Awesome contact story (a bit overdue)

Ok, so we were biking around on a Sunday evening and it's a cool 105 degrees outside and we are on our 18th mile that day and we have no idea where to go so we stop and pray and after the prayer I took the lead and we just started biking.

At every street I heard a voice telling me 'Right' or 'Left' or 'Straight.'


Until at last we got to this run-down little street and I heard 'Stop.' 


In front of us was this tiny little house and we went up and knocked on the door and this lady answered. We find out she'd just had a stroke 6 months ago and broke her foot and lost her old house and she'd just that moment gotten off the phone with her Baptist church leader who was telling her that he can't give her rides to church and she shouldn't ask people for that and she's a lost cause and should just give up.

So she opened the Bible to James 1:5 and prayed that the Lord would tell her why things are--and at that moment we rang her doorbell.

We felt as soon as we saw her that this poor woman needed a blessing so we introduced ourselves and offered her a priesthood blessing. She broke down crying and exclaimed "Yes! Yes! Oh God, yes!"

Elder Campbell gave her a blessing, after which she told us her story about how alone she is and how her mom was diagnosed with stage 4 breast cancer and her stepmom had also just had a stroke that was worse than her own.

Everything in this woman's 46 years of life has been preparing her for the message we had for her that day. We're going back this week to teach her more. The Lord has been spending years preparing people for the message we bring to them. I know that I could be in no other place than this. My mission has done more good for me than any other month and a half of my life.

I know my Savior lives. I know God loves us. I know that the Gospel of Jesus Christ is the only complete and full doctrine on the face of this Earth. Jesus Christ is the Light of this world, and through Him all things are brought to pass. I love my Savior Jesus Christ and I would go through all the fires and trials of this world to prove to all that I have a God who is the only and true God.

These things I testify in the name of Jesus Christ.

Elder Pehrson