Friday, April 8, 2011

My first missionary experience

I was in the apartment complex laundry room and struck up a conversation with a Bermese woman who introduced herself as Prayma.  She said she had limited English.  I told her I was a Mormon and asked her if she had heard of Mormons and she hadn't but she is  Baptist.  My goal is to tell everyone I am a Mormon.  She said as we were leaving.... Invite me to church sometime.  I told her I would.   it was Conference and our car was full so not this week. 

The next night I woke up and stewed about what I should do first... invite her to church, take her to the sculpture exhibit of the Savior at the trail center, show her the Joseph Smith movie at the trail center, give her a tour of the history of the pioneers at the trail center or have the missionaries over.....   I prayed about it and decided I needed to have the missionaries over so the next day I went over to her house and told her SHE had made me not get my sleep and would she please allow our missionaries to come over and teach her a lesson about families and maybe I can get some sleep.  She thought about it for a few seconds and said "yes" so I called the missionaries right then and there and set up an appointment for Friday at 7. 

They came and she wasn't home, I was devastated, I felt so good about it.  We tried an hour later and she was  home.  I asked if anyone else spoke English in the house that would like to listen and she got her 15 year old daughter, the husband who speaks no English wandered in for the last 15 minutes and shook our hands and thanked us.  We had a simple restoration and Joseph Smith lesson. Prayma shared an experience of when her prayers were answered and told us she had never shopped on Sunday. And gave the closing prayer in her native tounge. We will go to the Sculpture exhibit on Friday and have another lesson there.  she cannot come to church this week but will be there next week she said.  She told me when she asked me to invite her to church in the laundry room, her friend said "I want to go too"  Let me tell you that was SOOOO COOL!  

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