I had a very special spiritual experience that takes a little telling. It started yesterday when Mary and I went out to the Weston area where we asked to serve and took family group sheets and pedigree charts to a couple of families of recent converts. It was a chance for us to be of service but also gave us a chance to get to know the area better.

As we drove down a short street in a gated community we saw the assistants coming towards us. We stopped and talked for a moment and found they were going to visit a family that we met at church last week to see how they were doing. We soon parted and we finished dropping off the sheets before heading back home.

This morning I wrote in my journal how it was quite a coincidence that we happened to be on the same short street at exactly the same time as the assistants. I wondered if there was some reason for that to occur. Later in the day the assistants came into do some work in the office and I mentioned to Elder Neeley that wasn’t it unusual that we met there. I then asked how the family was doing that they visited and he said that the mother had a major problem giving up coffee. She grew up where drinking coffee with the family was a social event and she did not think she could possibly give it up.

I told elder Neeley that I had exactly the same problem before I was baptized because when I was young the family always drank coffee for breakfast and with other meals. I told him perhaps if I went with them to visit I could tell her my story and testify that she could stop. He agreed and we are going to try to do this either Saturday or Sunday. So although it took two days and a lot of spiritual nudging I think I finally am going to do what the Lord wanted done. Hopefully the sister will make the right choice and give up coffee so she and her family can enjoy the blessings of the gospel.