Saturday, March 1, 2014

the gates were opened

Okay, quick little miracle. This happened in my last area, where we covered a cute little retirement community. We only had a couple of members who lived in it, and we were going to to try and visit with them this particular summer morning. There were also a few other names that we had received to go and visit that we were going to try and make contact with.
We biked up to the gate, and we tried the code we had received a week earlier.  It didn't work. We switched around the numbers (you know, sometimes the number you remember is just a little off...). Nothing was working. The sun was hot. We looked kind of ridiculous--just sitting outside of this community, kind of hopeless looking.  We even felt a little like we were trying to break in, waiting for a car to maybe drive up and just stealthily follow them in. But, no cars came.

We finally came to terms that we would have to gratify our pride and call the sister we were coming to visit and ask her for the gate code for the second time. We dialed her up---and there was no answer. Great. Maybe it just wasn't meant to be.
As we sat on our bikes deciding if we should wait for a car or just go somewhere else, the gates opened. There were no cars around--not inside the community or outside of the community. It was a miracle!
We knew that God had a purpose for us in that community that morning--I still to this day don't know what it was, but I know there was a reason! Super cool, isn't it?

Heavenly Father has a plan for each of His children and often He uses one of us to help another. He will always make sure you are in the place that He needs you--as long as it's really where He needs you!


"It is by faith that miracles are wrought; and it is by faith that angels appear and minister unto men." Moroni 7:37

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