4-12-10 "Knock and It Shall Be Opened"

I'm running out of time, so this will have to be a quick e-mail this week. But, I'll have you know that we found two new investigators tracting this week! On Tuesday we were knocking one of the longest streets in our area for hours. Just keep going, just keep going, I kept telling myself. As we were leaving one doorstep, we saw an older woman trying to rake up some leaves in her yard. We asked if we could help, but before she could protest we just started helping anyway. We had a really nice conversation with her. She didn't become an investigator, but a few houses later, we found a woman with three sons and a husband who's out of town a lot on business who said she's met with missionaries before and would do so again. We did not have this woman's information in our area book, but I know the Lord wanted us to be on that street that day. He also didn't care that we spent nearly four hours there. He considered that a good use of His time, even if we only made one really good contact. Hearts are really starting to soften in this area, I can feel it.

Then on Friday after district meeting, we had some more time to go tracting. We went to a part of a neighborhood that may have never been tracted by us. It was in the middle of a Friday afternoon, so we weren't expecting anyone to be home, but someone was at everyhouse. That's just strange. So it felt like something was going to happen. We got to a corner where we'd need to decide to keep going on one side or swap to the other. I just paused for a moment and closed my eyes, hoping the Spirit would give us specifics of what to do. I don't remember getting any specifics, but I also wasn't considering any selfish motives (like, "If we go this way, we'll be done sooner," etc.). We decided to keep going on the side we were on. And the very next door, the lady let us in! That basically never happens. But it did! I know the Spirit wanted us to knock on that door. This woman is open. She's asking questions. She's been studying religions for a year. She has a lot of questions about the afterlife. I could just see her quest for truth all over her beautiful face. She's one of those people you meet on your mission that you just think, "she's beautiful," even though she doesn't fit the worldly standards of beauty. I can't wait to see her again.

Anyway, in other news this week I held a baby racoon at the animal shelter where we volunteer on Wednesdays. We had a great zone conference about repentance. And I wish I could write more but time's basically up.

I love y'all!
Sister Whitney Sorensen