone to church in years. Luckily, my girlfriend had an amazing friend in college who ignited her passion for God.  And since she was now in a  deeper relationship with God, she wanted her family to experience the joy she had as well.  Her family had responded sluggishly, always saying yes during the week, but having an excuse come Sunday.  So, as stated, my girlfriend was worried about the eternal salvation of her family.

While my conversations about her conversion were getting nowhere and causing strife, my girlfriend's mother, Mindy, found Relevant Radio!  She found it to be incredibly soothing in the constant traffic jams of Austin.  And she learned a ton from listening.  Eventually, listening to Relevant Radio led her to want to convert to Catholicism.

She told my girlfriend she was considering joining the Catholic Church and Margaret, worried for her mother's soul, was so enthusiastic that she agreed to go through the RCIA process with her mother just to make sure it happened!  So while my heartfelt attempts to convince Margaret to convert failed miserably, Relevant Radio convinced Mindy, and as a result Margaret, to become Catholic!

Once in RCIA, they both learned tons about the faith!  They would come over and teach me about my faith!  Learning the faith led both of them to love the faith.  They could not wait to be baptized.  And their enthusiasm and knowledge was catching, I was inspired to begin exploring my faith with a fervor I never had before.

During this time I proposed to Margaret.  She was baptized one week before we were married and we got married in the Catholic Church.

So Relevant Radio is responsible for my wife's conversion, my mother-in-law's conversion, my Catholic wedding, and re-igniting my fire for the Church!

But the story doesn't end there!

While we were still dating Margaret's father, Stanley, was diagnosed with stage four brain cancer.  In fact, we pushed up the date of our wedding to make sure he could walk his daughter down the aisle and dance with her to the father-daughter dance.  (It was incredible.  Not a dry eye in the house.)

Within one month of our wedding, Stanley was moved by how excited his wife and daughter were about their faith and agreed to become Catholic.  A priest from our Cathedral came and administered the rites of confirmation, holy communion, and the anointing of the sick.  He went comatose within days and passed away within the month.

So to be clear, this man who had been away from his faith for years assents to convert on his deathbed.  The priest washes him clean of all his sins and then he goes comatose.  He didn't have a chance to sin!  The man's soul was clean!  We are convinced he went straight to Heaven!

Relevant Radio saved my father-in-law's soul!

So this is a testament to the power of Relevant Radio.  You know if all of the funding you had received since you started only bore this one fruit, saving one man's soul from Hell, it would have been worth it.

But it's not the only fruit.  Heck, you've born more fruit in just my life alone!  And I know you've helped countless others.  I am a such a huge believer in the power of what you do and the good you provide constantly!