Sunday, December 6, 2015

Encountering the Sheep of the Lord

John 10:27 My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me:

Another incredible week. It started at church last Sunday. After the Sacrament meeting, we were approached by both counselors in the bishopric. Each had an investigator standing beside them for us to teach. One of them, named Sandra, said she wanted to be baptized. We went to her house the next day to teach her, but she needed little teaching. She had already heard clearly the voice of the Savior through her brother, a recently returned missionary and up until now the only member in his family. We asked her a question and she taught us the lesson. Intelligent and well educated, she talked of feelings that she had and that she knew what we said was true. We were talking to a spirit sister, someone who was willing do whatever it takes to follow His voice. We will be baptizing her on the twelfth.

The next day while Chrise and I were working alone in the mission office. The bell at the front gate sounded. I went out to discover a teenage girl, looking kind of lost. She asked if she could come in. I left her alone for a couple of minutes in the reception area  reading a Liahona and then went to talk her. She knew little about the Church and hadn’t even heard the name Mormon, but she had been guided to our front gate. She wanted to know who we were. I talked with her about the Restoration and then showed here the movie on the Joseph Smith Story. After watching the movie and hearing my testimony, she ask some incredible questions, and then said she really wanted to know more. I called the sisters in the area where she lives and had them talk to her and set up an appointment. Another one of the Lord’s sheep heard him calling.  


The truth of what we teach fills me, burns in my heart and fills me with joy. It is the Lord’s prescription for our troubled world. I’m just an ordinary member of His Church, nothing great, not a mission president, or a bishop or a stake president, but how wonderful it is to serve him and see how he cares for his sheep.             

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