Hey guys!
This week has been really good! We met with this guy named Patrick! We invite him to come to the church and he came and loved it! We started off by showing him all the class rooms and stuff and then game an amazing lesson on the restoration and the book of mormon! This guy is so powerful!
After talking with him he told us all about his life and he used to live in California and he said that everyone there is atheists and if you try and talk about god the people will literally kill you no joke! He told us that one time he was getting done from work and it was like 1am and these guys were doing some donuts around his car and when he started walking towards them they drove right at him and barely missed him! Then the people flipped around and started laughing that they almost hit him and then Patrick flipped the guys off and they all got out the car!
Patrick trying to be this big guy shoved these guy that got all up in his face and the guy punched Patrick in the face and knocked him to the ground and all the guys kept kicking and punching him! He got knocked out and when he came to another car showed up and with a quiet whisper he said “help me please” to the guys in the other car and the guys in the other car started laughing and the man driving said “we’re with these guys” and kicked him right in the face and knocked him out again!
As he was coming to he heard the guys saying that they had to leave right now and then his aunt just really felt that she had to check on him! She ended up scaring the guys away and she found him and took him to the hospital! He had internal bleeding and broke ribs but survived! After this experience he started doubting that God was real! He said that he prayed one night to know if God was real and he said that he had a full feeling that God was real! He told us that there must be a reason he’s still alive and it must be because God wanted me to find you! So powerful😁
After he finished his story he told him that we saved the best for last! We showed him the chapel! Right when we walked in this guy with us even telling him nothing said that he needed to sit down and right when he did he burst into tears and didn’t say a word for about 3 minutes and just cried and looked around! He looked at us and said “man what is this feeling I have right now, I have never felt it before” my guy literally got hit be the spirit so strongly!
So amazing! We explain to him what the spirit was and what things we do in the chapel! After telling him he looked at us and said “what time on Sunday can I come here:)” we told him the time of our services and then before he left he said “where can I buy on of those Book of Mormons?” We told him not to worry and we gave him one and he just jumped around and gave me and elder pauni a hug and said thank you so much! We wrote our favorite characters for him and he said “I’m excited to see you guys again really soon” such an amazing guy! God is really working though him right now and it’s so amazing to see it happen!😁
Love you guys!
Elder Ehrhart
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Wow Elder! What a wonderful story! Thank you so much for sharing it with us. I have so much gratitude that the Spirit has poured out so abundantly in this man’s life and that you were led to teach him the Gospel. Love you so much!!