This week Hermana Hainsworth and I went to go and see one of our investigators, we knocked, and she wasn't home so we wrote a card and walked to the car. On the way to the car I saw a woman in a black and orange tank top and black pants walking away and in my mind a very subtle thought came, "you should go and talk with her." After that thought, the mail man came up and started talking to us and thanking us for our service. He was very nice but not interested, and when I looked back up the woman was gone. I pushed the thought away and got in the car. But as we drove about 50 feet I kept getting the feeling like we needed to go and talk to her. So we parked the car right then and there and we walked down the road to try and find her but there was no one on the street. As we were walking back to our car I really felt like we should go to the 3rd house, so we knocked and it was her! I was so glad! We talked with her for a second and she dismissed us away quickly with "Sorry I'm Catholic", so we gave her a card with our number on it, just in case she needed any service. We walked to our car, got in, and drove away. Now as we were about 100 feet away I felt really strongly we needed to go back and share a scripture with her. I thought it would be really strange so Hermana Hainsworth and I discussed it and we decided to find a scripture. We both flipped through the Book of Mormon and both landed in Alma 7! We took that as being the chapter we needed to share and so we got out of our car for the third time and went back to her house. We went there again, knocked and said, "This may sound a little strange to you, but we really felt like we should come back and share a scripture with you." Then she said "Right as I shut the door on y'all just then I felt like I should have listened to you." (In my mind I was like: "Are you kidding! No one ever says that! This is a miracle!) Then we went on to share the scripture, she began to cry, we began to cry, and she shared with us about what she was going through right now and how the message we shared was perfect. She invited us back and we went on our way.
The Spirit is so real! I had never had an experience like that before and was so happy to see the fruit of following the Spirit.
But just 2 Nephi 2:11 says, "there is an opposition in all things."
On Sunday we went to go and talk to 2 of our investigators and they said they didn't want us to come back. And when we went by to see the investigator i was just talking about above, she was working. It was just so sad. I was so sad because I knew that the Spirit and the lessons we had to share would change their lives and they didn't want it. There is a part in a missionary article called "The Susan Fulture Case Study" that talks about sharing the gospel. It says that when we share the gospel we are offering someone a $100 bill. Sometimes people accept it and sometimes they say no, but we keep offering it to everybody. That's how I felt. I felt like I had given them each a $100 bill and they did not accept it. I was so sad, almost to tears, because I loved them so much and it was so hard to see them say they didn't want the endless blessings we were offering them that were even more than a $100 bill. But as I was walking into the apartment that Sunday night, a thought came to me. It was about how it was all okay because I got to experience a small portion of what our Savior experienced. Jesus Christ knew better than anyone that His message was true. He knew how people would change if they listened and acted, he knew that all problems could be made right, all sadness could be made happy, and all burdens could be lifted, but how many times did people "walk no more with him". I found my self thinking about our other investigators in Woodlake & Converse saying "Will ye also go away?" But that is the beauty of agency, we all can choose to heed His teachings or "walk no more with him." I hope we all "choose the harder right, instead of the easier wrong."
Pictures 1-7 We went to the Aquarium/Zoo today!
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