life. was that the case with you? yes, by far. i not only learned how to deal with people, i saw extreme poverty. i learned to love people like i had never loved before and to have compassion. and you were 19? i was 19. got a letter in the mail and it said you re hereby called to serve in the brazil rio de janeiro mission for two years. two years away from home trying to convince a skeptical world of the value of your faith turns out to be humbling and rewarding. there are plenty of people saying, no way. get out of my face. what does that teach you? just because you knocked on 200 doors on one day and were told they weren t interested doesn t mean the next day you don t do it anymore. you just go back and do it again. it s a life changing experience for them, like a fast track to seriousness. there s a song, a mormon hymn they sing that s dedicated to the pioneers about putting your shoulder to the wheel. right. and as a mormon kid you hear about the pioneers over an
could get sentenced. he was found guilty of snatching elizabeth smart from her bedroom when she was just 14. mitchell was inside the courtroom singing a mormon hymn as the verdict was read. we re waiting to hear from elizabeth smart s family. but mitchell s stepdaughter who says she was sexual a bused by mitchell expresses shock at the swiftness of the jury s decision. he s never really spoken with me about this, so i m anxious in a way to see what he has to say. i don t know that he will. he said little things, you know. god has let him down. why would god put him through all this? he hasn t said much about it. i am concerned for him, though, about how people are going to treat him now because this came in. jean casarez is a correspondent for in session
we re awaiting we think members of the smart family, possibly elizabeth smart. her father ed, mother lois, sister mary catherine or family spokesperson. we don t know whether they plan to offer comments at that setup with cameras and microphones but if they do, we will go to that immediately. ted row laenltdz has been covering the story for us. he was in the court when the verdict was read and joins us outside the courtroom. all of the buzz this morning was whether or not that jury was going to find bryan david mitchell guilty or not guilty by reason of insanity. obviously they decided he was not insane, he was of sound mind when he committed those crimes. reporter: yeah, took them five hours. three hours of deliberation last night and then two hours here this morning. when mitchell was brought in to court before the verdict was read, he was singing. he has done this throughout the entire six-week trial. today he was singing a mormon hymn. he was allowed to stay in court