Following the Spirit

Hi!

This week was very interesting and had a lot of dynamics to it. We had interviews this week, found a super solid investigator in which we had the most amazing experience following the spirit and we now teach families, as well, if we find them off of tracting.

So there was one day this week that we were wanting very badly to find an investigator because we've been a little dry. So we were praying really hard all day long to know the place where we needed to be. We would go to one apartment complex that we felt good about but after a few minutes of tracting there, we felt like this wasn't the place anymore. So we would pray and go to another apartment complex. By the end of the day, we still felt positive and more sense of urgency to find someone. We arrived at another complex and felt really good about being there. We felt strongly that someone was there that we were going to find. It would have been interesting to be watching us because we were almost running from building to building. We would stop in front of one and think for a second if God wanted us to tract there. If not, we would move on to the next building. If we got to a building we felt good at we would decide what floor. As we were knocking on a door, I looked across the grounds and saw this building and said, "We NEED to tract there!" So we ran over there and stopped in front of it to decide what floor. Instantly we both looked at each other and said, "Up!" So we ran up the stairs and started knocking. We knock on a door and this man comes out and says that he would be interested in listening to us. We start asking him some questions and we find that he has never been religious but because of the events in his life, he has started to pray for help. We talk about God's love and the Atonement and he begins to cry. He cuts us off after a few minutes and we set up a return appointment with him. Well, the morning of his return appointment, we get this random call. It is a member who is works with the guy we just tracted into. He says that the guy is super excited to meet with us and has read 17 chapters of the BofM already. WHAT?! That was a surprise. At our appointment, he tells us that for about a month, he has been praying for help and he says that we were an answer to his prayers. So we take him on a church tour and he tells us that he went and bought his first bible. We invite him to a baptism that another ward is having so he can see it for himself how it is done. A couple of minutes before the baptism, he calls and says that he doesn't want to come because he is feeling totally overwhelmed. We tell him that we are there to help him and to teach him, not to push. So he says he needs to be more open minded and to come. After the baptism, we talk to him and he says that he has been finding alot of answers in the BofM. He sometimes just opens the book and flips to any page and starts reading. Well, he came across a scripture that i would think would be really scaring but it was what he needed. It was Alma 9:12-13. Read it. Now we are trying to help him learn and gain a testimony for himself.

The church is true!

Love Sister Sumsion