Be bold

Anyways, this week we had a cool experience. There was a mission party thing with a talent show and a bunch of stuff, and right after we had cleaned up, we had an appointment with an investigator. Luckily my phone was on silent from the meeting and I didn’t see her message saying that “she felt pressured and scared and didn’t want us to come that day”, so we showed up to her house and she began telling us how doubtful she was. To be honest, at first I felt so faithless. I was just thinking to myself, ¨This happens so much to me with my investigators. How can I help her through her doubts? ¨ I prayed soooo hard that the spirit would guide me and that God would strengthen my faith. She kept saying that she didn’t feel that it was true. I asked her what she needed to do to know for herself if all of it was true (we had previously taught her about Moroni’s Promise). She said things like “learn more, and go to church and read more”. I said, ¨no, you need to pray to God. It doesn’t matter how much you know until you pray to God to know if it is true. ¨ She said that she had prayed, but hadn’t felt anything. I said, and it was a good bold statement for me, ¨Then you haven’t prayed with a sincere heart or real intent or faith. One of those things is missing in your prayer. ¨ I then got a really cool impression to tell her, ¨You haven't got an answer, because you have no real intent. You are too scared to follow the answer you will get and the things you’ve felt when we’ve taught you.¨ I just waited for a second, and she was like, ¨maybe that’s true.¨ I asked, ¨Do you want to know right now if the Book of Mormon is true?¨ She answered affirmatively, and so we all knelt down and I started with a super simple prayer, ¨Heavenly Father, is the Book of Mormon true?¨ Then Elder Wright prayed for the same thing, and then she prayed for the same thing and we all waited and paused. I knew the spirit was there. We asked her how she felt and she said normal. We testified that the spirit was there, because we could both feel it and we asked her again to describe how she felt. She said, ¨I feel light. ¨ She finally began to recognize the spirit. We had identified it earlier with her in other lessons, but I know that she was too scared to really recognize it. She is still scared, mostly due to her husband, I think, but she has now truly recognized the spirit and the truth of these things. We left. She knows that she needs to be baptized and to not deny the spirit - we made that clear. I love the spirit and the guidance that it brings to allow us, as missionaries, to be bold and to help others see the truth and the path to salvation. I am so grateful for that experience. The Promise of Moroni is real. The Book of Mormon is true. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is Christ’s church on the earth. It is all so true!