Several years ago, Gladys Knight's son was the first member of her family to look at the Church. After he got baptized, her daughter came next.

Sister Knight described her search for God's true church, which came after the baptism of her children:

"I was raised in a Baptist home. We spent all day on Sunday at church. I was kind of all over the place religiously. I was a Baptist and then a Catholic and then I went to several other churches. I was seeking. There was something good in every one of those churches, but I thought there's got to be more. My daughter Kenya said, 'talk to the missionaries.' I fell in love right away. They were respectful, and the first thing they said was, 'Can we pray?' I believe in the power of prayer. They told me, 'You check it out.' I got on my knees and asked the Lord, and I got my answer.
I couldn't wait for my next lessons. I said I wanted to get baptized tomorrow."

Very soon after that, she was baptized.

Her husband, William McDowell, gave an eloquent and humor-laced testimony about his courtship and marriage to one of the most famous singers around.

They met because he was the manager of a spa in San Diego. "As Gladys kept traveling around the world, and I kept on traveling around San Diego, it was common knowledge Gladys has lost her mind and had joined those Mormons," Brother McDowell said.

He would go to visit her in Las Vegas and, "There were a lot of young men on bicycles who kept on visiting - hungry young men on bicycles."

McDowell added, "They kept on saying they belonged to the truth church of Jesus Christ. I was raised very Baptist by god-fearing people, my grandparents. How could they not be members of the true church?" He would go to visit her in Las Vegas and, "There were a lot of young men on bicycles who kept on visiting - hungry young men on bicycles."

McDowell added, "They kept on saying they belonged to the truth church of Jesus Christ. I was raised very Baptist by god-fearing people, my grandparents. How could they not be members of the true church?"

But McDowell said he went to seminary and read The Book of Mormon and then got on his knees and asked, and "I received the answers. My grandparents had prepared me to recognize the Truth when I saw it."

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