As we were on our way home from visiting the constructions sites, Mary got a call from Sister Collins saying that we needed to go in and do the mail. So we did that and then came home to have dinner and prepare to go out with the sisters. I had been thinking about what we might share with the investigator that would help with the concerns she had shared with the missionaries. But I decided that I would just have to trust that the Lord would help me say the right things.

When we got to the area the sister called and said they would like us to go to another appointment first because they had the opportunity to teach a lesson to a new convert that we knew but there would also be another woman there who had showed reluctance to have the missionaries teach her. While we were there the sisters did an awesome job teaching and while I added a few thoughts I spent about half my time trying to keep three young children from interrupting the lesson. I showed them pictures from Africa and that helped.

I think the lesson was a success in that the non-LDS young woman did read with us from the Book of Mormon and seemed to be interested in what was being taught.

We then walked through the block and went to the appointment that we had been asked to attend. It was an amazing time. While the sisters pretty much sat there, Mary and I were able to talk to her about how being members and being sealed in the temple helped us see our marriage from an Eternal perspective. Then I was able to share my own conversion experience and some other experiences from my own life and from the scriptures of how the Lord answered prayers when I or others were going through a ‘why is this happening to me’ situation. After bearing a strong testimony I felt that I should ask her if she received a witness to what she had been taught would she be baptized in two weeks. She said she would and I told her the sisters had a calendar that would help her reach that goal. The spirit was so strong in the room that it was hard to leave.

It was truly great to be able to be part of teaching a very talented woman who will not only receive much from joining the kingdom but will bring so much to it.

It was an Awesome Wednesday all day!