This last weekend we saw some incredible miracles!!!! So
Saturday our ward mission leader offered to drive us out to Partlow (
the outer part of our area. 45 min drive to get there) to visit some
less active members and potential investigators. I was in the back of
his truck while elder tolle was talking to him in the front. As we were
driving, an idea came to my head to text Michael Moore. We had met him 4
weeks prior riding our bikes, but hadn't been able to see him. He
responded right away and asked when the soonest we could come. So we
went over there that night and had dinner with him. Before the dinner he
pulled us aside and said that his daughter, who is 14, was struggling
with "worldly" things. He wanted her to go to a good church. So as the
night went on we talked the whole family about the Gospel of Jesus
Christ. We invited Michael and his wife to church, but they said that
they couldn't because they had to take care of their handicapped 2 year
old son. So we invited Victoria (his daughter) and she said yes! So we
quickly called a family who lived around the corner to give her a ride
and she said yes! As we left their home, I also felt impressed to call
Gregory and invite him to church. He hadn't been in a couple months. He
said yes too! So we arranged a ride for him as well. Both came to church
on Sunday! The young women in the ward did an incredible job with
Victoria! Made her feel right at home as she entered the building.
Throughout the whole 3 hours she kept telling us that she loves it here.
We were with Greg most of the 3 hours and he enjoyed it as well! Sunday
night we went to go visit the Small family (the family who picked
Victoria up from her house). As we were driving to their house, we
noticed that an SUV was making every turn we made. So we made some test
turns and they still followed us! We went down and around dead ends and
they followed us!!! A lady in the car would roll down her window and
scream at us as we passed her on the dead ends. She followed us for 30
mins! I am man enough to say that I was pretty freaked out at this
point. We decided to go to a members home where we knew they had a gun
(haha we didn't know if they had a gun in their car!!!). We pulled into
their driveway and they came outside. The car pulled up and a lady
inside just started crying and saying "IM SO SORRY!"... Apparently her
Son, who is 15, ran away from home a couple days prior, and someone told
her that they had seen him in a neighborhood that we were working in.
She drove past us and thought I was him. She told us that she thought it
was him because if it wasn't, the cops would be called. That probably
would have saved us some time. However! We got her information and she
invited us to have dinner at her house next week and teach them more
about our religion! Crazy huh?! It gets better!... So Monday night we
went to the Smalls, because we weren't able to go Sunday night cause of
the stalker lady. When we got there, Sister Small told us that she had
just gotten off the phone with Michael Moore. He told her that Victoria
had an incredible time at church, and wants to continue going to it and
join it! He also told her about his handicapped son and Brother Small
told us that he felt impressed that we should go over and give him a
blessing. So we went over and William (the son) wouldn't let us get
close to him, probably because he was scared. Michael still wanted us to
give him a blessing, so he got him to go to sleep after 20 min, and we
gave him a blessing. Michael wants to start going to our church now
too!... Crazy to think that if that lady hadn't followed us, we would
have visited the Smalls Sunday night and not Monday night. And we might
not have known that William needed a blessing. The Lord works
in MYSTERIOUS WAYS!!!!!!!!!
Transfers are tomorrow. I'm staying and Elder Tolle is leaving. This next Transfer should be an interesting one!!!
It will also be interesting to see the reaction of the people here to the elections!!!
Elder Michael Litchfield
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