Of all the things that relatively recent convert James B. Martino had to set aside to serve a full-time mission in 1970, most troubling was leaving behind his longtime girlfriend, Jennie Marie Baron.
But choosing the right has led to great blessings in his life, said Elder Martino, who was sustained as a member of the Second Quorum of the Seventy in April general conference.
Though they were members of different protestant religions when they met in ninth grade in their hometown of Denton, Texas, religion was never a rift in their lives. It wasn't, that is, until Elder Martino followed in the footsteps of his parents and brothers by being baptized into The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on Oct. 24, 1968, at age 17.
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