Daniel

We had a pretty cool experience this week.  First, I fell like a little back story is necessary.  During weekly planning on Oct. 5 we felt SUPER STRONGLY that "Daniel" needed to come to church and that we needed to focus on Daniel at church.  Now, we have an investigator named Daniel so we texted him 2-3 times inviting him to church.  But each time he said "we'll see"  But still I felt SUPER STRONGLY about it.  Well Saturday he texted us and said he'd come next week because he denied to go out of town.  Saturday night in my nightly prayer I prayed about Daniel coming to church and I still felt like he needed to come.  I was slightly frustrated because he kept saying no.  So we figured we'd see what happens.  Well Sunday rolled around and as we were driving to church I kept hearing "focus on Daniel today at church" so we sat and looked for Daniel to show up, but still nothing.  Then we saw a man sitting at the VERY back of the overflow, but we'd never seen him before.  There was a farewell that day so we figured that he was there for that.  We decided to go talk to him anyway.  Turns out he was a less-active member who had recently moved here.  He's been less active for 30 years and it was his first day back in a church building in those 30 years.  We talked to him for a few minutes, then both felt the need to invite him to sit by us.  He did!  We watched him take the sacrament for the first time in 30 years and were in tears most of sacrament meeting because of his story.  After the hour we talked to him more.  He shared that he wants to meet with us so he can finally dive back into the church and the Gospel.  We took him to Gospel Principals where he participated in the whole discussion.  Then the men took him to priesthood.  After church we ran and caught him before he left and said how grateful we were that he came, but we failed to get his name.  He smiled and said "Oh! my name is Daniel"  It was truly amazing!  Heavenly Father sends us so many tender mercies and he always see the big picture.  I was so upset when our investigator Daniel didn't show, but I needed to put all me efforts on this Daniel.  I'm so grateful for the Spirit, for helping me know that I needed to focus on someone specifically and for helping us KNOW that we needed to talk with Daniel.  We are super excited to be able to work with Daniel...well both Daniels. 😍