Just A Neat Experience

      Hey everybody, not much different has been happening this week. Elder Whetten is a stud, so that's fun and makes my job a lot easier. With not much being different though I just wanted to share one experience this week that I thought was pretty neat. 

      We knocked on someone's door, looking for a girl named Tammy. A big guy opened the door, which given how close to the Air Force Base we are probably means that he's military. Anyways, he opens the door and pretty clearly doesn't want to talk to us. Which was evidenced by the first 30 seconds of the conversation where he said only one word to us, no. He was just flat out refusing to talk to us. Then we told him that we'd been going around asking people one reason why they love Jesus Christ. Then he finally gave us an actual answer and said the Atonement of Jesus Christ. We then were talking about just what an act of love the atonement truly is. I then looked up at him, because I was too nervous to look at him before and my companion has pointed out that I'm actually really bad at looking people in the eyes when I'm talking, but I looked up at him and he's just got tears streaming down his face. It was so shocking. He then actually opened up to us and told us his religious life story, including that he wished he had decided to serve a mission. So that was really cool to see what the spirit can do for us when we just open our hearts.