Guess what I did Friday night!?
I went with the missionaries to share the Gospel at a new investigator's home with her two young children. We showed up on time for the appointment, and the investigator was just leaving out the door! She had forgotten about the appointment! If we had been a minute late, we would have missed them! Later, at the end of the meeting, she told us that they were supposed to leave at 6, but her oldest daughter was napping and she said that God told her not to go.
Cool.
We shared the story of the First Vision, and it's interesting that the thing she was astonished about was that God the Father and Jesus the Christ are two separate persons (with another separate, but invisible Holy Ghost), not three-in-one (Trinity). I reminded her of an important scene in Jesus Christ's life the night before the Crucifixion, where He prays in the Garden of Gethsemane, and asks the Father to remove the cup so He wouldn't have to go through with it (Matthew 26:39). I asked her whether He was praying to Himself? She was intrigued, pondered the question, and said she would ask the pastor at her current church about it.
The Elders gave her a Book of Mormon and assigned her to read 3 Nephi 11 where Jesus Christ visited the Americas after the Resurrection. She said she would definitely read it, and that she's looking forward to the next meeting.
Brothers and sisters, I had an uplifting time helping the missionaries teach this beautiful daughter of God. I felt the Spirit more than once throughout and continued to feel good even afterwards. I testify that the Lord wants us to have missionary experiences, to help teach investigators with the Elders, and to partake of the blessings associated with this work. I know that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is led by the living Savior and that He, with our Heavenly Father and the Holy Ghost, work together in one purpose to carry out the Plan of Salvation, to bring us back home. I also know that Christ will come again soon and that that day will be a joyous day. In the name of Jesus Christ, amen.
Brother Filiatreault
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