Exact Obedience Brings Miracles

And another missionary portrait.

This past week Elder Harden and I got invited to a member's home to come teach a referral he had gotten us. When we arrived the referral wasn't there and when she got there she could only stay for a couple minutes. After she left, the members offered us food and said we could hang around for a while. Keep in mind, having dinner with members and not having some sort of investigator there is disobedient in our mission. It gets too easy for missionaries to waste a lot of time just hanging out with members. 

It would've been pretty easy to justify staying at their house. There was food, it was raining, and they had started out with having a referral there. We were obedient, though, and we left. 

Right as we walked out the door, we got a call from a former investigator that we had stopped teaching because we fell out of contact with him. He said he wanted to meet with us again and that he wanted to join our church. He came to church this past Sunday and is excited about the gospel. If we had stayed at that member's house we wouldn't have answered the phone because we were talking with the members. Obedience brings blessings. Exact obedience brings miracles.