{"id":499,"date":"2026-07-30T08:29:32","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T14:29:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.mmmind.com\/wordpress\/?p=499"},"modified":"2026-07-30T08:29:32","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T14:29:32","slug":"wicked-lottery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.mmmind.com\/wordpress\/?p=499","title":{"rendered":"Wicked Lottery"},"content":{"rendered":"Between 2012 and 2014, my wife and I were public affairs missionaries for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Manhattan, New York. Our office had a couple of twenty-something interns. the Broadway Musical, Wicked was very popular. To improve our interns&#8217; chances of getting tickets in the ticket lottery offered by the Musical&#8217;s office, we would go with them and stand in line. <br \/><br \/>One day, while standing in the Wicked lottery line a middle aged couple noticed our missionary name tags and came over to talk to us. They said they were not members of the Church but wanted to tell us about their friend who was. They told us that as a young person this woman had been very wild. &#8220;there wasn&#8217;t anything she didn&#8217;t do, tats (tattoos) and all,&#8221; they said. They lost close contact with her, over the years, but somewhere along the line she joined the Church. Recently they received an invitation from her to attend the church talks her twin sons were giving upon returning from their church missions to South America. <br \/><br \/>The couple said when they first saw their friend they hardly recognized her, or her husband who they had also known as a wild young man. Then the couple said, &#8220;their two boys were two of the finest young men you could ever meet.&#8221;<br \/><br \/>Matthew 7:16 &#8220;Ye shall know them by their fruits.&#8221;<br \/><br \/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Between 2012 and 2014, my wife and I were public affairs missionaries for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Manhattan, New York. Our office had a couple of twenty-something interns. the Broadway Musical, Wicked was very popular. To improve our interns&#8217; chances of getting tickets in the ticket lottery offered by the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.mmmind.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.mmmind.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.mmmind.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.mmmind.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.mmmind.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=499"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp.mmmind.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":500,"href":"https:\/\/wp.mmmind.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499\/revisions\/500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.mmmind.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.mmmind.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.mmmind.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}