Missionary Oppotunities

We had this experience this morning and wanted to share with all of you. The topic in our ward and stake lately has been about "hastening the work." We've have been given the challenge to simply open our mouths and invite those we come in contact with to learn more about the gospel. Anyway, here's the story of what happened: 


Last day of the month, but we met our goal! Kevin and I invited the girl who bought our car to learn about the church!!

I have been praying for an opportunity to "open my mouth" and have been frustrated because, being at home all day, I don't see many people who aren't already members of our church (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints).

The story and kind of strange, and not the kind of experience I thought I'd have. We posted our car for sale on craigslist and immediately had a few responses. A girl and her mom came and took it for a drive, they were interested, but wanted her dad to come take a look before they bought it. As they were coming back from test-driving it, another man came to look at it. The girl and her mom left and this other man took it for a drive. He came back and gave us an offer (talked really fast and was quite rude). In the end we agreed on it and he left (he gave us a deposit and planned to come back). Kevin and I both felt uneasy about the deal, but took it for what it was worth and tried to move on. Later that evening we both felt like we needed to call the girl and her mom back and give them a chance to make an offer. We ended up agreeing to meet with them this morning. We met with the other man and returned his deposit to him. He was nasty! Rude and yelling. All in Kevin's face about how it wasn't good business, how he was going to take us to court, just a bully. We understand that we went back on the deal we had made, but nothing was final and something didn't feel right to us.

Anyway, the girl came back this morning with her dad. They bought the car. We ended up chatting with them for a bit. Religion came up and I had the prompting to invite her to come to out church and learn from the missionaries. Turns out, she's been wanting to find a church for a while and she's been to a few that didn't treat her very kindly. I took a deep breath and invited. She accepted and wants to learn more!! I told her that we were signed up to feed the missionaries on the second Sunday of the month and we'd love to have her join us. She accepted that too!

My heart is overflowing right now. The Lord hears us and answers our prayers! He is most definitely "hastening the work." I know that we were in the right place at the right time this morning. I stand all amazed at the way the Lord uses us to accomplish His work!