Joseph Skipps recounts a memorable BYU event experience (Part 2)

And Tapestry performed. And the dj. Not the dj, the mc. Who was the MC that night was Dale Mokta Mahathia, who since passed away. He. There's a different story for that as well. That's another miracle. But he did it pro bono because he knew it was byu. Now, why? Because he loved byu. Because he went to Southern California University. But he lived with a Mormon family, as he says he lived with an LDS family. And he said, I'm sitting at this Education Week with him, and we're talking about schools we went to. And I told him I went to church college in New Zealand. And then, you know, he said, what kind of church? And I said, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. In that table we were sitting at Hampton, he started singing Book of Mormon stories. I looked at him and I said, dale, how did you know that? He said, oh, I used to do welfare with my U.S. mother. I went to church. I went to seminary. And so he knew all about the church. And so I told him about the BYU coming. And he said, I will do it for nothing. He said, on condition that we sing Love at Home. And I'm a child of God, so I kid you not. We're in a ballroom with 900 guests and predominantly Muslim, probably about 60%, because they're all politicians. And the program is. We started with an opening prayer, of course, because in Islam we always have. And then we sang a hymn. It was Love at Home. And the closing hymn was I'm a Child of God. And I'm sitting there. I'm just gobsmacked. Anyway, so that was 95, now 96 of August. Elder Worthland had come in several times because at that time, Gordon B. Hinckley was the prophet. I think he became the prophet in 95. And the two apostles assigned to Asia were elder architects.