Stories from Ruth #30

We met Chris when we walked outside a library and he accidentally blew out while smoking onto

Sister Georgieva. He apologized and Sister Georgieva immediately started speaking to him. He told us that his wife had been investigating the church when they were having a divorce. After she left him she was baptized and their two daughters are heavily involved in the church. He said he loved the Book of Mormon, the nephites and the lamanites and had read it twice, but struggled with the word of wisdom. He believed it was good but was struggling to quit smoking. He happily agreed to meet with us and we went through the rest of our day. That night we felt like we needed to walk into town, there Chris approached us and told us that he had been thinking a lot and said that the biggest mistake he had ever made in life was leaving the teachings of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. He had gone to and researched many other churches Christian and even nonchristian, but he knew that ours was true. We invited him to conference ans he told us that long ago he had seen it. He had heard Spencer W Kimball speak and said that he was a powerful man. It is true. He is and was a prophet of God. Chris kept repeating that he was excited to see us again and to hear more about the gospel again.

 

We felt impressed one Sunday to go to this suburb. Nothing happened then, but we felt like we would need to come back another time. Well we did. And while tracting we stopped at this house I had thought was cute the last time we past. There was a woman and her daughter there. The woman said that she had a mormon friend that had told her some about the Book of Mormon but she did not know much. We taught her more and showed her the scriptures and although we did not have a copy to give her at the time (we gave all of them away already) we set a date to return and bring her one. Then we found the Bulgarians. Thwn we felt like we had to walk home a specific way, so we did. We got lost trying to get there and I saw this girl in her twenties carrying to giant bags. I felt strongly impressed to offer to help her carry them home. We offered and strange enough she accepted. No one accepts help in England. Her name was Denise and she told us she worked as a nurse and was attending the uni. She is very big on taking care of herself physically and spiritually. She said that she knew she did not meet us by coincidence and started asking us about what we do. We told her. Then the conversation changed and as girls we talked about clothes and she told us that she likes to dress modest that she believed that it wrong not to cover up more. She is not as modest as a mormon but she does not wear very sleezy clothes. Then she asked us about the Book of Mormon and taught her the restoration and she wants the Book of Mormon. She was going to come to general conference, but she got called into work, but she wants to watch it on her own time.