Larry tries alcohol at fourteen, gets drunk and becomes an alcoholic. As a chef, working at country clubs and hotels, he learns the art of ice sculpture. During the war he serves as a cook, stays on in France, drinking. He goes to Korea as a government employee, meets Ethel and then becomes ill. Paralyzed and blind, he is diagnosed with multiple sclerosis and deemed incurable. But his mother and Ethel pray and he is miraculously healed. He and Ethel marry, but he degenerates, unable to hold a job and depressed. Ethel gives him books to read and he meets Jesus in the Bible. After salvation they plan to be missionaries but he can’t raise support until he begins using ice sculpture with his testimony. Now missionaries in France.