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Joseph wrote:http://www.deseretnews.com/article/705374443/Hearing-set-for-St-George-businessman-charged-with-mail-fraud.html
Considering the locations and the scheme... what are the odds?
So he made a promise: If God would help him be rich, he would do good things with his money. By the time he was 23, iWorks was bringing in the cash, God was making good on his promise and Johnson was living the life of a rich man. He bought a Ferrari, a Lamborghini, a houseboat and a small fleet of airplanes and helicopters. He eventually bought a home in Santa Monica, Calif., where he works on building Elite Debit, and another in St. George. And while Johnson did acts of charity in small ways, he began to wonder if he was doing enough. God had made good on his promise. Was Johnson making good on his?
The more he saw, the more he felt he would never look at the world the same way again. Money became meaningless beyond what he could do with it. So he bought a truck in Haiti that his team could use while he was there, and then he sold it at a loss. He handed out more $100 bills than he could keep track of. He bought two helicopters in the Dominican Republic and then he left them in Haiti, because after what he saw there, he knew nothing would stop him from going back.
"All of us have a purpose for being here in life. What is mine? What is yours? What is every person's life here, and were you living it? And the answer for me, coming back from Haiti, was no," Johnson says, after spending more than $1 million in Haiti on relief efforts so far. "People say I'm a nice guy and everything else, and I help. I do — and I think I was doing that to help myself feel better about everything else I had."
"I look at the situation and I think of what is the right thing," Johnson says. "Not what is the proper thing, what is the right thing? Look, even when Jesus was here, people thought he did things wrong, too, and he wasn't following the rules. He did what he thought he should do, and it was different than what everyone else thought he should do. I get held back, but if I had my way, I wouldn't care what anybody thought, or what the rules or laws said."
"There's a lot of people who are successful, have a lot of money, and they go through life and die lonely," Johnson says. "Happens all the time. And I don't want to be one of those people. I don't want to be the person who has to answer on the other side and say, 'I was given everything and I gave nothing.' "