The word spread to nearby villages, and he now ministers to three congregations, and to provide for his wife and four children, works as a security guard at nearby Rising Star Outreach, a school for children from the leper colonies. (See http://www.risingstaroutreach.org/ for another mind-boggling story.)

When one of the Latter-day Saint volunteers at RSO told John about the modern restoration of the Church of Jesus Christ and gave him a copy of the Book of Mormon, he eagerly began to read. A third of the way through, things got busy and he put the book down for a couple of days. He was awakened in the night by a voice telling him, "Read the book of Alma". He looked in the Book of Mormon for the book of Alma, and found answers to many questions that had long troubled him.

After finishing the Book of Mormon he took up the Gospel Principles Sunday School manual and found out for himself the benefit of having modern living Apostles and Prophets. He excitedly pointed out to us Elder Boyd K. Packer's parable of the Unwise Debtor and exclaimed, "Now I can explain the doctrine of the Atonement in a way that people can understand it!" He is now using the Gospel Principles manual to teach in his church, and we are supplying him copies of the Book of Mormon in Tamil, though most of the villagers are not literate in either English or Tamil.