Denise

Denise I work for the same company. She is the manager over tooling and I work for the group that handles transportation equipment. We were both involved in designing and installing seismic restraint hardware in a Missile Assembly Building. We had been working together for the past several months and last week we were successful in installing all of the seismic restraint hardware. She was traveling with one of her people whose departure time was two hours ahead of hers and mine was two hours later than hers. I thought it would be more pleasant to spend the time together rather than sitting in the airport. I made arrangements to pick her up and return her rental car and then have a few hours together. I wondered how to approach her about the gospel so I finally asked her what her religious background was. She said she was Catholic but not very active. I told her the name of our church and said we are sometimes called Mormons and asked if she knew why were called Mormons. She had worked with several Mormon people over the years but had no idea why we were called that. I told her I would explain over breakfast.

At breakfast I told her we believed in the Bible and asked how she would explain what the Bible was if I weren’t a Christian. She didn’t have a very good answer. I told her I think of it as a history of the children of Israel and Gods dealing with them through the prophets and about the life of Christ. I then showed her the map and explained that the B of M is the same type of book only a history of a different people. I then asked her if she believed she existed before we came to earth and she said no. We then went to the plan of salvation and showed her what we believed and our relationship to our Heavenly parents. I then told her about Joseph Smith and the first vision and how he found out that the Father and Son and separate beings which was contrary to the doctrine of the day where they taught that they are three all rolled up into one. We went through the witnesses and the angel Moroni’s visit and the translation of the B of M. I showed her how I had marked the book and a few of the initial scriptures. Time was short so I went to the promise and had her read it. I gave her the B of M and she said she would read it and let me know what she thought. I mentioned that the B of M and all the things I’d told her were either true or it was a complete hoax. It was either true of false and couldn’t be anything in between.

On our way back to the airport we talked about the success we had a few days before and how I felt we had experienced some divine intervention in being able to accomplish our task. She believed so also and told me of her experience where the Lord had helped her through some difficult financial times and was successful because she had placed her trust in the Lord.

It was a good experience and hopefully will bear fruit.