My Lucky Day

My companion, Sister Marble, and I pray every day (many times each day) that we will be able to touch someone's heart through the help of the Holy Ghost.  Most of the time we don't know who that person will be or how, but we do our best each day to keep the Spirit with us so that when the opportunity arises, we will be ready.

One day we were walking down the street and saw a man trimming his fruit tree and started to make simple small-talk with him and eventually started teaching him about prophets and the Book of Mormon.  After a while, he came down off his ladder and said, "look ladies, I need to get back to work so do you have some kind of pamphlet or book you are handing out or something?"  We looked at each other smiling and pulled out one of our many Book of Mormons and said, "Definitely. We're actually handing out free Book of Mormons today" and handed it to him.  He took it and jokingly said, "Well, it must be my lucky day!"

With that declaration, Sister Marble and I felt the Spirit testify so strongly to our hearts that it was his lucky day. This man had no idea what he was holding in his hand.  He had know clue that those pages held the key to exaltation and eternal happiness.  And that made me wonder, do I?  Do I really understand the enormity of what I'm handing out and testifying of.  I obviously don't have a complete knowledge of what the Book of Mormon entails, but I do know and testify that it is the Word of God.  That it was He who inspired the prophets of old to write what they did so that we could come closer to Christ.  I know this with my whole heart!

That morning when we prayed for a heart to be touched, I had no idea it would be mine.  I will be forever grateful that the Spirit was able to guide us to a man pruning his tree, and through him, strengthen my ever-growing testimony of the Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ.