Mission Miracles from Elder Benjamin Miles

April 5, 2009

First, I went on Monday and had to give a baptismal interview and so I entered the room and the lady who I was interviewing sat down and usually I like to talk to the people that I interview so I can feel if they are ready to make a covenant with the Lord. But this time I sat down and had the impression that she was ready. In fact, I felt and knew all the sudden that she was prepared for baptism. So I talked to her a little bit and then I went through the questions and found her worthy for baptism. It was a really amazing experience.

The second one I had was while I was sitting doing my morning study and all the sudden I started thinking about this one missionary from my zone and I had a great desire to call him and talk to him. I called and when he picked up the phone the Elder with whom I wanted to speak answered the phone. I said hi and so did he, and he asked me why I was calling and I said "Well I really don't know why I called you, I just felt like I needed to." Then he said, “I’m glad you did because I really needed to talk to someone. I went on to find out that these missionaries had lost all of their investigators because their investigators had chosen not to follow the Savior and they were devastated and the senior companion really wanted to talk to someone. I was so thankful for the experience because God really does watch over all his children and he will work through many outlets to bring them comfort.

I had another experience with this in that even though we didn't find any new investigators we have been being led to people to teach. I just go where I want to and it is amazing. I ask God where to go and what to do and then he gives me wants and when ever I follow those wants I 'm led to success. So we had a really good week in the blocks finding people that we needed to find.


And then the most amazing miracle of all. I was sitting in my desk and it was Saturday night and I felt like I should invite people to church so I started calling the list of people that I had met with that week and then I got to one of my old investigators who had dropped us about a week earlier and I have the want again to invite him to church and so I called him up and we invited him to church and he just said that he would try to come and the next day I was sitting at church and in walked Dan. It was pure inspiration that we invited him because it was an amazing day at church. It was fast and testimony meeting and it was amazing. So many powerful testimonies were born. It was absolutely incredible. And the best part was that all of his concerns we talked about in testimony meeting and in Sunday School. Afterwards he came up to me and said thank you for inviting him because it was just what he wanted to hear and feel. Without the spirit we can do nothing.