In preparation for being baptized a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints at age 8, Elder Matthew J. Eyring’s father asked him, “Do you have faith in Jesus Christ?”
Young Matthew began to cry, replying, “I don’t know.”
At the tender invitation of his father, the two knelt on his bedroom floor — near the rocking chair where his mother would read to him every night before bed — and prayed. “That was probably the first time I felt the Spirit that strongly in my life,” Elder Eyring recalled. “I knew my Savior lived.”
That experience was formative, he said, but also illustrative of the many faith-filled influences that have guided him throughout his life.
“I think the Lord has been very kind to me to put righteous mentors in my way,” Elder Eyring noted soon after being sustained as a General Authority Seventy during April 2026 general conference.
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