Last PDay, it was down pouring and we weren’t in much a mood to go anywhere, and so waited at the church with a delivery order from McDonald's on standby. A man walked in, and I went out to pay for the food but he actually was waiting for a friend here and wasn’t the delivery man. We held a quick church tour for the man, and he looked into the baptismal font and asked if he could hear more about Jesus Christ. After we taught the Restoration, he was particularly interested in repentance and being made clean, whole spiritually.
Being PDay, we weren’t equipped with our regular supplies and couldn’t find any other materials nearby except a nice new Triple set of scriptures. We decided to loan the man the scriptures, and committed him to coming back for church on Sunday where we could give him a personal set to study.
The man came back after church on Sunday, and we taught him again the principles of repentance through the Atonement of Jesus Christ and the Plan of Salvation. He felt ready to accept an invitation to baptism. Immediately afterwards, there happened to be a large lingering of members playing card games and he left to join them. He later texted saying how glad he was that he went!
God went beyond the details in providing a way that this man might come unto Christ.
I’ve often reflected that our moods (spiritually tuned) are a huge indicator for the work the Lord wants done. Even last night, after a lot of meetings and coordination when we weren’t feeling up for a huge bike ride as we usually would for finding, we decided to stay close and remembered a bimyo appointment we had with three Philippine men earlier that day. We had missed the appointment, but it was close so we went anyway. Turns out they had waited for us! We taught them and handed out Books of Mormons, rejoicing in their commitment. Just like we can always search for opportunities to serve God, God will always search for opportunities to serve through us.
We had so many guided moments last week:
A clue of a broken lock to go visit a long uncontacted referral instead; the urge to text people and then bump into a long untaught Eikaiwa student; the blessing of an investigator who is more for the progress of members than for himself; the reminder to always be obedient in the small things, else an unlocked bike becomes a stolen one; a recent convert who made the life changing decision in his old age..
I honestly have no idea what will happen each day,
愛しています！
カードん長老より
Elder Cardon
Linnea asked: Who had their bike stolen?
Paul replied:
It’s a funny story I didn’t write up.
We were on exchanges, pouring buckets and buckets of rain that day and so we decided to do studies in the afternoon and go housing at night at the biggest apartment around so that we wouldn’t have to go outside in the rain after we finished housing the place we went outside back to the bikes to brave the storm and my bike was not there I say no! Somebody moved my bike I’m pretty sure it was security and so we thought my bike was stolen but it was actually OK it’s just really scary.
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