This week we have been truly blessed. As a companionship we just feel
grateful! All week long we have had
miraculous experiences. We had an
exchange on Tuesday where we both felt impressed that the missionary I was
going to be working with did not need to teach in appointments all day. So, Elder Perkins took all the appointments
and went and taught with Elder Maderos and Elder Hopkins and I followed the
plans made by the Spirit to go do work.
By the end of the night we had taught member present lessons,
found MANY people to teach, and saw a few miracles. One of them, a woman walked up to us and
asked for our phone number so that she could start coming to church. She had been investigating in Modesto and
just moved down. We had been following
promptings to know which streets we needed to walk down and walked right into
her.
Best story of all though, last week Elder Perkins and I
contacted a man who was cutting down a rotten telephone pole at a friends
house. He gave us his number and told us
to call to meet again. Monday night at
10:13 I felt a distinct impression that I needed to call that man. So, slightly timid for calling so late I
did. He answered the phone. I am pretty sure it woke him up. In the short conversation we had he did not
catch much expect that we knew he cut down the telephone pole and that we were
going to come by to talk to him the next night at 8:00. I felt pretty good about it all, so at 8:00
we arrived to find him sitting in a folding chair sipping a bear.
The night after we called he did not sleep a wink. There was some communication breakdown. He thought we were from the Merced Police
Department calling to schedule a time to come and arrest him for cutting down
that pole that apparently he had no permit to take down. He told his wife and children that the police
were coming for him the next evening.
They didn't sleep very well either.
Credit to his integrity, he kept his appointment!
Abel was so surprised that missionaries, not policemen,
walked up excited to see him. After we
figured out the whole situation he agreed to listen to a message. He preferred Spanish, Elder Hopkins led
out. Teaching the restoration went
incredibly well, up until he asked about the Virgin Mary. Up to this point I had been able to understand
the whole conversation, which was not normal.
At this point scriptures in the Book of Mormon about Mary flooded into
my mind, and I took over the teaching in English. The Spirit was there and there was not
miscommunication. Abel's concern was
resolved, he asked where the church was located, and said that he would bring
his wife and children to come and worship with us because he could tell we were
different.
The Lord is hastening His work. There is no way to deny it.
With love,
Elder Cummings
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