Whew!!! What an amazing week!! I actually have an amazing miracle to share!
Earlier this week, we got a phone call from the Elders in the Shiloh area, telling us that that taught the Restoration to a guy who lives in our area, who was visiting a friend in their area. They said, he had an amazing spiritual experience at that lesson, and that we he had asked for us to stop by and teach him more! This is a great thing, of course! Having someone ask for us to stop by to teach more is always a great sign that God has been preparing them.
We drove down on Saturday to his home, which was in Alto Pass, a small city that really doesn't have much going on. Unfortunately, as we were half way to his house, Elder Bassett realized that he did not bring his planner, and that we didn't have his number or his address...It was pretty nerve wracking to realize we may have really messed up(at this point, we were already a bit late). Elder Bassett pointed out that he remembers it being on Elm St, but he could not remember what the number was. So we drove up and down Elm St(only about 8 or 9 houses were on it), looking for an indication of what might be Francisco's house.
As we were doing this, a Beetlebug pulled off in front of a yellow house, and a Hispanic lady got out of her car. President Bartholomew(who was driving us), got out and asked her if she knew Francisco, which it turned out she was actually there to visit Francisco! Francisco's mom let us in, and we were brought into this attached apartment in the back of the house. Francisco's mom, Theresa(the lady we met outside), and Francisco joined us for our lesson. It turns out, Theresa was with Francisco when they were taught the first lesson, and that she also experienced an amazing spiritual experience. Francisco's mom was only Spanish speaking, so we needed people to translate(President Bartholomew, Theresa, and Francisco knew both English and Spanish). As we introduced what we were going to teach, Theresa began retelling the entire First Vision, in almost perfection, to Francisco's mom, all off of memory she had from the first lesson in Shiloh. Francisco helped assist her in all the details, but she basically retold everything we had prepared. We then introduced the Book of Mormon, and expressed that the Book of Mormon is God's proof to us that Joseph Smith was a prophet, and that we can pray about the truthfulness of the sacred texts that were in it. As we taught, we were translated for Francisco's mom, and she understood, and agreed fully with everything we said! The spirit was so extremely strong, and to be honest, by how much Theresa and Francisco helped teach the lesson, it's hard to believe they aren't members themselves...you can just tell that know what we were teaching was true! It was amazing, and even with how much I've already written, there is so much more to the actual experience. It was a miracle, and it was amazing to see the spirit just touch them and confirm our words to them! I'm so excited for this family!
What made it even more of a miracle was that Theresa wasn't actually planning on stopping by. She had a spiritual impression that told her to hold off her plans for the day(which was head to Carbondale from Percy), to stop by Francisco's house. She told us she didn't know why she was going there until after we started talking to her outside Francisco's door, in which she said "I think God wanted me to be here." Wow!
After having such difficult weeks lately, with all our lessons falling through, this was just an amazing turn around and I was so proud to have that opportunity to be apart of the change that will happen in that family!
Anyway, I love you all! I pray for you all every night! Keep writing me, because I love hearing from everyone! Keep Francisco and his family in your prayers as well! :D
Elder Robinson
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