RSS Feed. For behold the field is white. And so. My missionary service is about finished. It is weird that yesterday, all I could think of was "Woody" saying "It's your last game! That's pretty much what it feels like now in Serbia. So it has still been blazing hot. No one is outside, and air conditioning makes us happy So we were thinking of productive, indoor finding activities.
We decided to look through the old potential investigators lists in our area book and calling them -- all of them, regardless of the notes or dates. Everyone loved that? I guess everyone else was also at home, trying to figure out reasons to not go outside. Basically, every 10 numbers we called either told us they were interested and asked us to call them back the next day to schedule a time, or they scheduled lessons with us right then.
My favorite phone call, was when we called a number for a young man named Dragan. His father answered the phone and had no ideas what we were talking about, so he gave the phone to his wife. His wife began talking to us, and I asked if her son was home.
She paused for a moment and said, "My son passed away a couple of years ago. But the Spirit of the Holy Ghost very directly prompted me, and reminded me, that I am here to help families be together forever, and that they need the knowledge of the plan of salvation.
I said, "I am so sorry for your loss. I apologize. We have a list of names and numbers here of people who were previously interested in our faith, and we were calling them to see if they were still interested in learning more. Call me tomorrow and we can set up a time for you to come over and talk. Miracle right there. We are going to visit her tonight. I am very very excited to meet her. Sundays here are absolutely the BEST.
