We all have something different!

This week has been really good. But the highlight was the family I talked about a couple emails back. We were just walking through an apartment complex and they needed help moving in so we helped them. Well it turned out to be that the father is a member and had been praying to get back to church somehow. Well we had been trying for about 2 weeks to get a hold of them and could never catch them home. Well one night we knocked on the door and found the daughter home! I asked if we could come back the next day when her dad was home and she said we could. 

Arizona sunset 

Batting cages for dinner 

Well I got busy picking people up and running around for transfers and had to cancel the lesson. A couple days later we went to stop by and see if they were home and as we were walking to his apartment we saw him. He told us we could come in but just really quickly because it was his lunch break and he only had 15 minutes. We were expecting and planning on just getting to know him a little bit and set up a time to actually sit down and have a lesson. Well he invited his family in which consists of his wife and her 18 year old daughter. We started to get to know them for about 2 minutes and then the daughter said she had some Mormon friends and wanted to ask some question. She said "who is Joseph Smith and what is he all about?" Man it was a perfect set up. We taught the Restoration and explained why Joseph Smith is important. She thought it was really cool and made sense. Then at the end when we invited her to pray about the Book of Mormon and about Joseph Smith, she was more than excited to do it. She said "I haven't been baptized yet and really want to find a church that I like so I can be baptized into it". It was like a perfect first lesson. 

So we ended up setting up a lesson 2 days later and going by. We taught the Plan of Salvation to them and they thought it all made sense. Where we came from, why we are here, where we going. They loved that God had a plan for each one of them. The spirit was really strong and at the end of the lesson the mom said that she really likes us and she was talking to her daughter about us. They both agreed they saw something different in us than in anyone else they have talked to, they said we were really happy and could see something different in us. They said they saw something in our eyes or something. We testified of the truth of our message and couldn't help but testify of the happiness that each one of them could have. 

I always thought that people said that about other missionaries or other people. People and missionaries that actually do have something different. A better understanding of the gospel or a better out look at life or just something different. I never in a million year thought that some one would look at me and tell me they see something different in me. Something different in my eyes. I soon realized that we all have something different. We have truth and understanding. We know Gods plan and how we can find happiness. Its experiences like these that have a lasting conversion in your life.