(Elder Cummings)
So we get a call from Brother Mike Johnston:
"Elders! I made some biscuits but I made way too much,
do yall want some?" Affirmative. We skirt on over there as quickly as
possible before the sun goes down so we can do some street contacting. We grab
the biscuits, share a scripture and say a prayer with him and get on the
streets. We turn right and boom there is a sweet old lady sitting on her porch
just staring at us smiling like she was waiting for us to say something to her.
We say hi, she says hi, her name is Willor. It turns out she met with the missionaries
20 years ago and they read the Bible with her. It was getting dark and she is
80 so we shared a couple verses of scripture and set to come by the next day.
The next day Willor begins asking us about the afterlife and
if she will be with her family and if her family would even be her family. We
pull out a picture of the Baton Rouge temple as we describe and testify of the
sealing power of families and the priesthood of God. She just looks at it and
says "Wow. That is beautiful. I need to go there…what do I need to
do?". Boom. Jaw dropped.
She soon after accepts a goal to be baptized on December 18
as a member of the Church of Jesus Christ. She wants it so bad but she is very
worried about it, the last of her siblings alive are devout followers of
another church and are dissuading her. She says she knows this church is true
and she wants to be a part of it but is scared. Please pray for her, this was
no accident that we ran into her. If Brother Johnston wouldn't have made a huge
surplus of biscuits we wouldn't have been there. If Willor wasn't outside we
wouldn't have seen her. Please pray for Willor.
Elder Cummings
Willor, Zone Conference photos, and then some
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