Heaps of miracles this week!
First off, a classic story that sounds like it came right
out of Preach My Gospel. We were out visiting a lady who we are teaching, and
it began to rain. We finished our visit and got in the car to drive back to our
flat for lunch. As we began to drive out of the town I felt like there was
somebody in that town that we needed to find. We turned around, parked, and got
out of the car. We started walking down the street knocking on the
occasional door, and the rain started coming down harder than I have ever seen!
Within a minute we were completely drenched. We decided to knock on one last
door before leaving, and the man who opened the door said "I may not be a
believer, but I'm not going to leave anyone in rain like that! He let us
in, and gave us each a towel to dry off with. The man introduced himself, and after chatting for a few minutes he told us that the last six
months of his life have been incredibly tough for him. He has gone through a
number of trials including the death of his father. Rob told us that because of
what he has been going through he really wants to know if there is a God! We
set up a time to come back and answer some of his questions.
The biggest miracle this week happened on Saturday morning
at 6:22. We received the best text a missionary can receive from a
investigator saying "GOOD MORNING! PLEASE WHEN IS THE BEST TIME I
CAN GET BAPTISED?" I thought that I was asleep or that someone was pulling
a prank on us! I still can't believe it! We called her up and set up a time
that night to go over and talk to her. She told us that she read from the
Book of Mormon on Friday night and prayed about it. She went to sleep expecting
to have a dream or something to answer her prayer. Instead, she just had one of
the best night's sleep she has had in weeks. She woke up at 4:00 thinking
about the Book of Mormon and what we had taught her. She told us that she felt
the spirit bare powerful witness to her that she has known all along that the
Book of Mormon is true! She thought about an experience she had thirteen years
ago when she had a similar experience where the spirit told her to do
something. She had not followed that prompting thirteen years ago, and she had
seen a number of consequences from her disobedience. She said that she
didn't want to see a repeat of that experience, so she had written the text to
us right away. She sat there for a while trying to convince herself not to rush
into things, but she said that she couldn't keep herself from hitting send!
She committed to be baptized on the 31st of August, and she brought her three
children to church on Sunday. This experience strengthened my faith that the
Lord is indeed preparing people to receive the gospel! (Alma 13:24.)
To top things off, a less active member and a former
investigator accepted our invitation to attend church and we were able to see
them there on Sunday! The Lord has been very good to us!
-Kyle
We are SUPER excited to hear that Despicable Me 2 is coming out, even though we won't be able to watch it.
Finally, I can FLAGPOLE!!!
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