July 28, 2014
Cheyenne, WY
Could forgetfulness be a godly quality?
Seriously, I am thinking about writing it in my Preach My Gospel in the
Christlike attributes chapter, with D&C 58:42 next to it for the scripture
reference.
"Behold, he who has repented of his sins, the same is forgiven, and I, the
Lord, remember them no more." (italics added)
So if God can forget things, as this verse implies, and one of the roles of
the Holy Ghost is to bring all things to our remembrance, could he not also do
the opposite, a "stupor of thought" if you will, to suppress our
remembrance?
Remember our miraculous morning last week when we placed 4 copies of the
Book of Mormon and had a couple of lessons? Well, there was one woman who
was not so happy about us knocking on her door that day. In fact, as we
told her about how the gospel of Jesus Christ has been restored to bless our
families and asked if she was interested in that she said, "I am interested in
that, but not from any Mormons!" So we moved on from that one.
Flash forward to this week (in just a minute you will see how this all
connects). We go back to contact the potential investigators from last
week, but no one is available at the time, so we think why not tract one of the
buildings we skipped last week in the bit of time we have...how about that
one? We know we have talked to someone in this building at a different
time (lives where a member used to live) so we decide to simply do the doors on
either end of the building. First door, no answer, second door,
answered! ...by the same woman who flatly rejected us last week. I
had lost my voice that day, but was speechless anyway and preparing to get
yelled at. She said, "Are you those same Mormon ladies from a few days
ago? You were just here! Here now I'll take your book. I'll
see what it is. There must be some reason about it for you to be coming
around again." She did take the Book of Mormon I was carrying, I have no
idea what we said, she closed the door and we walked away dumbfounded.
Want to know another crazy part about it? We had the same
conversation last week about tracting the end doors of the building to skip the
person we had talked to in the middle. That is how we met her the first
time. How could we not remember having that same conversation?
"But if it be not right you shall have no such feelings, but you shall have
a stupor of thought that shall cause you to forget" (D&C
9:9 italics added).
The Lord knows His servants. We would NOT have gone back to her house
on purpose. He also knows all His children and apparently she needed a
second chance to accept the Book of Mormon. That's my story and I'm
sticking to it, forgetting can be inspired.
Finished off with Frontier Days this week, yay! Back to normal life
:)
I've got to say though Ariel, I'm not sure no voice was worth it for the
legs. (Editor's Note: She has been sick and had lost her voice for several days. She's feeling better and her voice is coming back )
Love you and hope all is going well and continues to do so!
love, Sister Emily DeFord
p.s. TMFWD will be....purple!
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