Elder Magalhães' bike incident: price paid miracles. Truly, the Lord works in His own time.
We found a new area of great potential to go finding in. We were thinking to start on it after an early dinner, and on the way we got sidetracked into knocking doors of another random apartment we found. Not much there, so we picked up our bikes to continue on except Elder Magalhães' bike wouldn’t move. Ah, silly, he forgot his chain. He has a special, hefty duty key-lock chain for his bike. Elder goes to remove the chain and the key snapped in half inside the lock! Ah, no way!! ;.; we're caught halfway between the middle of nowhere and now his bike is rendered useless!
Hahahaha we finished what we could, and started walking back. Elder Magalhães had to half-carry his bike on its front wheel so the back was suspended. I bet it looked like we were stealing bikes. It was a long walk.
But, the story turns ok with the next day. We had [an] opportunity to go back to the same place with a member for a bit. Still finding.
Within twenty minutes, a lady opened up who had no interest but loved to talk anyways. She rejected the Eikaiwa offer first, but quickly picked up on a conversation about Family History. One thing leads to another, and she asked questions about why there are so many Christian churches? Boom, the Member whips out a Restoration pamphlet and teaches her right there the story of Joseph Smith. It was intense.
The conversation kept going (more dragging on, really); it was difficult to trade contact info or set a next appointment, and we had to go back to Eikaiwa, but as we were finally leaving the Member was on fire and whipped out a Book of Mormon to present to her. Ah! She accepted. And we made it to Eikaiwa on time.
We referred this lady to the Sister Missionaries.
It was lucky Elder Magalhães ' bike broke the day before, because just the two of us probably wouldn’t have seen such success in inviting this lady to learn more.
The story goes on. On Saturday, Zone Conference talked a bit about testifying in under a minute, and I connected it back to Wednesday night where we literally had even less than that to get any word in between that lady's talking. I actually got assigned a five-minute sacrament talk the following day, and brought up this experience specifically.
Well, the Sisters went back on Sunday evening to see if they could catch this lady again. We were out in the opposite direction doing other finding, so only heard the results afterwards. I guess that she was home! And talked a lot, again. But it was good; the lady complained about reading the small lettering from the book, and the sisters encouraged her to try downloading the Gospel Library app, instead. It worked! Hahahaha . I say double guided in helping teach this lady. She’s so extra special.
愛しています！
カードん長老より
Elder Cardon
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