Stories from Ruth #37

Ruth has officially finished half her mission!!

This week I have truly come to recognize how often God answers our prayers and how often we do not recognize it. I am grateful that sometimes he waits to answer until the time is right. It is on God's timing that he answers prayers.

There is a recent convert here who has not been able to come to church and she was close friends with many of the members but they can never seem to see her. When I was with Sister Georgieva we visited her and we love her. She told us about her little boy and asked us if we knew where she could get graham crackers. We of course did not, but I prayed for them and felt prompted that we would find them. Three months later I had found nothing. However, this Thursday we went to Sister Lallyette's house and her daughter gave me cinnamon gum. Yes! Then she pulled out a new box of graham crackers and gave them to me. We were going to see Clara the next day so I texted her that we had found graham crackers. Well she told us the next day that ten minutes before the text her little boy had been praying to have smores with graham crackers. At first to her it seemed silly, but then she received her answer. God does answers prayers especially the prayers of children.
I also prayed for people to message us and two individual people texted us and told us they could meet! Yeah!

We met some Jehovah's Witnesses in the park and all they wanted to do was argue, so I pulled out 2

Nephi 29:7-12 and read it to them. They all stopped for a moment and were quiet. Then the main man who wanted to argue asked me to hand it to him. I complied. He read it again verse by verse and after each line exclaimed that it was true. He then handed it back and changed his argument to disagree with something else. To me it was a testimony that the Book of Mormon is true. He could not argue with the word of God, for he cannot deny it.
Harvey came with us to a dinner appointment on Monday and it was a lot of fun. We taught a lesson about families and how to come closer to each other through the gospel and everyone got really involved.

The greatest miracle to me of all happened this morning. We had a lesson at the chapel with Harvey and Sister Lallyette. We talked to him more about who God is, because if we do not know that God is our father in heaven and is not some ambient force, then it is hard to pray. Then we discussed receiving and recognizing answers to prayers and the importance of keeping the commandments. He felt that everything we said was good. He reads, prays, and every time he meets with us he feels that it is good. We explained more about how the Holy Ghost speaks to us and who he is. After all this we invited him to be baptized and he agreed. I was so happy. He truly is seeking to know who God is and is willing to commit and to live all the commandments in order to receive his answer. I know that he will be blessed and I know that I am so blessed to be a part of this. I am grateful to be teaching him. He is seeking after truth.