I didn't think of God as a person with a mind that I could comprehend with-- I just didn't think of God as somebody that I could communicate with. So, no, I didn't think that God knew me or-- I just-- I didn't think of God that way. It's a lot like having children. You cannot possibly understand the joy of having children until you've had children. And you can see children and like children and love to play with children, but it's not the same until you see your children. And I would say that this awakening in some small way is like that. It was a paradigm shift. It was a whole new world of thought and ideas that I really had not spent any time thinking about. All of a sudden thinking about eternities, eternal life, I had a pre-existence. Wow. That is, that was a mind-blowing thought to me. Well, I felt like--

probably for the first time in investigating the Church, I felt like this is plausible.

Maybe this is real.

Maybe this is--maybe God is real. Maybe He is hearing my prayers. And maybe this is the voice of the Spirit that everyone is talking about, this feeling of reassurance. Once you understand and come to accept the First Vision, it's easy to have faith in the rest. And if you really believe and have faith in the fact that Joseph Smith saw Heavenly Father and Jesus, it's really easy to understand that the priesthood was restored. Kiran lives near Boston, Massachusetts, where he works as a software developer. He and his wife, Susan, have four sons and a daughter. He was baptized into The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in May 2004.