Are you ready for...?

So, I had many thoughts/stories that I had been thinking to share with this first post. Most of them stunk, and most of them were a reeeeeeal stretch to be anything worth while. But I think I finally settled on a median that will be at least half decent.

One afternoon, my companion and I were sitting on the side of the street in our car making a couple phone calls before going to an appointment.

We were minding our business when a man in a green Chevy pick-up drove past a couple hundred feet in front of us to his cul-de-sac. Right away, he gave us a look telling us he was NOT happy.

He got out of his truck as we pretended not to be looking to see what he was doing. He pointed at us to his friend on his way in the house as he still seemed less than ecstatic to see us missionaries (go figure)

He made his way out of the house 3-4 mins later with a face as red as a tomato as he made a B-line straight for our car.



He came right up to the passenger side where I was sitting and banged on the window. Trying to casually pretend that we didn't notice him before, my companion lowered the window about half way as we asked him what we could do for him.

The next 2 minutes, we sat in the car as he proceeded to yell at us through our half cracked window. He must have known french really well, because he had a few choice words in there. At points, we were certain that he was about ready to rear back and give me a face-full of fist

He eventually finished his opinion about how he didn't want to see us around his house anymore and made his way home. We decided this was a good time to leave.

As we were leaving, my companion and I discussed how weeks earlier, we had made a plan on what to do if someone were to try to attack either one of us, and thought we had a pretty solid game plan. We then talked about how that plan would not have worked one bit in that situation. We were caught totally unprepared.

It made me think of how many times that happens in our lives. We think we have a plan and know what to do when certain "foes" approach, but then challenges come in ways that are un-foreseen and not planned for.

It makes me glad that I have two tools at my disposal: Prayer and scriptures. With these two helpful tools, I am able to better alter my "route" or "game plan" when life throws you something you aren't prepared for. Put them together and they can be a literal road map for your life. God wants to help us along the way, we just have to be willing to ask for the help.

"Ask and ye shall receive, knock and it shall be opened unto you, amen"
[Doctrine and Covenants 4:7]