MISSION IN ARMENIA CHANGED HEARTS AND LIVES
By Molly Farmer

Deseret News
Mormon Times
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June 23 2009
Utah

Armen Hovsepian needed help. The paraplegic 26-year-old hadn’t moved
from his room in his seventh-floor apartment for six months.

Bed sores pervaded his hips, back, buttocks and ankles. His mother did
the best she could to turn him intermittently and clean his wounds,
but without money for medical care, the weight of his own sedentary
body relentlessly advanced the sores.

When Hovsepian asked his sister to flag down two Americans who
were serving in his town in Armenia, the Mormon missionaries were
skeptical. They assumed he was looking for a handout.

But Hovsepian just wanted to hear them talk about their religion,
which they ultimately did. And after witnessing the man’s humility
and happiness, Elder Malcom Stewart wanted to do everything he could
to offer the help he was initially reluctant to give.

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