Life Story

Jehovah helped us to bloom where we were planted.

The life story of Mots and On Katrina Kossholm.

The picture shows Mots and On Katrine standing next to their SUV in a rural territory.

Bloom where you are planted may seem to be strange advice.

But a Swedish couple, Mott's and Aunt Katrina, were planted many times.

How so, and how did that advice help them?

The Koss Holmes attended Gilead School in 1979, and over the years were planted or assigned to serve in Iran, Mauritius, Myanmar, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zaire.

It was at Gilead that they heard an instructor, Jack Redford, give the advice that helped them as they were planted,

uprooted, and replanted many times. Let them explain. Mots, please tell us first how you found the

truth. Living in Poland during World War II, my father saw much hypocrisy in the Catholic Church.

Still, he often said,

The truth must be out there somewhere.

In time, I was able to confirm that it was.

I bought many secondhand books.

One was a blue book called The Truth That Leads to Eternal Life.

That title really caught my attention, and I read the entire book on the night that I got it.

By morning, I knew that I had found the truth.

From April of 1972 onward, I read many more publications of Jehovah's Witnesses and received

answers to my Bible questions.

I felt like the merchant in Jesus' illustration, who after finding one pearl of high value,

sold everything he had in order to buy it.

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