Gracie Lopez lives with her
father Jose (in his 80's) and brother Antonio. Kay found out over a
year ago they had a clogged drain and had the missionaries living in
one of their houses on property for free. Kay offered to unclog it.
Instead of being a 1 hour job, it was a 4 day job. The drain was so
clogged and had turned to cement. He had to replace pipe, rip open
the floor and replace the whole sub floor, floor and flooring in the
bathroom. We went on several visits and I sat with Jose, talking to
him and helped Kay with the building project when needed. Jose has
not been to church in at least 20 years. We invited him to church.
He said he believes. Stake President Bartlett is his home teacher.
Fast forward. Kay was asked to look at their washer and Kay
sentenced it to death. Fast forward. After visiting Betty Hall in the hospital,
We visited them. Jose said he did not
remember Bishop but he was dressed different now (suit). When we
reminded them of the work he did.... they remembered. We told them
Kay was the new bishop and they were honored we came to tell them.
We invited them to church, they declined but we felt good about the
visit. Jose took our phone number down and asked the Bishop to leave
with a word of prayer.
7/27/14 The next Sunday, I noticed Kay
pleased, looking back into the audience . I turned around to see
what was happening and didn't see anything. Sacrament meeting ended
15 min early so Brother Fankhauser said the Bishop wanted to say
something. Kay stood at the pulpit and said “just a minute” he
got off the stand, walked to the very back row of the overflow and
hugged Jose Lopez. HE CAME!!!! then Kay got back to the pulpit and said “I love
you Brother Lopez” then he talked about scout camp and the
outstanding leaders of these boys he got to know this week.
