Monday, January 3, 2011

Sweet experiences of watching visitors warm to the Gospel message

A wonderful couple with a Catholic background from Quebec, Canada walked into the VC out of curiosity, having seen the Temple while driving around the island.  The wife said, "What makes your church different from other Christian religions?"  "What a great question" I replied, and had them follow me to our Temple corner where we talked about temples, baptisms, Plan of Happiness.  She asked, "Well, do you have a prophet today?"  I said, "You ask such good questions, come with me." and took them over to our Prophets area.  She kept asking great questions and after about an hour, their entire countenance had changed.  We had all felt the Spirit witness to the truthfulness of the Gospel and they left with good feelings, lots of reading material and a promise to check out Mormon.org.

Today we were taking Christmas trees down and the VC was not looking great.  In fact, it was quite a mess.  Because all the young sisters were busy, I (Donna) took three non-members on tour.  The couple who were Catholic and from Oregon were very interested what we believe in because the wife's brother had just joined the our Church two weeks before.  She kept asking all kinds of questions and wanted to know how we were different from her church.  It was a great experience to tell them about the restored gospel.  She kept saying that she wanted to have her brother talk to her and explain doctrine to her.  She did not want missionaries yet but I will call her next week to see if they have had the conservation that she so much wanted to have with him.  I know they felt the Spirit because she made reference to feeling it twice during our conversation.  The gospel is TRUE.