Why You Need to Follow The Spirit
Another week passes. Whose in the teaching pool right now? Only Ian still, though
Elder Shelley and I met some one amazing while Elder Tolman was attending his
Sister's wedding in Coquitlam on Saturday.
We'll get to that miracle in a moment but first I'll tell
you about our exchange with our zone leaders. I was placed with Elder Reynolds
in our own area Friday morning. He came out at the same time Elder Shelley did
and seems to have a similar personality to my own. It was a lot of fun
discussing interests we had in common. We thought that Ian was ready for his
baptismal date since earlier in the week he told us that he was ready. We went
over the baptismal questions that evening with our bishop, but when we asked
him "Do you believe that God is our Heavenly Father," his answer for
us was the exact opposite of what we wanted to hear. "I don't know"
He replied. The 2 of us were surprised as well as Bishop De Vera. We taught and
testified how he could know if it was true by understanding the Book of Mormon
and praying to know. Judging by what he was saying, he figures that he's seeing
a lot more signs that God exists then he once did. He's just thinking a little
too much.
We didn't see him at church on Sunday. When we sent him a
text asking him where he was he replied that he was sitting by a nearby lake
where he was doing some serious thinking. After church we found him where he
said he was. We taught him seemingly more of the same things for a little
while. As we were talking we heard a shot-gun blast followed by the sound of
emergency vehicle sirens seconds later. This is Surrey after all!
Now lets turn our attention to that miracle I was talking
about. Saturday morning when we exchanged back, Elder Shelley and I planned to
do what a lot of missionaries like to do in Surrey: Street contact at the
Surrey Central bus loop downtown. We were about to get out of our car to work
when we had what could only be described as a "funny feeling." We
didn't know why we felt it. We were just following our plans. Confused, we said
a prayer of direction, knowing that for whatever reason we simply weren't
supposed to be here. The thought came into my mind about a referral the Whieler
family gave us when we visited them and did a bit of service for them. We drove
there, got out at the cross street and were about to knock on the door when we
saw a woman, looking of Hispanic decent, driving in her car, pointing
frantically towards where we had just parked as she passed us. We followed her
as she turned the corner and she just sat silently waiting for us.
When approached her in the car she rolled down the window.
When we asked her what was wrong she began to cry, telling us to pray for her
family. They had been placed in a critical situation. We offered a prayer and
then she told us more of what was going on, now crying more. There was an awful
look of emotional agony in her face as she kept talking. She believed in God
but felt angry at him for causing her to go through all the troubles she was
facing. She felt that something was missing in her life and she didn't know
what it was. We explained that even though we didn't know exactly what she was
going through, God did and that we have what she's missing. She told us that
she knew a little about the church and it seemed like the Mormon Elders were
always around to pray for her whenever she was in a hard time. She introduced
herself as Liz and gave us her phone number. We will be meeting with her soon
this week. She lives in Vancouver, though she comes to Surrey often to visit
her 4 kids. We'll probably teach her a few times before passing her over to
some sisters in Vancouver.
As she tried to pull away, her car wouldn't start so we
helped start it with some jump cables she had in her trunk. She thanked us now
smiling and drove away leaving Elder Shelley and I amazed at what just
happened. We knew why we were led to where we were now. It was one of the
sweetest miracles I had ever been a part of in the long time I've been out on
my mission. You serve to be involved in things like this.
With this in mind my brothers and sisters, may we be
thankful for the miracles we have seen throughout our lives. Little has been
easy being here in Surrey, but being here is perhaps the best thing God
could offer me to grow like never before. God bless you are and please pray for
Liz. Love you!
Elder Maclean Samis
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