I was on my mission (Recife, Brazil) and in my last area that was called Bonito. This area just had been recently opened and only had about 7 or 8 active members. We lived above a garage (is the best I can compare it to). In the garage is where we would meet. My companion (Elder Araujo) was able to teach me the value and importance of prayer. Since this was a recently opened area there was a lot of work to be done; however, there were many times that appointments would fall and we would have nothing to do. Times before when this would happen I would go straight to the area book or knocking doors, etc. My companion though would go straight to the Lord through prayer.
One afternoon a few appointments fell and we didnt have anything on our schedule. My companion suggested that we slip into an alley accross the street and say a quick prayer. Following the prayer we a gave a few seconds to see where or what we should do. 25 to 30 seconds had past when my companion looked across a swampy marshy area and pointed at a house that he thought we should visit. I looked at the swamp and noticed that we will probably be getting muddy and wet in order to reach the house. I than looked at the houses and saw that they all had the same color of roofs except for the house he pointed had a blue roof. I asked Elder Araujo "is the only reason why you thought we needed to vist that house, is because it has a blue roof and it sticks out" and he said "no, that is where we need to go". I said "Ok, lets do this". As we started to make our way across the swamp Elder Araujo began to have second thoughts because he started to get muddy and wet. Elder Araujo said "maybe we arent suppose to go to that house". At that time the possible scripture might of crossed my mind (1 Nephi 3:7) "I will go and do the things which the Lord hath commanded, for I know that the Lord giveth no commandements unto the children of men, save he shall prepare a way for them that they may accomplish the thing which he commandeth them." I than told my companion that we were directed to go to that house and no matter what it takes to get there we will go. We hopped from rock to rock and patch of grass to patch of grass. We ended up getting muddy and wet; however, we made it to the house. We came to the fromt of the house and clapped and waited. Nobody came to the door... We clapped and waited. Nobody came again... We went around back and yelled to see if anyone was home. We waited and nobody answered... We know we were suppose to teach someone so we went back to the front door and clapped again. A guy finally did answer the door and let us in. We were able to teach a lesson. I dont know if we were able to teach a follow up discussion; however, I know we planted a seed and I was able to learn a valuable lesson with prayer and obedience.
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