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In , YouTuber David Boice completed what he set out to accomplish: he visited 52 churches in 52 weeks.

He documented the experience on his channel and gained an enormous amount of new respect for and understanding of faiths outside his Protestant upbringing.

But as he wrapped things up, a friend mentioned that Boice hadn’t—and should have—gone to a “Mormon church meeting.” So, as he continued to explore other faiths beyond his week goal and create videos, he made a point to attend a Latter-day Saint service.

“Back then, I had no real idea what the Church was,” Boice admits now.

“When I first visited, my extremely limited cumulative knowledge of [The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints] consisted of Utah, BYU, and Mitt Romney.

“When I walked in, I saw some portraits of God the Father and Jesus Christ appearing to a man in a 19th-century white shirt and black knick