Mission Miracle from Elder Thomas Letham

Spiritual Experience: We needed to meet up with the other elders one early afternoon. We had setup a time and place. We got there 5 minutes early. We waited 10 minutes, and they still weren't there. We called them, and they said they'd be there in 5-10 minutes. We waited another 5 minutes, and I started to feel bad for having stood there for 15 minutes when we could've at least been street-contacting people to kill time. So we decided to go street contacting until they got there. Right when I made that decision, we started setting off down the street a little, and there was only one person coming our way. So obviously he is the person that we stop. I say, "Hi, we're missionaries!" He says, "I know, I know what you want to talk about." I say, "No, I don't think you do," and start to tell him about the Book of Mormon. He says, "No, I really do, I used to be a member of this church."

That struck me as an odd comment to make, so we started talking, and it turns out that he got baptized in 2001, was active for a few months, then went less active and moved to Germany, never even looked for the church over there, moved back to Romania a few years ago and had never even thought about coming back. We talked with him about repentance and about how he can come back. At first he was really, really wheefy, but then we kept pushing him and he gave us his phone number.

We called him Friday, he said he was too busy to meet, but that he'd come to church on Sunday. Sure.
But the fantastic part was that he actually did! We randomly (well, obviously not randomly, but seemingly so) bumped into a member that had been less-active for 7 years on the street, and then he comes to church the following Sunday. It was a great fast and testimony meeting too, and he was clearly touched.