Train Ride from Mission
It really is the greatest, most wonderful feeling in the world to feel like the God Almighty is working through you to do His will. There just couldn’t be a sweeter, more powerful feeling of love and happiness. On the way back from Porto, we were in an overcrowded train car but I just happened to be able to get a seat by where I was standing. It was at a table with three design students that were friends. We started talking and they seemed to take to me. They were impressed with my Portuguese. I know God has blessed me with the gift of tongues and it was if He were especially blessing me for that train ride because I felt like I spoke even better than I usually do. I asked about what they felt was the purpose of life, and let them explain. The two girls said they had no idea and the boy explained that he believed in God but no specific religion. I taught them the first discussion with the people sitting around us listening in. It was powerful. I realized that the Lord had put me in that exact situation because He wanted those exact people to hear what I was saying. I realized that although I was speaking a different language and talking about things the world laughs at, everyone around was listening and watching. I wasn’t at all embarrassed. I taught and testified with power and I know God was there with me. It was a beautiful ride but when I recited the first vision, I don’t think anyone was looking out the windows. It was one of the greatest experiences I’ve had in my life. I could never have come up with a better teaching situation, everyone listening. The students were from Famalicao, so they wrote down their names and numbers and I called the Elders there with their referencias. I was doing things and saying things I never would have thought I could have ever done. It was awesome to see the hand of the Lord, to feel His love and power, to feel like I was actually glorifying His name and working for Him. It wasn’t about me or about what people thought of me. Everything was about Him and you just give your best to represent the most perfect life that has ever lived.
