Sometimes God sends you a lift

I left to go to Salt Lake City one afternoon and I almost made it! There were lots of bonuses in Salt Lake and I was after them. I was in Lehi going over the point of the mountain when I got a seven dollar bonus. I had to go onto the frontage road to get it. The roads seemed impenetrable to me. For whatever reason there was a lot of traffic and it looked bad. I was sitting there in a traffic jam on the frontage road with my bonus on the line and I was feeling the spirit working with me and I knew there was a purpose to this. I got a call to go get a ride in Lehi pick up a guy and take him to Pleasant Grove.

I took him and dropped him off and then decided I would just go home. As I started home there was another little bonus right by my house and so I decided to go get it. Once I had the bonus I got a call to go get one person and then that call switched to another. I was to pick a lady up at Smith’s by my house. I thought, that will be easy.

I pulled in the parking lot and the traffic was terrific. I picked her up and I said this GPS wants me to go on the freeway but that’s gonna be a disaster. Is it OK if we go a different direction and she said “I’ve got all the time in the world so it doesn’t matter to me whether it’s the fastest route or not”. “I have had a bad day.” I could feel a sad day bad day vibe and the spirit whispered that she needed help from her father in heaven.

She talked about how she had a boyfriend. She had been with him for seven years. She thought he was different and she had even gone to counselors and stuff but he was violent. Today it all ended and she was not doing well.

The spirit told me what to say. I started to say that God loves her first off. He wants her to be happy but when we make choices that are not part of God‘s plan we walk away from his power to help us with our problems.

I told her that when we follow the commandments, God is with us. When we make choices to step away from the Commandments we are on our own and we have to do things by our power and our abilities. I told her that we are not capable of that, it never works out. She said you don’t know how right on you are with what you were saying

I told her that God had sent me there that day to give her this message. The messages that through Jesus Christ, his power, his love and his atonement she could move back into feeling of the spirit of God. Then she could feel his power and have him protect her and fight with her battles with her.

I talked about the atonement and how the atonement of Jesus Christ makes it so that we don’t have to feel the sting of our failures, inequities and embarrassment. We talked about how Jesus makes it all equal. I talked about him taking it on so he can sooth our pain

I told her that I felt that she was afraid to go home tomorrow because her parents had told her not to do this in the beginning and that she felt embarrassed to have failed in this relationship. She didn’t want to face the disapproval of her parents. She said that was 100% correct. How do you know that?

I could feel the spirit really strongly in the car and I asked her what she was feeling and she said calm. She said this whole day has been frantic and she had been disheveled and confused. She said, right now I feel calm and peaceful. I said that’s how you feel in the presence of the Spirit of God. She said that she felt it the second She got in the car.

I told her that God gives us the spirit so that it can reveal truth and it is here today because things that are true are being taught. She agreed.

I again told her that the atonement of Jesus Christ made it possible for her to put this behind her, move on and learn. I asked her if she was a member of a church or a religious person and she said she was a Catholic. She said that she had lived in Tennessee and had come out west to go to Idaho State University in Pocatello.

I asked her if she knew members of the church or had some members that were friends and she said yes! The girls she went to college with were some of the most beautiful, wonderful women she’s ever met in her life. Beautiful on the inside and the outside. She said that many times she wanted to look into the church and find out what they had because she recognized that they had something and she didn’t know what it was.

I said this is one more reason why God sent me tonight to help you in your time of need and help you have an opportunity to do just that. I pulled out a Book of Mormon and asked her if she had ever seen a Book of Mormon. She said she had but she didn’t know what it said. I described it as being revelatory writings from ancient prophets in America. I told her that those prophets wrote the revelations from God. I told her about Joseph Smith and how he saw God the father and Jesus Christ and was called to restore the church of Jesus Christ after it had been taken from the earth. I used the mirror analogy with her to explain to her that the other churches were not bad, that they just didn’t have the full mirror or the full truth. I told her that Joseph Smith also translated the Book of Mormon so we have this ancient text today.

I told her that one of the things the Book of Mormon does is it teaches that Jesus loves everyone not just the people in Jerusalem and that he came to America. I explained that when he came to America he taught the Nephites . I also told her that when he came the first thing he did was teach these people who had previously been baptized how they should properly be baptized and by what authority.

I told her that what it was not a repudiation of the baptism that they’d done before but a new level of discipleship with covenants. I told her that it’s like in a video game when you go to a new level. She understood that.

I said in our church people get baptized even if they’ve been baptized before in other religions. In our church they are baptized by the same authority and in the same way Jesus Christ taught, then they get the gift of the Holy Ghost. I explained to her about the Holy Ghost and how it teaches us and guides us and helps us feel the presence of our father in heaven.

I talked again about what we were feeling right then in the car and we identified it. I discussed with her that her father in heaven and she had a relationship and this is what that relationship felt like. Her spirit was excited right now because it was feeling the presence of her father in heaven. She was really happy.

I talked to her more about the Book of Mormon and how when the prophets were teaching God would use the gift of the Holy Ghost and the gift of revelation to open the hearts of those they taught. I told her that I believed we had experienced a revelatory experience like that in the car that night and she said she knew 100% that was the case.

I told her that I would help her find a bishop in her town in Tennessee. I looked it up for her and I texted her the information. She is excited to have the sister missionaries come over.

One Saturday night I was driving in Salt Lake. A lot of times Saturday nights are wasted, driving drunk people just gets you nowhere. You don’t even get good tips because they are too drunk to remember but it is kind of needed to make sure everyone gets home and no one gets killed on the roads. I think that’s what Jesus would do.

I got a husband and wife in my car from a restaurant downtown. They’d just finished having a good dinner. They told me that they had recently begun traveling to Salt Lake and that they were going to be traveling here together very often going forward.

We started driving north of the Temple towards their Airbnb. As we drove north on West Temple we passed the Family History library and I heard the wife whisper to her husband. That’s the genealogy building you told me about. They have so much more accurate information there than anyone else.

He said, I wonder why they keep such accurate genealogy records. I’d like to find that out someday. Well that was more of an invitation that I could possibly stand.

I jumped right in the conversation and said, I can tell you why we keep such accurate geneological records if you’re interested. He said absolutely and she said that she would like to hear it as well. They said it with excitement in their voice and it was a really neat feeling.

By this time we had turned right onto North Temple and were driving by the temple that is under construction. He said to me, how long will it be before this temple is being used again ? I said I think it’ll be about a year. I asked, do you know what we do in temples? He said no.

I told him it’s totally related to their other question about why we keep search good genealogical records. I told them that we believe that God is a God of all of the people who have ever lived everywhere in the world.

I told him that we believe that God is a perfect God and an all knowing God and that he is a father who loves every one of his children not just the ones who had the fortunate circumstance to be born and raised in areas where the gospel was available to them.

I talked to them about the book of Peter in the New Testament where Jesus went to the spirit world after he was crucified and set up the teaching and preaching of the gospel to those who died without the opportunity to hear it. He said that he had heard about that scripture but hadn’t understood it, he thanked me.

These spirits are taught the gospel and have the opportunity to accept it. I told them that I believe that many of these people who have passed on work hard to make sure that we find them.

I told him that every person that had ever died was being taught the gospel. We also know that because of the fact that Jesus taught that every person needs to be baptized to be able to live with God, a perfect father would make a way for this to happen.

I told them, “that’s how all of this comes together.” We do our genealogy and genealogy from people all over the world. We take our family names and the names of the people we find and go to the temples. In the temple we stand in the baptismal font and are baptized for and in behalf of the person whose name we represent.

I told them at that time those who we represent who have passed on have the opportunity to accept or reject that teaching they have received and then they have the opportunity to accept or reject that baptism. They then will have the opportunity to have the fullness gospel of Jesus Christ and return and live with their father in heaven.

I said that we Believe and I believe that when God restored his church on the earth is intent was to provide a way to save all of his children and no matter where they lived or no matter when they lived. I felt the power of the spirit accompany those words and I could tell they fell it too.

They were stunned, they said that was beautiful. There was a spirit of joy and an energy in the car that was palpable and they could feel it. I asked do you feel that and they said yes. I asked them, what do you think about the things I had said and they said, it’s great!

I said, normally if someone you never met said something like that to you wouldn’t you think it was weird? They said yes. I said why don’t you feel like it’s weird right now? They said that this feeling they felt was so profound that there’s no way this could not be God’s work.

They asked me if they would let them in the building to do genealogy and I said absolutely. I told them about when I was 12 and my mom and dad dropped us off at the genealogy library to do our four generations. We spent all day!

I told them that there are people in there who’s job it is to help you do your genealogy. I told them that they would love to have you come by. They told me that with their job, they would be coming to Salt Lake almost every month and planned on stopping by the Family History library the very next time they’re in town. (Which will be in two weeks.)

They said that they were touched by the things I taught them and they told me it just made a lot of sense. The spirit of Elijah was working in these people’s hearts and it was a beautiful thing to see.

So the reasons why they are doing it are very clear to them…..now.

As an aside. During the conversation I used the word genealogy because they did. I know that we now call it Family history but you go to where they are to teach them. This includes the use of familiar vocabulary like the word genealogy.

One night it was late and I thought about going home. It was a holiday week and I knew I was going to miss one day of work that week. I knew that I had to make extra money because of the day I was going to miss. It was 2:30 in the morning and I was going to come home but there were bonuses around and I thought that they were given to me as blessings so I couldn’t leave them.

I got a five dollar bonus and waited for a guy for 10 minutes and he didn’t show up. That five dollar bonus held me there long enough that it had become an $8.50 bonus in that area which is very cool. I thought, I’ll get this one ride and then I’ll go home. I drove around for about 20 minutes with no rides, dejected I thought, it’s time to go home. It was 3:20 and about time to be done because I was feeling it.

I started driving home after stopping to use the restroom at Mavrick. For those of you don’t know, Mavrick has the very best restrooms of all of the convenience stores. They block them off sometimes at night so that drug users don’t go in and do drugs in them but they let police officers and rideshare drivers use them even though they say closed.

I decided to leave my phone on so that I didn’t lose the bonus even though I was going to the restroom and getting a drink. I was coming out of the Maverik on fifth S. and fifth E. when I’d finally got impatient and had decided to turn off my phone. I didn’t think anyone needed a ride and I wasn’t about to wait another half hour.

I started onto the on-ramp and I felt the intense prompting not to turn it off so I didn’t and within a minute I had a ride. I had to go clear over to Redwood Road to pick up a guy to take him 20 minutes south.

I thought, this is great! It’s going the right direction! I picked up the guy right by the movie theaters on Redwood Road and we drove straight down Redwood Road for 20 minutes. That’s a lot of time! He seemed a bit dirty but I got over that really quick. I was having a prompting that he was the reason why I stayed out late, he was the reason why I have been given the bonus that made me hang on 40 minutes after the rides stopped.

We started talking and I asked him about his family. He said he had a wife and two twin boys that were five. She was the one who had ordered the ride. As we started to drive, I felt that I needed to talk to him but I needed to bring it up in a way that wouldn’t offend him so he wouldn’t get me in trouble.

He was a native Spanish speaker but spoke very good English and normally I speak English with those people because I remember how frustrating it was on my mission for people to speak English to me when I was trying to speak Spanish. To me it said that they didn’t think I spoke well and it was a bit offensive. I didn’t want to offend him.

I asked him if he spoke Spanish and he said yes that it was his native language. I asked him if he would critique my Spanish. He said yes and we started talking in Spanish. He said, wow, you speak really well. He told me I didn’t even have a gringo accent. He asked me how I learned it so well.

I told him I learned it one night when I left the TV on the Spanish channel while I slept. We laughed and then I told him that I learned it on my mission in Argentina. He said that he heard the Argentine accent and figured it must be something like that. He said he had lots of friends that he knew that were missionaries.

He went on to tell me the story about how he was Christian but had investigated the church some years back. He told me that he went to church every week for a couple of years but then he found out that he wasn’t welcome anymore. Welcome anymore?! I said who the heck told you that you’re not welcome?

He told me that two women who had been missionaries at one time came up to him and told him that he needed to be baptized or that he should quit coming to church. They told him the church was only for people who were baptized. He told me that he had already been baptized and that he didn’t need feel the need to be baptized and that if he wasn’t welcome at church he didn’t want to be there so he quit going.

I told him that was hogwash. I showed him a picture of a man that I baptized named Ruben Bienchetti. Ruben attended church every week for 12 years, he held service positions in his ward and even spoke in church one time yet had not been baptized. I told him that most of the members of the ward weren’t nearly as faithful as Ruben and he did it when he was ready. He did it when he finally felt the spirit had testified to his heart.

I told him that the church is a hospital for sinners and not a museum for perfect saints and that everyone should be there coming closer to Jesus Christ regardless of if they’ve been baptized yet or not. He had been going to church with his friends and I asked him what they thought about what these women said. He said they didn’t hear it and he didn’t want to bring it up because he didn’t want to cause trouble. I told him that I specialize in causing trouble!

I asked him what it was that he thought was the main difference between the Christian church that he attended and the Mormon church. He said that it was the Book of Mormon. He said the Book of Mormon was unverified because no one had the writings and that’s why he decided he would stay with the Christian church.

I knew right away this wasn’t the truth. I knew he hadn’t prayed about it. I also knew that he felt that it was true but that the circumstance had pushed him in this direction. I asked him if I could talk to him a little bit about the Book of Mormon and its validity. He said yes.

I started with Ezekiel and the sticks. How there was a stick of Judah and the stick of Joseph and how later they would be brought together in his hand to be one testimony of Jesus. I asked him what the stick of Judah referred to and he said the Bible. I asked him what the stick of Joseph referred to and he thought for a long while and said I don’t know. I told him that it was the Book of Mormon. He said, that makes sense. I told him about Jesus coming to America and about the findings in archaeology in Central America that point to Christ coming. He had heard a little bit about those but hadn’t put it in this context. He said, that’s interesting. I said, that’s true.

I told him that the Book of Mormon was proof that God loved everyone in the world not just the people in Jerusalem. I told him that this is why he came to America, to this man’s ancestors to teach the gospel. He told me that the religion of his ancestors was a bloodthirsty sacrificial religion. I told him that the religion of his ancestors was Jesus Christ. I pointed to some archaeology in central America that makes that point and he said, wow.

I prayed for guidance to know what I should say next and the spirit told me to bear my testimony. I bore my testimony of Joseph Smith, the Book of Mormon and the reality that Christ visited America and that he showed us the way to return to him. I told him that these things could be known by him through the Book of Mormon.

The spirit was in the car at this point and I could feel it and I could tell he was feeling it. His heart was being softened and his mind was being opened. I asked him, what was your real objection? What was the thing that made you investigate for so long without being baptized? He told me that he had been baptized as an adult in the water by someone who he believed had authority to do so and that the only thing the missionaries and the members wanted to do was tell him that his baptism didn’t count, that it was wrong and evil.

I thought for a second about this man. He was going to church and being fed by the spirit. He wanted to be in church and throughout his life he had done the things he felt were right to bring him closer to Christ including being baptized. Now he went to church and was told that what he had done was evil and wrong. I said that exact thing to him and he said that’s exactly how I feel.

I told him that when Christ came to America the first thing he did was gave the people authority to baptize and instructed them all to be baptized. I told him that the cool thing is that every single one of them had previously been baptized. I asked him that if they had all been previously baptized why did Christ make them be baptized again. He said he didn’t know. I told him it’s because when Christ came he brought a new level of discipleship, a new level of blessings and to receive that new level you had to have this new baptism and it had to be done the way he instructed by the authority he gave.

I told him we have that authority and we have that baptism and that we don’t explain that very well. I told him that Christ loved him for his decision to be baptized. It made him happy that he had done that to demonstrate his fidelity and love but that now he was being offered new blessings and a new level and he wanted him to step up to that level. I told him it’s like there’s this big box of blessings that you can have once you get to that level.

He said, that makes more sense. Regardless of what people had actually said what he heard was a condemnation and repudiation of what he had done in the past to come to Christ. It offended him and he had felt like at the time he had done the best he could and that it wasn’t evil.

I asked him if he wanted that box of blessings for he and his family. He said yes! I want that! I asked him if he was still friends with the people that went to church. He said yes and even some of the missionaries have come back from their missions and he was still friends with them. I told him to reach out to them and they will help him find that box and those blessings if he’s willing to take that step up to that new level. He said he would talk to them when he got up that very day.

We were sitting outside his apartment by this time. He had to go in and I had to go home. The spirit was burning and we were both feeling it. He told me, you know, there’s a reason why it was you that gave me a ride tonight! This is what I needed to hear.

I told him I hear that all the time. He said well, it’s true. He walked into his house but one thing I know is that it was totally worth waiting 40 minutes at 3 o’clock in the morning to have that experience.

I picked up a guy that worked in a mall in the south central part of the valley. I was taking him first to his apartment and then to another place, I didn’t know where. I talked about where he worked and he said he really liked it. He worked in the clothing store and there were lots of girls there and so he thought that was a really good thing.

A couple of impressions that I had about this young man right off the top were that he was a member of the church but he had struggled considerably. I felt like he wasn’t an active member of the church and I was pretty sure that he would say he didn’t affiliate with any religion.

We talked about how good it is to work and how a lot of people don’t appreciate that until they lose it and they realize that they needed it. He told me he needed it more than most because he had some substance-abuse issues that he was dealing with.

When he said that I asked him if it would be OK if I talked about my religiously based belief on substance abuse and how it works. He said, “yes I’d love to hear that”. I asked him if he had a religion and he said no, he was more spiritual. I went over my belief that our soul is born with a space in it intended to be filled by the Spirit of God. The spirit of God is intended to be the very center of our souls in the very center of our lives.

When we come to earth some people lose that or don’t have contact with the spirit of God. Satan tries to fill that space with substances that counterfeit the feeling of the presence of God. I told him of how some missionaries I had interviewed had told me as we identified the spirit and I asked them what that felt like they told me that it felt like they were high.

I told him that this is what clued me in to the whole dynamic of Satan counterfeiting the spirit and presence of God with substances. I also told him that Satan drives you to those substances to cover for the pain and suffering from abuse and injustice in your life rather than rely on the atonement and Jesus Christ which is what God would have us do to heal, it not try to just temporarily cover it up.

The spirit testified powerfully to both of us about the power of the atonement and I could feel emotions welling up in this young man who had to this point not shown much emotion.

I the spirit prompted me to tell him that in his life when he was still quite young he had been horribly betrayed, abused. He was treated horribly by people he trusted and that God didn’t condone it, in fact he was angry about it. I asked him what he would feel like if someone was abusing one of his children, he said, angry. I said that’s how God felt and it hurts him but he sent his son who, in the garden of Gethsemane suffered all the pain, the humiliation, torment and the injustice you felt so that if you look to him you won’t have to suffer it. It can heal your heart and soul and make it so that you can look forward with trust in God and not back.

I told him that Satan‘s big trick was to get people to not look to Christ and to take his cheap little imitations that waste away like fluff in the wind. I told him the analogy of eating potato chips when he’s gone a couple days without eating. I asked him how good that would be for his body. He said it would be horrible and I said that’s right.

I told him that when we use the atonement of Christ it’s like we rub that medicine on the injustice, pain and the suffering. It alleviates and lifts our pains and burdens so that we can move forward with a greater relationship to Christ who we depend on instead of drugs in substances. He said I believe in God

He said I didn’t used to believe in God but I have a story to tell you. He told me that his older brothers had passed away, one of suicide and the other of a drug overdose many years ago. He told me that he had been addicted and in recovery and he relapsed and when he relapsed he OD’d. When he was unconscious being, worked on he was walking down the hallway that was white and he saw his brothers and felt amazing with them, better than it ever had been on earth. He said there was another presence there that he was so good. He was given the choice to stay or go and he chose to come back and do things better and live his life.

He said, he woke up with a smile on his face, ear to ear with the most amazing feeling of love and joy.

I asked him to feel right now and tell me how he felt in the car. He said I feel love, I said it’s pretty strong but is it similar to what you felt in your dream? He said yes, it’s exactly like I felt. I told him that this was the spirit of God and this is what was supposed to fill his soul.

I asked him if while feeling this he would ever take drugs and he said no. It would be no need. I told him that when people have the spirit with them, they can combat the physical addiction of drugs because the spiritual need is filled and they only have to fight the battle on one front. He says that makes sense. I told him it was an amazing experience that he’d had.

I told him that it was clear that heavenly father loved him regardless of his imperfections and that I believe that heavenly father put him in my car that night to get this message, that our father loves him and that he wants him to pray. I asked him when was the last time he prayed and he said he couldn’t remember, it had been so long.

I told him he needed to pray, he needed to talk to his father in heaven and feel that love so that he could be lifted.

I asked him how long it had been since he had been to church and he said is it been a long time. I asked what religion do you belong to and he said really not any. I said I believe you’ve been baptized a member of the church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and that you’re a member of the church are you not? He whispered, yes.

I told him that I felt by the spirit that he thought about going to church recently and he said yeah, he had a friend that was also in treatment. His friend had wanted to go to church and he thought about going with him. I asked him to commit to going to church and he said he would this Sunday with that friend.

I asked him if he had a Book of Mormon and he said yes. I asked him “how long has it been since he read from that book”. He said that he didn’t think he had ever read in it. I promised him that if he would read the Book of Mormon, say his prayers and go to church, in the name of Jesus Christ that he would feel the power of God come into his life.

I told him that I believed I was supposed to give him this roadmap so that God could help him. I had the impression to tell him that earlier right before I picked him up he had been jonesing for a hit (craving and looking for drugs), and he was wavering. God sent me to lift him with his spirit of his so that he wouldn’t make that mistake.

The spirit was extremely strong in the car and I asked him if he could feel that. There was stone silence in the back for a while then he said yes! I asked him if it surprised him that I knew these things and he said yes, very much so. There’s no way you could know that, no one knows. I said God knows that he wanted to reach out to you tonight. I told him that he needed to get strong, he needed to get the power of God so that he could fight this. I told him that we can’t let Satan win. He said he would and then he said, no, I promise I will. He reiterated his promise to me that he would read the Book of Mormon, go to church and pray.

I told him that when he thought about going to church he would feel like people would judge him and because of that he had wanted to stay away. I felt by the spirit that he had already had this experience and told him, “you’ve already had these thoughts”

I told him that they came from Satan and that he is a liar because everyone judges. Everyone judges everyone. Some people sin by smoking and other sin by judging and we need to be just as tolerant and loving of those whose sin is judging as we are the other sinners. I also mentioned to him that people don’t have time to sit around and think about him very often so if he thinks people are judging him all the time that’s probably not the case. He laughed. I told him Satan is a liar and those terrible things he whispers in your ear are not true. No one is harshly judging you and if they are they need your help not your hate. I told him to walk up to them and love them and in the face of that they would change.

I bore my testimony to him with all the power I could muster, that Joseph Smith was a prophet and that the Book of Mormon is true, and that if he would read it and pray, that he would be filled with the spirit just like he felt in the car. He said this has been amazing I love feeling like this. That’s what I’ll do and I believe him. There was a firm resolution in his words.

I can’t imagine how hard it would be to work through this addiction thing without the atonement and without the spirit of God. I might be the only one but during this ride, it dawned on me most profoundly that drugs are not only the devils counterfeit for the spiritual experience but they are also his counterfeit and crutch to make us look away from the atonement and look away from Christ and trust in his evil substitutes.

Sometimes Fridays and Saturday nights can be difficult . It feels like all you do is shuttle drunk people but part of the reason you do it is because you shuttle drunk people. If they’re in your car they’re not killing other people or themselves.

I have a lot of people say you’re Mormon aren’t you, what do you think about being out here with all these drunk people? I tell them that I believe that if Jesus was here he’d be making sure that they got home without hurting anybody. It’s the right thing to do. Then I ask them who would you rather have drive than a good member of the church who’s never had a drink? Then we have a good laugh.

Amongst the drunks and partiers occasionally I find people that have been roofied. I did a story earlier about a man that had been roofied and robbed. It’s happened five times this year that I have given rides to people that have been roofied. Each story is sad and horrific in its own way.

It usually starts with someone making a choice to be in a place where they shouldn’t be, doing something that they shouldn’t do, although they never plan on doing drinking to the point where they lose control. Inevitably somebody slips the drug in their drink and the next thing they know it’s five hours later and they’ve lost control.

At this point they panic and that’s when I get there. This happened to me on a recent Saturday night. I was clear out in Herriman on a consecutive streak which made it so that I couldn’t drop the ride I was presented. This is where they take advantage of you and make you drive 30 minutes to pick someone up that normally they would never ask of you because they know you would reject the ride. The bonus was only nine dollars and I considered seriously rejecting the ride anyway but the spirit impressed on me the importance of this ride and I decided I needed to obey the prompting.

So I took the ride and started driving clear from Herriman over to Cottonwood Heights. I exited I-215 in Cottonwood Heights and drove deep into the neighborhood, parked and waited to pick up my ride.

I tried to call and this lady wouldn’t answer the phone, in fact it went right to voicemail. I sent her a text because I wanted her to know I was there and after just a very few minutes we can leave. Believe me I will leave! Something told me that I was not going to leave and that I was going to stay. It was the spirit.

I waited for another few minutes and then very quietly a woman slipped out of the door of the house and ran down the driveway and got in the car and said, “let’s go quick.” I started to drive and ask her what’s wrong? Do we need to call the police?

I felt that there was something off, that she was losing her mind and that something terrible had happened. She said no. I just need to get home. The spirit prompted me to ask her, do you think it would be OK if we say a prayer? She paused at that and said, “I would love that. Would you pray for us?” I said yes! She said I need to feel like I’m going to be OK. She said I feel comfortable in your car but I need to feel like I’m going to be OK.

Now as I describe this woman she was an attractive woman in her early 30s and she was drunk or had been drinking you could tell that she was losing her mind. We stopped and I prayed and I felt the spirit of God in the car and I felt the love of God for this woman rush in the car. This woman that I just picked up from a party at 1 AM at a guys house.

I asked her what she was doing there at that party and she started to cry. She said they drugged me, I think they drugged me. I asked, did they sexually assault you. I told her that if they had I was calling the cops right then. She said no she fought them off. She said that as soon as she felt that she lost control from the drug she called me to come. She said I got there just in time.

About this point I was really happy that I had listen to the spirit and hadn’t canceled the ride. It likely would have been at least an hour before someone else could have picked her up. I asked her if she was feeling better and she said I feel safe and comfortable now in your car. I don’t drink normally. I shouldn’t have drunk tonight. I asked her if she realized that this was an answer to her prayer and that her heavenly father was listening to her and making miracles happen on her behalf even though she had rejected him. She said, yes.

I said what does this mean that you need to do? And she said it means I need to reevaluate. I need to get back to where I was happy.

I told her that I agreed with that. She said did you know that I used to be a sister missionary. I said no. Where did you serve? She said I served at Temple Square years ago. I asked her how that was and she said it was marvelous. I asked her how she got here tonight from there.

She said she had a lot of things happening in her life, a lot of problems and she had left the church and she decided for the last two years that she was an atheist. I told her that this new life brought with it a lot of dangers that she was well aware of. I felt impressed to say that this was really hard for her heavenly father to watch because he loved her.

I felt that she had been raped recently on a previous occasion and that this was part of the reason her reaction was so strong here. I asked her if she had been raped before like this and she said yes! She said I can’t let that happen again. She said that She was just glad God sent someone here to protect her from that tonight and she thanked me.

She said that she hadn’t prayed for two years until tonight when she prayed that God would send her a priesthood holder to drive her out of her peril. She said that if I hadn’t shown up they would’ve raped her for sure.

It’s one thing to be roofied in the club where there are bouncers and waiters and waitresses and other friends to keep an eye on you but when you are in a persons house and they drug you, it’s a very dangerous and sketchy territory. When the chips were down this woman had reached out deep into her soul for the one thing she knew, even though she had rejected it and that was that her father in heaven loved her.

As we started driving we started talking about how she was divorced and had two children, a nine-year-old autistic boy and a four year old girl and they had been taken by their father for the weekend so she decided to go out and party. She went to the house with some people she had just met online and was having some drinks and she just started going crazy.

She said that she knew she shouldn’t have done that all along but that she had learned to quiet the voice and quit listening to it all together. I told her that God had sent me there tonight. I told her that I was going to cancel the ride and it would’ve been nearly impossible to get someone to drive out there at that time of night. She said she waited a long time and she knew that was true. I told her that God was looking out for her and this should be to her a sign that God still loves her.

She said even after I left the church? Even after I drink? Even after everything? I said yes, God loves you and if you’ll turn to him as your father he will show love back and that’s why he sent me tonight, not to rescue necessarily a perfect person but to save his daughter. She started to cry. She said I feel his love in your car but I also feel the affect of these drugs. I don’t know what to do about these drugs. They’re in my system.

She said tell me some stories. We were headed to American Fork which was where she lived and I knew there would be plenty of time for stories and I knew telling stories in the car would bring Spirit of God so I decided that wasn’t such a bad idea. I started sharing conversion stories of some people that I know where the will of God and the power of his hand had been evident.

We turned from I-215 to l-15 and got just a little ways up the road when I started feeling like we needed to get to a hospital. I turned to her and said do you need to go to a hospital instead? She said that’s what I need to do, I need to go to the hospital. These drugs are making me feel like my heart’s going to be beat out of my chest and like I’m going to die. I need to go to the hospital. I exited on 90th south and went up to Alta View Hospital on 94th south in Sandy. I got her out of the car and she clung to me like she was clinging on for dear life and we walked into the emergency room.

At this time I realized that she hadn’t even brought her shoes. She’d escaped from that home with such haste that she didn’t even bring her shoes. We walked into the emergency room and she just started crying to the nurses saying “I’ve been drugged” “I’ve been drugged” “please help me I’ve been drugged.”

They took her and went back and admitted her.

As I drove away I thought about a couple things

One. God doesn’t put limits on his love for us, we put limits on God‘s love for us. He is willing to step up anytime we reach out because he’s a father and that’s what fathers do.

Two. We may think the things we’ve done make our heavenly father so mad that he will not answer our prayers but that is not the case. God is waiting with open arms to bless us if we reach out. Even if we’ve done things and said things that we know are wrong. A father always will save his child if he can.

Three. The prodigal son is not just a story in the Bible. It’s an indication of the depth of love and forgiveness that our heavenly father has in store for each one of us if we will turn to him. Even if we turn to him in our hour of need, unworthy as we may be, he will send rescuers to lift us and be his hands.

I didn’t hear anything back from her that night. I really didn’t expect to but I kind of had a feeling I would hear something at some point. The next day I was cleaning my car. I do that every day. I clean the seats and the floors. I had taken about six groups of passengers after I had dropped her off at the hospital and so the car was pretty dirty.

When I went back there and started cleaning I found in the crevice of the seat a car key. It was one of the car keys with the fab and everything that’s really expensive. I knew immediately that it was her car key and I don’t know why I knew that. I knew that it was the spirit telling me that but I didn’t know how it could be hers because I’d had so many people in that seat after I dropped her off.

I looked in the app on how to contact somebody for a lost item and tried to get a hold of her. I couldn’t. The thought crossed my mind, try the other people that were in your car and then I had the spirit tell me no it’s hers keep trying. Finally that night I got a hold of her and it was her key. She had forgotten everything but feeling the spirit of God in our car and the love of God that she felt.

I laid out for her the miracle that had happened to her the night before and the Lord’s hand being revealed in her behalf. I talked to her about how everything went and she started remembering and crying. I told her that if she’d ever seen a great big huge sign that said God loves you and he wants you back this was it. She said I know I will.

I know this is true

I met this young lady on a snow day. It was the day after the biggest snowstorm we’ve had in Utah in a long time and I was out driving and making good money. I got a ride to go to the airport and I put my setting on end request because I wanted to go back downtown where they had bonuses available.

I hadn’t gone two blocks before the spirit told me to take that off and go normal. I followed the prompting and immediately received a ride request. I assumed that the ride request would be somebody at the airport going somewhere because that’s always how it works.

I was shocked to see that after I dropped off the other passengers at the airport, the ride I received was in Glendale south of the airport about 15 minutes. That was a little disturbing because I didn’t want to go to Glendale and that’s why I put the “end request” on in the first place.

I can’t really just reject rides once they’ve come and been accepted so I decided to go. I went and picked her up then started driving home to her home. She was speaking English to me but with a heavy Spanish accent.

I started speaking in Spanish to her and then she laughed and said wow we could’ve been speaking in Spanish all along. Then I said to her why don’t we speak English so that you can learn English. She asked me how I learned Spanish and I told her that I learned it on my mission. She said that she knew several people that had learn Spanish on their missions.

I then asked her, you’re not a member of the church are you and she said no. The spirit of the Lord already told me this and I knew that she was really close and that this could be a pivotal ride. I felt like I was supposed to pry a little and ask her what the real reason was that she hadn’t decided to listen to the missionaries.

I asked her if she would tell me what it was that was prohibiting her from being baptized. She looked at me with big eyes, aid that her brother was with the missionaries all the time and that he was 100% into the church but that she didn’t want to do it. I asked her why and she hem hawed about it and wouldn’t tell me the real reason.

The spirit told me the reason.

I said God puts people in my car to receive messages, that’s what I believe and I believe that today I’m supposed to help you with this. I told her the spirit was telling me that the reason why she didn’t get baptized was because she felt like it was rejecting what she had done in the past and calling it evil. I told her that she didn’t think it was evil and that she did it to show her love Christ. Therefore she could not see it as wrong or bad. It was an issue of pride a little bit too. She didn’t want her little brother to be right.

She said that’s exactly it. How did you know? I said the spirit of God whispered in my heart and I’m telling it to you the way he’s telling it to me. I told her that when Jesus came to America all the people had previously been baptized. They had done it to show their love of God and their devotion to him.

I then told her that the first thing Jesus did when he was with them was give them authority to baptize, demonstrate to them how they should be baptized, and then commanded that everyone of them should be baptized even though they had been baptized before.

I asked her why she thought Jesus would do that. She told me she didn’t know and that she was interested. I told her that he didn’t make them renounce their previous baptism or look at it as evil, he just offered them a new level, new covenant, a more perfect path. Jesus loved them and appreciated them for their devotion in the past but now he wanted to give them more and expected more of them. That was the covenant when they were being baptized.

This made total sense to her she said that’s beautiful! She said that’s really one of the most beautiful things I’ve ever heard. She said that this has been my hang up hang up. Of course I want that higher level with Jesus Christ.

The spirit was really strong in the car and I identified it. I asked, what are you feeling?She said, I have to tell you when I first got in your car I was frozen. I was frustrated. I didn’t want to have to take a car service but as you’ve spoken everything has changed. I feel peace in my soul and I’m very happy. That’s what I feel right now and I love it.

I told her that was the spirit of God testifying that the things I was saying were true. I told her that I was teaching from the book of Mormon and that book is true. She said I know it is. I told her that it is the collection of revelations received by the Prophets who lived in America and that they worshipped God the father, Jesus Christ and the Holy Ghost.

I told her that that feeling was the same feeling she had with God for thousands of years and that sometimes it could be emotional but this is how she felt in his presence. She said I love this.

She asked me to tell her about Joseph Smith and the church. I shared the Joseph Smith story about how he had been looking for the truth and hadn’t been able to find it in any of the churches. I used the example of the mirror that fell and people gathered the parts that they loved and tried to reform churches without all of the pieces. Joseph Smith was called to restore the whole mirror, the whole church with all of the pieces. She says that makes sense.

I said we have all of the teachings in the complete church of Jesus Christ. I told her than an evidence of that is baptisms for the dead. God being a perfect loving father who loves all of his children would need to have a plan to save or at least present an opportunity to save every one of his children. She agreed. She had heard about baptism for the dead because her brother had done them but this context provided a new way of looking at it for her and she loved it. She said the spirit is testifying that this true too. I said yes, it is. I’m glad you can feel that.

I told her I wanted to bare my testimony to her and I did. The power of the spirit accompanied each word and I could feel her receiving that testimony.

I asked her if she would promise me that she would go to church with her brother on Sunday and she said she would. I asked her if the missionaries were going to be coming to the house and she said, yes they’re coming tomorrow. I told her that when the missionaries were at her home to go up to them and tell them about our car ride in detail and ask them if you could set a baptismal date. She said she would do that.

I asked her what she learned on our ride and she said she learned that God loves her that the book of Mormon is true. That the church is true and that she needs to be baptized because she wants that next level of discipleship.

Now that she didn’t have to reject the love that she had for Christ or feel like she was turning her back on that love it made all the difference to her.

I told her that if she started going to church she should be able to be baptized pretty quickly and she said that this was exciting. She said, now I know that I have to be baptized.

I would love see the reaction of those missionaries that go into her house and sit down to teach her brother after already having been rejected by the sister and hear the words, I know the Book of Mormon is true, I know the church is true and I want to be baptized. When can we schedule a time for that baptism! That should make for an excellent P day letter home for those missionaries.

I’d been out in West Jordan and West Valley City working much of the night on a Saturday night finishing off a Streak Bonus. I was excited to get back into town. Saturday night there are big bonuses in town and I was going to get some of them.

I got into town and I got a ride that took me to a Chili’s restaurant where I picked up the manager and started driving him clear back out to the far part of West Jordan. I was really disheartened because I wanted to make money and here I went on another long trip for $10.

He got in the car and we started talking. I felt the spirit tell me to get in the game. I perked up and listened to him. He talked about how he had gone to culinary school and that he was a chef and also he was a manager of the restaurant.

He talked about how he loves cooking and loves doing stuff in the restaurant industry.

The spirit told me that I needed to talk to this man and that I needed to get my mind right. I quit thinking about work and started praying about what to say.

He was a young man, 23 years old. I asked him if he lived with family and he said he had nine brothers and sisters. Four brothers and five sisters with him right in the middle. Once he started talking about his family the whole thing that I needed to say kind of laid out in front of me.

First I said the words that the Lord put into my heart. I told him that even though he had been very successful to have accomplished what he has at this point, he had been doubted not taken seriously by people professionally. Even though he never told anyone this it really bothered him.

He went to work with a chip on his shoulder and then he worked harder than everyone else around him and people didn’t recognize it. I told him that he felt like he had to prove everything and this was driving him to the excellence that he wanted to show.. I told him that the way he protected his feelings was also the way he protected his family. I said he was the brother who watched out for his little sister, who made sure no one messed with her and that he had everyone’s back and they all knew it. I also told him that even though he believed in God that he hadn’t prayed to God for a long time and that he needed to start looking to God. He was silent.

I asked him what he felt about what I was saying. He said that he was shocked and that I was right on. He really didn’t know how I could’ve known these things because he didn’t share them with other people. I told him that his father in heaven loved him and wanted to help him so he didn’t have to do these things alone. in With his father in heaven’s help he could do so much more than he could ever do on his own. I told him that he couldn’t do the important things without his father in heaven.

Again I asked him how he felt and he said that was he still in shock. He asked me again how I knew this. I told him that I was a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of latter-day Saints and when we are baptized we get the gift of the Holy Ghost It makes it so that we can have the spirit God with us. I told him the one thing that the Holy Ghost ghost does is it brings gifts of the spirit that help us bless people and one of those gifts is the gift of prophecy and revelation.

I told him that this is what the Lord had revealed to me about what was in his heart was in his soul. It gave me an insight into his relationship with God. I told him that God did this so that he could know that it was by God’s power that I was speaking. I asked him if he could feel the pretense he said again “I am still in shock”

I told him about how God loves everyone and how the Book of Mormon proves that. I asked him how could a God who is perfect and is all powerful would not bless and visit all his children. I asked him that if he were all powerful and was separated from his brothers and sisters would he just pick one or two to go visit or would you go visit all of them. He said of course I would visit all them. I love them.

I told him God loves us more and he is all powerful and he had prophets in America. These prophets wrote their prophecies.

I told him we have prophets in these days. I told him that Joseph Smith was a prophet and that he spoke with God the father and Jesus Christ and they called him to restore the church and translate the Book of Mormon which is the prophecies that were written by the prophets in America. I told him Jesus Christ visited America because he was commanded by his father to go visit the other sheep and let them hear his voice and be counted among his fold.

He was touched. He said, my brother is a member of your church. I asked when his brother got baptized. He said, right after he met his wife. I told him that this Book of Mormon teaches of Christ and brings us closer to Christ and this is why his brother had embraced it.

This family is Brazilian, I don’t know what difference that makes, if any, but I thought I’d throw out that a former Argentine missionary teaching Brazilians is fine.

I told him that when Christ was here he taught the proper way that we needed to be baptized and gave authority to perform that baptism. I told him that’s another reason his brother got baptized. He wanted to do what Christ had commanded. I told him that Heavenly Father loves us and wants us to have that next level and those Blessings.

I told him that our father is reaching out to you now. He told me that he reached out to God several times when things were bad but then he would forget him. I told him God sent me here tonight with this message so that you could know that he is aware of you.

He said, I’m still in shock. I asked him to promise me something and he said he would. I said, promise me that you’ll go to your brother and his wife and tell them all about tonight. He said he would do that. I told him to tell his brother what he heard and what he felt during this ride and he said he would. Then I thought for a second and said, promise me and God, you will go talk to your brother and his wife and do this. He said he would.

I told him that tomorrow I won’t be around working but that i’d bring a Book of Mormon to him at his work if that’s OK. He said that would be really cool. We sat in the car for a minute enjoying spirit and he got out and left.

On Monday, on our way home from Idaho, Heather and I drove by and gave him a copy of the Book of Mormon. I showed him the questions of the soul in the front of the book and how to use the tabs. I asked him if he had talked to his brother and he said not yet. Later on that night I got a text from him saying that he had talked to his brother and thanking me very much. I can’t wait to watch his journey

I was in Bountiful dropping a couple off and planned to go back to the airport to get more people because they had bonuses there. Then I got a ride downtown at the Smart Home Arena where the Jazz play. I pulled up and there was a lady with pink hair waiting for me. She said hi cheerfully but the spirit told me that she wasn’t cheerful.

I asked her how she was doing and she said fine. Then I asked, what’s wrong you’re not doing great are you? She just started to cry and said that She said she walked in and found him with a girl in the bed, her bed, in the house that she pays for. She was devastated. She said that she had suspicions before but catching him was destroying her.

I felt impressed to tell her that she was better off without him and that he was not even close to good enough for her. I felt to tell her that she knew this and she needed to hang out with a better class of men. She said, I’m done with men. I got this guy on the rebound from my divorce and I am about finished.

The spirit guided me through a description of dating and courting that goes back thousands of years where men would prove themselves to the girls and to their family. They would prove themselves and their intentions and show what they could be and who they were before sex.

I told her that for thousands of years this is how it’s been and the reason why we did it was so that you build a fabric and a community around your relationship and then the marriage first. then sex becomes the binding moment of the contract. “Like signing the contract”? is what she said. I said that’s absolutely right. She said, we’ve gone way away from that haven’t we? I said yes.

I told her that nowadays we look at being able to sleep with anyone as an expression of who we are or a civil right to be pronounced rather than a sacred covenant between a husband and a wife as it should be. She said I never thought about it that way but that feels right. I then had in my mind a vision of a little girl being abused by a mother and a father and in particular evil around the father.

I told her that she had been abused when she was a child and she said yes, by my mother and father. Right then I had an impression of the spirit that her father had sexually abused her too but I didn’t want to make that accusation so I asked to her, who sexually abused you? She paused then cried and said my father, how did you know? No one knows that.

My heart was breaking for her and the sadness was very profound and deep. Along with the sadness came a wave of love and I knew her father in heaven was sad but that he loved her and he wanted me to let her know.

I asked her if she had heard of our church and she said yes. I said when we’re baptized we get the gift of the Holy Ghost and what that does is it allows God to walk with us and whisper truth to us. He gives us the gift of prophecy and revelation and tonight God wanted me to know and tell you this information so that he could put his arms around you and let you know that you should listen to things I’m saying.

She began to openly sob and bawl in the car. I asked her what she felt when she got into the car. She said she had felt anger and frustration and like she was about to lose her mind before she got in the car then she felt a calming peace in the car. I told her that was the this was spirit of God. I asked her if she felt it now and she said yes. I told her God put her here so that she could feel this and know that he loved her.

I told her that God gives us commandments so that we can be happy. Following those commandments helps us even though in today’s world they tell us it takes power away from us, in reality it gives us power and makes us happy. I asked her if she had ever been to church, she said that her uncle had been a Seventh-day Adventist preacher but that it had been many years since she had attended church. I asked her if she had prayed or if she knew how to pray and she said she hadn’t prayed in a long time but she thought she could.

I told her that the first thing she should understand is that she is a daughter of our heavenly father and that he loves her no matter what mistakes she’s made and that he wants to be close to her if she’ll let him. She said she would love that.

I told her that what she felt now was his spirit that we were feeling it in the car and she said that she recognized it. I told her that being a daughter of God, she had known him for thousands of years. This feeling was very familiar to her and that to her it felt like home, not a home full of abuse and strife but a peaceful loving home. I told her, that’s what this feeling is. Through her tears she said I’ve always wanted to have a home like that. She said I love this feeling and you’re right, it feels like home and what home should be.

I asked her if she had ever heard about the Book of Mormon and she said yes. I asked her if she knew what it was and she said no. I explained to her that it was the religious writings of the prophets who lived in America and that God would reveal to them his word. They would write it just like in the Bible. I asked her if she knew Jesus Christ came to America and she said no. I explained to her that Jesus came to America because God is a God of everyone and loves everyone and he descended from heaven and talked to the people and loved them. She said that was beautiful.

I told her the Jesus Christ paid for our sins and that he suffered our tribulations, trials and the injustices that we have in our lives. By praying to our father in heaven and accessing the atonement of Christ she could feel relief from the pain and angst of her situation. She said, with the spirit in the car I’m already starting to feel the pain subside.

I told her Joseph Smith translated that record and we have it today. I told her Joseph Smith was a prophet and that we have prophets today who speak with God to give us counsel so that we can be happy.

I asked her if she had a copy of the Book of Mormon and she said no. I grabbed one of my copies prepared by Sister Secrist out of my bag and handed it to her. I said this is your copy of the Book of Mormon. When you read this and pray you will feel the peace that you have felt in the car. This way you can always have God with you.

I told her when Jesus came he asked everyone to be baptized even if they had been baptized before. I told her that Jesus wanted everyone to be clean and that he wanted her to be clean from the stain and pain of sin. She said, “I want that too”.

I told her that by reading the Book of Mormon she would find the path to freedom from the tragedies and chains of her past.

I asked her if she had any friends that were members of the church and she mentioned two that had just moved here from Philadelphia who lived in bountiful and they were very good friends. I asked her if they were strong members of the church and she said yes, very strong, they go to church every week. I asked her if she would call them tonight and tell them about what happened in the car and what she had felt in the car. She promised me that she would.

She said, I feel so much better now. I feel hope and I feel love. I told her that sometimes God puts people in my car for a message and she said I know that this was the case tonight. She said “I was inconsolable and God lifted me”. Once again I asked her to promise me that she would call her friends, she said,”I will, I want to be baptized and become clean.”. I told her the one thing I know for sure based on tonight is that God wants her to come home. She said, I want that too. She walked off, grabbed her phone and started calling.

During the ride there was a steady progression in her demeanor corresponding with the intensity of the spirit. At first she was very sad and angry but as the spirit worked on her and the hope of Christ filled her, she began to change. In the end she couldn’t wait to talk to her friends about the gospel.

I was downtown where there are lots of rides working a bonus streak. I needed to roll up as many numbers as I could in a short period of time. This means short rides really close together and that means more money! I was doing really well and then from downtown I got a call to go clear out to a bar in Magna. Magna again!

I got out to the bar and this gentleman who came out had a great big bushy beard and long hair. He was a little drunk and a little mellow so we started off and he asked me if I would drop by the 7-Eleven on the way home and then he changed his mind when he saw the Burger King still open. He said I would rather go to Burger King and get a real meal for my last meal.

I said what do you mean your last meal? He said tonight when I get home I’m going to eat and I’m going to kill myself. I could tell right away that he was serious and that he was troubled. I could feel that he had made a decision and it was a little bit scary. I asked him why in the world he would do something like that.

While he was talking I was praying that God would give me the words to say. He said that he was sick and tired of being alone. He said he had no one. His mom had left the family when he was young and she told him that she didn’t want him because he reminded her of his father. He said that as far as he knew he had no family and he was sick of being alone.

He had been in the military and served in Iraq and Afghanistan and he said that he had seen a lot of killing. He had been in a lot of battles and then the thought of killing himself didn’t bother him. He told me that tonight he went to the bar to tell his friend that he wanted him to have his flag from his coffin. I could tell his heart was breaking.

He said here we are, in another holiday season and again I’m going to spend this holiday season just like every holiday season since my father passed away 15 years, ago alone! He said, I can’t stand it and I just can’t go on. I’m too tired I can’t fight anymore. I’m fat and I’m ugly and nobody wants me.

By this time we had his food and we had started driving towards his home. I asked him if he believed in God and he said he believed in God. I said why would you do this if you believe in God? He said that he didn’t believe that God was against it.

I told him that I believed in God and that I believe that God had a message for him and a mission for him to do here on this earth. I told him that from time to time God puts people in my car when they need to feel the spirit and need to be lifted and today it was him.

I asked him if he prayed and he said he hadn’t prayed in years. I said that his father in heaven would love to hear from him and thats and how could he expect to get help and love from his father in heaven if he didn’t reach out. I told him that reaching out was the key. He had to reach out to God. He had to reach out to other people in service and when he did, he would find purpose and love in his own life. Those people will become his family. He said Nothing

He said he was a Catholic and from Oklahoma City and he hadn’t been to church in years. He never talked to a priest and he had never been taught to pray. I said, you should pray all the time and let God help you so that you don’t have to be alone.

Just then we were passing one of our church houses and it was close to HIS house. I said, that’s what you need to do! You need to go to the church right there Sunday morning at 9 o’clock. He said, I just got done telling you I’m Catholic. I said I don’t care this is where you need to go. The spirit was burning in me and in the car and the words came to my heart to say so I said them.

I promise you in the name of Jesus Christ if you will go to that church on Sunday, ask for and talk to the bishop and tell him what you’ve been telling me and then do everything he says that one year from now you wont be without family.

I told him that he needed to go to church so that he could feel the presence of God and that when he was baptized he would have the Holy Ghost with him and he could walk with God. He said, I’m all already baptized. I told him that this baptism is different because with this baptism he would be given the Holy Ghost, the spirit of God and as a constant companion. With that with this companionship, he would be led by God to people that would bless him with the things he needed.

Once again I said, I promise you in the name of Jesus Christ if you will go to that church, talk to the bishop and do the things he says these things will happen and the desires of your heart will be fulfilled. If that’s what you want here is your ladder to get you out of this hole.

He was very quiet, then he said, OK I promise you, I will go and I promise you I will do the things that the bishop tells me to do. I’ll do anything not to spend one more holiday season alone. I told him that the bishop was going to ask him to make changes in his life and he said he was willing to do it.

Just then his phone started dinging. It was his friends, they were worried about him. I told him that there were people who loved him and were worried about him and that he could help himself by reaching out to God and then reaching out to others.

He asked me if I would pray for him and I said that I would. We bowed our heads and said a prayer and there was power in the prayer. The spirit of God was there in the car with us and he felt it. I asked him, what does that feel like, did you feel something? He stammered for a minute and then said yes, I feel love. I told him that this was the spirit of God and that he, God, was fighting with me to save him. I asked him why God would send his spirit to be with us and he said because God wanted him to stay. He said that God wanted him to listen to me and I told him that this was right!

I said it’s all up to you. Now you have hope and you know you have the love of God. I said that once you start living the gospel of Jesus Christ everything will change. I also told him that now he had something to look forward to, Sunday when he could go and be in the presence of God and start down the path that would eventually bring him the family he so desired.

I picked up this lady at the Marriott downtown in Salt Lake City. She was heading to the airport and we put her huge suitcase in the back of my vehicle. We started down the road and I asked her where she was from. She said she was born in india but lived in Austin Texas now after spending years in California.

I asked her if she liked it here and she said are you happy here? My answer to her was the same answer I give to anyone that asks that, I like to think I’m the kind of guy who would be happy anywhere. It’s not the place where you are that determines your happiness it’s the way you react to it.

I told her that I used to have my kids make a list of five good things that happened to them each day so that they would be looking for the good not the bad.

I told her that I believe that our decision to be happy is the only real power we have and we shouldn’t give it away to other people, objects or circumstances.

She said after moving from India she wasn’t happy in California and it is no different in Austin. She just hasn’t been happy. I told her that I had a friend Landon who went on his mission to India. I told her how much he loved the people and that I would like to visit someday.

Then I asked her if it would be OK if I spoke about religious topics. She said yes, I feel like you’re supposed to be the one to talk to me about this. I asked her, have you ever started a conversation with a driver about happiness? She said not in 10 years of using car services.

I told her that the reason why she felt like she should ask me was because I have a message for her. I asked her if she believed in God. She said,” I didn’t used to believe in anything but lately I believe there’s something and I consider myself spiritual not religious”. When people say that to me it’s like saying yeah but I don’t wanna live commandments.

I knew that obviously she had been put in my car because she needed to know who God was so I started talking to her about her father in heaven and the bond they share. I asked her what she had felt in my car how the ambience felt, and she said it’s incredible and feels like home. I said, that home is the presence of the spirit of your father in heaven.

I told her that in our church when we’re baptized we get the gift of the Holy Ghost and we have the right to have our father in heaven’s spirit with us at all times. This is what it felt like to her, she said she loved it

I told her that before we lived on earth we lived with our father in heaven and we loved him and our desire to be with him is central to her being. This creates a space and filling that space with the spirit of our father in heaven is essential if you truly want to be happy. I told her that some people try to fill the space with drugs, alcohol and riotous living. These are cheap imitations. I told her it’s much like eating potato chips when you’ve gone two days without food. It just doesn’t make a lasting difference and in the end it just makes you sick. You need real food, food that was intended to nourish your body. I told her that’s what the spirit is for her soul.

I told her that once you take care of the spiritual component then it empowers you to decide to be happy. I asked her why she hadn’t looked at her religion and she said she didn’t like being told what to do.

I told her that she shouldn’t think of it as being told what to do. I asked her if when she was assembling something and looked at the instructions of how to properly do it, if she thought that that those instructions were oppressive. She said no! I told her that the commandments were like an owners manual for our life. It helps us use our agency in the proper way so that we can be happy and live in the presence of our father in heaven.

She said, that’s a great perspective! I told her that if she would not be afraid of committing to her father in heaven and living the way he asked her to that she would qualify to have the spirit with her.

I asked her when the last time was she prayed and she said never. I taught her how we pray and asked her if she thought she could do that. She said yes. She said she would like that very much. She said, I love what I’m feeling in your car so much, I want to feel it more.

As we were coming up on the airport she said this has been the most amazing ride ever! It has stirred up my soul given me hope and filled me with joy! It must be God. She said everything you’ve said is right exactly on point, it’s like you’ve known me for decades and know everything about me yet we just met 15 minutes ago. I’m going to do the things that you said because I want to have this with me. I know that it’s not an accident that you were my driver today. She said I’ve never spoken with a Driver about something personal like this and today God sent you.

After hearing this I was feeling a little bold. I said I have one other request I would like to make and she said what is it? Have you ever seen any missionaries around in white shirts and ties on bikes? She said yes, at the Mormon church house right across the road from my house. I said, go to them and tell them about our experience and what you felt and they will be able to teach you what you need to do to have this with you forever. They will teach you how to be baptized so that you can be clean from your sins and have God in your life.

She said that would be amazing I promise I will do that! She got out of the car and waved smiling and happy. I feel confident that she will be dropping in on that ward someday soon.

I was in down town Salt Lake and was supposed to go pick up a guy and take him 15 minutes north, probably to Woods Cross or near there. I didn’t feel right about it and I didn’t want to do it so I went into Smith’s to go shopping. When you go shopping or spend some time doing something it transfers your ride to another person and doesn’t cost you a cancellation on your account. Poor dude but he got shifted to another driver and then I got a lady to drive. I felt better about this.

She got in the car and we started talking. She was about 30 and was going to see her boyfriend. She was from Provo and she said that she could tell I was a member of the church. She was saying all the right things like her brothers went on missions, her dad was a bishop and etc.

The way I could tell something wasn’t right, was that she said things that didn’t match your countenance, the feel I got and the look in her eyes. I knew there was an issue and she was trying to cover it with all of her family.

I felt the spirit whisper that she needed to start praying. It whispered that her father in heaven wanted her to start praying again. I also had the prompting that she wasn’t spending any time in the scriptures and that her life was overwhelming her and she felt like she was drowning.

The problem was that I just didn’t want to blurted it out. I wanted to work it into a conversation so that it could prepare her for the message. She seemed a little emotionally fragile at that moment.

I started talking about this blog. I talked about how the spirit whispers to me and lets me help people. I told her a few stories from the blog and could tell that she was enjoying the stories and comparing them with stories that she could remember from her family.

Finally we were approaching her destination. I was having a hard time finding the right time to be bold and say the words that I had been given. I had the thought that maybe this time I could let it go. Her family would surely look after her.

Then the lord spoke to my heart and the spirit whispered something that I’ll never forget. I felt the words, She is in your car to hear these words exactly, and if you don’t do it you will lose it. I felt chastised and motivated at the same time. It was a true use it or lose it ultimatum.

Then as we were pulling into the apartment complex I told her that I felt impressed to tell her that God had put her in my car just like those other people to receive a message. I said that the spirit was telling me that she needed to start to pray again. The spirit told me she hadn’t been praying and that her father in heaven wanted to hear from her. I told her that I perceived that she had experienced an intense injustice and blamed God.

There was silence and she started to tear up and get emotional. She said how did you know this. No one knows this but I was angry with God and I haven’t prayed in over a year. I told her that the spirit had told me and God knew. He knew who she was and he loved her very much. I told her he missed her and wanted her back. I also told her that she needed to read the scriptures and she would find the clarity she was seeking in her life.

She said, at this point that would be a total overhaul of her life. I said, Heavenly Father wants you to get started.

I asked her what she felt right then and she said that she felt peace and happiness. She said it felt familiar and it felt like love. I told her that this was the spirit of God confirming the things I had said to her.

I reminded her about the atonement and how the injustices that she had suffered could be made right through the atonement and benefit her in the eternities. I told her that there is no injustice and no pain that Christ hasn’t experienced or can’t understand. Through his power those burdens can be lifted.

She was crying and promised me that she would pray. I said that’s great! Promise your Heavenly Father too! She did. She thanked me and said that she would go in and pray right then.

I got a pickup in South Salt lake to take a guy to the airport. He was a clean-cut guy and just seemed to be happy. I knew from the start we would be talking about the gospel. We only had from 13th south to the airport so I had to get right on it.

I asked where he was from he said Georgia. I told him about a man I met from Georgia recently that was baptized into our church. His story is the one I published a couple weeks back called “Angels in the backseat”. He said that Christ was very important to him too.

We Talked about Jesus Christ and about my friends the Castillo’s. I baptized the Castillo family some years back and the father of that family had just passed away. They had asked me to speak at the funeral two days later. I discussed with my passenger what I was going to say at the funeral.

I talked to him about how with faith in Christ and repentance, then baptism and the gift of the Holy Ghost we can have the strength to endure to the end and come back to our father. I told him about how God walks with us through our difficult times like he is now with this family. I told him that they had a 14 year old son and had come over that afternoon for me to discuss his father’s death from a spiritual/gospel perspective.

I told him that while I was doing the dishes before they got there, I received the impression by the Holy Ghost that the prior evening the boy had been visited by the spirit of his father and he knew it. I told him that when the boy and his mother got there I talked to them about my impression. They told me about how the night before the boy had a dream where his father came to him in his dream and gave him specific instruction.

I told this man that families are forever, that we marry for eternity and that God never leaves us alone. He was touched and I could tell he felt the spirit. I could tell he was a believer and he knew that what I said was true.

I asked him what he felt and he said the spirit of God. He said it burns in his chest and he knew that what I was saying was true. I testified of the truthfulness of the gospel. I told him about Joseph Smith and the first vision. I testified that God the father and Jesus Christ appeared to Joseph Smith.

He said, the funny thing is that doesn’t even sound crazy, it sounds right! I told him that the spirit that we were feeling in the car helped him understand the truth of the story and he agreed.

I asked him if he knew any members of our church and he said yes, several of the people that worked with him were members of the church. He said that they were very good men and you could tell by the way they looked in their faces and the way it felt in their presence that they were special.

We talked about commandments and how many people look at commandments as restrictions while the truth of the matter is that they’re guidelines to happiness. He totally agreed with this. He said that when you look at the social media culture we have you can tell that there is not much light with most of those people.

We discussed how the world mocks truth and I told him that we have a prophet that speaks with God and gives us God‘s word for us today. I said, many times what he has said is mocked and people get angry but we are blessed by following his counsel. He laughed and said, it’s always been that way, all throughout the Bible.

He talked about how social media makes people dumb and unable to critically think or challenge themselves.

I asked him if he knew what we believe in that the rest of the Christian world doesn’t. He said he had no idea but he would love to know. I told him that we believe that God loves everyone in the world just as much as he loved the people in Jerusalem and that he has given us prophets to help us. I told him that revelation didn’t stop but that the heavens were open.

I told him that the people in America who were the ancestors of the indigenous people also had prophets who wrote their prophecies and that’s why we have the Book of Mormon. I told him it was a testimony that God loves all of his children not just the ones from Jerusalem. The spirit was really strong in the car and he had a tear in his eye. I could tell he was being moved.

He said that he had wanted to know more about the church but he hadn’t known where to go to find it. He said that this ride was an answer.

I bore witness of Joseph Smith and how he translated the Book Mormon by the power of God even though he only had a second grade education. We talked about how God uses people that are not capable so that he can show his power. I used David and Goliath as an example. The spirit was bearing witness very strongly in the car and I asked him about it. I asked him if he could identify how he felt and he said yes. I told him that it was the spirit of God. I asked him if the Spirit of God would be in the car with us if what we were saying was not true. He said, No! No way! I told him that this was correct, it had to be true or he wouldn’t be feeling the Spirit of God confirming it.

I told him that one of the things the Book of Mormon taught is that Jesus came to America and that while he was here he instructed people to be baptized even though they had been previously baptized . He gave specifics on how it was to be done and by what authority. I told him we receive that same baptism today but that this baptism isn’t a repudiation of his previous baptism, it is a covenant necessary to be in Gods presence and feel his power fully. He talked about how great it would be to be baptized again.

I told him that God puts people in my car to get a message sometimes and today that’s why he was in my car. He totally agreed with that.

I told him that God wouldn’t want him to leave my car without getting one of these, I reached in my bag and pulled out one of my Book of Mormons that Sister Secrist marks. I handed it to him. He said, “are you sure? Can I have this?” I said yes!

I told him to read it on his trip and he said he would. I told him that when he got back from his trip he should walk into one of his friends who is a member of the church and set that book on his desk and ask him to talk to him about it. I said he will know what to do. I told him that the people that work for him had read that book and prayed about it and received an answer from God that it was true. I told him that they would help him know what to do.

He said he was going to start reading as soon as he got on my flight and he will do exactly that when I returned.

What a great ride! Can you imagine your boss walking in the office and laying a Book of Mormon on your desk and “saying tell me what you know about this!” What would you say?

I picked up a young lady at the Marriott library on the University of Utah campus. I had to wait for a long time but finally she came running out she got in the car. She asked me what I did for a living.

I told her that right now I was driving car but I had another job and I’m doing both of them working really hard. She seemed harsh and very unimpressed with the driving job before I told her all of that. I felt impressed by the spirit to tell her that times were tough but the most important thing is that we have faith in God.

She said I don’t believe in God. I said, “I do know we have a God”. The thing is that we’re never supposed to say that and especially in a situation where you’re being challenged directly it could turn out bad but I felt like I should and I felt the spirit tell me to, so I did.

Right there her life opened up to me, I perceived her to be a young woman who had been raised in the church but in college she had decided that she wanted social acceptance more than she wanted to follow God.

I told her that. I told her that when she decided that she was going to go the other direction that she started looking for reasons not to believe in God. I told her that she looked for every sad or bad situation and then started blaming God and that it wasn’t fair because it showed a lack of understanding on her part.

She was shocked

I told her I would show her proof. One of the proofs was that she was in this car because God had sent me that day with that message. I told her that she had lost a boyfriend and felt lost, excluded and miserable lately and that God had sent me to bring the spirit to her so she could know where to turn….

I talked to her about some people I know who had just had a family member pass away. I told her that I had received a revelation that they had been in the presence of the person that had passed away and they knew it. These people then recounted that exact experience back to me. I told her that I couldn’t have done that if it wasn’t for God. I told her about the lady in my blog story “My God is a God of miracles” and how I knew about her dream. How could I have done these things…… if there wasn’t a God whispering to me?

Then I told her “when you got in the car tonight you felt at home, peaceful and secure because the spirit in the car is familiar to you.” Then I said how could I have known that if there wasn’t a God.

The spirit was strong in the car and I could tell that she was disarmed by that spirit. The sharpness of her previous tone was considerably mellowed and she listened to what I said.

She told me how she had been raised in the church and left the church. She said that her family was not very strictly obedient and they were from an area where everyone had their own ideas, from polygamy to the way the church should run and especially the word of wisdom.

She said she had two questions, one, how did I know these things and two, she wanted me to explain how a loving God could allow people to suffer like her friends had suffered.

I told her that God cannot take trials away from people and he will not because they need to learn to grow and he will not take away our freedom to choose, our agency, because we need that to grow. I told her sometimes people do evil things with their agency and that is when the rest of us need to step up and be God’s hands and voice.

She agreed.

I told her the other part of that is that he gave us Christ and his atonement to ease our pain and suffering, so the sting can be taken away.

By this time she was crying, weeping, She told me that she didn’t know how she was going to go in to the bar with her friends like that. I told her that now she knew that God was real. She thought for a moment and then said. yes I do. I told her that she had felt his presence in the car and she said, yes I have.

I asked her why God had sent me to her that night and why he had made me wait all of that time for her when the time had expired and I was supposed to leave. what was the purpose for that? She cried even harder. I said, because he needs you and he wants you back because he loves you. I told her that he loves her even though she hasn’t shown love to him. I told her that this is how wonderful God is.

I told her about this blog and she looked it up and she is going to read it. She knows where the church is and she said she will start to go. She got out of the car, still sobbing and 10 minutes later was still standing outside of the club where she was to meet her friends. It’s almost like she couldn’t bring herself to go in that place having been touched by the spirit so profoundly.

About her tears, I have thought about this. The spirit was strong in the car but I wonder if the tears were only a result of the spirit or also the sadness she felt for having denied God and separated herself from him. Now the spirit has unmistakably born witness to her. One thing she knows is that on this night God sent her a lift, a message and a light. At this point she has a clear choice.

One night I picked up a guy from an airport hotel, he was from Lake Tahoe and was going to get an x-ray. Before I knew where we were going I could tell that he was troubled and sad and he was worried. I could tell this by the spirit.

I told him that I perceived he was worried and sad and concerned. He told me that he had recently undergone two open-heart surgeries and that he was going in because some of his vocal cords were paralyzed and he had to get to x-ray before 5:00. It was 4:04

I told him that I would pray for him and asked him if that would be OK. He told me that would be amazing and he thanked me. I told him that prayers work.

I talked to him about mom and her situation. Mom was in the hospital and not doing well. She had Covid and double pneumonia. We were quite concerned. I asked him if he believed in God. He said yes. I told him that with my mom alone in the hospital I prayed by the power of the priesthood that God would send angels to be with her when she was on the Covid floor because we couldn’t be.

I told him that my mom wanted to talk to me about that after she came around and that from that day forward there was a remarkable change. I told him it was the power of God that intervened.

I told him that we’re never tempted or tried in our strength, I said that we are tempted in our weakness so that we can learn to rely on God and his power instead of our own power. That way we can allow God to lift us and exalt us and be one with him.

I asked him if he could feel the spirit of God when I said those things and he said yes. He said that he could feel it the second he got in the car. I told him it was the spirit of God and I was here because God loves him and wanted him to know that.

As we were driving by the temple I talked to him about what we do in the temple. I also talked about Jesus in America and that we believe that the Book of Mormon teaches that Jesus is the God of all people not just the people of Jerusalem. I asked where his ancestors were from and he said the Philippines. I said that this book shows us that Jesus is the God of all of the people in the world, even your ancestors in Asia. I told him that Isaiah mentioned that Israel had been scattered through out the world even Asia. I told him that Jesus went to all of the house of Israel.

Looking at the temple I told him that this building was really special because we are married there for forever not just until we die because everything we do on this earth is eternal.

I asked him if it surprised him that I knew that he was struggling when he first got in the car he said yes, how did you know that? I told him it was the power of the spirit and the spirit whispered it to my heart. I only said the words the spirit put in my heart. I said that when we’re baptized and we are clean we get the gift of the Holy Ghost and it allows us to receive revelation and that he had been a witness to that revelation . He said yes I have!

I asked him if he’d heard of the Book of Mormon and he said yes. I asked him if he had one and he said no. I gave him one of Sister Secrist’s copies. I asked him to read it when he feels sad or down or scared and that the Spirit of God will fill him and help carry him through.

I asked him if we could have a prayer before he went in and he said he would love that. He asked me to pray and as I prayed I could feel the hand of God and the arms of God embracing us. He had tears in his eyes and said wow! That was powerful.

I said the power will walk with you. Read that book and pray and God will help you through. He said he had Mormon friends and I told him to reach out to them. He promised he would.

I also told him that I would be praying for him.

One fast Sunday, Saturday night late I picked up a guy on the east bench going out to 80th west by Magna. We started talking and I felt to ask him about the church. I didn’t know how to bring it up so I asked him if he spoke Spanish and when he said no I said I learned my Spanish in Argentina which brought up my mission. Once I brought up my mission I then could ask him if he was a member of the church. He said no.

He said he loved the church because he loved the family aspect of the church. His mom had been a single mother since he was born and she passed away when he was 15. He said I am all alone here.

I could hear the pain in his voice when he talked about being alone. The spirit prompted me that he really felt like there was no one to have his back. Through the spirit I could feel the love of God there just waiting to be let in. God wanted to have his back.

He said that his girlfriend was a member of the church and that she was trying to get him to look into the church but it was kind of difficult for her to relate the teachings to him. He said that her family was great but that he could tell that the religion thing was a huge obstacle for them.

I asked him what he knew about the Book of Mormon and he said not much. I said it’s a compilation of ancient writings by the prophets who lived in America. I explained to him that the Book of Mormon is the ultimate proof that God loves everyone in the world not just the people who lived in Jerusalem. That they had prophets and they received revelation. These prophets wrote these revelations down, and “that’s the Book of Mormon” I said.

I discussed with him how it was a companion to the Bible to testify of Christ. I testified that Christ loves everyone and that he is the son of God.

I asked him if he knew that jesus came to America and he said no. I told him that he descended from heaven after his resurrection then taught and loved the people. I told him that today the Mayans and the Aztecs have the legends of the great white god. They say the great white God descended from heaven and taught them, blessed them and loved them. Then he left and said he would return.

I told him about third Nephi 16 where, just like in the Bible, Jesus said that there were still other sheep which were not of that land or the land of Jerusalem or the lands roundabout. I told him that the Book of Mormon is the proof that God loves all of his children. The spirit came in the car.

I told him that when Heavenly Father approves of or agrees with some thing that is said, he sends his spirit to testify of the truthfulness of it. He said I can feel it! I feel all tingly and warm.

I used that moment to testify about Joseph Smith and how God restored all of the truth through Joseph Smith. I told him that Joseph asked God in prayer which church was true and God told him that his church wasn’t on the earth at that time. God called him to be the prophet to restore the true church of Jesus Christ on the earth. I told him that Joseph Smith translated the Book of Mormon and that it is true. I told him that the Book of Mormon testifies of God and of Jesus Christ.

I asked him if he still felt warm and tingly, he said yes. I asked him what the warm tingly feeling he was having meant regarding these things that had been said in the car. He said that it means these things are true.

I talked to him about what that means with regards to the church and he said that would make the church true. I told him that if he read, studied and prayed that he could feel that again. He would know he was in the presence of God and that when he felt that he would know that what he was reading and praying about was true. I told him that when he got an answer to his question about the church being true, how would it feel? He said just like I am feeling now. I said yes. That is how you can know. He said that makes so much sense.

He said he would always like to feel this good, I told him that it’s possible. Once you’re baptized you get the gift of the Holy Ghost and the spirit could be your companion all of the time. I said that he would never have to walk alone again. He said that this is exactly what he wanted.

I told him that we don’t hide the topic of baptism either. When I said this I felt impressed that he connected his baptism and religious heritage to his deceased mother and that it was precious to him for that reason. I told him that the baptism that he had before when he was young was important to God because it showed that he and his parents were loyal to God and loved of God. I said that God now has a new covenant and a new level that he wanted to give him and his family through him. I told him that in the Book of Mormon when Jesus came he gave them that authority and commanded them how those baptisms were to be conducted. I told him we do the same baptisms today with that same authority. I said that now he is inviting you to have that same baptism.

I asked him if he had a Book of Mormon, he said no. He said that he borrowed his girlfriends. I gave him a Book of Mormon so he wouldn’t have to borrow his girlfriends. He loved that there were questions on the front page that Sister Secrist put in that book so that he could more easily begin to read it and study.

He said he was going on a trip the next day and would be taking that book with him. He said he might even finish the book. He said “I already know it’s true “. These feelings that I have felt tonight have made up my mind for me.

I told him that when you have the spirit, you never have to be alone. He said, I’ve been looking for that for years.

I told him to tell his girlfriend what we talked about and more importantly what he felt. He said he would. He said that she would be shocked but that she and her family would love it. It was fast day and it is my guess that maybe they were already fasting, that God would touch his heart. I am just happy that I got to be in the car with him when it happened!

I picked up this young man from the airport. He was going to north Ogden so we were in for a ride. As we started I felt that we might possibly be talking about the church but doubts started creeping in.

We talked about some people that were yelling in Spanish at him in the airport. I told him I know Spanish and he said what are you? A Mormon? He said it with distain and threw in everybody’s favorite little curse word after that for good measure.

We started to talk and it was clear that he was a good dude. He always helped his friends and people came to him that needed help all the time. It appeared to me and the spirit told me that he was a hurting young man and gave me the empathy fo feel his angst and pain.

He talked to me about football when I said that I’ve been a high school football coach. He said that his dad played at BYU in the 80’s yet didn’t listen to Lavell and quit football after a couple of years. He thought his life would’ve been different if he had listened to Lavell.

He quit after he went on his mission. I said what? your dad went on a mission? I asked why he told me he wasn’t member of the church, when did that change? He told me that he told people he wasn’t a member of the church because he didn’t consider himself to be a member of the church.

He talked to me more about his friends and everybody that came to him and I received promptings as to his character and his love of helping people. That said a lot of people come to him for help and sometimes that can feel overwhelming. He loves serving others nonetheless.

I told him, that’s one of the reasons we go to church. I told him the story of a man I used to home teach and how sometimes we save other people in saving ourselves. I told him about going up to this man and saying why does it always have to be about you after he told me he was less active because he didn’t get anything out of attending church.

I said, don’t you think there are other people there who need what you have? Your service could make a great difference to them. Why does it always have to be about you?. After I told that to this man, he started going to church and is one of the most active awesome people I know. Any ward that has him is grateful he is there because he decided to serve others.

I told him that we need to go to church so that we can serve God by being his hands and his voice. I was feeling the spirit and I laid it out for him

I told him about the sacrament in Posadas Argentina in the first week of my mission. I was miserable. I couldn’t talk, I had 36 mosquito bites on one foot, my companion hated Americans and me by extension. I was going through culture shock and at church it was noisy and I was drowning. My tank was empty. When we took the sacrament everything changed. My tank was filled and I received the power from God to continue.

I told him that Satan doesn’t want him in church. He doesn’t want him to take the sacrament. He doesn’t want him to be filled with the spirit. He wants him to be filled with anger and hate instead. That is why he whispers these things in his ears, to keep him from the thing that would cure him.

The spirit was there and I asked him if he could feel it. He said he could feel it and he described it to me. He said he hadn’t had a talk like this in years.

I felt like he was a person who had been damaged by harsh judgments. I felt this as a prompting and I said, it seems to me like you’re somebody who feels like you’ve been misunderstood and harshly condemned or damaged by harsh judgments.

His dad had been a missionary in Denmark. His grandpa had been a stake president. He had gotten his girlfriend pregnant when he was 18 and everyone ostracized him, and everyone in the church and in his family were mean to him. He was grateful that they were supportive and loving to his girlfriend but he really felt angry, hurt and abused by the harsh judgment.

We talked about the atonement and the cups. How God doesn’t take from one and give to another to make it right, he brings in a new pitcher and fills them all up. I told him that he needs to stand up and make other people confront their sin of judgment and harshness and do it by being there as a constant reminder to them of their unchristlike behavior.

I told him if he goes in with smiles and he’s wonderful it will change them and eventually they’ll come around. He said his grandma is always praying for God to send people to him and that his grandma‘s prayers were working today!

I asked him if he had a Book of Mormon, he said he still has the one he bought for his mission before he got his girlfriend pregnant. I asked him if he would read it. He said he would read the book of Mormon and I told him that’s how he would have the strength and the spirit he would need to move forward..

I told him that he would be a much better servant to others when he takes care of himself spiritually.

I told him that if he would go to church, pray and read the scriptures, that when his friends came to him for help, he would find another level of support and knowledge to help them. I told him that this would help him serve them better.

In this story I need to talk about the change in his countenance from the airport to where we went. When he got in the car you could tell that the spirit was not striving with him. The look on his face was vacant. He blossomed as we talked and drove. One hour later he was a different person. He was smiling and his eyes were smiling. I talked to him about BYU in my experience there where I had to let go of the hatred for the people who were trying to ruin me. I talked about that in connection with the other 95% of the atonement that is referred to in Elder Renlunds conference talk.

Earlier that day I had been talking with President Stodard at the MTC about my experience at BYU and about how it related to the atonement and I believe that this conversation was prepping me for the ride that night.

In the end he said he would go to church. He said it was time for him to take the next step and make a serious move

Favorite ride to Ogden ever!

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I got a call to take three people to Lehi at 2:45 on a Saturday morning. We got going and I found that these guys were having fun and they decided that they wanted to go over and play at a friends house in Sugarhouse instead. This was great with me because going to Lehi would’ve certainly ended my night and I wasn’t ready to stop yet, I hadn’t made enough money. When they got out I found out that I had received a huge bonus for that ride so I was fat and didn’t need to work anymore that night. The spirit had other ideas.

Listening to the promptings, I turned on the app and was taken to a hotel on 3rd West in Salt Lake City. When I pulled up to this hotel there was a young lady standing outside. I immediately knew by the spirit that she was a member of the church and that she was the reason why I had to come back downtown that night.

I picked her up at the hotel. She was talking 1,000,000 miles an hour and was having conversations with her friends on the phone.She just got done having a sexual encounter with a man that she had just met that night. Her friends were frantically trying to get a hold of her because they didn’t know where she had gone. She called them to assure them that she was OK.

She seemed happy on the outside saying all the right things, smiling and bouncing around but her spirit was crying and I could tell that she was sick on the inside.

The spirit told me she wasn’t OK.

The spirit told me that she was a member of the church and raised a member of the church. When I asked, she said she wasn’t a member of the church.

I told her she was a member of the church. At first she was surprised and then finally admitted it. I asked her how she thought I knew that she was a member of the church. She said that she had no idea. I told her that it was the spirit.

I told her that I went on a mission to Argentina when I got out of high school. I asked her if she knew anyone that went on missions and she said that she had to confess that she had been raised a member of the church untill she was 13. When she was 13 her dad came out as gay and the members of the ward were terrible to them and persecuted them. Because of this she and her family had left the church.

I felt an amazing amount of love instantly for this girl. I could tell she was suffering and needed to feel the spirit. I could also tell that she felt the spirit in my car and it was making her squirm a little.

I talked to her about how people sometimes can be just horrible animals and the fact that people in the church could also be horrible animals doesn’t mean the church isn’t true, it just means that people aren’t perfect.

I told her about my great grandpa leaving the church. I told her that they had been offended and felt like they had been poorly treated. Because of this they completely left the church and that this decision has had disastrous ramifications on his posterity.

I told her about when my kids were little and I went to church early to find and sit behind the people that told me that they didn’t like us. I told her that it’s better to be strong and make people face their own evil judgments.

I talked to her about Jesus and how he paid the price for angst, humiliation, prejudice and injustice as well as sin and infirmity. I told her that if we can look to him he can lift us through our trials. I told her that He is the only way we can accomplish that. He is the only way we can come through this life whole.

I really am impressed by the amount of love and the power of the spirit you feel when you testify of the atonement. The testimony of the atonement brings the spirit and this day was no exception.

I told her about the cups and how everybody gets a different hand dealt but God makes it all right if we look to him. He does this through the atonement of his son Jesus Christ and Jesus Christ has the power to fill our cup.

I felt by the spirit to tell her that more than anything she felt like she was betraying her father by going to church and that’s why she stopped going when she was 13. I told her that because of the atonement as I described in the cups example she could come back and not betray her father because Christ could make it equal for everyone.

I asked her if she remembered Ammon in the Book of Mormon and she said yes. I briefly recounted it to her about how he talked to the king about the unspoken thoughts in the king’s heart. Because of this the king’s heart was opened and Ammon could teach and touch the king with the power of the spirit, therefore the king knew that he was of God.

She said that’s exactly what you doing to me to here tonight. You said the things that I was thinking and the spirit of God is the only way you could’ve known that.

I told her that God puts people in my car and I give them messages. I told her that he had put her in my car tonight and the message he had for her was that he loves her and he wants her back. I told her about the pre-existence and the relationship with God being the center of your soul.

I told her that she had been yearning for years looking to feel better and that what she was trying to do in her life was chase worldly pleasure instead of permanent joy.

She was full on crying at this point. During the conversation I got the impression that I needed to discuss with her the sexual hook up she had just participated in. I said right now you are thinking “I can’t go to church because of what I just did”. I told her that wasn’t true at all. She hadn’t been to church since she was 13 and she needed to go to church and not to let any whispers about not being welcome because she wasn’t worthy or not being the right person or not being judged or anything get in the way because that was Satan whispering in her ear. I told her that he was whispering to her and that he whispers to everyone. We have to cast him aside and seek God

I told her that she should go to church for a few months, make friends, and get to know the leaders. After a few months the spirit would dictate when to bring the nights activities up. She said OK and promised to do that.

She didn’t have a Book of Mormon so I pulled one out and gave it to her and asked her to read through the tabs in the special Book of Mormon prepared by Sister Secrist. I told her that it would help her have a better relationship with her father

The spirit was very strong in the car and she talked about how strongly she was feeling this. And I had her identify it by telling me what it felt like. She told me it felt like a full happiness and like she was loved. I asked what that meant and she said it meant God wanted her back. I asked her if she knew where her church was and she said yes and that she would go.

I asked her if she’d ever heard of God sending a message like this to someone and she said no. I asked her if she knew that this was from God and she stated again through her tears that she could feel it all the way to her heart.

She said she hadn’t felt the spirit in so long and that she never felt it this strong. I asked her if she prayed and she said no but she said she knew how. I asked her to go in, read the first two chapters of the Book of Mormon, pray and feel the love of God. She said she would.

I bore my testimony of Joseph Smith, the atonement and of living prophets. The spirit was powerful and she said she loved being in the car. Again we talked about the fact that this spirit belongs in your soul and this is the thing that she’s been missing and the emptiness she was trying to fill.

I told her that I felt that she would need to be strong because this was going to be very difficult. I told her that Satan would put up a fight. I asked her if she was strong enough to do this and she said yes.

She asked me if she could shake my hand. It’s interesting how many people want to shake your hand after they have a new spiritual experience and I’m sure there’s a significance to that, but it’s awesome.

I’m am sure that she will be back and that she followed through and went to church that Sunday like she promised. The spirit was too strong and the coincidence too unthinkable for that not to change her heart

I got a call to pick up a woman in Cottonwood Heights. When I was coming up on the address the road was really screwy on the map and I didn’t know where I would be ending up. I looked up and the road was coming at the bottom of the hill. Looking up I could see a person standing on a rock looking over the road from on top of the hill. It was like she stood out in bold. I knew that was the person I was giving a ride to. It was like there was a light and arrows pointing to her. I knew we would be talking about the church. When I pulled up it indeed was her and she got in my car.

Right away I could tell she was a very kind woman and my heart broke for her as she told her story. She had been in an accident and was in a coma for 7 years that she recently came out of. In those 7 years her husband had moved on and she was truly a forgotten woman adrift in the world in most aspects. I couldn’t imagine how difficult it would be to lose everything like that.

As I started talking to her about that experience and coming out of that experience it became clear that her life had been destroyed by that coma. Her husband moved on and and they were in the process of getting a divorce.

She was fumbling trying to put the pieces back together. There was also a spiritual aspect to the coma and we discussed her belief in God.

She came from a religious family, very many religions are practiced in her family from Buddhism to Catholicism. She said she found joy and comfort in learning about religion. I could feel her heavenly father‘s love for her and felt like what she really needed right now was to know that. I talked to her about the things that God gives us to help us through hard times like these.

I told her that for me one of the most important things is prayer. I told her I love to pray when I am in stressful lost situations. I told her I felt the spirit of God like he was hugging me. The Holy Ghost was in the car and she began to tear up.

I asked her if it would be OK if I prayed for her and she gratefully and enthusiastically said yes.

I told her about the story of the man from California who was in the hospital and woke up in the middle of the night, went to the hall and had a vision of people singing and praying for him. He recognized them but didn’t know or recall their names. He asked the man in charge, who he also recognized who these people were and he was told that these people were people he knew and that they were sent there because others had been praying and thinking about him. I told her that these were angels and when people are praying in faith God sends angels.

She said that she knew 100% that this was the truth. She knew she had been surrounded by angels and that she still was. I asked her what she felt right then and she said that she felt peace and joy hearing those words. It made her think back on her time in her coma when she felt like she was in the hands of God.

I told her that this feeling was the spirit of God and when you felt that you knew he was near. I told her that when you felt this you knew the things you were hearing were true and she said that what I was saying was true.

I told her that in our church we have what we call a bishop. I told her that he’s not just in charge of the members of the church in his boundaries but of all the people in his boundaries. I told her about the Relief Society and how they go about blessing the people in the ward seeing to the physical and spiritual needs of the members, especially the women. I told her that the spirit was telling me that she felt like she had received much from other people but that her greatest desire was to help and give back like those who were giving her so much and had been so kind. I told her that the Relief Society was a great organization through which she could accomplish this service and bless other people who are struggling in their lives.

I mentioned that once a month we fast and we take the money we would have spent on food and we give it to church. That money is 100% used to help the needy and bless those who are less fortunate. She loved this and said that she would love to do that.

I talked to her about the organization of the church and how local leaders, bishops in the wards and stake presidents preside over the ministry of the people just like Jesus would if he were here.

I talked to her about the Book of Mormon, I talked about its origin being from the ancient prophets of America and how it teaches that Jesus loves everyone, not just the people in Jerusalem, and he showed that love by coming to America.

I told her that when Jesus came to America he gave them authority to run the church and to baptize so that everyone could be baptized the way he himself had commanded them. Even if they’ve been baptized before.

The spirit was moving in this woman and she said that she had no doubt that what I was saying was true. She said that she had always believed that Jesus should have gone to other places and this made so much sense. She said I believe that book is true and I’d like to know where to get one. I told her I just happen to have a copy in my bag. It was one of the marked copies given to me by the Secrists. When she grabbed that book she said, are you sure? I said yes! And she said this looks like it’s really valuable to you, I said it is and that it would be valuable to her too.

She had now moved on to a full on crying but they were tears of joy. She said she had never felt this much light and that this is just the thing she needed to lift her right now. She said that the thought she was having right then was that this book would answer so many of the questions she had. I told her that it would and that she should pay attention not only to the words but to the thoughts she had as well while reading the words because the thoughts would come from God.

I told her that these thoughts and impressions along with the ones that she was receiving right now we’re from God and that’s how he guides us. I told her that after we are baptized we get the gift of the Holy Ghost and the right to have that guide with us at all times if we live right.

She said that the only thing she was hearing in her heart right now that was that this was true and she needed to do what I was saying.

By this time we had been sitting out in front of her house for 10 minutes, and we just kept going.

She told me that she had some friends and their child was on a mission. She asked me what he was doing there and I told her that he was doing the same exact thing there that we had been doing in the car for the last 40 minutes.

She told me that they were a great family and that the father was a holy man and she could feel it in the way they acted and a light in their eyes. I said, that light is the light of the gospel. That’s the light Jesus Christ brings into our lives.

I told her a story about a family that I had previously baptized who was brought by the hand of God to receive that message. I told her that God allows us to be his hands and his voice to bring people his truth. I told her that she could be God’s hands in helping others but she could also be his voice proclaiming his gospel. I told her that the reason why these words had impacted her so much was not because I speak well but that the spirit was speaking powerfully to her. I testified to her that God had brought her to my car today by his hand so she could receive his words.

I told her to contact this family who are members of the church and see what she needed to do to learn more. She said that she would absolutely do that.

She took the Book of Mormon and got out of the car and said that this ride had changed her life. She said that she was going to seek and follow that spirit she had felt that day and promised she would read the Book of Mormon.

I picked up this man at his hotel by the airport. He just finished work and was getting ready to go into town to relax and get out of his hotel room. It was a Thursday and I had been hoping to get a bonus from the airport but was taken out to the hotels which for me is even a better run. You always want to go in town because it’s a fast trip.

My passenger got in the car. He was a big guy who looked to be in his 30s, with a big deep voice and a southern accent. I asked him where he was from and he said Macon, Georgia. I asked him if he was familiar with my favorite restaurant in Atlanta called Bones. We talked about the area he’s from and how he and his wife enjoyed traveling.

When he was talking about his wife and some trips he wanted to take I noticed that he was speaking in a strange tense like “had wanted to take”. This was made even stranger by the fact that I could feel the presence of someone else in the car.

I said to him “is your wife not with us?“ He informed me that his wife had passed away about two weeks prior. I could hear the pain in his voice and I could feel his heart breaking.

As he was talking my heart felt joy and the spirit whispered to my heart that she’s blond, she’s bubbly and she’s short. He was Latino and his name was Latino and I expected that maybe he had married a Latina. I was a little apprehensive to say the words but I decided to go all in.

I asked him if his wife was blonde, short and really bubbly. He looked shocked and asked how I could possibly know this about his wife. His voice cracked as he told me that she was a short, very blonde Irish fire cracker. She was always happy and always brought light. He told me that she had a minor surgery two weeks before and had died during that surgery.

We were about to enter into Salt Lake City and I looked at him in the mirror and I said that’s why God put you in my car today, he has a message for you. He wants you to know that he loves you and that he’s with you. I told him that his wife’s spirit was with us too, along with the Holy Ghost that was giving me the words to say to let him know that this was all very real.

I told him that God had a plan for him and his wife and that her death was not an exception to that plan but part of it. I taught him about the plan of salvation. I told him that she is still with him and was part of the reason that I was receiving these impressions from our father in heaven.

He seemed shocked. From where we were we could see the temple in Salt Lake City even though it’s under construction. I asked him, do you know what we do in that building? He said no. I told him that one of the things we do in that building is we marry couples for eternity. I told him that we get married using the same power Peter was given to seal things on earth that would be sealed in heaven.

I told him that with that sealing worthy husbands and wives could be together forever. He told me he always believed that and I told him that this is how that would come to fruition. I told him the members of our church can go to the temple and perform these ordinances. I also explained to him the people who die without this knowledge can still become members of the church by being vicariously baptized and vicariously sealed to their spouses. I told him that I participated in that many times. I told him that my wife and I were married in that very building by that authority.

He looked shocked. I told him, I guess what I’m saying is that you and your wife can be together forever and God can bless you. I told him that his wife wanted him to be happy and that God wanted them to be happy and together forever.

I told him that he would need to be baptized and she would need to be baptized and he would need to be worthy to go to the temple then this could happen. I said based on what we were feeling I felt that she would accept her baptism. I talked about being married to his wife in the temple and then he could be together with her forever. He said that’s beautiful how do we do that.

He told me that he had already been baptized and that she had as well. I told him that is amazing and it showed their love to heavenly father and Jesus that their parents did this for them but that this new covenant and this new blessing require that we have the baptism of the Jesus Christ, like he taught when he came to America. He said, Jesus Christ came to America? I said yes! I told him that his ancestors had prophets who spoke with God and that Jesus visited them like he promised that he would in the Bible when he said he would visit his other sheep.

I told him that those prophecies were written down and that now they’re contained in a book called the Book of Mormon. He said, the Mormon Bible? I told him that some people call it that but we believe in the Bible as well so it’s a companion to the Bible and they both testify of Jesus Christ.

I told him that before Jesus came to America the people listened to the prophets and were baptized but when Jesus Christ came to America the first thing he did was give people authority to baptize and then instructed them how to baptize his way and that’s the baptism we do today.

I told him that the invitation to that baptism is an invitation to the next level of discipleship to our Savior Jesus Christ. Jesus taught that we should all be baptized that way and gave us that covenant. He said wow, that’s pretty cool! I asked him if he would like to have a copy of the Book of Mormon so that he could read about his ancestors and what they believed. I asked him if he wanted to hear the words Jesus Christ spoke to his ancestors and he said yes. I told him that it was a very important part of his religious heritage. He said, nowadays, I spend a lot of time reading and that would be wonderful.

The Spirit of God was really strong in the car and the presence of his wife was palpable I could feel them both and distinguish them both and so could he. I asked him how he felt in his heart he said he felt joy, light, relief and a strong calming peace.

I told him that the peace in his heart came from his father in heaven and that this is what he had always felt when he was in the presence of his father in heaven from way back even before he was born. I told him that his father wanted to love him right now while he was so sad. This is why he sent his spirit and it was powerfully undeniable.

He said in the past two weeks he had felt from time to time the presence of his wife but he thought he was going crazy. He was happy to know that somebody else felt it too. He said that the problem was when it left he would be very sad again. I told him that the spirit could also help him through and that he should seek to have the Spirit of God with him by reading the Book of Mormon and praying. He said he would.

I didn’t happen to have a book with me that day as I had just given it out and so I told him that I could drop by his hotel with a book the next day. He said that would be great because he doesn’t do anything after he gets done with work so I could just come by. He gave me his phone number so we could coordinate and I told him I would see him the next day with the book. The spirit was so strong in the car and he was astounded by the goodness of God and the revelations we had felt.

I bore my testimony of Joseph Smith, the Book of Mormon and the power it would bring into his life. I told him these feelings that he was having were sent to him by God and that he should seek to have them in his life always.

He got out of the car and said he was really excited to see me the next day. I drove off looking forward to the next day.

The next day was a Friday and I had a lot to do. That night I was going to baptize another person so, of course, I had a problem with the car brakes. On top of that problem with the brakes I had two really disgustingly dirty people in my car and it took me out of commission for a long while as I had to clean it again. I was behind and I was losing money fast. It was putting me in a bad mood and I felt that the purpose was to get the spirit away from me so that I wouldn’t be in tune for the baptism. I felt like Satan was throwing things in my path. As I got the car cleaned and finally got things together it was much later than I had expected and I needed to meet my wife and then go get the person we were going to baptize.

It just seemed all too much and I thought to myself that I wouldn’t take the Book of Mormon to him. I was running late and I told myself I didn’t want to rush it and who knows how that second meeting will go.

I got on the freeway and turned onto the sixth south on-ramp going into town and the spirit rebuked me. It told me that I was to go back and take the Book of Mormon to him and that this was not secondary in anyway on this day to anything. Feeling fully rebuked, I went over to the fifth South on-ramp and took the freeway out to the airport and to his hotel.

When I got to the hotel it took a minute for him to come down and I was wondering if he had lost excitement after a night out and a day of work. Finally he came into the lobby and we sat down and had a really good discussion. He gave me his address and I looked up his ward and Bishop on the “find a meeting house” tab on the church’s website and texted him the screenshot.

I also gave him the Book of Mormon and wrote down some things inside. It was one of the Book of Mormons prepared by Sister Secrist so it had the tabs to make learning easy. He took the book and said he would be in touch with any questions. I thanked him and bore my testimony of the truthfulness of that book and how it will bring us to God and bring his family together.

I went out to do my baptism that evening and it was amazing!

The following Monday I had just finished washing my car and I was in my driveway doing emails when I got a phone call from this man. He told me that he had gone to the address I gave him for the Mormon church that morning and that no one was there! I kind of chuckled and explained to him the Monday isn’t such a big day at our church houses and that much of the time no one is there. I told him that I would call his bishop and hook them up so that they could work it out.

I called his bishop and spoke to him about the whole experience. He was excited and said he would personally involve himself with this man’s conversion. I gave them each other’s phone number and my passenger was extremely grateful.

Four weeks later I got a voicemail from a missed call that was my passenger. He said that he was being baptized the following day which was October 17th. He said that he wanted to thank me for that day in the car. I was so happy and overwhelmed that he would reach out to me!

They sent me the link to the baptismal service on zoom and I was able to watch it. I did leave church a half an hour early but I consider it an excused absence. What a great Sunday and what a great man. He bore his testimony of that day in the car and the powerful experiences he’s had since. He will be a great member of the church.

I want to take this opportunity to thank my heavenly father for the opportunity to be in the car and say those words that touched his heart because I know they came from God. It’s God’s work and God’s glory and God is great. You never know when you’ll have an Angel or two in your car.

I picked up this guy at the 7-Eleven on ninth south and second east. He was covered in tattoos and had at least three piercings in each ear. He had been waiting for someone to meet him there but they didn’t show up. I asked him who he was waiting for. He told me a girl was going to meet him there. Then I got the impression that this was a clandestine meeting and his purpose was to break the 8th commandment. I also had a feeling that he was seeking this girl out not because of her divine nature but her willingness to comply with the carnal activities they had discussed.

I told him about the promptings I was having about the girl and who she was and why she was going to be there. He laughed and asked how did you know that. I said that I would tell him in a bit. Then I went on to ask another question.

I asked him what kind of girl he wanted to marry. He told me that he was getting to the point of life where he really needed a stable girl, someone thats not so crazy. I asked him of all the places he could meet a girl where it would be likely that he would meet that kind of girl, Online? In the bar? Or at church?!

He laughed and said I guess it would be pretty stupid to look at any other place than church isn’t it. I said, that’s my take on it!

We talked about his friend who helped him through the time when he was in prison. All of his other friends and family abandoned him but this one friend kept in touch, sent him money and helped him through. Now that friend expected him to be hanging out and available to party. He said it was a real quandary. He asked me what I thought he should do.

I told him he should go to his friend and tell him how much he appreciated him and didn’t want to disappoint him but that now he wanted to move in a better direction and would like his help in that as well. I told him to ask him for help and tell him what he could do to help.

I told him that very seldom are people offended when you first complement them and then ask them for help, thus recognizing their ability to be helpful. People genuinely like to be the guy who helps.

I asked him that if he was going to meet a girl in church what church would he go to. He said that in the past he had been a member of a Pentecostal church and he didn’t like that church. Since he got out of jail he didn’t have a church to go to.

I asked if he knew anyone who was a member of our church. He said that his birth father and his wife were members. I asked him if he knew what we believed. He said he didn’t have a clue. He asked me what was the difference between our religion and all the rest.

I told him that I believe that we were the original church of Jesus Christ. That original church had fallen apart. God called Joseph Smith to be a prophet to restore the church exactly like it existed when Christ was on the earth. I told him Joseph Smith was just like he was, looking for the church that was the true church and trying to find out for himself God‘s will. I told him when Joseph Smith knelt and prayed, God the father and Jesus Christ appeared to him and called him to be the prophet to restore the church. I also told him that the priesthood was restored to Joseph Smith and that this priesthood is the authority of God to act in his name. I told him that this authority of God was the thing that set us apart.

I told him that we believe that Jesus Christ loves everyone not just the people in Jerusalem. I told him that in the Bible Jesus said that he had other sheep in the world and that he was going to visit them. I told him that we believe that he came to America and that these were his other sheep. I told him that his ancestors, here in America, were those sheep that heard his voice and felt his touch and were blessed by him as was their posterity. I told him that blessing rested on him and was waiting for him to claim it.

The spirit was pouring into the car and the testimony of the Book of Mormon was touching both of us. It’s always interesting when they know it’s true and then watch them discover how it fits. This is what happened next.

He told me that in his life he had studied much about the legends of the indigenous peoples of Central and South America. He was very well acquainted with the legends of culculcan and ketzacoatle. I told him that when Jesus Christ came he descended from heaven in glory. He blessed the people, healed the people and organized his kingdom, the church. He then ascended into heaven and said that he would return someday. I told him that this is what they were waiting for when Cortez arrived. Cortez took evil advantage of this and wiped out their civilization. The reception he received shows the level of love and faith in Jesus Christ that endured through the centuries even though the teachings did not.

I showed him some photography of ruins from Central America that prove their belief in our father in heaven and descending God(Jesus) and in a God with no body . God the father, Jesus Christ and the Holy Ghost. He was blown away.

The fact is that they were waiting for the return of a white bearded God who would descend from heaven.

He said the one thing he had done in prison was read the Bible. He said that he had read it over and over. He always asked himself why is it that Mormons can only talk about the Book of Mormon? He was touched by the fact that I had taught from the Bible. I told him that we all believe in the Bible, that it’s the word of God. I told him that we believe the Book of Mormon is also the word of God and it was translated by the power of God.

I asked him that if God was going to have prophets in America should they record their revelations and experiences? He said that he thought so. I asked him what the prophets did in the Bible and he said they recorded the revelations. I asked him then if prophets in America had revelations what should the prophets in America have done and he agreed that they should’ve recorded the revelations and experiences. I said that this is the Book of Mormon.

I also discussed Ezekiel 37 with him where it talks about the stick of Judah and the stick of Joseph and how they would be united as one stick. I identified them as the Bible and the Book of Mormon and said that they testify of Jesus Christ which is their one purpose. This is why people use the Book of Mormon. It is another testament. Ezekiel proves we need another stick.

I told him that the thing he needs to get to in his life is that God loves him and he wants him to be happy. I told him that because of the things you’ve done you don’t feel like you deserve to be happy but that’s not what God thinks at all.

He asked about baptisms for the dead. He said he had read about it in the Bible and understood that we performed these ordinances.

We talked about all of the people in the world who have never had the opportunity to hear God or his words. I asked him if it would be fair to condemn those people without an opportunity. He said no. I asked him if someone 500 years ago in China had the opportunity to hear the gospel and he said no. I told him that in Peter it talked about Jesus organizing the teaching of the gospel to the people who died without its knowledge. This happened during the three days while he was dead. I told him that the other half of that work was baptisms for the dead so they could have the opportunity to accept the teachings they had received and the ordinance that had been performed on their behalf.

This is what we call baptisms for the dead. We do it in temples where we are baptized for and in behalf of another person and they have the chance to accept that. He said that’s cool.

That’s God‘s will, he said. Everyone needs to be baptized and now I understand how everyone will have that opportunity.

I asked him if he liked to read and he said he didn’t like to. He downloaded the Book of Mormon app. I showed him how on the app you can listen to the Book of Mormon. He got visibly excited and said, I can listen to this at work instead of my music! I told him that’s what I do. He said he wanted to know every word in the Book of Mormon.

We talked about baptism and how when Jesus came he commanded everyone to be baptized even if they had been baptized before and then they received the Holy Ghost . He told me something that surprised me a little bit, he said that he had never been baptized. I guess I thought because he was Latino that he would’ve been baptized as a baby but he said he’d never been baptized.

We talked about sin and how through repentance followed by baptism his sins would be washed away and he would feel clean. He would feel them leave and would feel the spirit fill his heart at his baptism. He lit up. He said that’s exactly what he wanted. I also told him that when we are baptized and are worthy we have the Holy Ghost in our countenance, we are more attractive and that should help him attract the kind of girl he said he wanted to find.

The spirit was strong in the car and he became a bit emotional. This young man hardened by his life and his time in jail was feeling the spirit of God and loving it. I asked him what it felt like, he said it felt really good but that it also reminded him that he had to make a lot of things right. I told him that this would be part of his process as he changes his heart and turns to God. Seeking to be in the presence of God will drive the change.

I told him he would need friends on this journey. He said he would reach out to his father and his father‘s wife for help. He said they would walk this journey with him. He said that he was going to listen to the Book of Mormon and pray every day.

He got out of the car, waved and went into his house.

This one could take a while, I told him he would have to have many interviews with some pretty high up people probably. He’s still on probation so we’ll see but he said that this is where he wants to go and he recognized the miraculous nature of our ride. He said that he was going to be in this for the long-haul. He said the spirit he felt in the car is the thing that he wants in his life and is the thing that he wants in his family when he meets that girl in church and marries her.

I picked this young lady up at the airport and she’d had a very stressful day. Because of weather her flight from back east had been delayed and she almost didn’t make her connection. She barely got on the flight to Salt Lake City and then it was very turbulent. She wasn’t feeling very good and on top of it they had to sit on the runway once they arrived.

I told her about a time that I had been on a turbulent flight where we hit bumps so big that it tipped over the drink cart and the flight attendant sat on the floor and started to cry. I said nothing gives you more confidence than a flight attendant sitting on the floor crying. She laughed.

I told her that one thing for sure is that I think that everybody on that plane was praying and almost all of them out loud. She laughed and said that she had done her share praying that day as well.

I told her that I suppose that attendance at church this Sunday would be mandatory for most all of those people. She laughed and said except for me! I said why? She said I consider myself to be spiritual and not religious.

I asked her what that meant. She said that her family were Christians (dad), Buddhist, (mom) and Catholics (grandma) She had never wanted to take a side.

I asked her if she thought that there was one God. She said yes. Each one of those religions taught there was one God but that she didn’t have a clue which one if any of those religions God would choose if he were here.

I told her that this was an age old question. I told her that just as there is turbulence in the sky also there is turbulence with regards to religion. I told her that this is why God has sent us Prophets throughout the centuries. The prophets have taught us God‘s will and pointed to the path we need to take. She agreed.

I told her that I was feeling by the spirit whispering to my heart that the turbulence in her life that she was feeling with regards to the spirit was much greater than anything she had just experience in the sky. I told her I felt like she had an empty spot and she was looking for the right religion to fill that hole. I said to her, wouldn’t it be great if you could find a path and one of those prophets, she said yes that would be amazing.

I told her that as children of our father in heaven we have a relationship with him and that if we’re not in his presence often or even continuously our soul gets hungry and feels starved for that. When that happens we get confused and seek to fill that hole sometimes with experimental beliefs or substances but the fruits of those experiments never fill that hole and bring peace to your life.

I told her that the spirit was telling her right now that what she needed to know and it was that her father in heaven loved her and that he missed her. I told her that she was his child and that he’s never far away if she’ll reach out to him. I told her that if she will do the things he asks and let him guide her to that path forward she will find incredible joy and happiness. I said that doesn’t mean you won’t have problems but you will know God is with you and you will feel peace in your soul.

She said that’s all you can ask for. I told her that there was a book called the Book of Mormon. I asked her if she never heard of it and she said yes. I asked her if she ever read it and she said no.

I described to her the tree of life vision where the are the people found the iron rod and followed it which was God‘s teachings to the tree of life where are they per took of the fruit. I told her that other people didn’t desire that enlightenment and they mocked those did and tried to drag them away. If they held tight and stayed with the tree and it’s fruit they were always be filled by the love of God.

She said that was beautiful. I told her that her spirit craved that fruit and that the Book of Mormon is one of our keys to find that path. The spirit had been present in the car for quite some time. It was sweet and steady. Then I bore my testimony of Joseph Smith and the Book of Mormon.

I told her that Joseph Smith was a young man seeking the truth because there were so many religions and they all said they had the truth. He went to the forest, he knelt and prayed. God the father and Jesus Christ appeared to him. They told him that the church with all of the truth did not exist in the world but they called him to be the prophet to restore the church on the earth. They called him to illuminate that pathway to the tree so that we can all return to God.

I told her that he translated the Book of Mormon which was the ancient religious record of the people who lived in America and it talked about the visit of Jesus Christ to the people here in America and that he said he would go to other people around the world and visit them as well. I testified again of Joseph Smith and the Book of Mormon and the truth. Now the spirit was very strong.

I asked her if God sent us his son, who would he send them to and she said everyone. I told her the Book of Mormon was the word of God and it was evidence that God was the God of all the world not part of the world and he loved everyone not just those who lived in Jerusalem and that he sent his son, Jesus, to peoples all over the world after he was resurrected. I said Jesus loves everyone and his father sent him to his children.

She had tears in her eyes and said “that sounds like truth to me, that feels like the word of God”. I asked her what it felt like, she said peace, enlightenment and energy at the same time. I said the spirit never lies.

She told me that in her life she had felt peace but she never felt anything like this. I told her that this is how she felt when she is in the presence of God. I told her that this is how she could tell if something was the truth, God would send his spirit to confirm and reveal his truth.

I told her that we had a prophet nowadays who speaks with God and shows us this path as well. I told her that if we follow his words and pray to God we can always have this peace in our soul. That is how you partake of the fruit of the tree.

I asked her if she had a Book of Mormon and she said no. I pulled out one of the books prepared by Sister Secrist and gave it to her. I said this is yours. She said, are you sure? I said yes. I told her this book would help her find that path, and that it would go through the waters of baptism and back to God. She said that that would be amazing. I asked her if she had friends who are members of the church and she said yes, then she said, I can’t wait to ask them why they haven’t told me about this!

She said to me that she always knew that God would send angels to lift people and bless them and tonight he had sent one to help her deal with the turbulence from her trip and calm the turbulence in her soul. She said she would call one of her friends that night! She wanted to see her new Book of Mormon.

This young lady came in from Sacramento and I picked her up at the airport. She had been there to prepare for her brothers wedding. She had introduced her brother to his wife and the responsibility was weighing heavily on her shoulders. You could tell she loved her family but I started feeling about how she was an important, loving part of her family and the trust they had in her. I told her I felt like she was really organized and I started listening to the spirit and naming off these characteristics of hers as the spirit whispered them in my heart.

She said how do you know these things. We just met. The reality is that we weren’t even out of the airport area yet. We had a short ride and I knew I had to get to it.

Her name is a middle eastern name and I knew she was Muslim. I had never taught a Muslim before and I was a little apprehensive but I talked about baptism, the Holy Ghost and the gifts of the spirit. I told her that God puts people in my car. I told her that he wants us to be his hands and voice.

I told her about the Holy Ghost, that we receive the gift of the Holy Ghost after our baptism. I told her that it prompts us to know the things we should do and the things we should say. It can help us receive revelation for ourselves and to fulfill the callings God gives us and deal with the stresses and obstacles in our lives.

I told her that our religions have a lot in common. I said that we also believe in prophets. I told her that we have a prophet in the world today. I testified that he speaks with God and receive revelation for us. He leads God‘s church and guides us through these dark times.

I told her about how I lost my job due to covid and was feeling really bad. I told her that God got me this job and started giving me promptings of things to say so I could help people and tonight it was her.

As a Muslim, she believes in Christ as a prophet. I told her that the teachings of Jesus Christ help us be better people and the spirit of God that gives us promptings helps us follow his teachings.

I was prompted to tell her that she was having some challenges in her life and was being pulled away from what both of our religions believe as holy behavior. Right then I could hear in my mind the things that Satan was saying to her, whispering in her ears. I repeated these things out loud. I told that her what the devil is telling her is a lie and that he is a Liar. She said everything I was saying is so right on. She asked me how I could possibly know these things. I told her that it was the Holy Ghost whispering it to me and that I didn’t know but God knew.

I told her that she had been hurt and abused and that God was there for her and would always be there for her. I told her hat he loved her. I told her that many times we don’t learn about God as a loving father but that this is exactly who he is.

I talked about Jesus Christ and when he was on the earth he taught that we should serve others. I mentioned Elder Bednar’s Character of Christ talk and that we are to turn out in service to others. When Christ was abused he turned out in service to others, when he was wronged he turned out in service to others and Elder Bednar teaches us that we need to turn out in service to others to truly be happy.

I told her I could feel God‘s love for her. She said it was the strangest thing, she could feel that too. To her religion had always been ritual and a angry God. This was a new concept for her. This concept of a loving God who expects us be his hands and voice was overwhelming her with emotions that she had never felt. I told her that it was the Spirit of God and she said she knew that was true.

I didn’t know how to proceed because she’s Muslim and I asked if she had any Mormon friends. She said her best friend was a very active and devout Mormon. I asked her to call her friend and tell her about what we felt and what had happened in the car. I told her not to listen to Satan. I told her that she should trust in the spirit and follow where it leads.

She was crying and she said, I know God sent you to me tonight. I was so down and this has lifted my spirits. She said that she knew that God was here with us and that she will call her friend and ask her about the Holy Ghost. I’m hoping her friend will know the family dynamic and be able to navigate the situation. I’m sure her friend will be shocked but this is going to be cool.

She said that she believes that I lost my job so that I could be here tonight for her and to bless other people. She said it was a calling and I have to agree and am grateful for it.

I picked up a girl at a rave on a Friday night. She came out of the party dressed very immodestly jumped in the car and started to cry. I said are you doing OK? She said I guess we could go with that I’m doing OK.

I could see she was being tormented by something and I said, well, you don’t know me and I don’t know you so if you want to talk about what’s going on this might be just the place.

She started to talk about her boyfriend and how he had said he wanted to have kids but now he was saying that he didn’t want to have kids. She had wanted her whole life. She loved kids and couldn’t understand why her boyfriend had lied to her. I asked her if she really wanted me to explain to her why boys tell pretty girls what they want to hear even though they don’t mean it. She said no, she understood.

She said that at first he had not wanted kids and she did. It was a deal breaker. After dating for a while he said that he would be willing to have kids for her and now he had flipped back to not wanting to have kids at all because he thought that now he had her.

I asked her what she meant by he add her, were they married? She said no they were just dating.

I started saying the words of the Lord put in my heart and I said that this must be hard for her because it’s not the first time in her life that she had been taken advantage of and that her trust had been abused. I told her that when she was quite young a man had broken her trust and abused her. I told her that she still struggled to deal with that pain. She looked at me in the mirror and asked how I could know this.

I felt that she was a member of the church and asked if she was, she said no. She said that she was somewhere between spiritual/not religious and atheist. I told her that in my church when we are baptized and clean we get the gift of the Holy Ghost. I told her that this gift gives us the companionship of the Holy Ghost and it whispers to our heart the things we should say. I told her that I was just saying what the Holy Ghost whispered to my heart. As I said this I felt a certain spirit and saw her eyes for the first time. I couldn’t detect if she was feeling it.

I told her that the only reason God would put those words in my heart was for her to hear them and for her to know that he loved and cared about her. She was silent. I told her that I felt that this situation was a shadow on her relationships, and on her self worth. I told her that she loved children because they exhibit unconditional love. I told her that this love of God is also unconditional and that’s why her spirit sought it out and she found it in the little children.

She started to cry. She said, you’re exactly right. I love children and that’s why this lie makes me so angry.

I asked her if her dad knew about the experience she had when she was a child. She said he knows a little bit of it. She had wanted to protect him from the rest. I told her she should talk to her dad.

I felt like she was a member of the church. When I looked in her face I saw a member of the church but she kept denying it. I don’t understand why these people deny being a member of the church rather than just say that they’re less active or they used to be a member. They just deny it all together. It’s almost like they’re hiding from the light.

I asked her if she felt anything and she said that it felt good in the car. I asked her if she ever felt that before and she said no. I asked her if she prayed and she said no not for a long time. She said that her last prayer had been at least a couple of years ago. She asked me if I would pray for her and I said yes.

I prayed that God would touch her and help her and some people in her life to lift her. I asked that she would know what to do and who to confide in. I asked for God to help her and sooth her wounds.

When I finished she said, I guess I should tell you my dad is in a bishopric. I said really? When did you leave the church? She said I left when I was 16 years old. I just couldn’t do it anymore. The positions of the church were not mine.

I wasn’t surprised at all but dislike how Satan makes them lie.

I asked her what it meant that God sent me tonight and put her in my car. I asked how many people canceled on her before I was called and she said three. I asked her why it would be the three people cancel so that she could be in my car. I told her there were no coincidences. She was there because God wanted me to talk to her. She said she knew that was true.

I told her that she knew this was true and that when I had mentioned that it was the Holy Ghost that told me what to say, she had felt a jolt in her heart. Her spirit jumped as it recognized this testimony of the spirit. She said, that’s exactly what happened.

I asked her again, why did God send me here tonight, she looked down and she said because he wants me back. I told her that’s exactly right he wants you back. What does that mean about the church? If God will do these things to bring me to you what does that mean about the church? She said, I guess it means it’s true.

I told her that I know it’s true, I told her that I know that God loves her and sent his son to suffer so that we don’t have to. I told her that she didn’t have to suffer if she would look to God. I told her that her spirit craved being in God’s presence and loved the feeling in the car right now. She said it felt amazing. As I said this I felt another wave of the spirit come into the car. I asked her if she felt that, she said yes.

I felt impressed to tell her that her dad had prayed for her that very night. It was because of that prayer that those people cancelled and I was sent to you. I told her that she should go to her dad and ask him for a blessing. She said, right now that sounds like a really great idea. I think I’m going to do that!

She said she had a lot to do and a blessing from her dad was just the thing she needed. She thanked me for being there and I thank God that I was there. That he gave me the patience and the words to say. I believe that he will follow through.

I stopped at the apartments just off 1600 S. in Orem to pick up a lady. When she got in the car she seemed stressed and sad. I asked her where we were going and she said we were going to get her boy friend out of jail. Well, that was a first! Apparently he had some warrants for his arrest and they had arrested him the day before. His car had been impounded and she was in a bind. He was the father of her children and I asked her why they hadn’t been married. She told me that she wanted to be married but that he hadn’t wanted to get married until he could afford a really nice ring. I asked her if the ring mattered and she said no. I asked her if she was religious and she said that her family was Catholic and Christian.

She was of Mexican dissent although she didn’t speak Spanish and so I told her that it made sense that much of her family would be Catholic. Then I said, what religion was your family 1500 years ago. She said that she didn’t know, she didn’t have any idea. I showed her the picture of the ruins at Tulum and discussed how it depicted a king God and a descending God and a God without a body. We discussed Jesus Christ and how he came to America and descended from the heavens to visit his other sheep. We talked about the Bible verse that says other sheep I have and that when he came here he said that’s why he was here.

She asked me if she could ask me about a question that had been concerning her, why are there so many churches? I told her that this was exactly the right question to ask. I told her, this was the exact same question that Joseph Smith asked. I told her the Joseph Smith story and testified of the first vision. God the father and Jesus Christ really did appear to Joseph and they called him to be the prophet and they called him to restore the gospel on the earth. I felt those words leave my mouth with power and she was noticeably impacted.

The quickest way to get the Spirit of God in the room is to testify of Joseph Smith and the Book of Mormon. I asked her what it felt like and she said fire. I told her that this was how she felt the presence of God. He was telling her that this was true. She agreed and said she knew in that moment it was true.

I talked about how the gospel of Jesus Christ found in the Bible was perfect but that it had been fractured and many parts were lost. I told her that Joseph Smith received the power and authority to restore all of it. I told her that we have the exact same church that Jesus organized when he was on the earth.

I told her that Joseph Smith was given the golden plates and translated them into the Book of Mormon and that it was the religious history of the people who lived in America thousands of years ago. I told her that they knew about God and they knew about Jesus and they knew about the Holy Ghost and that’s why they put them on that temple in Tulum.

I asked her that Jesus had come to America and visited the people there. She said she believed that and then it made a lot of sense. I told her that he taught all of the same things that he taught the people in Jerusalem but that the first thing he taught them was that regardless of if they had been baptized before or not they needed to be baptized again. I told her that he gave them authority to baptize and instructed them how it was to be done. I told her that we have that same authority and baptism today in the church.

I asked her what it meant to her to know that Jesus Christ had visited her ancestors and that they had been baptized the same way we are baptized. She said that it was amazing. She started to cry and the spirit bore witness.

She said that she had a stepsister who was a member of the church and who had served a mission but that she hadn’t really ever listened to her when she talked about the church. Her stepsister had not always been a member, she said she got baptized because the Lord spoke to her heart. That’s the perfect reason I said. I asked her if the Lord had spoken to her heart that day in the car and she said yes.

I told her that when I picked her up I could feel that she was scared and angry. She asked how I knew, I said that God knew and that he let me know what she was feeling by the spirit. The spirit was strong in the car and I identified it again and again throughout the conversation. She said that everything I said was exactly right on.

We were almost to the jail and she asked if we could stop and continue talking before she went in. I said yes. She asked if I would pray for her and I said yes. She asked if I would pray for her right then so we bowed our heads and prayed right there in the parking lot of the jail. The spirit of the Lord was flowing through the car and touching our souls.

After the prayer she said that she felt sure the what I was saying was true. The spirit she was feeling really was affecting her all the way through. I asked her if now that she knew this was true was there an obligation that came with that knowledge? She said that she needed to follow through. I asked her what that meant and she said that she needed to learn. I asked her that if she continued learning and felt that spirit would she be baptized? she said yes, she said she would love to follow through and be baptized.

She gave me her sister’s information. Her sister served a mission in Iowa and she said that her sister would be so excited.

I told her the knowledge and this kind of commitment were going to require her to make changes in her life like getting married. She said she knew it and that she would be willing to do it

I told her I would take her a Book of Mormon. She said she would love to read it and learn as much as she could. She said that she wanted to get going right away and that to get through this she needed the help of God. I told her that God would lift her and she smiled.

She was really busy for the next couple of days and I wasn’t able to get a hold of her but several days later she called me and said that she had talked to her aunt and her stepsister. She wanted me to bring by the Book of Mormon so I took her by one of the books that are specially prepared by the Secrists. She said that they had decided that it was important for her to do the things we had discussed. She decided to read the Book of Mormon and start going to church. She decided to talk to the missionaries and that she needed the blessings of being a member. She said her aunt who was not a member had told her that I was sent by God and that she should listen to me.

She also said that her boyfriend who she had gone to bail out of jail, had left her. She was all ripped up about it but I was smiling on the inside. That’s exactly what needed to happen and God was looking out for her already even though she didn’t know it.

It’s amazing to see God‘s hand reach out and touch one of his children in their time of need and bring them home. This young lady and her children need the blessings of God in their life and now thanks to the spirit we felt that day they can have it.

I was driving down the road and I picked up this young lady at the mechanic shop. She was there selling her car because she is going to go back to Peru. When I picked her up and started to talk to her I could tell that she had questions and I could tell that we were going to be discussing the gospel.

I asked her if she liked being here and she said she loved it. She said she loved the feeling of security and freedom. I asked her if there was different feeling she felt here in utah. She said that she felt peace. I asked her why she thought it was so peaceful. She said she wasn’t sure. I told her it was because many of the people here keep the commandments of God.

She asked me if I was a member of the church and I said yes! She asked if she could ask questions about the church and I said absolutely!

The first question was about miniskirts. She asked me if it’s OK to wear a miniskirt or if that’s against our commandments. I explained the law of chasity to her and how dressing appropriately is a demonstration of your commitment to God to be appropriate with your body.

She asked me about the Word Of Wisdom and I told her that we don’t drink or smoke. I also told her that we don’t drink coffee or tea. You should know that in Latin America they qualify teas and differentiate than we do. They have herb tea then they have black tea and green tea.

I explained to her that the black tea and the green tea weren’t permitted but the herb tea was fine. I happened to have several boxes of mate which is an herb tea from Argentina and I showed that to her. I said this is fine.

I told her that there are people all over in the church that are looking to find a scientific reason for why we have these rules and the bottom line is that we are blessed for obeying these rules. It’s an obedience thing.

I told her that if God told us to stand on the corner on Tuesday morning at 10 AM with our right hand on our head standing on our left foot, we would be blessed for obeying God regardless of whether there was a scientific or health connection. I told her that God gives us tremendous blessings for obedience to this commandment.

She asked about tattoos, she wanted to know if a member of the church would be kicked out of the church for having tattoos. I said no. They’ve asked us to treat our bodies with reverence and respect which generally means we don’t tattoo our selves but no one is kicked out of a congregation ever for having a tattoo.

Then she said, this is why you can’t have multiple earrings I guess. I said yes. They’ve asked us not to but nobody gets angry if someone does. It’s us showing God that we’re willing put him first.

She seemed satisfied with my answers and you could feel a sweet peaceful spirit in the car. I noticed that she recognized it and asked her what she felt. She said she felt amazing. I asked her if she thought she would be feeling that way if what I said wasn’t true. She thought for a moment and said no.

I circled back on the Word of Wisdom and said that when Joseph Smith gave that revelation no one knew those things were bad but God did and obeying it has saved many people and many families.

I told her that it was really important for God that we be happy and then the spirit whispered to my heart . I said before you came here you had some deep wounds in your soul. Your heart didn’t feel right. You were led here by God and you can’t get rid of that feeling. The spirit of God is drawing you and calling you. It’s because of that this peace which is the presence of God speaks to your heart and soul and soothes it. It makes everything right. I told her that having that spirit in her life has the capability to heal her wounds.

By the spirit I identified a couple of those wounds but I don’t feel at liberty to share them in this blog.

She was very involved in our conversation at this point and the spirit was palpable. She identified the spirit again. She said I know that when I’m feeling this the things you’re saying are true.

I told her that she was brought here by the hand of God and she knew it. I told her that even as I was saying those words it was coming to her mind what those things were that God did to bring her here. I told her it was important for her to recognize that it was the hand of God and not happenstance.

I told her that she was put in my car today by the hand of God and that this message was for her. I told her that God was reaching out to her and wanted to bring her home.

I felt impressed to share the story about the Castillo‘s and how they had had a dream and in the dream they were told to come to Utah and they didn’t know where Utah was. I told her that they got off in Orem because it sounded like prayer in Spanish. I told her that they prayed for God to send someone to tell them where to go and I told her that God sent me to say “you’re supposed to come with me, let’s go” and they did. Then they got baptized and they’ve been happy members of God’s kingdom for over 10 years. I told her just like God brought the Castillo’s he had brought her and she knew it.

She started to cry and asked me how I knew she had dreams. I said I didn’t know but God does. She went on asking me about parts of her dreams that she had been having. Following the spirit I did the best I could to answer her questions about what her dreams were trying to say. I felt that god was guiding me to give her the answers that were intended. In her dreams God wanted her to come here and told here where she should live. She also dreamed about a clear white rock. She said she what’s mystified by the meaning of this white rock. She took it out of her bag and showed it to me. She said that this rock in her dream was powerful.

If you read my blog very much you know that one of the things I love to talk about is the Book of Mormon and there’s nothing like clear white brilliant stones to start up a Book of Mormon conversation. We talked about the brother of Jared and how that stone was a light that guided them through the darkness by the power of God. All of a sudden things started coming together for her.

We talked about the Book of Mormon and how ancient prophets wrote that book for her. They wrote about Jesus Christ coming to America. I told her that God loved the people in America so much that he spoke to them through prophets. I told her about Joseph Smith and that he was a prophet.

I told her that Joseph Smith was looking for the truth and couldn’t find a church that had all of Gods truth. He found some truth in the churches but couldn’t find The one true church. I told her that you read in the Bible in James that he should ask God and that’s what he did. When I told her that God the father and Jesus Christ appeared to Joseph Smith you could see in her eyes that there was total believe and total acceptance immediately.

II told her Joseph Smith was called by God that day to be a prophet. Then I told her that he translated the Book of Mormon and she said she wanted a copy because she knew it was true based on our conversation.

I told her that we have a Prophet nowadays who speaks with God for us. She asked where he lives. I said about four blocks from your house! She was thrilled and said, I hope I can meet him someday.

I gave her one of the specialty prepared Books of Mormon along with a few verses to read. She was so excited and said she would start reading it immediately. I talked about how in the Book of Mormon Jesus said that everyone should be baptized. She said she had been baptized before. I told her that Jesus wanted everyone to be baptized even if they had been baptized before, he wanted them to be baptized by his authority and in the way he instructed.

I told her that when we are baptized we are cleansed from our sins and it’s like they never happened. I told her that the pain and emptiness that she felt from mistakes in life would be cleansed through baptism and she would be pure before God.

I said by the spirit that she could be clean and even from that particular thing she had thought of that made her feel that she could never be clean. She had thought of herself as not being cleanable. She smiled and said really?! I said yes!

She said, I need to be baptized! When can we do this? I told her we had to talk to the missionaries but that she had to attend church several times and take the lessons.

She said, don’t the two times I already went to church all by myself count? I said, What? Yes they do! I told her that I would get a hold of the missionaries and that they would call her tonight. I told her that the very next evening we would be there for a lesson. She said she couldn’t wait.

She said that in her mind,this is clearly why God brought her here. She told me that when felt the peace of God she knew that was true because of our experience in the car.

I called some other missionaries I know in that mission and found out who the missionaries were for that area. I called those elders and told them exactly what had happened.

The elders have been fasting and praying that day specifically that God would touch a member and have that member bring them an person that could be ready for baptism. They were really excited and called her immediately. I didn’t expect to hear back from them for a while but in just a few minutes I got another phone call from the elders and they were so excited because she was already reading the Book of Mormon.

In preparing for a baptism she had several encounters with people trying to obstruct her pathway to God. Challenging her, berating her, and insulting her. We talked about how God sends people into our lives to counteract the people that Satan sends in to hurt us and take us away.

The next week and a half flew by and I had the privilege of baptizing her. After she was baptized she came up to me and said that the pain that was in her soul for the things she had done and been through we’re gone. She could still remember what she had done but for some reason the pain was gone. She said it was a miracle. I told her it was the atonement ofJesus Christ and the repentance she had gone through that made the atonement possible for her. One thing that we all know for sure is that she is a Milagro

Spanish vocabulary word for the day…. milagro. Look it up!

One night this blonde girl in her 20s got in my car after having been with some of her friends in a bar downtown. She had been drinking but she wasn’t drunk. She was going from that bar to another party not far from East high school. I asked her where she was from. I ask almost everyone that because no one is from Salt Lake. She said she was born in Logan but grew up in New York. She said she came back to go to college and here she was.

The spirit prompted me that I would be speaking to this girl.

This was a bubbly happy girl. She had a smile on her face and you could tell that being happy was very important to her. I said to her, you are the happiest passenger I’ve had all week. Just as I said that I was given the inspiration on what words I was supposed to say to her.

She said that I was a very nice person and that she enjoyed being in my car. I asked her if it would be OK if I shared some positive observations I had made. She said, yes! Bring it on!

I said to her, even though you are a very happy person with a smile all the time, it makes you sad and very frustrated deep down that people, even your friends see you as superficial and not serious. They discount your capacity when they should embrace the depth of your love for other people. It hurts you that people can’t see this side of her and feel the love you have for your family and friends. It hurt that she was dismissed and that her heart was dismissed by her friends and family. I said, this hurts because you feel it limits your ability to do good and share your love. You crave people taking your love and your ability to share that seriously.

I also told her that people love being around her, she puts them at ease and children are drawn to her and that she loves that pure energy and love that comes from them

There was a pause in the car and she said how do you know this? Are you a mind reader? Who told you this and how could you know. I told her that the answer had to do with religion and she said bring it on.

I told her that I was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of latter-day Saints and that when we get baptized we get the gift of the Holy Ghost. That gift gives us the gift of discernment and prophecy if we seek those gifts to bless others.

I told her that tonight through the Holy Ghost I had been given those words to say and that they were a message from God to her. They were a message that he loved her, he knew who she was and that he wanted her back. At this point I had no idea if she knew anything about the church.

She fumbled for the words but eventually got out the phrase I used to be Mormon but I still believe, these things. She said I still believe in the plan of salvation and the doctrine. She said that she had been born into the church, she had been the seminary class president and done personal progress and everything in the church but that she had fallen away

I told her that it’s clear to me that this is why God sent me here tonight. It is because he wants her back. I told her that she knows this too.

I felt prompted to tell her that when she drives by churches she has a longing and feels the need to go. I told her she even contemplated going many times but then when the time gets close Satan gets in her ear and tells her she’s not worthy. He tells her that they don’t want her because she’s not worthy and that they would judge her and that would make her feel horrible.

I told her that nothing could be further from the truth. I told her that every single person that goes to church has had Satan whispering in their ear as well. I told her that he is a liar and we should never listen to the lies he says. I told her that the Book of Mormon says that anything that teaches a man not to pray is of the devil. Same deal!

I told her that it may be true that someone judges her because that’s who we are, we all judge but that if someone judges her harshly or she feels judged she should go up and love that person. I told her of a time in my life when I was judged with our family and my reaction was to go early so I could sit by the people that were judging us and get to know them rather than run away.

She laughed and said that this was awesome.

I said the bottom line is it God want you back. He want you back in church. He want you back on track and he wants you back on the cabinet path.

I also felt impressed to tell that she had been praying and that her father in heaven needed to hear from her. I told her that if she would pray it would lift the angst and chase away the whispers of Satan and give her the power to overcome.

She said that this was the most amazing moment of her life. She knew that God knew but now she knows he’s watching and that he loves her.

I told her about my blog and how God puts people in my car to deliver a message and then I told her, tonight that message is for you and that message is that God wants you back in church and he needs you to pray.

She looked at my blog and when she saw the heading that said “sometimes God sends you a lift, then she looked at me and said, wow! That’s exactly what this has been. You brought the spirit back into my life and I need to turn this thing around.

I asked her how she was feeling right then and she said like she was being hugged. I told her that this is how she felt the spirit, I told her this is her personal way of feeling the spirit and that only she and her father know how that works between them. I told her he loved her and he was hugging her.

We had arrived at the party and she had been sitting in my car in for an additional five minutes. She told me that she would go to church for sure this weekend and she would thank god that he sent a Lift

I could see what a great blessing that kind of love could be in the church, in her family and in missionary work

I picked up a family at the airport in Salt Lake City. They were going to Pleasant Grove. He was a mechanic and she was an office assistant and was pregnant with her second child and his first. The star of the car however was the little blond 8 year old girl.

The little girl who had the biggest mega Minnie Mouse suitcase I’ve ever seen and a little Elsa one too boot. She was bright and cheery. 

We started to drive and they seemed like a family that was happy coming back from their vacation but they were hungry. I gave them some chocolate bars that I carry for my passengers.

While they were eating we started talking about what they were going to do this weekend and the little girl said she was going to go to church with her daddy in Provo. It became immediately clear to me that this happy bright little girl was a product of a divorce but that her father took her to church every single Sunday in Provo.

That was later confirmed to me when I asked if she liked going to church. She said oh yeah I always like going to church and my dad takes me. Her mom explained the situation. She said that her ex husband was really devout and attend church all the time. Her ex husband baptized their daughter.  She said that she hadn’t really wanted to go so she was fine with the arrangement.

I asked the parents if they were members of the church and they said yes but that they weren’t active and then the little girl said “but mom, your pregnant and with the new baby you’ll need to go to church”. There was nervous laughter. 

I talked to them about what a great asset a mechanic can be in a ward. How many disadvantaged and elderly really need help and that a mechanic can sometimes be the literal hand of God to those people. He said he never thought of it that way. I said, it doesn’t matter how much you know about the gospel, you can serve while you’re learning. God has given you a great way to serve other people and help them out.

I told them about Johnny Tanner and how he had no desire to go to church because he didn’t learn anything. But we discussed how there were people there that needed him and how he could bless their lives and that’s when he started coming back.

I asked them if they ever read in the Book of Mormon. She said yes in the past and he said never. I told them that the Book of Mormon is what has kept me on my game and helped me have the spirit with me. I said, look at your daughter how happy she is and the joy she gets from going to church. I said, do you remember when it was like that for you? I told them that it could be that way again. The spirit was strong in the car and I testified about the truthfulness of the gospel and how it gives us a way to serve other people just like Jesus did. I told him as a mechanic he could be a very important part of helping the people who need help. 

They said that with their new baby coming, maybe they should go back to church and were surprised to hear the daughter say that. They said that maybe their new child needed to have the tradition of the church.

I asked how great would it be if you guys weren’t  just going through the motions so that you can help your kid have the experience? If you could lead him, that would be amazing!

I looked in the mirror, I could see tears running down their cheeks and I could see in her eyes that she was feeling the spirit. I asked her if she could feel the presence of God and she said yes

God loves you and he sent me with this message today because of that love and wants you to be with him.  The dad said yeah! Maybe we should get that started now!

The daughter said yeah! and then we can talk about what we learned at church on Sunday. Everybody laughed but God wasn’t laughing. God was smiling and you could feel hearts turning to him because of this little girl who had just been baptized herself and radiated the spirit. She knew who she was. I hope we can all be more like that little girl

Yo subí una familia en el aeropuerto de Salt Lake City y estuvieron yendo a pleasant grove. El era mecánico por autos y ella era asistente en una oficina pero estaba embarazada con su segundo hijo, eres el primer para su esposo. Sin embargo la estrella de la noche en el auto era una niña rubia de ocho años.
Este chico que tenía en la maleta más grande que jamás había visto de mini mouse Y otro más chiquita de Elsa. Ella era brillante y feliz.
Cuando empezamos el viaje parecían una familia feliz volviendo desde su vocación pero tenían hambre. Yo les di chocolate que tengo para mis pasajeros.
Y entre los que estuvieron comiendo empezamos hablar en cuanto al día próximo y lo que iban hacer el fin de semana. La niña dijo que iba a ir a la capilla con su padre y el Provo. Eres muy claro a mí que este niña era producto del divorcio de sus padres pero su padre la llevó a la capilla cada domingo.

Yo recibí confirmación de eso más tarde cuando yo pedí si iban a la capilla y ella dijo si siempre voy con mi papá. Su madre le explico la situación. su ex esposo es muy activo en la iglesia y que hiciste siempre. Ella dijo que realmente no había ido y no tenía ganas de ir pues estaba complacida con la situación 

Yo pedí a los padres si fueron miembros de la iglesia y ellos me dijeron que sí pero no fueron activos. La Niña dijo,Mom, estás embarazada y con el Baby nuevo vas a tener que ir a la capilla, no?”Estuvieron riendo muy nerviosa mente

Yo los hablé del gran bendición que sería un mecánico en el barrio. yo hablé y de cómo hay muchos pobres cojos y viudas que realmente necesitan ayuda y que un mecánico a veces puede ser literalmente la mano de dios a estas personas. El dijo que nunca había pensado de las cosas así. Yo dije que no importa cuánto es que conoce del Evangelio se puede servir mientras que está aprendiendo. Dios le ha dado una manera muy bueno para servir a otros personas y ayudarlos. 

Yo les pedí si leyeron el libro de mormón, Ella dijo que si había y él dijo que nunca. Yo les dije que el libro de mormón es la cosa que me mantiene y que me ayude tener el espíritu conmigo.   Yo les dije que si miraron a su hija lleno con felicidad, animo y el gozo que la traiga yendo a la capilla adorando a Dios  los domingos. Yo les pedí si recordaron cuando era así para ellos. Yo les dije que podría ser así otra vez. El espíritu estaba fuerte en el auto y yo testifique de la veracidad del evangelio Y es la manera dios nos ha dado de servir a otros como hizo Jesús. Yo le dije Tura vez que como mecánico él podría ser muy importante en la esfuerza ayudar a los demás

Yo lo compartí la conversión  de Johnny tanner  y como él no iría a la capilla porque sintió como no estaba recibiendo nada que necesitaba. Un día yo dije que tiene que ver con eso. Tenéis que ir para ayudar a los demás. Ellos te necesitan a ti y estás quitando la ayuda que pueda ofrecer. Esta charla cambio todo

Ellos dijeron que estuvo para llegar su bebé nuevo y que había empezado pensar que quizás  deberían volver a la iglesia y estuvieron sorprendidos de escuchar su hija decir que deben ir ahora y no esperar porque ellos creyeron que su niño nuevo necesitaba tener la tradición  de la religión

Yo dije que hermoso sería si no estuvieron pasando los sin sentir solo para dar experiencia a su hijo. Yo dije que si podrían ser líderes sería increíble!

Yo miré en el espejo y pudiese ver lágrimas corriendo por los ajíes y ojos. Yo podía ver en sus ojos que ella se estaba sintiendo el espíritu.Yo la pedí si podía sentir la presencia de dios y dijo que si

Dije yo les dije que dios los amaba y que me había mandado con ese mensaje hoy porque los ama y quiere que estén con él. El padre dijo “SI” quizás deberíamos empezar ahora!

Dijoó “SI! entonces podamos hablar de lo que aprendimos en la iglesia.” Todos reímos pero dios no estaba riendo. Él estaba sonriendo y podía sentir los corazones tú hablando a él porque ese chica que recibí recién había sido bautizada simismo brillo el espíritu. Ella sabía quién era y espero que todos podamos ser así

I picked up this young man about one in the morning. He was leaving a girls house and I was taking him to his house. It was about a 15 minute drive so we had a little bit of time. We started talking about the girl that he had been with and he mentioned how much he’d like to date her. She totally had him friend zoned though.

He was of Latin descent born here in the United States and he talked about his different perspective on life. He said that he had found a lot of animosity towards him in certain circles from other Latins because he was a citizen and that brought with it advantages.  Right away I could tell this was a hard-working kid and he seemed to have a really good spirit about him. 

Then I looked in his eyes and the spirit told me that this young man was troubled. Even though he was hiding it I could see in his eyes and hear the spirit whisper that he was trouble.

I said to him you seem to be doing good and working now and he said yeah I’m doing pretty good right now. I said you seem to me to be a really good kid and that you’re really trying to do what’s best. He said yeah that’s where he wants to head in his life right now. I asked him if he minded me asking him a very personal question and he said no, go ahead.

I said the things the spirit whispered to my heart and I said it seems to me like maybe you were in trouble before or spent some time in jail. I said when you were in jail you felt helpless and hopeless and one night in particular it was really dark and in the midst of that darkness you prayed and the Lord gave you light. To you it seemed like a rope that dropped from heaven that you could hold on to and it got you through.  You’ve been trying to find that ever since.

He was astounded. He said how could you possibly know that, that’s exactly what happened. He said “I’m freaking out a little bit right now” then he said,“in a good way though!” He asked me if someone put me up to this or if I was reading minds. I told him no. I explained to him that I serve God and that in my religion when we are baptized we get the gift of the Holy Ghost and that gift brings with it gifts of the spirit like discernment and revelation. I told him that those words that I said came to my heart and I just said them knowing that they came from God.

I told him that for some reason God wanted him to know that he knew who he was and that he loved him.

I asked him if he was at a critical juncture in his life right now. He said yes. He said that the people who had got him in trouble before we’re pulling on him again and he was finding it hard to have the strength to resist. I asked him if this could be why God sent me tonight to let him know and remind him of his love.

He started to cry and said that is the most amazing thing. The feeling I had that day in prison got me through and right now I’m feeling that again here in this car. I know that God came to me then and sent you here to me today.

He asked me what does God want me to do? I said first and foremost he want you to come to him. That includes not going with your friends. I asked him if he had any other friends that weren’t part of this bad group. He said yes there was a girl that liked him. Instantly I knew by the spirit that this girl was a member of the church. I asked him if this girl was a member of the church and he said yes she is, she’s always trying to get me to go to church with her. I said, she’s trying to save you.

I told him that God sends help in the form of people in our lives who reach out with a hand or rope and that this girl had that rope and that he should hold onto it. I asked him how often she reached out to him and he said all the time and that she had talked to him earlier that day.

I told him that sounded like a relationship that maybe he had ought to pursue. The spirit was really strong in the car and I bore my testimony of Joseph Smith and the Book of Mormon. I said to him that if he would pray and ask God he would fill his heart and continue to bring him along.

I asked him if he had ever seen the missionaries and he said no. I told him that this girl could introduce him to the missionaries and that they would give him the light he needs to find his way in this dark world.  

He said that’s exactly what I need. I handed him a Book of Mormon. (One of the Book of Mormon is prepared by the Secrists). I promised him that if he would read that book that his life would be filled with light and then if he would pray about it the truth would be revealed to him through it. He grabbed the book and held it to his forehead.

When I gave him this Book of Mormon I talked to him about his ancestors and how they were a blessed people and how they were blessed directly by Jesus Christ and even more blessed when they were obedient to God. I told him they were great promises in this book for his people and that this book was the spiritual heritage that God and his ancestors had left him.

He said this is exactly what I need. 

He said I will go in right now and read and tomorrow I will call this girl so we can go to church on Sunday. I see a path here away from the problems in my past and I want to take it.

He said that he couldn’t believe what a miracle it was that God sent me there that night, that God knew his heart and that we had seen these miracles. He said, it’s been a year and a half since that day in jail and today I promise you I will start a new life.

He got out of the car and waved. I have a feeling this young man will do exactly what he said.

Yo recibí una llamada para buscar un joven un día más o menos a la 1:00 de la mañana. Él estaba saliendo de la casa de una chica y yo estaba llevándolo a su casa. era más o menos un el viaje de 15 minutos pues teníamos un poquito de tiempo. Empezamos hablando de la chica con quien había estado. El mencionó como él le gustaría salir con ella pero ella le tenía en la zona de amigo

En era descendiente latino pero nació acá en los Estados Unidos y habló de como muchos de los latinos tuvieron problemas con él porque él tenía papeles y podía hacer cualquier cosa y ellos faltaban. cuando dijo eso yo entendí que era un trabajador pero tenía un gran espíritu en su ser 

Yo le miré en sus ojos y el espíritu me dijo que ese joven tenía problemas. Aunque lo estaba escondiendo.  

Yo le pedí si estaba bien, si estaba trabajando y él dijo que sí estaba haciendo más o menos bien. Yo dije, a mi me parece que es un buen chico y que está intentando hacer lo bueno y lo que se debe hacer. El dijo que sí y por ahí quiere andar por ahora yo le pedí si sería  posible hacerle una pregunta muy personal y él dijo que estaba bien que lo hiciera 

Yo dije que el espíritu  estaba susurrado a mi en mi corazón y siento que estaba quizás encarcelado por un tiempo. Yo dije que cuando estaba en el cárcel sentía desesperado y sin esperanza y un noche en particular fue muy oscuro. Entre  todo esto el oró a el señor le dió un luz bajando del cielo que a el parecía una cuerda blanca que cayó del cielo que le ayudó por ahí. El había  estado intentando encontrar eso desde ese momento.

Él estaba asombrado y dijo cómo podría posiblemente haber conocido eso. Este es exactamente lo que pasó. El dijo, estoy volviéndome loco acá!  Entonces dijo loco en una buena manera. El me pidió si alguien me había empujado a hacer ese trampa o si yo podría leer su mente. Yo le expliqué que yo soy servio de dios y en mi religión cuando somos bautizados recibimos el don del espíritu Santo y este don traiga consigo dádivas del espíritu como discernimiento  y revelación. Yo le dije vinieron a mi corazón las palabras y yo los dije sabiendo que vinieron de dios. 

Yo le dije que por alguna razón dios quería que él supiera que dios estaba pendiente de él y que le llamaba.

Yo le pedí si él estaba en un proceso de un decisión muy importante en su vida ahora. El dijo que sí. El dijo que la gente que le llevaron problemas antes estuvieron tirándole otra vez y él estaba encontrando lo difícil tener la fuerza resistir.  Yo le dije que podría ser que esto es porque dios me mandó esta noche para ayudarle recordar el amor de dios

El empezó a llorar y dijo que este es la cosa más asombroso. El sentimiento que recibí en la prisión me llevo hasta el fin y ahora estoy sintiéndolo otra vez en este coche. Yo sé que dios vino a mi y entonces te mandó mi acá hoy. 

El me pidió que es que dios quiere que haga? Yo dije que primeramente el quiere que vengas a el. Éste incluye dejando tus amigos. Yo le pedí si tenía otros amigos que no fueron parte de ese grupo. El dijo que si había una chica y que ella fue miembro de nuestra iglesia. El dijo que ella siempre está intentándolo llevarle a la capilla con ella. Yo dije que ella está intentando salvarte

Yo le dije que dios manda ayuda en nuestras vidas por medio de amigos que estrechan la mano o tiren una cuerda y esta chica tenía este cuerda y el día debería de agarrarlo firmemente. Yo le pedí Cuan a menudo ese chica le hable y él dijo siempre me estás hablando y que ellos estuvieron hablando juntos más temprano en el día

Yo le dije que para mí este parece una amistad que debería seguir. El espíritu estaba muy fuerte en el auto y yo compartí mi testimonio de José Smith y del libro de mormón. Yo dije a él que si El ora y pidiera a dios, el llenaría su corazón Y te llevará consigo

Yo le pedí si había visto los misioneros y él dijo qué no. Yo le dije que este chica podría presentarle a ellos y ellos le Presentarían la luz que él necesitaba encontrar el camino en ese mundo oscuro. 

El dijo que esto era exactamente lo que necesitaba. Yo le entregué un libro de mormón. Uno de los libros preparados especialmente por los secrists. Yo le prometí que si él leería es el libro que su vida sería lleno con luz y que si orara a diós entonces el la verdad que se encuentren es el libro sería metido en él por medio del libro y el espíritu. El agarró el libro y lo Puso tocando al frente de su cabeza 

Cuando le di el libro de mormón, hablaba de sus antepasados y como fueron un pueblo bendecido y como ellos fueron bendecidos por Jesucristo y aún fueron más bendecidos cuando fueron obedientes a dios. Yo le dije que fueron grandes las promesas que se encontraba en el libro por su pueblo y una herencia espiritual que dios y sus al antepasados le había dado y dejado. 

El dijo que este era exactamente lo que necesitaba. El dijo que iría ahora mismo para leer y mañana él llamaría a la chica para que podrían ir a la capilla el domingo. “Yo veo el camino acá afuera de las problemas de mi pasado y quiero tomarlo. “

El dijo que no podía creer cuan milagroso fue que dios me había mandado ahí este noche, Que dios conocía su corazón y que habíamos visto esos milagros. 

El salió de auto auto y yo tengo una creencia firma que ese joven hará exactamente lo que dijo que iba hacer

One night I was heading home. It was late and I had been having a good day so I felt like I could go. I started to drive out of downtown to the west on 4th south when I got a call. It was to a restaurant worker over on the east side on Highland Drive halfway down the valley. The debate raged. I have developed a policy of not taking any calls that take over 11 minutes of drive time to arrive. Because of fuel costs and the small amount of money I received for that ride it doesn’t make financial sense. This usually happens late at night when all the other drivers have knocked off and that lets you know when it’s time for you to go home. If you have to drive over 11 minutes, everybody else already went home and you should too. This was one such call.

He was a young man with long hair and he was locking up the joint. We started to chat and he talked about how he had left his former employer to come and work for a friend. To me it didn’t seem like a great career path move but I admired his loyalty to his friend. I started feeling right then that we were going to be talking about the church.

His previous employer was a soda pop distribution company and we talked about how cheap it was to buy soda when you work for the company. I know this because my cousin worked for one. My passenger said he had lots of soda stockpiled but he wasn’t sure how good it was for you. He said that he poured some on his sidewalk and it stained it. He wondered how good that could be in your body. I knew I had an opening right here to talk about the church. I said, for sure you wouldn’t want to drink alcohol or beer? He said that he’ll have a couple here and there but that not drinking was something that he should consider. I talked to him about how important it was to keep your body in good shape and not bring bad things into it.

This led me to a discussion about a young man that I picked up two nights before who is the subject of another story. I had taken this young man and his girlfriend downtown to a hotel and then brought them back to their hotels. These two had gone to purchase drugs. I didn’t see it, I didn’t know it for sure but the spirit told me what was going on and by the end of the ride I was able to help the young man and I’m still in contact with him.

I talked to him about how God will put people in my car so that I can help them like I did that kid. I told him that everyone has different needs and God knows what those needs are and that night at that time he needed that young men rescued from the situation.

When I said this he kind of got his back up a little bit, he said before you do missionary work you need to realize that you need to do missionary work on yourself. This was a bit combative and was his take off of the “don’t tell ME what to do if you’re doing anything wrong” thing people used to justify the fact that they’re not doing the right thing. This is the way they assuage their guilt by saying “well they have no right to talk to me because they’re not perfect either”.

I told him that he was 100% correct, I said that no one agrees with that more than me. I said that everyone has faults and that we all need to repent and get better all the time. I told him that our prophet says we need to repent every day. I told him that God uses people to help other people even though they’re imperfect and sometimes he puts people in my car and I can help them through his power.

He told me the story of his family and how they were very active in the church but then they went through a rough patch. About ten years ago their dad lost his job and his dad, mom and now he himself had started to drink. They quit going to church 10 years ago and now didn’t even really consider the church anymore. I told him I could relate to the stress of losing your job because that happened to me just now but I told him that in thisI had seen the hand of God as he lifted me. I told him that the reality is I think that we’ve been blessed because we paid our tithing among other things even though it was difficult.

I told him that it’s all about how you react to it. I mentioned Elder Bednar’s Character of Christ talk. In that talk he discusses how Christ always turned out and fought the temptations, the impulse to focus on himself and his personal comfort and standing. He chose instead to turn out and bless others, even when things were the darkest he sought to comfort and bless others.

I told him that one of the things I felt promoted by the spirit to do after I lost my job was to turn out and tried to help others. I told him that this is how my experiences in the car like the one two nights before happen. In sharing the gospel I am able to turn out instead of focusing inward, feel the spirit, help other people and be a better person. Even though I am not perfect God has worked through me and I want to keep doing it.

He asked me how I could buy that, “there’s only one true church”. He said that he believed that there were only two things, good and evil. He said that therefore all churches that teach of Jesus are true and good. I told him I couldn’t disagree totally with that but that there were a couple of things that he needed to consider. We discussed authority and we discussed baptism. I asked him if it was important for people to be baptized. He said yes everyone needs to be baptized. I asked him if it was important that it be done by someone who has God’s permission to do that. He was quiet. I said that’s the difference.

I’ve then described to him the analogy of the church of Christ when he was on the earth as a mirror hanging on the wall with 12 pegs holding it solid. Those pegs were the apostles. Once they were all killed, that church that everyone loved so much, that was perfect and was organized by Christ fell to the ground and crashed into hundreds of pieces like a mirror would. I told him that the people loved the church and they loved the teachings of Christ and they came swooping in to grab up pieces of that mirror. They then took the pieces they grabbed, that they loved and although incomplete or not the total picture, reformed it into a functional mirror.

I told him that’s what happened in religion to the church of Christ. People grabbed onto teachings and reformed their churches around those truths. Those truths still exist as truth but those people don’t have the full truth. They don’t have the authority which was one of those pieces they missed. I told him that baptisms for the dead was proof of this. A perfect father in heaven had a perfect plan to save all of his children if they would be saved, no matter where they were born or when they were born and it was part of that mirror. That was a piece that nobody picked up. It is an important piece because it proves that God loves everyone everywhere that was ever born. It shows the perfection of god’s plan.

I told him that this is why it was so important for Joseph Smith, when he went to the Sacred Grove and God the father and Jesus Christ appeared to him so that they could restore the whole church, the whole mirror, and not just reform it out of the shattered pieces of teachings. He said, wow! When I did baptisms for the dead as a deacon I had no idea how important that was.

I told him that God called Joseph Smith to restore the church and all of its teachings. He said that this was amazing.

Sometimes the spirit comes in powerfully and abruptly. But other times it simmers and builds to a crescendo. This was one of those times. By now we were feeling the spirit, And it was very strong. I felt like as long as the spirit was going to bless us with his presence we should identify it and I asked him what he was feeling physically and emotionally at that moment. He said that he was feeling enlightenment and peace. He said it felt very familiar and good.

I told him that this is how he feels in the presence of God and this is how he feels when truth is revealed to him. I asked him what God was trying to tell him with the presence of his spirit. He told me he was trying to tell me that the things we were discussing were true. I testified of that. I told him that there were two reasons why it felt familiar. The first reason was that he ad felt it in the church and in his family when he was young. I told him that the second reason why it felt familiar was because his spirit remembered that feeling from being in the presence of God in the pre-existence. I told him that his spirit craved this feeling and that his spirit couldn’t get enough of this feeling. That’s why it feels familiar, because it feels like home with our heavenly father.

By this time we were done with the ride. We have been sitting in front of his house for five minutes and it was 3:30 am. He wasn’t budging. I felt impressed to point that out to him so I did. I said, so when you feel the spirit like this it makes you not wanna leave doesn’t it. You have no desire to get out of my car because of what you’re feeling. He said yes! He was excited and you could tell he was engaged in what he was going through.

I asked him what this meant to him for his future. He said, well I guess I need to go to church. I said that would be a good start. If you go to church you’ll feel the spirit just like you do in my car and it will give you a weekly lift. I asked him if he would go to church this Sunday, he said yes! I asked him what time he went to church and he said 7 AM. I told him I didn’t think that’s when he went to church. I looked up his ward on the meetinghouse locator and found that they meet at 11 AM. It had the address, time, the bishops name and phone number. I took a screenshot of that and I texted it to him so he could have it.

I asked him if he was going to go to church this week and he said yes! He said that his family needs to feel this spirit and do this too. I told him that he needs to lead his family back and he said yes.

I told him about deciding to come and pick him up at night. I told him how I nearly didn’t come and he told me that I was the third driver. The others had rejected him. I told him that there were no such thing as coincidences and he agreed. This was clearly a prearranged meeting that was presided over and conducted by the Holy Ghost.

Finally after sitting in front of his house for about 15 minutes and talking along with my fair share of yawning, I told him that I had to go but we would keep in touch. I told him to go inside and pray. I told him he could take that spirit with him if he would. I told him that if he would read the Book of Mormon he would feel the presence of God and know that it’s true. I told him if he would do these things he could have God with him always. He was very happy with that thought and seemed to develop a resolve to do this thing. He got out of the car and started towards the house and I drove off.

10 minutes later I received a text thanking me for the lift

Sometimes when we have struggles in life and it’s too much for us to bear God will send us a lift. It might not be right away but it will be the perfect time because God‘s time is always the perfect time. Now it is this young man’s time to come back and bring his family. He knows that and I trust that he’ll do it. He knows that God will be there with a lift when necessary.

Un jueves en la noche, yo estaba yendo a casa. Yo voy a tenido éxito ese día y sentí que ya se acaba mi trabajo. Yo empecé manejar fuera del centro al oeste cuando recibí otra llamada para llevar gente. me llevo hasta un restaurante en el lado este del valle sobre la avenida Highland drive. Yo empecé discutir entre tú malo o no. Yo había empezado una política de no tomar llamadas más de 11 minutos desde donde empiezo. No quiero estar yendo 30 minutos para recoger a alguien que va a dos cuadras. Se pierde mucho asi. Por causa del costo de nafta y la cantidad de dinero recibido que es poco por algo así no hay sentido financial hacerlo. Normalmente pasa eso tarde y cuando los otros manipuladores ya han ido a sus casas y le dejas saber que es tiempo terminar también. Si tiene que manejar más de 11 minutos todos los demás manejadores ya están en casa y deberías estar también. Así era esta llamada

El era joven con cabello largo y estaba cerrando el restauran cuando llegué.

Empezamos a charlar y él habló como había dejado su trabajo anterior para venir y trabajar con un amigo. A mi no me parecía un gran plan para el futuro de su carrera pero admiré su lealtad a su amigo. Yo empecé a sentir inmediatamente entonces que íbamos hablar de la iglesia.

Antes había trabajado por una fábrica de gaseosa y hizo la distribución del producto. Hablamos de cuán borato era comprar gaseosa cuando trabaja para la compañía. Yo sé eso porque mi primo trabajaba así. Él tenía un montón de graciosa. Mi amigo en la coche no estaba seguro cuán bien era para su cuerpo. El dijo que había dejado caer graciosa y en su parlamento enfrente de su casa y quedó colorado el parlamento permanentemente. Él pensaba que no sería bien para su cuerpo tampoco.

Yo vi una oportunidad ahí hablar de la iglesia. Yo dije, por supuesto no le gustaría tomar alcohol o cerveza tampoco no? El dijo que tomaría un poco acá y ahí pero era algo que se debe considerar. Yo hablé con el de la importancia de guardar su cuerpo en buena estación y no poner malas cosas adentro

Con eso podría hablar del joven que había tenido en mi auto dos noches anterior. El el tema de otro cuento que hice en este blog. Yo le había tomado el con su novia al centro a un hotel y de vuelta a sus propios hoteles. Esos dos fueron para comprar drogas. Yo no lo vi y no lo sabía por seguro pero el espíritu me dijo que estaba pasando y al final yo estaba ayudando ese joven y todo vía estoy en contacto con él.

Yo le hablé y de cómo dios me da gente en mi auto para que pueda ayudarlos como hice con ese chico. Yo le dije que cada persona tiene necesidades diferentes y que dios sabe cuáles son las necesidades que tiene y quién aquella momento ese joven necesitaba rescatarse de la situación

Cuando yo dije esto él se puso duro un poco, el dijo antes que se puede hacer la obra misional tenéis que darse cuenta que tiene obra misional hacer por sí mismo. Yo escuché eso como decir “ no me consejas si no estás perfecto si mismo” La gente dice eso para justificar el hecho de que no están haciendo lo correcto. Así cobran su culpabilidad diciendo “ellos no tienen derecho a hablarme a mí por qué no son perfectos tampoco.”

Y yo le dije quieres 100 % correcto. Yo dije que no hay nadie que está de acuerdo con eso más que yo. Yo dije que cada persona tiene sus fallas y que todos tenemos que arrepentirnos cada día. Yo le dije que nuestro profeta dice que tenemos que arrepentirnos cada día. Yo le dije que dios usa gente normal para ayudar otra gente aunque no están perfectos y a veces pone gente en mi auto para que yo los pueda ayudar por medio de su poder

El me contó la historia de su familia y como antes eran muy activos en la iglesia pero entonces venía mucho adversidad. Acercando 10 años atrás su padre había perdido su trabajo y su madre y padre y hora Eli empezaron tomar alcohol. Dejaron de ir a la capilla esa de 10 años y hora no se consideraron miembros más. Yo le dije que podría entender el estrés de perder su trabajo porque me estaba pasando aún. Yo le dije que había sido el mano de dios que me había levantado. Realmente yo creo que hemos sido bendecidos porque seguimos pagando nuestros diezmos y otras cosas aun que seaba difícil

Yo le dije que tiene que ver con cómo reaccione a la adversidad. Yo mencioné el discurso de Elder Bernar que se llama características de Cristo. En este discurso el habla de como Cristo siempre doblo por afuera y miro por afuera y Pelio contra el tentaciones para enfocar en sí mismo y sus necesidades personales y orgullo. El escogió para doblar por fuera y bendecir los demás aún cuando las cosas estuvieron lo más oscuro personalmente, el busco bendecir y dar socorro a los demás.

Yo le dije que uno de las cosas que hice en ti que venía del espíritu a mí después de perder mi trabajo era para doblar por afuera y ayudar a otros. Yo le dije que así es como pasen las experiencias en mi auto como había pasado dos noches anteriores. Metiéndome en el evangelio me da la capacidad de doblar por afuera en vez de enfocar adentro de mí y sentir el espíritu y ayudar a otros personas y ser mejor persona. Aunque no soy perfecto dios ha trabajado por medio de mí y yo quiero seguir haciéndolo.

En mi vídeo como podría creer que hay solo una iglesia. El dijo que él creía que solo había dos cosas bueno y malo. El Dijo que así, todos los ingleses que enseñan de Cristo son verdad y bueno. Yo le dije que no estaba totalmente discutiendo eso solo que había dos cosas que teníamos que considerar

Hablamos de la autoridad y del bautismo. Yo le pedí si fuera importante ser bautizado. El dijo que si todos necesitan bautizarse. Yo le pedí si era importante se bautizado por alguien que tiene permiso De Dios para hacerlo? Él estaba quieto yo dije, este es la diferencia.

Yo sé el ejemplo de la iglesia de Jesucristo en la tierra como espejo colgado usando 12 esclavos teniéndolo firme. Éstos esclavos fueron apóstoles. Cuando todos habían sido matados este iglesia y que todos amaban tanto que fue perfecto y fue organizado por Jesucristo cayó al tierra y quebró A millones de pedazos Como haría un espejo que te aviso. Yo le dije que la gente todavía amaba la iglesia y las enseñanzas de Cristo y vinieron agarrando parte del espejo, los partes que amaban aunque no tenían todo el espejo reformaron un espejo nuevo de que tenían que funcionaba más o menos

Yo le dije que esto es que pasó en la religión de la Iglesia de Jesucristo. La gente agarró las enseñanzas y lo usaron para reformar sus iglesias con este enseñanzas y verdades. Esto es verdades existen ya Y esta gente tiene este Verdad pero no tienen todo la verdad. No tienen la autoridad que es uno de los pedazos que faltaban. Yo le dije que bautismos para los muertos fue prueba de eso. Un padre en el cielo que es perfecto tendría un plan para salvar sus hijos si querían ser salvos ni importa de donde nacieron o cuando y era parte del espejo también. Este fue otro parte que nadie agarraba. Es un parte importante porque da prueba de que dios ama a cada persona y en el mundo que jamás nació y muestra la perfección del plan de dios

Yo le dije que por eso era importante que Jose y Smith fue al bosque y que dios el padre y Jesucristo aparecieron a él para que podrían restaurar todo el espejo y no reformarlo desde los pedazos de enseñances que se encontraba. El dijo, Wao!!! Cuando yo hice bautismos por los muertos cuando el diácono yo no tenía ninguna idea con lo importante que era

Yo le dije que dios llamó a José Smith y restaurar la iglesia y todos sus enseñanzas. Y él dijo que se le dejaba asombrado.

A veces el espíritu bien y poderoso mente y rápido.Otros tiempos construye y aumenta. Y este era uno de estos veces. Ahora estuvimos sintiendo en espíritu y era muy fuerte. Yo sentí como mientras que dios iba a bendecirnos con su presencia deberíamos identificarlo y le pedí que estaba sintiendo físicamente y emocionalmente en ese momento. El dijo que estaba sintiendo vas iluminado. El dijo que era un sentido que parecía conocido y bueno.

Yo le dije que así es como sienten la presencia de dios y que así siente cuando es la verdad está revelado a el. Yo le pedí quiere que dios le estaba intentando decirle con la presencia de su espíritu. El me dijo que estaba intentando decirle que las cosas de que estuvimos hablando eran verdaderas. Yo testifique de eso. Yo le dije qué había dos razones porque sentía conocido. La primera razón es que había sentido este y en la iglesia con su familia. Yo le dije que la segunda razón era porque lo recordaba de la preexistencia en la presencia de dios. Yo le dije que su espíritu extrañaba este sentimiento y que no podía tener demasiado asociación con su padre. Por eso se siente conocido porque siente como estar en casa, el hogar de nuestro padre celestial.

Ahora en el viaje habíamos terminado. Habíamos estado sentados enfrente de su casa por cinco minutos y eran las 3:30 de la madrugada. Él no estaba saliendo. Yo sentí le impresión de decirle eso entonces lo hice. Yo le dije, cuando sienta el espíritu le hace para que no quiere salir de su presencia, verdad? No tiene deseo de salir de mi coche por causa de lo que estás sintiendo. El dijo si!Él estaba animado y se veía metido en lo que estaba pasando

Yo le pedí que quiere decir eso para su futuro. El dijo, bueno me parece necesito ir a la capilla. Yo dije que sería un buen lugar empezar. Si vais a la que pilles y enterases de espíritu justo como sentí en mi auto y te levantará cada semana. Yo le pedí si iría a la que pille ese domingo, el dijo que sí! Yo le pedí a qué hora fueron a la capilla él dijo 7:00 a.m. Yo le dije que no creía que este era el tiempo que empezó su empezaron sus reuniones. Yo busqué en el Internet y encontré que se reúnen a las 11:00 a.m. Le mandé por texto la dirección y el nombre del su obispo con número de teléfono.

Yo le pedí si iba esta semana, él dijo que sí. El dijo que su familia también necesitaba sentir el espíritu como estabas sintiéndolo él ahora. El dijo que tenían que ir ellos también. Yo le dije que él tenía que ser el líder para guiar su familia de vuelta.

Yo le dije en cuanto decidieron venir para recogerlo ese noche. Yo le dije como casi no venía. El me dijo que era el tercer manejador. Los otros le habían rechazado. Yo le dije que no era tal cosa como coincidencia y él estaba de acuerdo. Yo le dije que esto de reunión que habíamos tenido un fue orchestra, presidida y conducido por el Espíritu Santo

Al final después de sentarnos enfrente de su casa por más o -15 minutos hablando en mi estado de falta de sueño yo le dije que tenía que ir. Yo le dije que vaya su cuarto y hora. Yo le dije Que podrían llevar ese espíritu consigo si haría eso. Yo le dije que si leería el libro de mormón el sentaría la presencia de dios y saber de la veracidad del libro de mormón. Yo le dije que si en teoría el espíritu de dios el sabría de la veracidad de todo. Yo le dije que se hiciera eso cosa que él podría tener dios consigo siempre.

Él estaba muy feliz con ese pensamiento y me parecía que tenía el deseo firme de seguir para complot con estas cosas. El salió de la auto y empezó hacia la casa y yo salí

10 minutos más tarde yo recibí un texto agradeciéndome por levantarle.

A veces cuando tenemos luchas en la vida y es demasiado aguantar, dios nos mandará un apoyo. Quizás no viene muy rápido pero será en el tiempo perfecto de dios porque su tiempo siempre es perfecto. Ahora es el tiempo de ese joven volver y llevar su familia contigo. El sabe que dios estará ahí con apoyo cuando es necesario

One night I was going along after the bars closed and I received a call to pick up a couple of people at a notorious bar downtown. As I approached this bar, which is normally bustling with activity, I saw two Polynesians, a man and a woman sitting on the step of the establishment.

To me they looked totally out of place and the spirit told me that they felt totally out of place. They got in the car and we hit it off famously. I started by saying “malo léele” As they told me they were Tongan

We talked about family members of theirs that I knew through my association with BYU football. They talked about Kalani Sitake and how proud they were of him. I could feel that the guilt they felt from the lifestyle they had been mired in for some time now along with the result from that nights endeavors, began to be replaced with an excitement, pride and love in their voice for their families and the legacy that they had been blessed with.

They asked me if I could put some of the music from my phone on the radio so that they could listen to it. Did I have a surprise for them. I told them I had some music that I recorded that I wanted them to listen to.

I went into my videos and pulled out a video I took of some missionaries from Tonga singing when I was serving in the MTC. Here is that video. https://vimeo.com/578265270. As the video played first I heard sniffles and then I heard singing and finally a request to play it again and again. They were fully emotional.

I talked about the MTC and how faithful and spiritual those Tongan missionaries were and how as they sang that song you could see them worshiping. They then started telling me about all their family members who had served missions and how they were members of the church themselves.

I asked them what that song meant to them. They said that whenever they heard that song they could feel the love of God for them. I told them that out of 5000 rides I had never played a video from my phone for anyone but tonight the Holy Ghost wanted me to play that and that I knew it was special for them.

When I looked back at then,in my mind they looked like children. I could feel the Lord’s love for them and I could feel their mothers love for them.

I told them that their father in heaven loved them and their mother was concerned. I told them that their mother wanted them to make changes and that it was time to get going.

They were both quite young (in their late 20’s) and at that point I had no idea that their mother had passed.

They then began to cry. The lady said their mother died seven years ago and it threw them all into a tailspin. Their father could barely function and there been so much pressure. At first they quit going to church because it was inconvenient. Then they quit going to church because they didn’t feel like it and finally they quit going to church because they turned in a different direction.

The lady told me that it is the strangest thing but that the second she got in my car she could feel the presence of her mother. The funny thing is that I could feel the presence of her mother too and I have no doubt that her mother’s love for that song was the reason why we played it. It would not normally ever come to my mind to do something like that.

We talked about how God‘s love transcends all and that even though we sin he loves us. We talked about how that night their spirits had woken up and felt joy in the presence of the spirit of God. We talked about how he sent his son so that we can deal with our struggles and overcome our sins. Without being specific she said, I hear my mothers voice in your words. Everything you say is exactly what she used to say to me. I know you were sent by God to drive us tonight.

I felt prompted to talk about repentance and the way back. I assured them that it was not too far and that God wanted them back more than anything. I told them that their mom wanted them back so that they could all be together again

The woman told me that her mother had talked about that as she was dying and that again the words I was using were exactly the words she had said at that time.

I talked to them about the atonement and how faith in the atonement of Jesus Christ and his power is what they lacked. I told them that the atonement not only is there to help them repent but it is also there to take away the sting of the pain and suffering caused by their mothers death and the other challenges they face in this life. Most of all I told them that the resurrection was part of that atonement and their mother who was with us there that night,was not gone, she would be resurrected.

I told them that through the atonement they could turn things around and be ready to see her. I told them that this was what their mother wanted. The Lady said that their mother had always talked about the atonement but that they really hadn’t paid too much attention and that it was no coincidence that I talked about their mothers favorite subject. I told them that God doesn’t leave us alone. He’s given us the atonement of Jesus Christ and it’s power, he’s given us the Holy Ghost which was there tonight, he’s given us our ancestors who are supporting us and praying for us.

I asked them, with all these things that God has given us how can we fail if we will just try with God at our side? I promise that those words “how can we fail if we just try with God at our side” had never come out of my mouth in the history of all the talking I have done which, is considerable. They teared up again and said that this was their mothers favorite phrase. She said it all the time.

I told them that if they were going to come back they would need to read the Book of Mormon every day. I told them they would need to pray while they were reading the Book of Mormon and pray about their life and that God would illuminate their path. I told them that the path ran through the chapel and that they needed to go to church. I asked them if they knew what ward they lived in. They said no so we looked it up on the meetinghouse locator. They promised they would go to church.

I perceived that they were worried and hesitant about being judged by people in their family and in their ward. I said, are you worried about being judged? They both nodded. I said, I promise you someone WILL do that. Satan wants to trip you up and he knows that this would hurt. I also promise you that the spirit will go with you and your mother will be by your side. if you will go to church and focus on God instead of the other people, you won’t even notice it.

The lady said, I keep saying this, but that’s exactly what my mother would say! We know that you were sent by God here to straighten us out tonight. The man said I have not felt like this for years! I feel like it’s all possible now. I want to come back!

He said, I can tell that you are a man of God and that you are a worthy holder of the priesthood. Would it be possible for you to pray for us here in the car. I’ve had this happen on occasion and it’s always a wonderful event. We bowed our heads and I said the words that came to my heart while praying for them.

I prayed that they would find the strength to look to God instead of their own abilities, I prayed that they would turn away from evil influences and those who would drag them down. In the prayer I mentioned that their mother was watching and that she would be with them as they listened to the words that she had said. The spirit was very powerful and you could feel the spirit of our father in heaven and the spirit of their mother in the car. Light was pouring in and tears were pouring down.

The ride was over and we have been sitting for sometime in front of their house. I told them that I knew that they could do it and that I needed to get going. They both grabbed me by the hand and held it to their foreheads. They said they wanted to continue to feel this connection forever. I told them that if they repented, prayed, went to church and read the Book of Mormon that this would be their blessing.

They promised me that they would do that and got out of the car smiling and singing fola fola

With those two, the spirit, and their mother in the car I exceeded the amount of people that the rideshare company allows me to have as passengers in my car. I won’t tell if you wont!😀

Uno dia yo estaba andando cerca a los clubes después que habían cerrado para buscar una pareja de un club que es muy conocido en el centro. Mientras que acercaba el club que normalmente estaba lleno de gente yo vi dos polinesianos, Un hombre y una mujer sentados enfrente del club.

A mí parecían totalmente fuera del normal en ese lugar. Ellos subieron el auto y empezamos a andar famosamente bien. Yo empecé diciendo, malo léele El saludo tongano después que me dijeron que fueron tongamos

Hablamos de miembros de su familia que yo conocí por medio de mi asociación con fútbol de BYU. Ellos hablaron de Kalani Sitake Y cuánto orgullo tenían de él. Yo podía sentir la culpa brindando de su estilo de vida que habían estado viviendo por un tiempo ahora y los acciones del mismo noche fueron reemplazados con ánimo orgullo y amor en sus voces por sus familias y la herencia que habían recibido como bendición de ellos

Me pidieron si yo podría poner música en el radio para que podrían escucharlo.

Yo tenía un gran sorpresa para ellos. Yo les dije que tenía música que había grabado y quería que ellos lo escucharon

Yo fui a mis vídeos y saqué un vídeo que grabé de algunos misioneros tonganos cantando mientras que estaba sirviendo en el CCM. Este es el vídeo. https://vimeo.com/578265270

Mientras que tocaba el vídeo primero escuché Lloros y entonces cantando y al final me pidieron que lo tocara otra vez y otra vez. Fueron muy emocionantes.

Yo hablé en cuanto al CCM y cuán leal y espiritual que fueron los misioneros de tonga y como cuando cantaron podía verlos y sentir los adorando a dios en el acto de cantar. Ellos siguieron contándome en cuanto a sus familias y miembros que habían servido misiones y como ellos también fueron miembros.

Yo los pedí si esta canción tenía sentido a ellos. Ellos dijeron que habían escuchado esta canción todo su vida y cuando lo escucharon podría sentir el amor que dios tenía para ellos. Yo les dije que había dado 5000 servicios y nunca había tocado un vídeo de mi teléfono por ningún pasajero hasta ese noche. El espíritu Santo quería que lo tocara para elloa. Yo sabía que era importante para ellos

Cuando miré atrás, en mi mente ellos Parecían a mí como niños. Yo podía sentir el amor de dios para ellos y también pudiera sentir el amor de su madre para ellos

Yo os dije que su padre en los cielos y su madre estuvieron preocupados. Yo les dije que su madre quería que ellos hicieron cambios y que había llegado el tiempo para empezar.

Los dos eran jóvenes menos de 30 años, hasta ese momento no tenía ningún idea de que su madre había muerto.

Ellos empezaron llorar. La mujer dijo que su madre había muerto hace 7 años atrás tirándolos por abajo todos. Su padre estaba peleando y perdiendo y habían pasado mucho presión En sus vidas. Al principio dejaron de asistir a la capilla porque no era conveniente. Y entonces dejaron de ir porque sentían incómodos y al final no volvieron porque habían ido en otro dirección

La mujer me dijo que era una cosa emocionante pero la segunda que entró en mi auto ella podía sentir la presencia de su madre. La cosa es cómico es que yo pudiese sentir la presencia de su madre también y no tengo duda que la madre amaba este canción y era la razón porque lo toqué. Normalmente no es algo que haría jamás.

Hablamos de cómo dios y su amor es más poderoso que cada cosa que pasemos en la vida. Es transcendente de todo. Hablamos de cómo dios nos ama aunque pecamos. Hablamos de el gozo que sienten sus espíritus cuando están en la presencia de dios. Hablamos de cómo el mando a su hijo para que podamos vencer las luchas y vencer nuestros pecados. Sin ser específico ella me dijo que podía escuchar la voz de su madre de mis palabras. Me dijo que cada cosa que decía es exactamente lo que ella la habría dicho. Ella dijo, yo sé que fuiste mandado por dios para llevarnos esa noche

Yo sentí el espíritu decirme, enseñar de arrepentimiento y la vía para volver. Yo les asegure que no eres demasiado lejos y que dios quería que volvieron más que Cualquier otra cosa. Yo les dije que su mamá también quería que volvieron para que todos podrían estar juntos de nuevo

La mujer me dijo que su madre había hablado en cuanto a eso mientras que estaba para morir y que otra vez las palabras que yo había dicho fueron exactamente las palabras que ella había usado en ese tiempo.

Yo empecé hablar de la expiación de Jesucristo y su poder. Ese es que faltaban yo les dije que la expiación no solo está ahí para ayudarlos arrepentirse pero también para quitar el dolor y sufrimiento causada por la muerte de sus madre y otros desafíos que se encuentran en la vida. Tambien hable de la resurrección que era parte de la expiación y que su madre quien estaba ahí con nosotros esta noche sería resucitada.

Yo les dije que por medio de la expiación podrían hacer una vuelta y estar listo recibir su madre. Yo les dije que estoy es que quería su mamá. La mujer dijo que su madre siempre había hablado de la expiación pero que no habían prestado mucho atención y que no era coincidencia que yo estaba hablando de la tema favorito de su mamá Yo les dije que dios no nos deja solo él nos ha dado la expiación de Jesucristo y su poder, él nos ha dado el espíritu Santo que estaba presente con nosotros esta noche y que nos había dado nuestros antepasados que nos están apoyando y orando para nosotros.

Yo los pedí, con todas las cosas que dios nos ha dado, cómo es que podamos fallar si estamos acompañados con dios a nuestro lado.

Yo les prometo que esas palabras, cómo es que podamos fallar si estamos Nunca antes habían salido de mi boca en la historia de las palabras que he dicho cuáles son numerosos. Llegaron a tener lágrimas otra vez y dijeron que si, este era la frase favorita de su mamá. Ella lo había dicho siempre.

Yo los dije qué para a volver tendrían que leer el libro de mormón cada día, yo les dije que tendrían que orar y orar mientras que estuvieron leyendo el libro de mormón y que tendrían que empezar a ir a la capilla de nuevo porque por ahí se iba el camino. Yo los pedí si sabían cuál era su barrio y dijeron que no y lo buscamos por Internet y prometieron asistir a la capilla

Yo me di cuenta que estuvieron preocupados y tímidos que la gente de su familia y su barrio los juzgaría.

Yo dije, están preocupados de ser juzgados? Los dos señalaron que sí. Yo dije, yo los prometo que alguien te juzgará porque Satanás quiere atropellarlos y él sabe que les dañaría eso. Pero también los prometo que el espíritu y el espíritu de su madre estará al su lado. Si van a la capilla enfocando en dios en vez de otras personas, ni se darán cuenta de eso.

La mujer dijo, yo sigo diciendo eso pero ese es exactamente lo que mi madre diría! Sabemos que fuisteis mandado por dios a nosotros para corregirnos y ayudarnos es de noche. Y el hombre dijo que no lo habia sentido así en años. Yo siento como es posible hora, yo quiero volver!

El hombre dijo, “se nota que es un hombre de dios y que es un poseedor digno del sacerdocio. Sería posible para usted orar para nosotros acá en el coche.” Gente me ha pedido eso de vez en cuando y siempre es muy dulce la experiencia. Inclinamos nuestras cabezas y las palabras vinieron a mi corazón mientras que estaba orando por ellos

Yo oré que ellos encuentra ríen la fuerza para mirar a dios y en vez de sus capacidades, y que ellos doblarían de las Influencias malas y los que los llevaría por abajo. En la oración yo mencioné que su madre estaba mirando y ese estaría con ellos mientras que escucharían las palabras que había dicho. El espíritu estaba muy fuerte y podría sentir el espíritu de nuestro Padre celestial y el espíritu de su madre en el coche, la luz estaba entrando y las lágrimas estuvieron cayendo.

Habíamos terminado con la ruta y estuvimos sentados enfrente de su casa por mucho tiempo y yo necesitaba ir. Los dos agarraron mi mano y lo pusieron a su cabeza y lo tuvieron ahí por un tiempo. Ellos dijeron que querían continuar sintiendo lo que había en sentido ese noche para siempre. Yo les dije que si arrepintieron, oraron, fueron a la capilla y leyeron El libro de mormón este sería su bendición.

Ellos me prometieron que lo haría y salieron del coche cantando fola fola

Con el espíritu De Dios y su de madre en el coche y yo excedía el número de gente que la compañía me permite cómo pasajeros. Yo no los digo si ustedes guarden el secreto😀

One day I was driving in Orem and there was a family, a mother and daughter, that I picked up at the top of the Grandview hill. They were going to the county health center which is a dicey situation in the age of Covid. I have giving rides to 5000 people since August and I’m pretty sure there have been about 500 people who had Covid, at least. I feel like I’ve been protected by God

I picked them up and we started driving. I felt that I should bring up the church. I asked them if they were members of the church, they said no! I said you mean, not yet! ( I know, it’s my favorite thing to say!) They chuckled and we started having a conversation about the people they knew we were members of the church. Many of them were bad examples.

I asked them if they ever talked to the missionaries. They said yes, the sisters were over to their house just a few weeks ago. I asked them what they thought about the message. The mother spoke up and said that from what she could tell all they did was say that everything that she had ever done was wrong.

She said that she didn’t believe that her love for God was wrong and that the things she had done to come close to him were wrong and so they weren’t having the sisters back.

I asked them about the Book of Mormon, if they ever read any of it. They said they liked the Book of Mormon and they thought it was a really good book. I talk to them about the part where Jesus comes to America and how right before he comes everyone is baptized and they have a religion.

Then I mentioned that when Jesus came he gave them a new religion, new Commandments and a new baptism. I told them that he was pleased that they had learned of him and learned to love him and had been baptized. They had been very faithful in their religion that brought them close to God.

He loved them for their devotion to him and the things they had done as demonstrations of that devotion but now he had another level he wanted them to reach. A new covenant he wanted them to take upon themselves and give them a whole bunch of new blessings that they hadn’t had available to them before.

When I said this the spirit was really strong in the car. I said this is what the sisters meant. We’re not always the best communicators but the spirit you’re feeling right now is communicating the truthfulness of this to you. The girl said wow and the mom said that possibly her pride got in the way a little bit as well. She said her mom and her dad loved their church and she felt almost like she was betraying them but that this explanation helped her know that it wasn’t a betrayal at all, it was additional love and additional blessings and additional access to the Spirit and word of God.

I asked them if they would tell me what it was they were feeling right then, the mom said joy and happiness, the daughter said emotional and peaceful, I said awesome! I said that when you feel what you are feeling now, you know that the things you’re hearing are true. I asked them if they knew it was true right then in that moment, they said yes.

I said that now with this new understanding what should you do? They said they needed to get a hold of the missionaries and start talking to them again. They said they would call them as soon as they got out of the county health appointment.

I dropped them off smiling ear to ear.

Un día yo estaba manejando en hora y había una familia, una madre y su hija. Yo los subí encima del cerro Grandview. Estuvieron yendo al centro de salud para el condado y este viene con problemas en es este tiempo de COVID.

Yo he llevado 5000 personas desde hace un año y estoy seguro que tenido más de 500 que han tenido COVID por lo menos. Siento como he sido protegido por dios.

Yo los busqué ahí y entonces empezamos manejar. Yo sentí como debería hablar de la iglesia. Yo les pedí si fueron miembros de la iglesia y dijeron que no, yo dije, lo que quieres decir es que no es miembro todavía! Ya sé, es mi cosa favorito decirI

Ellos rieron y empezamos tener conversaciones en cuanto a la gente que conocieron que fueron miembros de la iglesia. Muchos de ellos no son buenos ejemplos.

Yo los pedí si hubieran hablado con los misioneros. Dijeron que sí, las hermanos estuvieron en su casa algunas semanas atrás. Yo los pedí que pensaron Del mensaje que trajeron las hermanas. La madre hablo y dijo desde lo que pudiese ver ella, todo lo que dijeron las hermanas era que cada cosa que habían hecho en sus vidas fue equivocado.

Ella me dijo que no creía que su amor por los Dios era equivocado y que las cosas que hizo que los ayudó a llegar más cerca a él no fue equivocado y no iban a invitar las hermanas de vuelta

Yo la pedí si tuvieron un libro de mormón, y si hubieran leído algo del libro.

Ellos dijeron que les gustó el libro de mormón y que pensaron que era un buen libro. Yo les hablé en cuanto al parte donde viene Cristo América Y como justo antes que llegó Cristo todos estuvieron bautizados y tenían religión

Entonces mencioné que cuando Cristo llego el los dió una nueva religión, nuevos mandamientos y unbautismo nuevo. Yo les dije que Cristo estaba complacido que ellos habían aprendido de el, Y aprendido de él y habían sido bautizados. Ellos habían sido leal a su religión y eso los llevo más cerca a dios.

El los ama por su devoción a él y las cosas que han hecho para demostrar ese devoción pero ahora él tenía otro nivel que quería que alcanzaron. Un nuevo convenio que quería que tomaron sobre sí que traería un montón de bendiciones nuevas que no habían sido disponibles para ellos hasta esta entonces

Ella dijo que su mamá y padre habían amado a su iglesia y había sentido como que era un traición a sus padres pero este explicación la ayudó a entender que no era una traición para nada, era amor adicional y bendiciones adicionales con más acceso al espíritu de dios y la palabra De Dios.

Yo la pedí si ellos me dirían que estuvieron sintiendo en este momento. La mamá dijo gozo y felicidad. La hija dijo un paz emocionante. Yo dije increíble! Yo dije que cuando siente estos sentimientos sabrán que las cosas que están escuchando son verdaderas. Yo les pedí si sabían que fue verdadera en ese momento, dijeron que sí.

Yo los pedí en cuanto a que hacer con este entendimiento nuevo. Dijeron que necesitaban ponerse en contacto con los misioneros de nuevo y empezar a hablar con ellos otra vez. Dijeron que llamarían justo cuando salieron de su cita con el condado departamento de salud

Yo los dejé sonriendo oído a oído

One night I was out at 86th S. and the old Bingham Highway. I was finishing up what I thought was my last ride taking me towards home at 3:20 in the morning. As I swiped it off I heard a new ride come in. That ride was in Salt Lake City at the Mavrick gas station at 400 South Redwood Rd.

I was frustrated because I wanted to go home. I was tired so I called him and told him that he should cancel because it might take me a while to get there. He said, I’ll anyway. So now I had to decide whether to cancel him and take the hit or drive up there and get him.

I have a friend that drives as well and we communicate back-and-forth all night long. Even though my friend was encouraging me to just cancel it I felt a powerful prompting that taking the ride was what I was supposed to do and as I started to drive it was confirmed to me that this is where I was supposed to be.

When I arrived he was outside the Maverick with bare feet and no teeth. He got in the car and thanked me for coming.

He said he was a businessman from

just outside of Columbus Ohio. He said that he was in town and had gone down to Main Street to the bars that night. He said that he could remember nothing after his first drink.

Obviously he had been roofied. When people slip drugs in your drink to take advantage of you sexually or rob you blind or both. He had been robbed. They took his shoes, his teeth (who steals teath) and his cell phone. They left him wandering aimlessly and confused through the streets in Salt Lake City without a clue as to how to get to his hotel.

Finally the drug wore off and he went into the Mavrick and they called me. We climbed into the car and started driving out to his hotel which was by the airport.

Knowing I had to work quickly here I asked him about the Holy Ghost. I asked him what he knew about the Holy Ghost. He told me it was the Spirit of God. I told him that the reason why I came to get him at all that night was because God had sent me and that the Holy Ghost told me that I needed to do this. I told him that in our church when we are baptized we get the Holy Ghost and it can go with us to be our constant companion.

He told me that he believed in baptism so much that he was baptized in prison to show his love for God but he isn’t sure if it took. I asked him, do you believe that Jesus Christ could come to America if he wanted? He said yes! Yes I do!

I talked about Jesus Christ coming to America,blessing, teaching and going to other places as well. We talked about how the first thing he did in America was baptism and giving the authority to baptize, then the gift of the Holy Ghost and having the authority to give the gift of the Holy Ghost. I told him that baptism was really important but that it be done correctly. He totally agreed. He said he wanted a baptism that would take.

I told him that it was interesting that he said he believed that Jesus came to America. He said of course he came to America. He said he didn’t know how he knew that but he knew it was true. I asked him if he would like to read an account of that visit. He looked shocked and said absolutely. Where do I find it? I said it is in the Book of Mormon. I testified of the Book of Mormon as the ancient religious history of the people of America and their dealings with God, including the visit of Jesus to America. I told him that it was true and that I knew it was true because I prayed and God confirmed the truthfulness to me by the Holy Ghost. The spirit was very strong in the car.

I told him about Joseph Smith, looking for the true church and being directed to the Bible and then to his knees in the forest. I told him that God the father and Jesus Christ appeared to Joseph Smith and called him to be a prophet. You could see that he was visibly moved and excited by what I was saying. I told him we have a prophet today that speaks with God.

I told him that the same spirit that whispered in my ear not to decline the call to pick him up in his hour of desperate need was the same spirit that protected him throughout the night from serious harm. I told him that it was the same thing that had protected him during his life even in prison and that I could tell by the spirit that he was making that connection. He said, now that you mention it I did feel God in my heart, he’s never left me even though I walked away at times.

I gave him a Book of Mormon, one that has the markings in special preparation by Bert and Janie Secrist and told him that this was the Book of Mormon. The book that contains the visit of Jesus Christ to America. I told him that if he would read it he would be strengthened. I told him, if he prayerfully read it the spirit would confirm it’s truthfulness. The spirit was powerful and testifying loudly. I asked him what he was feeling, he said he was feeling like everything was the truth that he been told. I asked him what feelings he was feeling in his heart and he said excitement and peace. He said that the confusion and pain of the night’s ordeal had been erased by what he felt now.

I said we’re going to set you up with some missionaries at home and when you’re talking to them I want you to tell them that you were in this car and you heard about Joseph Smith and the Book of Mormon and that you received a witness of the spirit that these things are true. He promised me he would do that.

I told him that now God has a different direction for him to go and asked him if he would be willing to step up! He said I have loved feeling the spirit here tonight and never want to let this go so absolutely! He didn’t want to get out of the car but eventually he had to go because it was 4 AM and I had to sleep! We shook hands and he grasp my hand with both of his and gave me an emotional heart felt thank you. As we all know in these situations we get so much more out of this than they ever do!

I think the missionaries will find here what we call in the sales profession, a qualified lead!

Yo estaba fuera del centro 8600 sur y el viejo autopista de bingham. Yo estaba terminando lo que pensaba sería el último llevando mi sur llegando a casa a las 3:20 más o menos. Mientras que tocaba el teléfono para terminar el día yo escuché que me ofrecieron otra oportunidad. Esa personaSe encontraba en 400 sur Redwood road en el mercado que se llama Mavrick.

Yo me quedé muy frustrado porque quería irme a casa y entonces le llamé y le dije que te abrigues gran solar porque sería un tiempo antes que llegara. El dijo que viniera cualquier cosa. Ahora yo tenía que decidir qué hacer, Ser castigado por la compañía o llévalo nomás.

Yo tengo un amigo que trabaja y hablamos mucho y él me estaba diciendo que debería cancelar la cosa pero eso no sentí el espíritu decirme poderosamente que esto es algo que tenía que hacer pues fui directo. Cuando me empezaba a salir sentí poderosamente en la conformación del espíritu que había hecho bien.

Cuando llegué estaba fuera del Mavrick con sus pies desnudos, sin dientes el subió al auto y me agradeció por llegar

El dijo quiero hombre viajando por el negocio y vivía fuera del Columbus Ohio. El dijo que estaba quedando con un hotel y fui al centro para tomar en las clubes este noche. El me dijo que no podía recordar nada después que había tomado su primer traigo.

Obviamente El había sido drogado por alguien que no conoció. Cuando ellos pongan drogas en su bebida y lo hacen para tomar advantage sexualmente o para robarte o los dos. Esa persona le había robado. Tomaron sus zapatos su teléfono celular y sus dientes. Te pido, porque robaría dientes? Le dejaron para caminar errante y confundido por las calles de Salt Lake sin saber nada o ser consciente de lo que estaba pasando. Ni sabía cómo cómo llegar a su hotel.

Finalmente la droga había pasado en su sistema y si fue el Maverik y ellos me llamaron. Subimos hola auto mío y empezamos manejar hacia el aeropuerto donde se encontraba su hotel. Entendiendo que tenía que obra rápidamente acá yo le pedí del espíritu Santo. Yo le pedí si sabía algo del espíritu Santo. El me dijo que él era el espíritu de dios. Yo le dije que este era la razón porque venía tan tarde cuando no iba a venir esta noche fue mandado por dios y el espíritu Santo me había dicho estar ahí. Yo le conté de cuando nos bautizamos en nuestro iglesia recibimos el don del espíritu Santo porque puede estar a nuestro lado para guiarnos

El me dijo que El creen bautismo tanto que fue matizado en la presión para mostrar a dios su amor. Él no está seguro si era aceptado por dios. Yo le pedí cree usted de Jesucristo? El dijo que le amaba. Yo le pedí si jesucristo vendria a América. El dijo que si si lo creo

Yo seguí hablando de Jesucristo viniendo a América, bendiciendo, enseñando y yendo a otros lugares también. Hablamos de que la primera cosa que hizo Jesucristo en América fue mandar que se bautizaron y los entregaron el poder para matizar y recibir el don del espíritu Santo por su mano. Yo le dije quiero muy importante que se efectúa correctamente. Él estaba totalmente de acuerdo con eso, el dijo que quería tener un bautismo que sería reconocido por dios.

Yo le dije que fue interesante que creyó en la venida de Jesucristo América. El decía que no sabía exactamente cómo tenía ese conocimiento pero si sabía que era verdad. Yo le pedí si le gustaría leer la cuente de la visita. El me miró con asusto en su cara Y me pidió, donde encuentraria tal libro. Yo le dije quiere el libro de mormón. Testifiqué de el libro de mormón como la historia religiosa antiguo del pueblo de América y sus obras con dios incluyendo la visita de Jesucristo América. Yo le dije que era la verdad y que sabía eso porque oré y mi oración fue contestada por dios. El espíritu estaba bien fuerte en el auto

Yo le dije que José Smith estaba buscando la iglesia verdadera y fue dirigido a la biblia y cayó encima de sus rodillas en el bosque. Yo le dije que empezó orar y que dios el padre y su hijo Jesucristo aparecieron a el y le llamaron ser profeta. Yo pudiera ver que él estaba tocado por el espíritu y animado por lo que estaba diciendo. Yo le dije que tenemos un profeta hoy día que hable con dios. Yo pude haber que estaba sintiendo el espíritu

Yo le dije que el espíritu susurraba en mi oído para no echar la llamada dpara de ellos. Fui mandado en su hora de desperation en su hora de desesperación y necesidad. Este es el mismo espíritu que le había protegido por toda la noche noche Fue lo mismo que le había protegido por la noche de heridas graves. Yo le dije que era la misma Cosa que le había protegido durante su vida durante su vida aún en la presión Y pude ver por el espíritu que estaba haciendo la conexión. El dijo porque lo menciona yo sentí dios en mi corazón y él nunca me dijo aunque doble mi espalda el varios meses. El me pidió como sabía que estaba encarcelado antes. Yo le dije otra vez que era el espiritu me susurraba para saber. El dijo que sentía en su corazón que dios nunca le había dejado aunque el dobló del camino lejos de dios en su vida

Yo le entregué un libro de mormón, Uno que está marcado y preparado por Bert y Janie Secrist y le dijo que ese era el libro de mormón. El libro contiene la visita de Cristo América. Yo le dije que si lo leería qué el espíritu le mostraría la verdad. Que la verdad seria revelado mientras que está leyendo. El espíritu estaba ahí poderosamente y testificando en voz alto. Yo le pedí que era que estaba sintiendo? El dijo que sentido como todo lo que yo había dicho era la verdad. Yo le pedí que eran sus sentimientos en su corazón y él dijo ánimo y paz. El dijo que la confusión y dolor de la noche habían salido, reemplazados por lo que sentía en ese momento

Yo le dije que íbamos a buscarle misioneros y en su casa donde vendrían. Le dije que cuando estabas hablando con ellos hay que decirles de que escucho de jose Smith y el libro de mormón en este auto este noche y que recibió un testigo del espíritu de que estas cosas son verdaderas. El me prometió hacer eso

Yo le dije que dios tenía mi dirección diferente que quiere que toma ahora. Yo le pedí si estarías dispuesto tomar esos pasos. El dijo que le había gustado estar en la presencia de su padre esta noche y que no quería dejarlo salir, AbsolutamenteI El no quería salir del auto pero al fin tenía que ir porque ya estaba acercando a las 4:00 de la mañana y yo tenía que dormir. Agarró mi mano saludándolo con los dos y sus manos y me dió un agradecimiento y su corazón. Como sabemos, en situaciones así nosotros aprovechamos mucho más que los que estamos sirviendo. Era así.

Yo creo que los misioneros encuentran lo que llamamos en la profesión de ventas una referencia calificada

One Saturday I was driving in Salt Lake and I picked up a young man of Tongan decent. Realizing that he was Polynesian and being told he was Tongan I went straight into my linguistics bag of tricks and pulled out every Tongan word I know, malo aleile. He said wow! I am impressed. Do you speak Tongan? I laughed and said no! That’s it, that’s all you get. He laughed he said where did you learn that?

I told him that I learned it serving in the MTC when I worked with the international missionaries. I learned to greet most of them with the word hello from their language so I knew how to say one word. He laughed and said well, that’s better than most.

He told me that he was baptized a member of the church when he was eight but he didn’t think he’d been back since.

I quickly started feeling a tremendous amount of our father in heaven‘s love towards this man. It was very clear to me that he was an important son of our Heavenly Father and that he didn’t have a clue how important he was to our father in heaven.

He told me that his heritage was very important to him and that he was an instructor of Tongan dance. I think that’s really cool. He told me he was on his way to the dance studio right now. I told him that the Tongan culture along with the Polynesian culture in general it’s something that’s very interesting.

The spirit whispered to me that I needed to start talking to this young man about the Book of Mormon. I said the origins of your people have a lot to do with my religion. I told him that I was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of latter-day Saints and that the Book of Mormon teaches about the origins of the Polynesian people. I told him the story of Hagoth and building the boats and leaving.

I told him that the Nephites had several people who were adventurous and wanted to explore. They built boats, big boats, and left from America but never returned. I told him that I believe that these were the Nephites that became the Polynesians.

I told him about the article I read in National Geographic two years ago that talked about how they had found a genetic link between the Indians in Columbia and the people of Polynesia. I told him that they explained it as the Polynesians being very adventurous probably came to America and left people there. They came up with this theory because they didn’t have records that the people of America ever traveled out, but we do and we know they have it backwards. We have the rest of the story.

I told him that Columbia matches up very well with the Book of Mormon description of where the Nephites embarked on their journey in the sea. We talked about how the ocean currents there flow towards the Polynesian islands.

I asked him if he knew anything about Nephi, he said no. I said the Book of Mormon says the Nephi was a man that was large in stature and he was quite energetic. I told the story of Nephi grabbing Zoram and holding him. Imagine holding a grown man Into submission. A man who was the guard of the treasury. He had to be a very large and strong man. I asked him if he knew any very large people. He said every Polynesian pretty much. We laughed. He said, those are my people.

He said, this makes total sense! He told me of the similarities between Polynesian dance and the native dances of Central and South America. He found that very interesting given the context of the conversation. He told me that it was cool to learn all the stuff.

At this point I was feeling the spirit very profoundly and I could tell that he was too. I bore my testimony of the Book of Mormon. That is was translated by the power of God. I told him that it was his legacy. That these were his people and it shows God‘s love for him and his ancestors. I told him that Jesus Christ came to America and then went to other people which would’ve included some of his ancestors.

I told him that Joseph Smith was a prophet. I told him that I know that Joseph Smith prayed and that God the father and Jesus Christ appeared in him. I told him I knew that, as surely as he was sitting in the car. I told him that God called Joseph Smith to restore the church and translate the book.

As I spoke about Joseph Smith and the Book of Mormon I could see his countenance change. In that ride, so far we had gone from head down, shadowy countenance to head up, engaged countenance, to now where there was sparkling in his eyes and there seem to be a light around him. I asked him how he was feeling right now. He said, I’m freaking out a little bit! He said that it was an amazing feeling and he was tingly and that he knew the things we were saying were true. I told him that was the Spirit of God and that’s how he helps us know when things are true.

I told him that God put him in my car today to receive this message. I told him that what he was feeling was the presence of God and others including his ancestors who were interested in his salvation. I told him that they were very influential in what was going on in the car right then. They wanted him to have this truth even as he honored them and their culture. They wanted him to know that this was his heritage too, to serve God.

I asked him if he had a Book of Mormon and he said yes but that he really didn’t read that much and wasn’t good at it. He never read it and hadn’t really been to church since he was eight. I said that we could fix that. I asked him if he had the Church app and explained to him that the scriptures are on the church app and that you can play the Book of Mormon and listen to it as you drive.

He said that he would do this and promised that he would read or listen 20 minutes a day either to or from work.

I talked to him about Moroni’s promise, How he needs to read it and make a decision on whether or not he thinks it’s true. I told him based on what we felt today that question could be answered. I then told him he needed to go to God with a sincere heart, with faith and with real intent meaning he’s going to act on it and ask God to confirm it to him. I told him that when God confirmed it, he would feel just like it does right now. This familiar feeling is the feeling of being in God‘s presence. I had him read the scripture, Moroni 10: 3-5 so that he could feel the power of those words, and he did.

I told him about this blog and that God puts people in my car to get a message from time to time. I told him that it’s clear from the impressions that I had received that this was his case. He told me he was interested in reading my blog and asked me if I would text him the link so I did.

You could feel the light in the car and you could see the light shining around him. I told him we started our conversation talking about his ancestors and we’re ending it talking about them because they were there and they were helping and they were behind this.

We sat in the car for quite some time and he didn’t want to leave. The spirit was so strong. You could see a change happening in him as the spirit took him by the hand. He told me that this changed everything and he re-confirmed to me that he would read the Book of Mormon and start going to church. Finally after a few minutes he had to go and got out of the car.

On his way out of the car he said, by the way, my brother and I have family names. My name is Moroni and my brother’s name is Ammon. I’m sure my family was here with us today. We said goodby and I was fired up and had goosebumps.

About 10 minutes later I realized I needed to get some information from him and luckily I had his phone number so I could text. I felt very impressed that I needed to talk to him again so I asked him if I could speak to him on the phone. He said yes.

When we talked he told me that he had been out driving up and down the street listening to the Book of Mormon. He said he was loving it and he was still riding that wave of the spirit. I was so happy. I told him that I was impressed to tell him something but I had forgotten to do it until after he was out of the car.

I told him that the spirit whispered to me that he was wondering about the spirit, what it was and where it came from. I proceeded to discuss with him the nature of our relationship with our father in heaven and how our spirits know him and have a relationship with him. I discussed with him the feeling of that relationship which was unique to him and what he had been feeling that day. It was a manifestation of his relationship with God developed over thousands of years in the pre existence.

He said, that is amazing! That is the exact question I had and I’ve been thinking about it since i left the car. How did you know? I told him that I didn’t know but God knew and that the Holy Ghost revealed it to my heart.

I know that he reads this blog and I hope he can always keep with him the memory of the things he felt that day. I pray that he can find the strength to walk the path with God at his side.

Un sábado yo estaba manejando en Salt Lake y busqué un hombre joven que era de descendencia tongano. Dándome cuenta que era Polinesio habiendo dicho que era tongano yo fui directo al mis palabras lingüísticas. Usando las únicas palabras de tongano que conozco, malo aleile. El quedó un poco asombrado y me pidió si hablara tongano, yo dije que no. Éste es todo el que tengo y es todo el que va a escuchar. El se reía también y me pidió Donde aprendiera hablar así.

Yo le dije que lo aprendí sirviendo en el CCM cuando obraba con los misioneros internacionales. Yo aprendí recibirlos, por lo menos, con la palabra hola desde su propio idioma parque supiera que los quería. La verdad es que yo había aprendido este palabra en varios idiomas. El reía y me dijo por lo menos está intentando algo. Yo pedí si era miembro De la Iglesia y el dijo que había bautizado a las 8 años pero nunca había vuelto a la capilla

Rápidamente yo empecé a sentir un amor de nuestro padre y por este hombre. Era muy claro a mí que el es un hijo importante de nuestro padre celestial y que el no tenían ninguna idea de cuán importante era a nuestro padre celestial

El me dijo que la herencia de su familia era muy importante y que fue un instructor de baile tongano. Yo creo que es muy lindo eso. El me dijo que estaba yendo al lugar para ensayar el baile hora. Yo le dije que la cultura tongano y los otros culturas Polinesionos en general son muy interesantes.

El espíritu susurro a mí que necesitaba empezar hablando a ese joven del libro de mormón. Yo dije que los orígenes de su pueblo tiene mucho que ver con la iglesia. Yo le dije que yo era miembro de la Iglesia de Jesucristo de los santos de los últimos días. Yo le dije que el libro de mormón enseñe los ojos Orígenes de la gente Polinesionos Yo le conté la cuente de hagoth y como construyó barcos para salir.

Yo le dije que los nefitas tenían varias personas que tenían mucho coraje y querían explorar. Construyeron barcos, barcos grandes y salieron de América y nunca volvieron. yo le dije que yo creo que estos son sus antepasados

Yo le conté y de un artículo en una revista que leí hace dos años atrás que habló de cómo encontraron relación entre los indios de Colombia y el pueblo de las islas Polynesians. Yo le dije que ellos lo explicaron como los polynecianos tenía mucho coraje y a lo mejor vinieron a América y dejaron gente acá. Llegaron a ese teoría porque no tenían ningún información que la gente de América había viajado fuera pero sabemos que su entendimiento era mal y nosotros tenemos el resto de la cuenta

Yo le dije que la mapa de Colombia se justa muy bien con la descripción en el libro de mormón en cuanto a dónde salieron en su jornada al mar. Hablamos de cómo los corrientes en el mar en esa aria selleva a la hasta las islas polynecianas

Yo le pedí si conociera algo de Nefi, El dijo que no. Yo dije que el libro de mormón dice que nefi fue un hombre que era muy grande de estatura y que tenía mucha energía. Yo le conté de Nefi agarrando zoram y teniéndolo. Imagínense agarrando un hombre hasta la sumisión. Además es un hombre que era guardia del tesoro y tenía que haber sido un hombre muy grande y fuerte. Yo le pedí si conociera alguna gente muy grande el dijo cada polyneciano en el mundo. Nos reímos y él dijo esto es mi pueblo

El dijo ese tiene un montón de razón. El me contó de las similaridades entre los pueblos de las islas y del sur y Centroamérica. Él lo vio como interesante según el contexto de la conversación que estuvimos teniendo. El me dijo que le encantaba aprender las cosas así.

Yo estaba sintiendo el espíritu muy profundamente y pude ver que él también estado sintiéndolo. Yo compartí mi testimonio del libro de mormón. Que este libro fue traducido por el poder de dios. Yo le dije que era su herencia. Que ese fue su gente y que muestra el amor de dios por todos sus antepasados. Yo le dije que Jesús vino a América y entonces fue a otros personas que habría incluidos sus antepasados

Yo le dije que José Smith fue un profeta. Yo le dije que dios el padre y su hijo Jesucristo aparecieron a él. Yo le dije que yo sabía que pasó este cosa tal como le podía ver a el ahí en el asiento detrás del coche. Yo le dije que dios le llamó para restaurar la iglesia y traducir el libro de mormón.

Mientras que hablamos del libro de mormón yo pudiera ver cambiar su semblante. Durante ese viaje yo vi el cambio en su semblante desde oscuro y mirando por abajo hasta mirándome con interés y al final sonriendo y brillando con el espíritu con un luz a su rededor. Yo le pedí cómo sentía ahora y el dijo que sentía increíble y que por el sentimiento que estaba teniendo el sabía que las cosas que estaba diciendo yo son verdaderas

Yo le dije que dios le había puesto en mi auto hoy para recibir ese mensaje. Yo le dije que lo que él estaba sintiendo es la presencia de dios y otros incluyendo esos anti pesados que tiene mucho interés en su situación.

Yo le pedí si tuviera un libro de mormón. El dijo que sí pero él realmente no lo leía mucho. El dijo que no leía mucho de nada. no lo había leído nunca y no había ido a la capilla tampoco desde que tenía ocho años. Yo le dije que podíamos arreglar ese asunto. Yo le pedí si tenía el app de la iglesia y le expliqué que se encuentran las escrituras en el app y que así se puede escuchar al libro de mormón mientras que maneja

Arreglamos eso en su teléfono y me prometió que escucharía 20 minutos cada día yendo o regresando de su trabajo

Yo le hablé de la promesa de Moroni. Hablamos de cómo él necesite leerlo y hacer una decisión en cuanto a la veracidad del libro. Yo le dije que según lo que habíamos sentido ese día no hubo pregunta y yo lo podré contestar para el entonces yo le dije que necesitaba ir a dios con un corazón sincero verdadera intención y fe para pedir a dios que confirma. yo pedí que leyera este promesa de Moroni y escuchamos al poder de esas palabras.

Yo le conté de este blog y que dios está poniendo gente en mi auto para recibir un mensaje De Dios Yo le dije que según las inspiraciones que han venido hoy ese es el caso para ti. El tenia interés en leer mi blog y pidió la url.

Podía sentir la luz en el coche y podía ver la luz brillando a su rededor yo le dije que al principio de la conversación y estuvimos hablando de sus antepasados y ahora terminando lo estamos hablando en cuanto a ellos por qué yo se estaban ayudando y estuvieron detrás de esta que estaba pasando.

Nos sentamos en el coche y por mucho tiempo y él no quería salir. El espíritu estaba tan fuerte. Se podía ver el cambio pasando en el mientras el espíritu le tomó por el mano. El me dijo que esta cosa cambió todo y reconfirmó a mí que estaría leyendo el libro de mormón y empezaria asistir a la capilla. Al fin después de unos minutos el salió de la auto

Mientras que salía del auto él decía por casualidad yo tengo un hermano. Mi nombre es maroni y el de mi hermano es amon. estoy seguro que mi familia estaba con nosotros hoy y yo sentía el apoyo

Después de 10 minutos yo me di cuenta que necesitaba sacar la información de él. Es suerte que tenéis el número de teléfono para que podría hacer un texto. Yo sentía impresión de que debería hablar con el por teléfono. El dijo que si

Cuando hablamos él me dijo que había estado manejando en las calles escuchando al libro de mormón. El dijo que estaba amándolo y que estaba andando sintiendo el espíritu. Yo estaba muy feliz yo le dije que sentía impresionado decirle algo que había olvidado decir mientras que estuvimos en el auto.

Yo le dije que el espíritu susurro a mi que el estaba preguntando en cuanto al espíritu. Qué era y de dónde venía. Yo empecé decirle cómo es el espíritu y nuestra relación con Dios. Yo seguí hablando con él en cuanto a la relación que tenemos con nuestro padre en el cielo. En cuanto como un espíritu antes de nacer ellos tenían una relación perfecto y dulce. Hablé con él en cuanto ese sentimiento de esa relación y que es único a el. Y que este es lo que había estado sintiendo este día mismo. Yo dije quiero una manifestación de su relación con dios Como resultado de miles de años de estar juntos en la preexistenciaEste es como sienta el espíritu de nuestro padre celestial.

El dijo que era asombroso eso. Éste era la pregunta exacta que había estado pensando en su auto, él dijo como sabía? Yo le dije que no sabía pero dios sabía y que me había revelado este cosa por medio del espíritu Santo

Yo sé que el va a leer este relato en el sitio del Internet y espero que siempre puede tener en su memoria las cosas que sintió ese día. Yo oro que él puede encontrar la fuerza para caminar en el camino con dios a su lado

I picked up a young man one night that was going on a beer run. He needed me to drive because he had already been drinking therefore the trip would cost him $15. Adding that $15 to the already expensive beer I made the observation that it was very expensive beer. We laughed, went to the store where he went in and purchased the beer.

He seems like a really clean cut well mannered young man and I started to think about how if he wasn’t drinking beer I would think he was a member of the church. Then the spirit prompted me that he was a member of the church.

On the way back from the store the conversation which had previously been geared towards pickup trucks took an abrupt turn. I asked him about his family and if he was married. He said that he wasn’t married but that he had been in a relationship for five years. I said him, so you lived with this girl for five years. He said yes.

I told him that I had been married for 34 years and he was impressed. He said, relationships just don’t last that long anymore. I said, I believe they do, it’s just a matter of the level of commitment.

I told him that I believe that men require an actual commitment made officially to commit to some thing full on. Without that men are not likely at all to stick with a program if they’re not fully committed. He said that he never thought of it that way. I told him that marriage is such a commitment. When you get married you make that commitment and if you want your marriage to succeed you need to make that marriage more important than anything. More important than your friends, more important than winning the arguments, more important than your ego and your wife needs to do the same. I said, if you’ll do that you can be married for as long as you want. Identify the things that are challenging your relationship and stop them before they grow.

He said, wow that’s a really good point, we just kind a let things get out of hand. I asked him why he didn’t get married, I was trying to get him to talk about how he felt, he said that he just didn’t feel it all the way through and when he gets married he wanted to be for eternity. He then corrected himself and said that he never wanted to get a divorce.

That’s all I needed to know. When he said eternity I knew he had been raised in the church and I knew that this is what he was really thinking about so I pressed him on it. I said, I see you are a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of latter-day Saints. He said how could you tell? I told him that I could tell by the spirit in my heart and what it was telling me about him.

He said he had left the church when he was 14 but that, yeah he was a member and for the last 12 years he had been drinking and partying and hadn’t even given a thought to church. He did mention that his parents were both still very active and that they showed him a lot of love.

I told him that the spirit was telling me that the reason why he left the church was that he felt the people were hypocrites and that he had been very disillusioned by some people. I also told him that he felt judged.

At first he said no not really but then he stopped and said you know, you were right on. I had two leaders who I saw steal. He said that there were members of our ward that I saw drink and there were people who talked about how we were supposed to behave who I saw using all kinds of vulgarities during the week. I thought to myself how could these people possibly judge me and how could they have the truth.

He said, I never thought of it that way until now how did you know. I said those words came to my heart to say and I said them. I said I know it because God knows it and he is the one who wanted me to say that.

I told him that there’s one thing I know for sure and that is God wants him back, he expects him to come home and he loves him very much and he sent me this message to give to him. He said, does God really want me?

There was silence in the car for several minutes then he said, well what do you think about my situation. I told him the story of my great grandpa and the horses that the stake President stole from him. I told him how my great grandfather left the church and became an alcoholic all to get back at that stake president. I told him about how all of his children left the church and his grandchildren were not in the church and his great grandchildren were not in the church and over 300 members of his family we’re not in the church. There were very few of us in the church principally my dad and our family.

I told him it was that way because he decided to show the stake President by quitting the church and going against the commandments. I told him in the end it did nothing to that stake president but it destroyed my great grandfathers family and his posterity. I told him that they’re all drunks. I told him that they’re all divorcees. I told him that the kids are not successful and they struggle and the reason is because of the decision he made to show the stake president who was boss. I told him it was a horrible decision and it is to this day destroying his posterity.

I said, do you want that to be your legacy? He thought for a minute and said no. I felt an intense prompting at that point to bear my testimony and I bore my testimony of Joseph Smith and how he went to the sacred Grove and as we were sitting there in the car he saw God the father and Jesus Christ and they appeared to him. I told him that they called him to be the prophet and he restored the church but he wasn’t perfect. I told him that Joseph Smith translated the Book of Mormon and it was the word of God. I told him that the Book of Mormon gives us power and strength to follow God even when it’s difficult and it’s especially good when we’re not perfect.

I told him that these things are true that we have a prophet that guides our church today and he’s not perfect. I told him that I know these things are true and I’m not perfect. I asked him how he felt? He said that he felt a little bit chastened. I asked him how he felt in his heart and he said comfortable and he said it was a very familiar warm calm feeling. I told him that was the Spirit of God and I told him that the Spirit of God is perfect and God‘s love is perfect and he wants him back. He said, I don’t know if I can go to church in front of all those people. I asked where he lived and he said that he lived with his parents. I told him to go with his parents and draw on their strength and after discussing it for a minute he committed that he would go to church on Sunday with his parents.

Then I had the impression that I acted upon and asked how long is it been since your father gave you a blessing? He said it is been at least 12 years. I asked him if the following day he would go up and ask his father to give him a blessing. I said in that blessing your father will know what to tell you and it will give you the power you need to take the steps you have to take to come back. He committed to me and he committed to God that he would do those two things, get a blessing and go to church this Sunday.

He said I thought my life was all planned out, I was cruising along enjoying myself. Tonight the spirit has shown me that what I did was wrong and that I need to come back. The spirit has shown me that God loves me and he wants me. I told him to always remember that the church is a hospital for sick people and the everyone there is sinning. We all need to lift each other and not disqualify each other.

He told me he would do that. He left the car and left his beer in the car. Then he came back and said “well I guess my friends will have to drink this.” Somewhere on the west side of Salt Lake the following day a father had an amazing experience to lay his hands on his troubled son‘s head and give him a father‘s priesthood blessing. What a great gift our father in heaven gave that father and that is amazing. I trust that he went to church as he said he would.

Un día fui para recoger un joven que estaba yendo para comprar cerveza. El necesitaba que manejara yo porque ya había estado tomando pues el viaje le costaría 15 $ añadiendo eso a 15 $ más para las cerveza. Yo hice la observación que llegaría a ser cerveza es muy caros. Nos reímos de esto y él se fue al mercado donde compro las cervezas.

El parecía bien limpio en su parecer y también fue muy amable. empecé pensar que si no estuviera tomando cerveza sería un buen miembro de la iglesia. Entonces el espíritu me corrigió y me dijo que ya era miembro De la Iglesia.

En la vuelta desde el mercado la conversación que previamente había enfocado en camiones turnó y empezamos hablar de el. Yo le pedí de su familia y si fue casado. El dijo que no estaba casado pero había estado en una relación por cinco años. Yo le dije, pues viviste con este chica por cinco años? El dijo que sí

Yo le dije que había sido casado por 34 años y quedó impresionado. El dijo, matrimonios no duran tanto tiempo hoy día. Yo dije yo creo que sí duran pero tiene que ver con el compromiso en el matrimonio

Yo le pedí si había casado con su novia y él dijo que no. Yo le dije que creo que los hombres requieren un compromiso real y oficial para estar comprometido completamente. Sin este compromiso hombres están dispuestos a no estar completamente metido en la cosa.

El dijo que nunca había pensado así en esa manera. Yo le dije que el matrimonio es este compromiso. Cuando se case es un compromiso y si quiere que sea exitoso tu matrimonio tiene que ser la cosa más importante en el mundo. Tiene que ser más importante que sus amigos o ganar la pelea o más importante que tu egoísmo y tu esposa necesita hacer lo mismo. Yo dije si es asi se puede estar casado por el tiempo que quiere. Tiene qué identificar las cosas que están desafiando tu matrimonio y pararlos antes que Crecen

El quedado impresionado y dijo que era una buena manera de mirarlo, habíamos dejado que las cosas crecieron demasiado. Yo le pedí por qué no se casaron, Intentando tenerle hablar de cómo sentía él dijo que no lo sintió profundamente y cuando se case quería casarse para las eternidades. Entonces el corrigió asimismo y dijo que no quería tener divorcio.

Este es todo qué Necesitaba saber. Cuando dijo eternidad yo sabía que había sido miembro de la iglesia y sabía que era esto de que estaba pensando y entonces le empujé un poco. Yo dije, yo veo que sos miembro de la Iglesia de Jesucristo de los santos de los últimos días. El dijo cómo podía ver esto? Yo le dije que podía ver por el espíritu de mi corazón y lo que ese espíritu estaba diciendo a mí en cuanto a ti

Había dejado la iglesia cuando tenía 14 años pero que si era miembro y pues los últimos 12 años había estado tomando y festejando y no había pensado nada en la iglesia. Aun que sus padres fueron activos y que le mostraron mucho amor.

Dije que el espíritu me estaba diciendo que la razón por qué dejó la iglesia fue que sintió que la gente era hipócrita y que había sido desilusionado por algunos de ellos. Yo le dije que también sentía juzgado

El dijo no, pero entonces paro y dijo, sabes, está correcto. Yo tenía lideres que vi robar. Había los de nuestro barrio que vi tomar alcohol y había gente que estaba hablando usando cualquier cantidad de vulgaridades durante la semana. El dijo que había pensado asimismo, cómo es que esta gente pueda juzgarme a mí y cómo podrían tener la verdad.

Yo dije que había dicho esas palabras porque el espíritu de los me había indicado. Dios quería que dijera esas cosas.

Dije que es una cosa que sé por supuesto que dios quiere que vuelva. El espere que venga a casa y que le ama mucho y él me había mandado para llevar ese mensaje. Me me pidió, dios me quiere a mí y quiere que vuelva?

Hubo silencio en El auto por algunos minutos Y entonces él dijo que piense de mi situación. Yo le dije de la cuenta de mi bisabuelo cuyo caballo había sido robado por el presidente de la estaca. Yo le dije como mi bisabuelo dejó la iglesia y llegó a ser alcohólico para retribución al presidente de la estaca. Yo le dije que como todos sus hijos dejaron la iglesia y sus nietos no estuvieron en la iglesia tampoco sus bisnietos estuvieron en la iglesia más de 300 personas de su familia no estuvieron en la iglesia. Los en la iglesia. Principalmente mi padre y nuestra familia.

Fue porque él decidió mostrar la retribución al presidente de la estaca dejando en la iglesia olvidándose de los mandamientos. Yo le dije que al final no hizo nada al presidente de la estaca pero destruyó a su familia y su posteridad. Yo le dije que todos son alcohólicos. Yo le dije que los hijos no son exitosos y que luchen y la razón es la decisión que tomó para mostrar su poder al presidente de la estaca. Le dije que la decisión era un desastre y que estamos sintiendo los efectos multiplicado hoy día.

Yo le pedí si él quiere que esto se hiciera a su familia en el futuro? El dijo que no. Yo sentí el espíritu decirme que debo compartir mi testimonio y compartí mi testimonio de José Smith y como él fue al bosque y seguro como estuviéramos en ese coche este noche le aparecieron dios el padre y su hijo Jesucristo. le llamaron ser profeta para restaurar la iglesia aunque no era perfecto. Yo le dije que José Smith tradujo el libro de mormón y que ese libro es la palabra de dios. Yo le dije que el libro de mormón nos da poder y fuerza para seguir dios aún cuándo es difícil. Dios sabe que no somos perfectos

Dije que estas cosas son verdad y que tenemos un profeta en la iglesia hoy día y el no es perfecto. Yo le dije que esas cosas son verdaderas y que yo no soy perfecto. Yo le pedí como sentía. El dijo que sentía castigado un poco. Yo le pedí como sentí en su corazón el dijo cómodo y era un sentimiento caliente y le calmo. yo le dije que ese era el espíritu de dios y le dije que el espíritu de dios es perfecto y que el amor de dios es perfecto y que dios quiere que volviera. El dijo, yo no sé si puedo ir a la capilla enfrente de todas esas personas. Yo le pedí donde viviera. El dijo que vivía con sus padres. Yo le dije ir con sus padres y sacar de ellos las fuerzas necesarios. Después de hablar de eso por un rato el me hizo compromiso de ir el domingo con sus padres

Entonces yo sentí una impresión que seguí. Yo dije cuánto tiempo ha sido desde tu padre te ha dado un bendición. El dijo que había sido por lo menos 12 años. Yo le pedí si el día siguiente que fuera y pidiera de su padre un bendición. Yo dije que en ese bendición su padre sabrá qué decirte y le dará el poder que necesita para tomar los pasos para volver. El me comprometió y comprometido a dios que haría estas dos cosas.

El dijo, he pensado que mi vida era todo planeado Como estaba andando disfrutando mi mismo y esta noche el espíritu me ha mostrado que lo que hice fue mal y que necesito volver. El dijo que el espíritu le había mostrado que dios le ama y que le quiere que vuelva. Yo le dije que siempre debe recordar que la iglesia es un hospital por los enfermos y que todos que están ahí están pecando siempre. Necesitamos apoyar al uno y otro en vez de echarlos

El me dijo que haría esto y salió del auto dejando la cerveza. En segundos el dobló y volvió. Me dijo me imagino que mis amigos van a querer tomar esto. Por algún lado en el lado oeste de Salt Lake el día siguiente un padre tenía de experiencia asombroso de poner sus manos sobre la cabeza de su hijo y darle un bendición del padre usando el sacerdocio. Que gran don nuestro padre celestial dió a este padre. Confío yo que se fue a la capilla también como dijo que haría

One night I went to the Primary Children’s Hospital to pick up a lady who was getting off work. There’s a lot of construction going on up there right now and it’s hard to get in there and it’s even harder to get out. Sometimes you feel like you’re a minnow in the trap.

When she got in the car we started driving down the road and she asked me if it would be ok if she helped me navigate the road construction to get her home the most direct way. Sometimes drivers don’t like this and they get really upset but I never get upset, I love it. I figure if I do what the customer wants then I’m meeting their expectations so away we went.

On the way to make conversation I asked her if she had any crazy stories from her rides in the past. Some people do and some are hair raising. She said she did in a cab one time. She said that the cab driver just started driving a different direction than they were supposed to go and drove for like 20 minutes. She called the police and they had to physically stop the car. When they interviewed him and asked him what he was going to do to her or with her he said,”anything I want to!”.

When she told the story all I could hear is that she was protected and saved and that this woman had angels around her.

I decided to tell her that and when I did she said that she knew she did. I asked her what religion she was and she said that she was Baptist. I asked her what she knew about the Mormon church and she said that she really didn’t know too much.

She told me that the young men in the white shirts had talked to her but then she moved and she had lost track of where they were and they had lost track of her. I asked her if she knew about the Book of Mormon. She said that she knew about the book and that she had a copy at one time but she didn’t have it anymore.

She asked me what the Book of Mormon was. I said it is the religious history of the people who lived in America, it was the writings of their prophets and their dealings with God but the main thing about this book is it testifies that Jesus Christ came to America and by doing so proved that God is a God of everyone not just those in Jerusalem.

She said, “God came here? To America?” I said, “yes he did”! He blessed the children and the people just like he did in Jerusalem. I said that before he left America he said that he still had other sheep he had to go see that weren’t from American and weren’t from Jerusalem. I ask her who she thought Jesus would go visit, she said she thought he would go see everyone.

She asked me where it said that in the Book of Mormon. I pulled out one of the copies of the Book of Mormon and showed her in 3rd Nephi 16 where Jesus said he would go to see the other sheep which had not yet heard his voice. This made her happy. I said to her, your ancestors could have met Jesus Christ as he came to visit them. She asked me if she could keep that book and I said yes. It’s one of the books that are especially marked and prepared by Sister Secrist to answer the questions of life.

I took that opportunity right then to bear my testimony about the Book of Mormon. I told her that I know it’s true and I know it because I felt it was true when I read it and when I finished I prayed and God confirmed the truthfulness of it to me. I told her that if she would do the same, God would confirm that to her as well. The spirit was really strong in the car. I asked her how often she felt those angels around her that protected her in the car that one night. She said quite a bit. I asked her if she felt them now and she said yes. She said somebody wants me to look into this.

She said I will read the book but I don’t need to read it to know that it’s true, based on the spirit I’m feeling right now and the power in your testimony I know this book is true. I asked her what she thought was the first thing Jesus asked people to do when he came to America. She didn’t know. I told her that he asked them to be baptized, even if they had previously been baptized some of them only months before, Jesus asked them to be baptized again. He asked them to be baptized by the authority he gave them and in the way he directed. She thought that made sense and she loved it. I told her that as she starts down this path to learn about the church the goal would be for her to be baptized. I asked her if she would be OK with that and she said yes. She said that if she was prepared she would be baptized. She asked if she could have a certificate that she could frame and put on the wall so she could show people that she had been baptized. I told her we could do that 100%.

I asked her if it would be ok if I had the missionaries come over and help get her ready to be baptized. She said she would love that but that she was moving right now so it might be a little difficult. She wanted to try. I was fired up, the spirit was strong and the tears were falling. This woman had felt the spirit and knew what it was like to be in the presence of God and she had a desire to do what God wanted her to do. That’s all you can ask.

The next day I called the bishop and got the phone number and address of the missionaries. It turns out that there are sister missionaries in that ward and that one of them is African-American which works perfectly. They called me and I told them the whole rundown from how we met to the stories to the fact that she wants to prepare to be baptized and get a certificate. They were thrilled. They called her up and set up her first meeting.

When the day of that meeting arrived she had stress with her move and some problems and asked the sisters not to go over. I felt impressed by the spirit that I needed to go, not knowing that she had canceled on the sisters. When I got there I asked her if I could give her a free ride to work and help her out, she said yes. She wanted me to show her some things in the Book of Mormon and then she explained to me why she canceled on the sisters.

On the way to work we discussed some other gospel topics and the spirit was amazing. It was everywhere and she could feel it. We talked about these verses from Nephi in second Nephi

16 Behold, my soul delighteth in the things of the Lord; and my heart pondereth continually upon the things which I have seen and heard.

17 Nevertheless, notwithstanding the great goodness of the Lord, in showing me his great and marvelous works, my heart exclaimeth: O wretched man that I am! Yea, my heart sorroweth because of my flesh; my soul grieveth because of mine iniquities.

18 I am encompassed about, because of the temptations and the sins which do so easily beset me.

19 And when I desire to rejoice, my heart groaneth because of my sins; nevertheless, I know in whom I have trusted.

20 My God hath been my support; he hath led me through mine afflictions in the wilderness; and he hath preserved me upon the waters of the great deep.

21 He hath filled me with his love, even unto the consuming of my flesh.

22 He hath confounded mine enemies, unto the causing of them to quake before me.

23 Behold, he hath heard my cry by day, and he hath given me knowledge by visions in the night-time.

24 And by day have I waxed bold in mighty prayer before him; yea, my voice have I sent up on high; and angels came down and ministered unto me.

25 And upon the wings of his Spirit hath my body been carried away upon exceedingly high mountains. And mine eyes have beheld great things, yea, even too great for man; therefore I was bidden that I should not write them.

She really identified with that scripture.

We were driving by the Salt Lake Temple on the way to her destination and I said, do you know what that is? She said that’s the temple! That’s the place where my friends go to get married and I can’t go there with them.

She asked about temples. She asked why can’t I go to see my friends get married? We talked about the sacred nature of temples and the things we do there. I had the impression to ask her who was the angel that protected her. I could feel at that point someone else but I didn’t know who it was. She said it was her daughter. She said that her daughter had made very poor choices and have been killed when she was 20 years old. I said to her, so your daughter made some bad decisions. Her daughter had been associated with gang members and killed when she was 20 years old. She said that she knew her daughter had made bad decisions but that she still loved her.

I then felt prompted to look her in the eye and ask, what would it mean to you if you could assure that your daughter could stand pure and clean before God?! She said that it would mean more than anything to her. She asked me, is that possible? I told her that it was possible because of the temple.

I taught her about baptisms for the dead and the work that goes on in the spirit world to prepare people for baptism. I told her it’s our job to go to the temples and be baptized in their name so that they can stand clean and pure before God. At this point she was full on crying. She said that she lost hope for her little girl but she would do anything to save her in the eternities because she couldn’t save her in this life.

I told her that not only could her daughter be saved but all of her ancestors from Africa who had not been baptized, could and would be saved through the work in the temple. I told her that everyone will get a chance even the people who she thought of as forgotten.

I told her baptism for the dead was that perfect way. I told her it just didn’t make sense that the church of Jesus Christ would not account for all of Heavenly Father‘s children, she cheerfully agreed.

I asked her what it would be like if she could go to the temple and be baptized for her daughter, allowing her daughter to stand pure and bright without sin in front of God, she lost it! She said that’s what I want. I told her that within a month of her baptism she could be in the temple being baptized for her daughter so that her daughter could be forgiven of all her sins in the sight of God. She was totally on board

She told me that she heard blacks were discriminated against in our church and couldn’t have the priesthood. I explained at one point in time that was true but that now there was no differentiation. I explained to her the progression over the years of the church and the priesthood and she accepted that answer gladly. I told her that people in Africa were of the lineage of Israel according to Isaiah. In the Book of Mormon quoting Isaiah it refers to the children of Israel who are in Kush and Pathos. It prophesied that they would be visited by the son of God. Kush and Pathos we’re both dominant large African empires of the ancient world. She said that if they were at the center of Kush then they were all over the continent, I said yes

She said, OK cool! She said I have no more questions about that.

The following week I had the impression that I needed to stop by and she was trying to finalize her move and the moving company had forgotten her dressers. These were heavy dressers and they told her for them to come back out they would charge her $2000. She didn’t know what to do and she didn’t want to get charged another month of rent. Then I showed up,I called the sisters, they called the elders which was a Tri-panionship of Spanish-speaking missionaries and we carried her dressers from the one apartment to the other. She said, God sent you just in time again.

This story isn’t over because she’s going to have a certificate on the wall soon and then she’ll be standing in the baptismal font representing her daughter! This is what it’s all about.

Una noche yo fui al hospital de los niños de primaria para recoger una mujer que estaba saliendo de su trabajo. Había mucho en construcción y era muy difícil llegar hasta ahí y aún más difícil salir. A veces siento como si estoy dentro de una laberinto y no se encuentre salida.

Cuando ella llegó al auto empezamos manejando por la calle me pidió si sería bien si me guiara con la construcción para que llegáramos a su casa por la ruta más directa.

Yo dije que si!

A veces los manejadores son tontos y se enojan cuando la gente intenta ayudar pero yo nunca me enojo. Me encanta cuando me ayuda. Yo supongo que están pagando ellos y que debemos cumplir con sus expectaciones. Pues salimos.

En la ruta la pedí si tenía algunas cuentas que la había pasado en Los tiempos que había tomado coaches antes. Algunos si tienen cuentas y ella tenía una historia increíble.

Ella dijo que una vez tomo un taxi y el taxista empezó ir en otro dirección que ella había indicada. Ellos ndaban por 20 minutos así errantes. Ella llamó a la policía y vinieron ellos y pararon físicamente el auto usando cuatro autos. cuando entrevistaron el manejador ellos le pidieron que pensó hacer con ella. El dijo, cualquier cosa que quiero

Cuando yo escuché este cuento todo lo que podía oír era que fue protegida y salvada por los ángeles que la acompañaba y que los tenía a su rededor

Yo decidí decirle esto y cuando lo dije ella dijo que sabía que tenía Ángeles a su lado. Yo la pedí cual era su religión y ellos me dijó Que era Batista. Yo la dije que sabía de la iglesia de Jesucristo de los santos de los últimos días. Ella pidió, mormones? Yo dije que sí! Ella dijo que realmente no sabía mucho

Ella me dijo que los jóvenes en camisas blancas la habían hablado con ella pero entonces se mudó y la habían perdido. Yo la pedí si tenía un libro de mormón. Ella dijo que había tenido una copia alguna vez pero ahora no lo tenía. Ella dijo que no sabía mucho del libro.

Ella me pidió que era el libro de mormón. Yo dije que era el de historia religiosa del pueblo que vivía en América en la antigüedad. Fue sus escritos de sus profetas y sus revelaciones de dios pero la cosa más importante era que testamento de Jesucristo que venía a América y haciendo eso probó que dios ama a todo el mundo no solo los que viven en Jerusalén

Ella pregunto, dios vino acá? América ? Yo dije que si! lo hizo. El bendijo los niños y la gente como hizo en Jerusalén. Yo dije que antes que salió de América dijo que todavía le quedaba otros ovejas que tenía que ver que no fueron de América ni tampoco Jerusalén. Yo la pedi a quien pensaba que Jesucristo visitaría si estaba visitando, ella dijo que visitaría a todos.

Ella me pidió donde dice eso en el libro de mormón? Yo la mostré el capítulo 16 de 3 nefi donde dice que Jesús iría a sus otros sabéis que es que no habían oído su voz. Éste la hizo feliz. yo dije a ella que sus antepasados a ló mejor conocieron a Cristo cuando el vino para visitarlos. Ella me pidió si podía tener mi libro. Yo dije que si! es uno de los libros preparados especiales con las referencias marcadas.

Yo tomé este oportunidad justo ahí para compartir mi testimonio del libro de mormón. Yo la dije que yo sabía que era verdadero y que lo sabía porque el espíritu me había testificado mientras que leía de la velocidad del libro

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Yo la dije que sería lo mismo con ella, dios confirmaría la veracidad a ella del libro. El espíritu estaba muy fuerte en el auto. Yo la pedi si de ves en cuando sienta los ángeles a su ulado que la protegieron este noche. Ella dijo a menudo. Yo la pedí si lo sintieron ahora? Y ella dijo que sí. Ella me dijo que hubo alguien que quería que investigara este asunto.

Ella me dijo que leería el libro pero no tenía que leerlo para saber que era verdad. Ellos dijo que basado en el espíritu que estaba sintiendo en ese momento y el poder de mi testimonio ella sabía que el libro era verdad. Yo la pedi que pensaba que fue la primera cosa que Jesús pidió que la gente hiciera cuando llegó América. Ella me dijo que no sabía. Yo la dije que el los mandó que bautizaron aunque algunos habían bautizado solo unos meses atrás. Jesús pidió que se bautizaron de nuevo otra vez.

El pidió que se bautizaron por la autoridad que el los dio y la manera que él dirigió. Ella pensó y dijo que tenía razón y que lo encantaba. Yo la dije que mientras empezara por el camino para aprender de la iglesia la meta sería su bautismo. Yo la pedí si estaría bien con esto y me dijo que sí. Me dijo que si fue preparada entonces le gustaría ser bautizada pero requería una cosa, Ella quería un certificado mostrando que fue bautizada para colgar en la pared de su casa. Yo le dije que pudiéramos hacer eso 100 %

You Love y di si sería bien si dijera no misioneros pasar para ayudarle a preparar para su bautismo. Ella dijo que le encantaría eso pero estaba mudando en ese momento pero le gustaría intentarlo. Yo sentía de fuego con el espíritu Y las lágrimas de ella bañaron su cara. Ese mujer había sentido el espíritu y sabía cómo sentía de estar en la presencia de dios. Ella tenía el deseo para hacer lo que dios quería, y este es todo lo que se pueda pedir.

IEl próximo día llame al obispo y conseguí el número de teléfono de los misioneros. De casualidad son hermanas y uno de ellas es negra de África que era perfecto en la situación. Ellos me llamaron y yo les dije la cuenta y que ella quería prepararse para el bautismo pero tenían que conseguir el certificado para colgar en su pared! Estuvieron reanimadas y hicieron sita parece su primera reunión

Cuando llegó el día de ese reunión ella había tenido mucho estrés con mudando su casa. Pues pidió que las hermanas no pasaron porque no estaba en el Disponible para recibir gente. Yo sentí la impresión que yo debería pasar igual sin saber antemano que había cancelado con las hermanas

Cuando llegue la pedi y si pudiera Llevarla a su trabajo ese día gratis. Ella me dijo que sí. Ella quiere que la mostrara algunas cosas en el libro de mormón y explico porque canceló a las hermanas.

En ruta su trabajo hablamos de otros tópicos del Evangelio y el espíritu brillaba muy fuerte. Estaba por todos lados y ella pudiese sentirlo. La mostré y Hablamos de estos versículos del segundo Nefi.

16 He aquí, mi alma se deleita en las cosas del Señor, y mi corazón medita continuamente en las cosas que he visto y oído.

17 Sin embargo, a pesar de la gran bondad del Señor al mostrarme sus grandes y maravillosas obras, mi corazón exclama: ¡Oh, miserable hombre que soy! Sí, mi corazón se entristece a causa de mi carne. Mi alma se aflige a causa de mis iniquidades.

18 Me veo circundado a causa de las tentaciones y pecados que tan fácilmente me asedian.

19 Y cuando deseo regocijarme, mi corazón gime a causa de mis pecados; no obstante, sé en quién he confiado.

20 Mi Dios ha sido mi apoyo; él me ha guiado por entre mis aflicciones en el desierto; y me ha preservado sobre las aguas del gran mar.

21 Me ha llenado con su amor hasta consumir mi carne.

22 Ha confundido a mis enemigos hasta hacerlos temblar delante de mí.

23 He aquí, él ha oído mi clamor durante el día, y me ha dado conocimiento en visiones durante la noche.

24 Y de día me he hecho osado en ferviente oración ante él; sí, he elevado mi voz a las alturas; y descendieron ángeles y me ministraron.

25 Y mi cuerpo ha sido conducido en las alas de su Espíritu hasta montañas muy altas; y mis ojos han visto grandes cosas, sí, demasiado grandes para el hombre; por lo tanto, se me mandó que no las escribiera.

Ella identifico mucho con este escritura.

Estuvimos manejando enfrente del templo en ruta a su destilación y yo pedí, sabes que es este? Eisi dijo que es el templo. Este es el lugar donde van sus amigos para casarse y no dejen que entro con ellos

Ella me pidió en cuanto al templo. Ella dijo, por qué es que no puedo entrar para ver el casamiento de mis amigos. Hablamos del sagrado obra que se efectúa en los templos. Yo tenía la impresión de pedir la del ángel que la había protegido. Yo podía sentir a ese punto que había alguien demás ahí con nosotros pero no sabía quién era. Ella dijo que era su hija. Ella dijo que su hija había escogido mal y había sido asesinada cuando tenía 20 años.

Yo sentí la impresión de mirarla en sus ojos y decide cómo sentaría si podría asegurar que tu hija estaría puro delante de dios! Ella dijo que ese sería más especial que cualquier otro cosa, ella me pidió, es posible este? yo le dije quiere posible por causa de los templos.

Yo le enseñé de los bautismos por los muertos y la obra que se efectuará en el mundo de los espíritus para preparar la gente ahí para su bautismo. Yo la dije que es su obra para ir al templo para ser bautizados en sus nombres porque pueden aceptarlo y están puro delante De Dios. A ese punto estaba llorando. Ella dijo que había perdido esperanza por su hijita pero haría cualquier cosa que pudiera para salvarla en las eternidades porque no podía salvarla en este vida.

Yo le dije que no solo su hija podría ser salvada pero todos sus antepasados de África que no recibieron sus bautismos podrían ser salvados por la obra que hacemos en el templo. Yo la dije que cada persona recibirá una oportunidad aún la gente que ella había visto cómo olvidados.

Yo la dije que bautismos para los muertos es la manera perfecta.

Ella me dijo que tiene razón y que la iglesia de Jesucristo tendría en cuento a todos los hijos de nuestro padre y celestial, ella estaba de acuerdo con felicidad. En ese punto sentí el espíritu decirme quie su hija estaba de acuerdo. De nuevo y ella llorando, sabía que su hija la estaba cuidando

yo le dije que su hija había hecho decisiones malas. Ella dijo que si había hecho desiciones malas pero la amaba igual. Yo la dije “ como podría ir al tiemblo y ser bautizada por ella dejando que ella podría estar puro y brillante delante de dios sin pecado.” Ella lo perdió completo. Me dijo es esto lo que quiero. Yo la dije que entre un mes de su bautismo podría ir al templo para ser bautizado por su hija y entonces su hija recibiría el perdón por todos sus pecados delante de dios y ella estaba 100 % queriendo eso

Ella me dijo que había escuchado que antes los negros no fueron dejados participar en nuestra iglesia y no pudieron tener el sacerdocio tampoco. Yo expliqué que en un tiempo era verdad eso pero que ahora no había diferencia en ninguna raza. Yo la expliqué el progreso de la iglesia y el sacerdocio por los años Y aceptó la respuesta con el espíritu y felicidad. Yo la dije que la gente en África fueron linaje de Israel según Isaías. Yo la mostré en El libro de mormón donde refiere a las hijos de Israel que se encuentran en kush y patos y que el hijo de dios los visitaría. Kush y Patos fueron civilizaciones dominantes en África en la antigüedad. Ella dijo que si se encontraban en Kush entonces estarían por todo el continente

Yo dije que sí.

Ella dijo está bien, listo no tengo más preguntas

La semana siguiente yo tenía la impresión pasar por su casa y ella estaba intentando mover algo que habían olvidado los obreros de mover. Fueron muebles pesados y dijeron a Ella que cobrarían 2000 $ para volver para mudarlos. Ellos no sabía que era que iba hacer y no quería ser cobrado otro mes por alquilar. Entonces llegé yo, llame a las hermanas y ellas me dieron el número de los Elders que era un grupo de tres misioneros hispano hablantes. Nosotros llevamos sus muebles desde un departamento hasta el otro. Ella dijo, Dios te mandó justo a tiempo otra vez. No Te llamé!

La cuenta no ha terminado todavía pero al final ella va a tener su certificado en la pared y estará parado en la pileta bautismal en el templo representando a su hija. Por eso hacemos todo

One night After I first started driving in August 2020 I was called to pick up a woman out by the Salt Lake City airport. I pulled into the hotel parking lot and two girls came out. One of them got in the car and Immediately I could tell that she had an accent on her English. I asked where she was from. She said South Africa.

I said that’s really cool! I asked her how she liked it in Utah. She said she liked it OK but she missed her family. She had been out at the hotel with some friends from Africa and she had missed them. I told her that I thought it would be hard to be all alone without family and friends so far from home. I’m glad she had that opportunity.

Then I got the strongest impression that I should tell her “you know that God loves you more than you could ever imagine, you are his daughter and he has never forgotten you”. I assure you that this is not a normal part of a discussion when you pick up a random person at an airport hotel.

I then was prompted to say “God not only loves you but he knows who you are and what you are going through”. She asked “so God is aware of me”? I said yes! The answer to that question is the fact that I was prompted by the spirit to say the things I just said.

She started to cry and told me that she had been baptized about 11 months previous to her move to Salt Lake. In Salt Lake, due to covid she had felt lost and like she didn’t have any friends. She didn’t feel fellowship by her ward and she had begun to doubt her value in God’s eyes.

I told her that God loved her and I asked her when was the last time she had been to church. She said that it was in January 2020. She had thought about going to go to church but because of Covid they didn’t have church and she felt like she was all alone and no one knew where she was. She told me that she had started having thoughts that she wasn’t important to God because of small sins that she had committed. I asked her when she started doubting herself and her testimony of the church. She looked up with a bit of embarrassment/surprise, thought for a second and said about June. June is when I started to doubt.

I told her that Satan was a liar and that he had whispered in her ear. I told her she needed to stop listening to Satan and start listening and believing God. I told her that God loved her so much that the spirit had given me this message that night. He wanted her to know that he loved her and that he was aware of her.

She said, “that has to be true, how would you have known to say that to me”. The spirit was really strong and she was smiling from ear to ear. She said, I feel like I felt right after I was baptized. She was visibly energized.

I told her to read the Book of Mormon every day, to pray multiple times a day and carry on a constant conversation with her Father in Heaven. I told her that if she would do this that she would not feel alone or forsaken. I told her about how my mission president taught us to be on our knees in our heart in constant prayer, always conversing with God. I told her I thought that might help her stay strong.

She thanked me and before she got out of the car told me that this changed everything. she said how great it was to know that God would send someone to answer her prayers in her time of distress.

I saw God’s hand touch her and lift her that night, what a blessing! I love how God knows when we’re down and knows just what to do to help us. He will send people with his message to lift us.

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Un noche recibí instrucciones buscar una mujer en los hoteles cerca al aeropuerto. Cuando estacioné vinieron dos chicas del hotel uno de ellos entró en mi auto. Fue fácil distinguir que tenía acento extranjero en su inglés. Yo la pedí de donde era y me dijo África del Sur

.Yo la dije que era muy lindo eso y la pedí cómo le gustara a Utah. Ella dijo que le gusta pero extrañaba mucho a su familia. Había estado en el hotel con amigos de África y me dijo que había extrañaba a ellas demasiado. Yo la dije que sería muy difícil estar sola en otro país sin tus amigos y familia y estaba feliz que tenía la oportunidad de estar con ellos esta noche

Entonces yo tenía la impresión muy fuerte que deberías decirla que Dios la ama más que puede imaginar. Que ella es una hija de su padre celestial y que el nunca la había olvidado. Les aseguro que no es normal decir eso para empezar los discusiones cuando agarro una persona cualquier de un hotel

Entonces fue inesperado decir no solo es que dios te ama pero él sabe quién es y lo que está pasando en su vida. Ella me pidió , es dios pendiente de mí? Yo dije “sí y la respuesta de ese pregunto es el hecho de que yo recibí inspiración decir lo que dije”.

Ella empezó a llorar y me dijo que había sido bautizado hace 11 meses atrás en África. Y entonces venía a Salt Lake. por causa de COVID ella había sentido perdida y como no tenía amigos. No sentía hermandad en su barrio Y había empezado dudar su valor en los ojos de su padre celestial.

Yo la dije que dios la amaba y la pedî cuando era la última que ella había asistido a la capilla. Ella y me dijo que fue enero casi 10 meses Y cinco meses antes del COVID. Ella me dijo que había pensado en regresar y asistir pero entonces ellos habían dejado de hacer reuniones. Ella sentía como había sido dejada y que estaba sola como no había nadie que la conocía. Ella me dijo que había empezado tener pensamientos que no era importante a dios por sus pecados que había cometido

Yo la dije que Satanas es un mentiroso y que estas mentidas fueron susurrado en su oído por Satanás. Yo la dije que dios la amaba tanto que su espíritu me había llevado ahí para estar con ella y que que su espíritu me había dado este mensaje esta noche. El Quiteria que ella conociera de su amor y que Dios estaba pendiente de ella

Ella dijo, “este tiene que ser verdad! como podría haber sabido que decirme esta cosa”. El espíritu estaba muy fuerte y ella estaba sonriendo oído a oído. Ella dijo “yo siento justo como sentí después de mi bautizo”. Ella se veía con mucha felicidad y energía en su cara.

Yo la dije que leyera el libro de mormón cada día, que se debe orar más de dos veces al día y llevar consigo una conversación constante con su padre celestial. Yo la conté de mi presidente de la misión pte Baroni cuando nos dijo que debatíamos estar arrodillada, orando siempre en nuestras corazones. Comunicando siempre con Dios. Yo la dije que si haría eso no sientaria sola ni tampoco perdida. Yo la dije que la ayudaría sentir fuerte y protegida.

Antes de salir del coche, me agradeció y dijo que todo había cambiado. Me dijo cuán grande era saber que dios mandaría a alguien para contestar sus oraciones en su distress.

Yo vi las manos de dios tocandola y levantándola esta noche. Que bendición!

Amo la manera en que dios sabe cuando estamos por abajo y sabe justo que hacer para ayudarnos. Nos mande gente con su mensaje para elevarnos. Un lift

I picked up a young man of Scandinavian descent at the airport. He was coming back from a Christian vision conference in Sacramento.

Once he got in the car he talked about how crazy everyone was over covid and how in california the governor had banned the exercise of worship. He saw that as evil and wondered out loud about how people so quickly and eagerly trade freedom for a promise of security.

We talked about masks as a metaphor even as he wore one. He said that people believe more in masks than they believe in God. I said that with the virus all over the place you would think that people would turn to God for truth and protection.

He said that’s right! That’s exactly right. I said that if people believed in God they would have more peace. He said he was looking for that peace even though he said he was already Christian,

He said “ I can tell, you’re Mormon aren’t you! I have good friends who are Mormon!” I told him that I was a member of the church for sure.

I told him that one of the leaders of our church, one of our apostles had made a statement on religious freedom in these times and I showed it to him. https://vimeo.com/565069157. He loved the video! He was touched by the power of the words from a Elder Bednar.

I asked him if he knew what the difference was between other Christian religions and our church.

He said he didn’t know, he had never asked LDS friends. He asked me what the difference was, I told him that we believe that Jesus is the God of all the world, of all the peoples of the whole world and he went to America and then other places to be just that. I went into detail on how Christ came to America to visit his other sheep and then in America indicated that he had still other sheep that hadn’t heard his voice and that he was going to visit them.

I asked him if a loving father would send his son to just one people or if he’d send him around the world to bless all of his children, he said,”that feels right that makes more sense”. He said what “you say makes me feel calm and sounds right.”

He asked me how he could read about this. I took that opportunity to bear my testimony of Joseph Smith, seeking for truth just like he was and the first vision. I told him about the Book of Mormon. I told him that it was the religious legacy of God’s children here in America and that it bears pure testimony of Christ and the teachings of his prophets. I told him it contains the account of Jesus’ visit to America. I told him that reading the Book of Mormon is the best way to walk with God.

The spirit was strong and I asked him what he felt. He said, a powerful calm. He said he felt that what I said was true.

I asked him if he wanted to know another difference, he said yes. I asked him

if everyone needed to be baptized? He said yes. I asked him if somebody born in China 800 years ago had the opportunity to be baptized, he said no. I asked him if God loved everyone equally no matter when they were born or where they were born, he said yes. I talked about how for three days while Christ’s body lay in the tomb he went to the spirit world to organize the preaching of the gospel. We read this from Peter and he was blown away. He had never paid attention to that.

I asked him if it would be just if these people, who now had been taught and believed, were left out because they weren’t able to be baptized. He thought for a minute and said no! Christ would not have done that to them. It would have been cruel and God isn’t cruel. I told him about how in Ephesians it says that they did baptisms for the dead and told him this was God‘s plan. The people were baptized for and in behalf of someone who had died so they could accept that ordinance and all Gods children could have the opportunity to come home. We do this in our temples today so everyone gets this opportunity.

He said the words you are saying are new and different but the feeling I feel of calm and peace makes me believe that what you’re saying is true. I told him that’s how the spirit works and that is how God works with us.

The spirit confirms truth. Once we hear truth the spirit confirms it to us and that’s how we walk with God. I asked him if he wanted to walk with God, he said yes. I told him that when we as fathers teach our children we don’t walk around giving constant direction or approval. We let them learn to follow instructions or let them figure it out. We give them answers and guidance if they have a question or say no if they are wrong. I told him that this is how God works too. He is a father and that’s why we feel confirmations of the decisions we make. God is a father that doesn’t walk around and lead you by the hand to everything. He walks by your side and expects you to use your intelligence and everything he has given you. He then confirms or rejects your decision. He said that sounds right.

I told him his spirit knew God and that when it was in the presence of God his spirit knew that this is where it was supposed to be. This is why he felt calm and this is why he felt peace and a recognition when we discussed these doctrines that were all new to him.

He asked me about people manipulating feelings of the heart and how you could know the difference. I said that’s why it’s so important to know from the doctrine and have that confirmed, both from your head and your heart. We discussed how people can tell a story or some other way make an emotional play and you have to know how Gods presence feels because emotions can play you.

He said yes! This is much stronger than an emotion. I told him about how I shouldn’t have been sent to pick him up where he was. The app had overridden my set preference and I was compelled to the airport. I told him that there is no such thing as coincidence only Gods hand in our lives. I told him God puts people in my car sometimes and I give them a message that he has for them. The spirit whispers those messages to my heart and that this is what had been happening with us today.

I asked him if he was good friends with the Mormons he knew, he said yes. I told him to go to them and tell them that he had a spiritual confirmation of the truthfulness of the Book of Mormon in the car with a driver and that he wanted to know more. He said he would. I reached in my bag and pulled out one of the Book of Mormons I have prepared by Sister Secrist and gave it to him. I told him that this was his roadmap. He was touched. I told him that God would walk with him through the process

I asked him what he thought right now. He said, I’m not ready to become a Mormon just yet but i know that what we have talked about is true. I’m very interested in learning everything I can and following this path.

One of the beautiful things about having the fullness of the gospel is that we don’t have to tear down what they believe, they already have some of the truth. We add truth to the truth they already know and complete the picture. It feels good when they see that picture and what a blessing it is for us to help them see it.

Yo busqué un joven de descendencia sueco en el aeropuerto. Él estaba volviendo de una conferencia cristiana de visión en Sacramento California.

Cuando subió al auto empezó hablar de la locura que estaba pasando en cuanto Covid y como en California el gobernador había prohibido adoración de dios. El vio a este cosas como maldad. Elvio este coche como maldad y estaba pensando en voz alta Cuan rápido la gente había cambiada sus derechos y libertades por un promesa y percepción de seguridad

Hablamos de las máscaras metafóricas aún mientras que llevaba uno puesto. El dijo que la gente crea más en la máscara que creen en dios. yo le dije que a me parecía que con el virus por todos lados sería que la gente estaría doblando a dios por protección

El dijo que este era correcto. yo dije que si la gente creyera en dios tendrían más paz. El dijo que el cierre correcto yo dije que si la gente creyera en dios tendría más paz. El dijo que estaba buscando este para si mismo aunque ya en el cristiano.

El dijo, se ve que sus Mormón, no? Tengo muy buenos amigos que son mormones. Yo le dije que era mormón por supuesto.

Yo le dije que uno de los líderes de nuestra iglesia, uno de nuestros apóstoles, había hecho una declaración en cuanto al libertad religiosa en esos tiempos. Yo le mostré el vídeo. https://vimeo.com/565069157. Le encantaba el vídeo. Fue tocado por el poder de las palabras de Elder Bednar.

Yo le pedí si conocía la diferencia entre los otros se actos cristianos Y nuestra iglesia.

El decía que no sabía y tampoco había preguntado a sus amigos que son miembros de la iglesia. El me pidió, cuáles son las diferencias ? Yo le dije que creemos nosotros que Cristo es el dios de todo el mundo no solo Jerusalén y que vino a América para visitar a sus otros ovejas y entonces a otros lugares para visitarlos. Yo empecé decir como Cristo en América dijo que hubo otros viajes que todavía no habían escuchado a su voz y que iba a visitarlos

Yo le pedí si un padre amoroso mandaría su hijo a un pueblo nomás o si le mandaría al mundo para bendecir a todos sus hijos. El dijo que este siente bien y parece que tiene razón. Entonces me dijo, lo que dices me traiga calma, suena bien y justo.

El me pidió cómo podría leer de este relato.

Este me dio oportunidad de testificar de José Smith. Un chico buscando la verdad, tal como el chico en mi auto. Que el vió la primera visión. Yo le enseñé del libro de mormón. Yo le dije que era una legacía religiosa de los hijos de dios acá en América y que comparte testimonio puro de Jesucristo y las enseñanzas de sus profetas. Yo le dije que contiene la cuenta de Jesucristo y su visita a América. Yo le dije que leer el libro de mormón es la mejor manera de caminar con dios.

El espíritu estaba fuerte y le pedí como sintió. El dijo que sintió una calma poderoso. El dijo que sintió como lo que había dicho yo de verdad.

Yo le pedí si quiere conocer otro diferencia, el dijo que sí. Yo le pedí si cada persona hace falta bautismo? El dijo que sí.

Yo le pedí si alguien que naciera en China hace 800 años atrás tenía la oportunidad bautizarse, el dijo que no. Yo le pedí si dios amaba cada persona igual ni importa donde nacieron o cuando nacieron, el dijo que sí.

Yo hablé de los tres días mientras que el cuerpo de Cristo descansaba en el sepulcroI, que su espíritu fue el mundo de los espíritus para organizar la predicación del Evangelio. Que leímos eso de Pedro y él estaba impresionado. Nunca había prestado atención a este parte de la biblia.

Yo le pedí si sería justo si este pueblo, que nunca había sido enseñado, fueron dejado fuera porque no podían ser bautizados. Él pensaba por un minuto y dijo no! Cristo no habría hecho eso a ellos. Habría sido cruel y dios no es cruel. Yo le contaba beneficios donde dice que hicieron bautismos para los muertos y le dije que ese fue el plan de dios. La gente espera espera Tizado de parte de alguien que ha muerto porque pueden aceptar la ordenanza y todos los hijos de dios podrán tener oportunidad de volver a casa. Hacemos eso en nuestros templos hoy para que todos tengan esa oportunidad.

El dijo que las palabras que estás diciendo son nuevos y diferentes pero el sentimiento de calma y paz me hace creer que lo que estás diciendo es verdad. Yo le dije que si es como funciona y obra el espíritu con nosotros.

El espíritu confirma la verdad. Uno de ellos que escuchamos la verdad el espíritu lo confirma a nosotros y ese es como caminamos con dios. Yo le pedí si quería caminar con dios, el dijo que sí. Yo le dije que como padres cuando enseñamos nuestros hijos no caminamos enfrente de ellos haciendo todo para ellos mostrándolos diciendo en cada cosa. No siempre estamos diciendo viene hecho por cada jose chiquito que hacen. Dejamos que ellos aprenden seguir instrucciones Les damos instrucciones y aveces si piden o si tienen preguntas y decimos que están equivocados si son equivocados. Yo le dije que así funciona dios también el es un padre y por eso sentimos su confirmación a los decisiones que hacemos. Como padre dios no camina en frente haciendo todo agarrándonos por la mano tirándonos donde tenemos que ir. El camina a lado y quiere que usemos nuestra inteligencia y todo lo que nos ha dado y entonces confirma o rechaza la decisión que tomamos. El dijo que tenías razón.

Yo le dije que su espíritu conoció a dios y que cuando estaba en la presencia de dios su espíritu sabía que ese es donde debería de estar. Por eso siente la calma y es porque siente paz y reconoció cuando estuvimos hablando de las doctrinas que fueron nuevos a el.

El me pidió en cuanto a la manipulación de sentimientos del corazón y cómo podría saber la diferencia. Yo dije que esto es porque están importante conocer la doctrina y tenerlos confirmación. Desde tu cabeza y tu corazón. Hablamos de cómo hay gente que comporta una historia o algo lleno de emociones para engañar y como uno tiene que saber cuando está en la presencia de dios para evitar eso.

El me dijo, si este es mucho más fuerte que emoción. Yo le dije como yo no debería haber recogido a el hoy dónde estaba. Mi teléfono me mandó contra la preferencia de que había puesto al aeropuerto. Yo le dije que no hay tal cosa como coincidencia solo los manos de dios en nuestras vidas. Yo le dije que dios siempre está poniendo personas recibir un masaje De Dios. El espíritu susurra este mensaje a mi corazón y eso es lo que estaba pasando este día.

Yo le pedí si fue buen amigos con los mormones que conoció. El dijo que sí. Yo le dije que debería decir a ellos que recibió una confirmación espiritual de la veracidad del libro de mormón en el auto con su manejador y que quería saber más. El dijo que lo haría. Yo agarré un libro de mormón de mi bolsa. Lo entregué a él. Yo le dije que ese fue su mapa. El fue emocionante. Yo le dije que dios caminaría con él por el proceso.

Yo le pedí si pensaba que pensaba ahora mismo. El dijo, no estoy totalmente listo todavía hacerme mormón pero sé de la veracidad de lo que hemos hablado. Es verdad! Tengo mucho interés en aprender todo lo que puedo siguiendo este camino.

Uno de las cosas hermosas de tener la plenitud del Evangelio es que no tenemos que quitar y lo que creen los demás. Tienen parte de la verdad, solo tenemos que añadir el resto a lo que ya saben para que tengan la pintura completa. Sienta muy bien cuando ellos ven la pintura y es un bendición para nosotros ayudarlos verlo

One night a few weeks ago, I got a call to pick a lady up at one of those not so good hotels around 72nd south and the freeway. It took a minute and a few texts but finally they came out. They had a dog with them. It wasn’t a service animal and I had the right to refuse it but I felt the impression not to reject it, so against my better judgment I let them in with the dog. I told them they had to keep the dog on their lap because I didn’t want it walking on my leather.

We started driving down to Salt Lake and they were trying to decide whether or not to have me wait for them and put in another stop or what to do. Not knowing what it was that they were going downtown for I just figured that I could wait for them and give them a ride back. I would just have them pay me so that’s what we decided to do. We talked and they were happy but it was mostly just chitchat.

When we pulled into downtown they got out and went into the Hampton Inn. I hate taking people that seem like they may be drug people from one fleabag hotel to a slightly better fleabag hotel. It usually means you’re going to get drugs but I had already committed to them that I would wait so I sat there. I sat there for 30 minutes. In an industry where time means rides and rides mean money I could see dollar bills just flying out the window and was getting a little ansi. The security guard asked me what was going on I said I had no idea I didn’t know where they went. He was very concerned and started looking on his monitors. I felt like what I wanted to do was just leave and I thought about it a couple of times but I was constrained by the spirit to stay and so I did.

Finally after what seemed like a lifetime the guy came out carrying the dog and said he didn’t know where she was and he started texting her to get her there. He was clearly a little bit annoyed but was trying to get her away from there. Finally after a few more minutes she came and I was excited to get going. There had been a change in her demeanor and the situation. It was clear to me that she had been given drugs or purchased drugs while she was there at that hotel and probably both.

I just decided to get them back to their hotel so we started back. When we started going I looked at him and said “tell me about your family.” He told me that he had an ex-wife with two children and that he had just broken up with another girlfriend. Clearly this relationship that I saw in the car was one of convenience for other purposes. I asked him if he missed his little girls and we talked about being a father. He got a bit emotional and mentioned that he missed them a lot. I talked to him about the church and how we believe in families and how they’re the most important thing.

He said “that’s the thing I love about the Mormon church. That feeling of family”. I said, are you a member of the church? He said no, well, maybe, I guess I used to be. I said what do you mean by that? He said I don’t have any reason not to believe but I just haven’t been an active member. I started talking to him about his life and how the church could bless his life. Just as I started talking about that I had the impression to ask him why he left the church. He said, “no one has ever asked me that question and I’m not sure if I know the answer”.

He said that it was really off-putting to him that people were hypocritical, judging and that there didn’t seem to be too much love amongst the people in the wards. I said to him “you know, it’s funny that usually when people say those things what it means is that they have been sinning and not living like they should. They feel judged because they’re judging themselves and they figure everyone else must be as well.” I told him that people go to alcohol and drugs and riotous living to try to bury the guilt they feel. They go in a downward spiral. I said to him that I felt this is where he was. I told them that I felt like at some point in his life, when he was a young child he had been abused and he felt abandoned by God. I told him hat he was being a little bit petulant.

His question? How could a God that loved me allow this to happen to me. I told him that he should know that God allows people there agency but he expects the rest of us to step up and be his hands to relieve suffering and make things right for others. There was stunned silence from him and the spirit was working. It was touching us both. I could tell he knew that the only way I could’ve said and known those things was by the power of the spirit.

I told him that every person in the Church hears the whisperings of unworthiness, inadequacy, being judged and Satan is the one that puts them there. Satan is the one whispering these things in our ears. We need to have more faith in Christ and his power from his atonement than we have belief in the word Satan whispers in our ears. In the end the church is a hospital for sick people not a museum for perfect people. I told him that Satan is a liar, an insidious liar and that he has perfected the art of lying to the extent that people believe him that shouldn’t. This is how he catches them in his snare.

About this time the girl who I previously thought had been his girlfriend started getting very fidgety and putting off an anger vibe. It just felt very dark in that corner of the car. It felt like pure evil over there. It was almost as if I could hear spiritual screaming and anger although nothing was audible to the human ear. It reminded me of weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth.

I kept going and talked to him about Elder Renlund’s talk from conference https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/general-conference/2021/04/25renlund I talked to him about how this talk helped me realize the importance of the atonement and that the atonement is how God makes it all right. Life isn’t fair but God will make it right if we have faith in him and his Son’s atonement. He was clearly moved and the girl was getting more and more agitated and it felt darker and darker on that side of the car.

Finally we dropped her off and it was like the sun coming over the mountain. The car lit up and the spirit was unrestrained.

I told him, “you know, she plays for the other team don’t you” he said, “I know but I try to see the best in people”. I told him that she was there to drag him down. It was almost like an assignment from Satan and that he needed to turn this around now if he wants to be with his girls. That’s why God had sent me there today. I told him that God puts people in my car to help them and that the spirit was telling me that this is why he was here.

As we drove to his hotel I talked to him more about the atonement. I talked to him about how Christ suffered everything so that our problems, our angst, our embarrassment, our sins, our pain, and our infirmities could be swallowed up and he could help us and lift us. The power of the testimony of the atonement clearly resonated with him. He said he had never been taught about it like that. He had been a foster child and in and out of several homes. He had been abused and passed around. He had never understood how God could allow that to happen.

I told him again that God will not take away the agency of a person but will use the atonement take away the pain/anger and send people who listen to his call to lift those who are struggling. These are the people through which he blesses his children.

I told him about the uneven cups and the atonement analogy of how God doesn’t even them out, he fills them all up. This leads into being fulfilled or filled as a person and that is impossible without Christ snd the atonement.

By this time he was crying, it turns out he’s from Mapleton and his mother had sent him a message two days earlier saying that he was always welcome at home and that they wanted to help him. He said first that and now this. I said there is no such thing as a coincidence. There’s a reason why this all happened in a short period of time and it’s because God wants you back.

I told him God sent me because he was going down a path that he would not recover from. He sent me to stop it. We talked about how powerfully we were feeling the spirit and identified it. I asked him if he could feel the evil on the other side of the car when the girl was in there, he said it was amazing that he could see the evil and feel it as well.

I asked him if he prayed, he said “not for a long time”. I told him that he needed to pray. I asked him if he would promise me that he would go pray right now. He said yes! I told him that he needed to go to church. I asked him where he would go to church. He said he would go back to Mapleton and attend with his family. I told him that I felt like that would make them so happy.

I asked him if he was willing to do it,throw away this lifestyle he was pursuing and return to God. He said he would do it. I asked him if he would promise God that he would do it and he said yes.

I bore my testimony of the Book of Mormon to him. The spirit was so strong, we knew God was there with us and I knew he felt it. I told him that if he would read the Book of Mormon it would give him the power he needed to overcome the temptations and make the changes he needed to do. I told him that he should leave this place and go home to his family and to the church. I asked him if he would go and read a chapter in the book of Mormon tonight and pray and he said yes.

I texted him some information and asked him to please call his family in the morning so that he can get this process started. He said he would!

I left. The next day I got this text after asking him if he prayed yet.

“I’m good thanks im headed home actually as much as didnt want to admit it to myself everything you said was true . thank your for caring because my girls are the reason to keep pressing on no matter how hard life gets “

What a great decision! God is good.

Un noche yo recibí llamadas ir para recoger una mujer en uno de los hoteles malos cerca a 7200 sur. Cerca a la autopista. Llevo algunos minutos y algunos textos pero por fin salieron. Ellos tuvieron consigo un perro. No fue un Animal de servicio y yo tenía el derecho de rechazarlo pero tendría que rechazarlos completo Yo sentí la impresión que por algún razón. Éste iba en contra de todo mi sabiduría personal pero decidi llevar el perro. Yo les dije que tenían que mantener el perro sobre sus piernas y no Quería que caminara encima del cuero que tengo en mi asiento.

Empezamos manejar hacia Salt Lake City. Ellos estuvieron intentando decidir si deberían de pedir que esperara yo para ellos. Necesitaban ser llevados devuelto y no sabían cómo hacer esto. Yo no sabía que estuvieron haciendo en el centro y decidí que podía esperarles y llevarlos de vuelta. Yo le hice a él pagarme y Y salimos para hacerlo así. Hablamos y parecían feliz pero estuvimos charlando nomás.

Cuando llegamos al centro ellos salieron del auto y fueron dentro del hotel Hampton inn. Yo odio llevando gente desde un Hotel malo hasta otro que es un poco mejor pero todavía malo. Normalmente quiere decir que van para buscar drogas pero ya había comprometido a ellos que esperaría ahí pues ahí estaba. Yo estaba ahí por 30 minutos. Y en un industrial donde tiene que llevar gente para ganar dinero yo pude ver volar los billetes de dólares fuera de mi ventana. Yo estaba llegando ser un poco nervioso. El guardia de seguridad me pidió que estaba pasando y yo dije que no tenía idea. Yo no sabía dónde fueron. Él estaba muy preocupado y empezó a mirar a sus televisores para ver. Yo sentí como quería A salir nomás y lo pensé un par de veces pero fue construido por el espíritu para quedar pues lo hice

Por fin después de lo que sintió como una vida completa el hombre salió llevando el perro y dijo que no sabía por donde estaba ella y empezó texteando a ella para llamarla venir. Claramente estaba un poco enojado con ella pero estaba intentando llevarla fuera de ese lugar. Por fin después de algunos minutos más vino ella y yo estaba animado salir. Ahora hubo un cambio en cómo parecía ella y según la situación vi claramente que ella había estado usando drogas o los compro mientras que estaba ahí en el hotel a lo mejor los dos.

Yo decidí regresarnos a sus hoteles rápido pues empezamos devuelta. Cuando empezamos ir yo miré al hombre y dije decime de su familia. El me dijo que tenía un ex esposa con dos hijas Y que recién lo había dejado otro novia. Claramente esa relación que vi en el auto era uno de comodidad por otras razones. Y yo le pedí si extrañaba a sus hijas y hablamos de ser un padre. El llegó a ser muy emocional y mencionó qué extrañaba mucho a sus hijas. Yo le hablé de la iglesia y como creíamos en familias Y como es la cosa más importante

El dijo que este es la cosa que ama mucho de la iglesia mormona. El sentimiento de familia. Yo pedí, si era miembro de la iglesia? El dijo no, bueno, quizás, era un miembro una vez. Yo le pedí, qué quieres decir con eso? El dijo qué no tenía razón no creer pero no había sido miembro activo en mucho tiempo. Yo empecé hablar con el en cuanto a su vida y como la iglesia podía bendecirle en su vida. Justo cuando empecé hablar en cuanto a eso tenía la impresión pedirle por qué es que dejó a la iglesia. El dijo “no hay nadie que me ha hecho ese pregunta nunca Y no estoy seguro si conozco la respuesta.”

El dijo que le cayó mal cuando la gente juzgando como hipócritas y no parecía que hubo amor entre el pueblo en su barrio. Yo le dije,”sabes que es cómico?” Normalmente cuando gente dice cosas así lo que quiere decir es que han estado pescando y no viviendo como saben que deberían haber estado viviendo y sienten juzgados porque ellos están Juzgando sí mismo y los demás. Por eso ellos piensan que todos los demás están juzgando a ellos

Yo le dije que la gente vaya a alcohol y drogas intentando sepultar su culpabilidad que sienten y entonces empiecen caer por abajo. Yo dije que pudiese sentir que ahí estaba el. Yo le dije que sentí por el espíritu que algún tiempo en su vida había sido abusado y sintió abandonado por dios y que estaba portándose como un niño malcriado. Yo le dije que sentía decir que él había pensado, cómo es que un dios que le amaba dejar pasar eso a él. Yo le dije que debería saber que dios permite que sus hijos tienen su albedrío pero espera del resto de nosotros ser sus manos y brazos Para aliviar el sufrimiento de los que sufren y hacer bien para los demás. Para rectificarlo lo más que podamos. Hubo un silencio tremendo de él y el espíritu estaba obrando. El espíritu estaba tocando nosotros dos. Yo pude ver que él sabía que la única manera que podría haber sabido eso fue por el poder del espíritu.

Yo le dije que cada persona en la iglesia escucha los susurros en su oído que dice que no es digno o no es capaz o que otros le están juzgando y Satanás es el que está poniendo los ahí. Satanás es el que está susurrando estas cosas en nuestros oídos pero tenemos que tener más fe en Cristo y el poder de su expiación que tenemos en la creencia en las palabras que Satanás está susurrando. En el fin la iglesia es un hospital por los enfermos no un museo para los perfectos. Yo le dije que Satanás es mentiroso y que ha perfeccionado el arte de mentir al punto que la gente Que no debe creer, crea. Ese es como el los captura.

Más o menos ese tiempo la chica que previamente había pensado fue su novia empezó a agitarse mucho y sentí enojo de ella. Sintió muy oscuro en ese rincón del auto. Sintió como maldad pura ahí. Era casi al punto que podía escuchar gritos espirituales de enojo aunque no se escuchaba con mi oído humano y me hizo recordar de lllorar, gritar y crujir de dientes

Yo seguí hablando a él del discurso de elder Renlund de conferencia. https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/general-conference/2021/04/25renlund Yo hablé a él en cuanto a cómo este discurso me ayudó entender la importancia de la expiación y que la expiación es como dios hace todo justo y recto. La vida no es justo pero dios lo hará bien y recto si tenemos fe en él y la expiración de su hijo. El fue movido claramente y la chica estaba poniéndose aún más agitada y enojada. Sentió aún más oscuro en su lado de la auto mientras que hable.

Por fin la dejamos en su Hotel y fue como el sol salió sobre la montaña. El coche brillo y el espíritu no fue constreñido

Yo le dije, sabéis vos que ella juega por el otro equipo,no? Y él dijo que sabía pero intento verlo bien en cada persona. Yo le dije que ella estaba ahí para llevarlo por abajo. Es casi como asignación de Satanas y que él necesitaba doblar y rectificarse ahora si quería estar con sus niñas. Por eso dios me mandó ahí hoy le dije. Yo le dije que dios pone gente en mi auto para que pueda ayudarlos y el espíritu me estaba diciendo qué este era porque estaba ahí el

Mientras que manejaba a su hotel yo le hablé más de la expiación. Yo le hablé de Cristo sufriendo por cada problema, angustia, inferioridad o dolor para que nuestros problemas podrían ser consumido en él y pudiera ayudarnos y levantarnos. El poder del testimonio de la expiación le tocó profundamente. El me dijo que nunca había sido instruido en cuanto a la expiación así. El había sido adoptado pero antes estaba pasado por muchos casas y muchas familias y abusado durante la situación. El nunca entendió como dios podría dejar pasar tal cosa. Yo le dije otra vez que dios nos sacará albedrío de una persona pero usará la expiación para quitar el dolor y el enojo y aleviarlo por los que escuchan su llamada para lavan todos los que están luchando. Por medio de esas personas Dios bendice a sus hijos.

Yo le dije de los 5 vasos que no son igual enseñando de la expiación y como dios no los hace igual sino que llena a todos. Así llegamos ser gente cumplido por llenarnos Por una persona y este es imposible sin la expiación de Jesucristo.

Ahora él estaba llorando, el me dijo que su mamá le había mandado un mensaje hace dos días diciendo que siempre era bienvenido En su casa y que ellos querían ayudarle. El dijo Primera la nota de mi mamá y ahora este experiencia. Yo dije que no hay tal cosa como coincidencia. Hay un razón porque está pasando todo eso en un periodo muy corto. Es porque dios le quiere y quiere que vuelva

Yo le dije que dios sabía que estaba yendo por un camino donde no podría recobrar y me mandó para pararlo. Estuvimos sintiendo el espíritu muy fuerte y lo identificamos. Yo le pedí si pudiese sentir el maldad al otro lado del coche antes cuando la chica estaba, él dijo que era asombroso que podía ver lo y sentirlo

Yo le pedí si oraba, él dijo no por mucho tiempo. Yo le dije que necesitaba orar. Yo le pedí si me prometería que iría ahora para orar. El dijo que sí. Yo le dije que necesitaba ir a la capilla. El dijo que volvaría a su familia para asistir con ellos. Yo le dije que sentí que los haría muy feliz.

Yo le pedí si estaba dispuesto a hacerlo, tirar en la basura este estilo de vida que estaba persiguiendo y volver a dios. El dijo que lo haría. Yo le pedí si prometería a Dios que lo haría, el dijo que sí.

Yo compartí mi testimonio del libro de mormón a él. El espíritu estaba tan fuerte. Nosotros sabíamos que dios estaba ahí con nosotros y yo sentí el espíritu y sabía que él también lo sintió. Yo le dije que si leyera el libro de mormón le daría el poder que necesitaba para vencer a los tentaciones y hacer los cambios que hacía falta hacer. Yo le dije que debería salir de ese lugar, ir al hogar de su familia y volver a la iglesia. Yo le pedí si iría y leería un capítulo en el libro de mormón esta noche y orar y él dijo que sí.

Yo le mandé un texto con la información y le pedí que llamara a su familia en la mañana para que podría empezar el proceso. El dijo que lo haría.

Yo salí y 20 minutos más tarde yo recibí texto contestando lo mío diciendo que ya había orado.

En la mañana del día siguiente recibí otro texto qué Dijo “estoy bien, yo me voy a casa ahora. No quería decirlo a mí mismo pero cada cosa que dijo anoche es verdad. Muchas gracias por preocuparse por mi. Mis hijas son la razón que voy A seguir adelante ni importa cuán difícil es o llegue a ser”

Que gran decepción! Dios es amoroso