My companions are Elder Nash, Elder Skousen, and Elder Coons. Elder Coons and I were in the CCM together. We are in the Graham Spanish area, which covers from Spanaway to Eatonville to Ashford if you look on a map. It is ginormous. Most of our work is in Spanaway and surrounding areas.
Elder Nash and I had a neat experience while knocking (on doors) this week. Earlier in the day, we prayed over an area and felt that we needed to knock a certain trailer park. We began knocking a few doors and I mentioned that I just didn't feel super good in the trailer park. I kind of felt that we weren't supposed to be knocking there. We knocked a few more doors, and Elder Nash expressed a similar feeling. We decided that we would knock a different trailer park nearby.
We drove into the other park and immediately we felt better. We knocked a few doors, talked to a few dudes in Spanish, but we were having no luck. We knocked on the next trailer, and we heard a dude yell, "Come in!" So we cracked the door, and talked about how we are missionaries and he invited us in. We talked for about a half hour about faith and repentance. His name was Walter and he talked about how he always just did what he felt he needed to do. He pretty much was following spiritual promptings without even knowing what they were. He said that since we knocked on his door tonight, that he felt that it was God's way of telling him that he needed to listen to us. Unfortunately, this was all in English, so we had to refer him to the English Elders that we live with, but he committed to reading the Book of Mormon right then and there. Talk about Golden. We continued to talk a little after our lesson, and he mentioned that he was an amputee, something we hadn't noticed because he was sitting under a blanket. He was super cool.
This experience strengthened my testimony of following Spiritual Promptings. The Lord will guide you to those who are ready, but only if you let him!
Elder Tobler
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