"If you're not a full-time missionary with a missionary badge pinned on your coat, now is the time to paint one on your heart...returned missionaries, find your old missionary name tag...put it where you can see it. The Lord needs you more now than ever to be an instrument in His hands. All of us have a contribution to make in this miracle." -Elder Neil L. Anderson
The setting is a patch of grass in front of a pale-green apartment complex. It is 5 pm, and the wind is blowing from the west. Two sister missionaries and a 45 year-old Muslim from Senegal sit cross-legged with scriptures and notepads strewn about the lawn. This is their fourth meeting.
Investigator: Before I met you, I had heard this word, Mormon. But I didn't know what it meant.
Missionary: How did you know about Mormons?
Investigator: I saw something on YouTube and the word stuck in my head, and I have wondered what it meant.
Missionary: ...So what does it mean? If someone was to come up to you today and ask you what a Mormon is, what would you say?
Investigator: I would say that Mormons are the Christians.
Missionary: (Large grin and enthusiastic laugh) Haha; yes! Mormons are Christian!! I am so glad that's the first thing you know about us. We believe in Jesus Christ!
Investigator: No-Mormons are not just Christian. Mormons are THE Christians.
Missionary: (Wild, speechless grin...This from an investigator who fully appreciates the significance of the restoration of Jesus Christ's church on the earth today!)
Investigator: I didn't click on the "I'm a Mormon" video, but now I am living it.
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