Mission Miracle from Elder Eric Rigby

We had planned to go on Halloween night to a cemetery (to share the message of the Plan of Salvation, of course) a little ways outside of the main part of the city but by the time we got there it was dark and there wasn't anyone there, so we headed over to a block in which we knew we could find a less-active member. On the way over to the block we got a phone call from the family that we would be having a lesson with an hour later who called to cancel our meeting due to family problems.
We were a little bummed at this point as our whole night basically fell to pieces. We got to the door of the less-active and, to our utter dismay, found out that he was not home and, according to a neighbor, doesn't even live there anymore. Distraught, we sulked out of the block and found our way over to the bus stop. It was then that my companion, Elder de Guzman, looked at me with a grin and said, "Do you think that we should have block-knocked in that block?" I smiled at his eagerness to keep going and suggested that we say a prayer in a small corner by a store. We said a prayer and both felt that we should return to the block.
Once entering the block, we were rejected, yelled at, stared at and shunned. Not knowing exactly why we were there, I was less than impressed when an old man (80 + years) opened the door and stared at us with very empty, sad eyes. I explained that we were missionaries sent to share a message. He invited us in. We sat down with Domnul Adamache and offered a prayer. I began to tell him of our experience of praying in the corner to receive inspiration. I told him of how we had been rejected and came to him and he received us. I explained how much Heavenly Father loves this man and wants him to be happy. The man's eyes teared up a bit and he sat a bit taller. He couldn't understand very well and he couldn't really speak. We were in a position that we couldn't effectively teach him because of his physical disabilities to grasp the ideas we were laying out before him. However, the Spirit touched him and it touched me. We will probably not go back to him very often, but the miracle lies more in the fact that he knows what the Spirit feels like and he knows better that Heavenly Father can and does answer prayers.