Tender Mercy moment.......

We had one of those “tender mercy” moments today at the office. On Wednesday a gentleman from the deaf phone company came by to do maintenance on one of our phones that the American Sign Language missionaries uses. The Senior Elder that he needed to see wasn’t there and we suggested he come back on Thursday. I had a very difficult time communicating with him and couldn’t understand what he was trying to say so he would have to write everything down and I would write the answer back. H came back today just as the Elder had left again. Once again, the communication was very difficult and we were both becoming a little discouraged when Elder Holdstock came to see if he could be of any help. He helped a little but about that time 2 of our Elders who had just come back from going to a doctor appointment came into the office. They were looking for the Senior sister who does medical (she is only in the office about 15 minutes every 2 weeks). As they could see our frustration, one of them started signing to the visitor. I couldn’t believe my eyes. Not only was the visitor’s delay in coming in on Friday interesting, but the one Elder who spoke ASL was not even the companion of the one who went to the dr. They had switched companions so the ASL Elder could drive as neither of the original companionship could drive. The Elder who went to the Dr only spoke English. Then to have them come into the office the exact 10 minutes that the visitor was there was amazing. It is one of those moments when you see the hand of the Lord in our lives putting people in our paths as answer to our prayers – whether silent or spoken. Before he left, the elders gave him a deaf Book of Mormon and some of the pamphlets we have on the restoration of the gospel.
Then this morning I got a letter from Michael Himmel. It began “Dear angels in discise, thank u very much – I received the CD about our Savior. Jesus is Lord; He is the Mesiah-no man comes before Him-He is the truth, the light and the Life- Thank u again. Hope 2 here from u soon.” This was another response to all the DVDs that I sent out 2 weeks ago from as far back as May 1, 2008 that had not previously been sent. Another set of Elders said they were teaching another investigator I had sent a DVD to and she had set a baptism date and they are going tomorrow to meet two more – one of which they are sure will be baptized after talking on the phone to them. I am doing missionary in a very small way but it is very rewarding………