COINCIDENCE??

We only had one young single soldier that could come to Family Home Evening at the church (usually we have 2-3).   She seemed grateful to get off post and talk about the Gospel.  She has been newly called as a nursery leader.  When we were leaving, she stopped to talk to someone and a young woman drove up in her truck, got out and started crying in the darkness of the parking lot.  She hadn’t been coming to church because her husband was a non-member and so we had been teaching her 18mo old nursery lessons at home.  She said she had never left home before and she didn’t want to park at a restaurant.  I hugged her while she wept.  We talked her into coming with us while we drove our soldier home.  We picked up ice cream on the way and she was laughing and talking before too long.  Millie invited her to bring her daughter to nursery as she got out of the car.  We were able to encourage her to approach her husband with love and gratitude on the way home.  I don’t think it was coincidental that we were the only ones she knew and we just happened to be there when she drove up, along with a young woman about her age who taught nursery.  Since then, she and Emma have come to church regularly and her husband even thanked her that they were able to discuss it without anger.