The story I submitted via LDSLiving.com is a true story about my last year of high school in West Sacramento (James Marshall High School, now River City HS). I was closing in on the end of my senior year and was pulled aside by my Biology teacher, Mr Jeters. He was the most superior of the teachers at James Marshall and taught like a college professor. Our school was mostly white, hispanic and japanese. Mr Jeters was the only black at the school. He pulled me aside one day and asked where I was going to go to college. I told him I thought American River JC out near Winding Way in Carmichael. He asked me if I was a Mormon. I told him I was and apparently he already knew that from the people I hung out with at school. When he heard I was settling for the JC, he said, "No, you are going to BYU". He informed me that he wanted me to bring in the application papers and he would sit down and help me fill them out. We did that and applied late in my senior year..probably very close to the deadline. I was accepted and found my way to BYU. Of note is that I was inactive my junior and senior year and was dating girls outside of the church. I had considered BYU but wasn't sure I could even get in. So, I settled for the JC life. Mr Jeters changed all that, and by doing so got me back on track with the church....and of course I met you mother who led me up the right path back into activity. He literally was the person who changed my life by stopping me from making a poor choice, got me in the right direction and allowed me to take part in that life-changing event. So, when you see the story in the book, to be released in Sept this year, you can compare the text and see if I remembered what I wrote to the authors of the book. My thanks to Mr. Jeters. I tried to contact him recently but he is deceased. I did speak to him about 15 years ago. He was living in Alabama.