On Monday we stopped at the local nut and candy shop in Husn to buy snacks. Lynn went in ahead while I waited in the car. The shop owner was busy waiting on two Jordanian women, so Lynn started looking at the bins filled with candy while he waited. One of women noticed him and came over and started talking. The first thing she said was "are you a Mormon?" (That's a question we never hear). He said "Yes I am." Then she asked "do you live in Utah?" When he said yes, she told him "My son lives in Utah. He was a missionary." The other woman introduced herself and said "I'm a member and I have been baptized" What a surprise! We have never heard of this family. Lynn asked them why they haven't been to church and they said they stopped because there was some bad people in the church. We don't know what that was about, but apparently it was something that happened several years ago.
Just then I walked into the shop and met them. Lynn asked if they knew Amer, the branch president but they said no. When he asked them if they knew Huda the Relief Society president, their faces lit up and they said yes!! When Lynn invited them to church they wanted to know where we meet, but we didn't know how to tell them because there aren't any addresses here. We got their phone number and promised to have Huda give them a call.
The shop owner overheard the conversation and asked if he could come too. Lynn asked him if he knew Huda Tashman and he said he knew who she was. We promised to have Huda call him too.
We walked out of the nut shop in amazement. We know that this meeting was no accident. It was clearly an example of how we are guided by the Lord. We always pray for the Spirit to be with us and are so grateful when we are blessed to have an experience like this one.
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