Sometimes the manager can have it her way

I was driving late one Friday night and got a call to pick up a manager at a fast food restaurant in Salt Lake. She was locking up the joint so it took a minute for her to get out and get in the car. She was a really nice lady and we exchanged pleasantries. I asked her if she had plans, she said nope, she was just going to go home and sleep and go back to work the next day. I asked what she did for fun and she said that she really didn’t do anything fun, she just went home and slept and then went to work. I told her that I bet she was an amazing employee but that couldn’t be awesome for her. She said that she didn’t have a lot of joy in her life.

All of a sudden I became aware by the spirit that she had lost her husband and that I should ask her about it. I asked her when the last time was that she had a good time. She said it been a few years. I jumped right in. I asked her if her husband had passed. She looked shocked, resigned and sad. She said yes. Then she kind of had a transformation where she perked up and started to talk about him and their life.

I asked her if she knew anything about the church. She said that she had an aunt that was a member of the church but she also had cousins that were Buddhists and other cousins that were Catholics and members of her family that we’re just about every religion.

I told her that as members of the church we believe that life goes on and on and on for millions and millions of years even eternity and this small time we have on the earth is only a portion of a fraction. That’s why we believe in being married for eternity and not until death do us part. This way we can be together with the people we love forever. I told her that it also helps us in our grieving process to know that we will be with them again. I asked her if she had ever thought about that. She said that she had hoped that she could see him again but didn’t know if it was possible.

I said the members of our church go to the temple and are married for eternity. They are then together with their spouse and their families forever. Those family units continue into eternity. We are always in each other’s lives, lifting and supporting each other regardless of whether or not we lose a partner. I told her that if she became a member of the church she could go to the temple and be sealed to her husband and they could be together forever.

As I discussed the temple with this lady the spirit started to glow in the car and radiate. I could see that she was feeling it and asked her what she felt? She said love and warmth. I told her that it was the presence of her father in heaven and that he was part of everything that was going on here today. I told her that the fact that she could feel his spirit like that meant that he was confirming the truthfulness of the things that we were discussing. I asked her if she believed it was true. She said, “How do you deny this feeling, of course it is!”

I could feel that she had a concern and was prompted that the concern was the fact that she knew he wasn’t a member. How would that work? So I said to her, I feel like you have a question about him being sealed to you even though he’s not a member. She said “yes, how did you know that?” I said the spirit helped me understand what you were thinking. Let me teach you about this.

I said that inside the same temples where we do marriages for eternity we also have the ability to be baptized for someone who has passed on. They didn’t have the opportunity to receive it when they were alive. After accepting their baptism, as a full member of the church they can be sealed to their spouse, whether the spouse is in this world or the spirit world. Both worlds come together in the temple and we can be one.

She was very emotional and said I would like that very much. She said that she had no idea that this was possible. She had been so busy hurting since the death of her husband that she hadn’t thought about what’s next or even how to be happy. She just didn’t see a way to be happy without him.

When I had the first thought about talking about her husband who had passed I had the impression that he was in the car. I hadn’t mentioned it until this point but I said to her, “At what point of this ride did you start feeling your husband’s presence with us?” She said, “Right when you first started talking about him.” She happily asked, “so you can feel him too?” We were on the same page with the spirit.

I asked her if she thought that this would be something she would pursue for sure. She said, “Absolutely! I have been in a cave for a few years and this is the first time I’ve seen a light.” She asked me how to go about it. I said, you have an aunt that’s a member of the church, right? She said yes. I said, does she go to church all the time? She said, every Sunday. I said, go to her and tell her what we’ve experienced today and that you want to be sealed to your husband. Tell her you want to hear from the missionaries and be baptized. Tell her you want to get your husband‘s temple work done. She will take care of the rest.

She said, I will do that first thing tomorrow morning. I feel so peaceful and happy right now. She asked me how long she could stay in my car. I said that I had to go but that that spirit would stay with her for a bit and that once she’s baptized it could be with her all the time. I told her that I was thankful that God had sent me to her today and that this message he delivered was because he loved her and wanted her to be happy. She said she would do just that. She really will have it her way