(Elder Cummings)
So we're cruising down the windy road in the RAV4, trying to
find the neighborhood we had planned to contact in. We get there. We turn
right. We park. We get out. And BOOM. There is a man decked out in BYU gear
standing outside of his trailer waiting for us.
"I thought I seen y'all" he says as he waves us
inside. We weren't planning on visiting with him, we didn't even know he lived
there, we didn't know HIM, but we walk in.
Besides behind his Christmas tree that was still up, there
is not a foot of space on the walls between his pictures and paintings of
family, Jesus, and Church History. We look down at his coffee table and see
stacks of temple names. This guy is such an amazing man and we could feel it
when we walked in.
"Brother Walters" he says as he shakes our hands
with a grip only those 35 lbs dumbells at the foot of his couch could produce,
"and I'm glad y'all came today".
As we get talking with him we learn that he was having a
rough day. He felt that the devil was attacking from all and every side. He
said he had read his scriptures, did some temple work, and been saying prayers
and could just not get bad thoughts out of his mind. We were able to share a
quick message and he looks at us and says "Boys, I believe I prayed y'all
here. Y'all ain't leavin till I get a blessin' ".
We were able to give him a blessing and it seemed that a
load was just taken off of him afterwards. He smiled his Cajun smile and gave
us the biggest hug. We had never even met him before.
God works in mysterious ways. He has a plan for us all. He
answers prayers. I am so so grateful that I was able to be part of an answer to
another of His children. He is aware of us. And this is all because He loves
us. And "in this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that
God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through
him"(1 John 4:9).
Have a blessed week y'all!!
Elder Cummings
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