It’s crazy to me how I seem to be pulled in certain directions to pick people up. I end up in places I normally wouldn’t be. I am taken there by circumstances beyond my control many times and I have to override my personal instincts to listen to the spirit.
This happened one day. I picked someone up and we went down to about 33rd south and 1200 W. I dropped them off and wanted to get back downtown as fast as I could. That’s where you get your big tips and your fast pace that makes you money. As I dropped that person off. I started to head north and got a call to go out to the extreme south western part of Herriman.
That’s a half hour drive! And I was going to reject it because that is a 100% money loser. Then I felt a strong impression to take it. I turned around and started heading out.
I arrived after what seemed to be a forever car ride to see standing in the dark a man and his girlfriend in her early 20’s. They were each smoking cigarettes but something just didn’t feel right about the way they looked. I pulled up, he opened the door, put her in the car and kissed her.
Right away I felt that the kiss was not a kiss of love but a kiss of jealousy almost like he was marking his territory. I said hi to her and did my standard dad jokes to break the ice and then the impression came to me that this lady was feeling trapped by her boyfriend. A vision opened up to me of her being very unhappy, abused and concerned. I imagined that everyone around her felt the same way.
I asked her about her boyfriend and how long they’d been together. She said about 16 months off and on. I said, it’s none of my business but it seems like maybe you two aren’t getting along so well. She said that this is what all of her girlfriends and family tell her. I told her that she needed to listen to them because they had her best interest at heart.
Then I received a prompting that she was a member of the church which didn’t seem likely. My hesitation could’ve been due to the fact that they were smoking and had been living together off and on. She assured me that she was not a member of the church. She asked me why I asked her and I said “I just had a feeling that you were” “as a church, family units are very important to us.” I said that entering into a family unit needs to be done with someone who respects you and loves you.
I asked her if he respected and loved her or if he treated her like a possession. She said her family and all of her friends at work tell her that he treats her like a possession and she sees that too. I told her I felt that when he kissed her at first in the car. she agreed that that was very uncomfortable but that it was part of him controlling her.
She said that he is very controlling and that if he sees her talking to anyone he gets violent.
I then had a prompting that he had been unfaithful to her and so I asked her when was the last time he had stepped out of their relationship with another woman. She said he had done it twice and that the last time was just about four months ago. That’s why they were not living together anymore although they were still a couple.
I talked to her about how her friends and family were right. I asked her how her father felt about this guy. She said he was very sad about her situation. I told her that’s because he’s a good father but there was another father who is very sad about that situation and that was her father in heaven. I told her that he was sad about the sin but he was also sad about seeing her tormented, abused and taken advantage of.
She told me that she was feeling like she should leave that relationship but that there was a financial consideration of a few hundred bucks that stood in the way of her making a clean break. I told her to leave the money and run. I told her to turn to her friends and family for protection and that money. I talked with her about whether or not she had another place to go or a place she could be safe so she could stay away from him.
Thinking a bishop could really help right here and still feeling a prompting that she was a member of the church,I asked her again, are you sure you’re not a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of latter-day Saints and she said no.
I bore my testimony about our loving father in heaven. I talked to her about how much he loves her and how much she loves him even though she can’t remember. I told her that her father in heaven had sent his son Jesus Christ to atone for her aches, pains, fears, sicknesses, tribulations and sins so that she doesn’t have to go through these things alone. I told her that through the atonement she could rise above the trap she felt that she was caught in. Christ would strengthen her soul and could give her forgiveness of her sins. She could be clean and spotless before God. She got emotional and said she would love that.
I told her that this is what her father in heaven wanted for his daughter that he loves so much. She was emotional and the spirit was powerful. You could tell that the spirit accompanying the testimony I bore of Christ had strengthened her and had touched her. I asked her what she felt right then. She said she felt happiness and hope. She said it was almost like the clouds were parting and she could see a way out now for the first time. She said she was not going back and that she would take my advice and the advice of her family.
We were coming into her cul-de-sac the spirit was still burning. I reached into my bag and grabbed a Book of Mormon and asked her if she ever seen a Book of Mormon. She said yes. I bore my testimony of its truthfulness. I testified about how this book talks about God’s love for us and his son’s sacrifice for each of us. I told her that this book was a great part of how God was going to gather his beloved children and that she was one of them. I asked her again if she felt that same feeling. She said yes. I said that feeling means that God has sent his spirit to be with us in this car and he is testifying to you that that what I am saying is true.
She said that she knew it was true
She said, “i knew that it was true once before, I was baptized three years ago into the Mormon church.” I smiled and said the spirit had been telling me that for the whole half hour we been riding in the car. She said that she was ashamed because of the sins she had committed and had fallen away but that refocusing on the Savior like we had during the ride had shown her the way out.
I asked her who her bishop was and she said she didn’t know. We went to the meetinghouse locator on the Internet and put in her coordinates and came up with the name and phone number of her bishop. She said, oh, I’ve been getting a call with his name on my caller ID. He has called me several times and I just have not answered because I didn’t know who that was.
I told her my whole story about wanting to reject her ride yet was being impressed by the spirit to come and drive her.
She said that it didn’t stop there, she said everything I had said was spot on and she was blown away and had no idea how in the world I could possibly know that. She said “now I know that God told you.” Then I said, he also told me to bear my testimony to you and let you know that he wants to love you and help you. He has sent his bishop to try to contact you and today he sent me here to help you see his hand so that you can be rescued temporally and spiritually.
She called her bishop right there and made arrangements to meet with him. Then she got out of the car with a smile on her face and a light in her eyes.

I continue to be amazed, Bruce, but not surprised. You are a force to be reckoned with.
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I continue to be amazed, Bruce, but not surprised. You are a force to be reckoned with. Your stories are such strong evidence that the Lord loves His children and will never give up on us.
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