Hilda Schoolmeester, 25 February, 2012
Leuven
Elder Pope, Brother Mesotten, Hilda Schoolmeester and Elder Shoemaker
Hilda's first contact with the missionaries happened on the door. I actually wasn't there quite yet, but the note in the potential investigators section tells how it went fairly well: "Talked about families, said we could come back!" Between that and the appointment, I got transferred in, so the rest of the story is first hand.
In our first appointment with her, she was fairly quiet. She mostly just listened to what we had to say. When we extended the invitation "If you know that the Church is Christ's restored church by February 26th, will you be baptized?" she did respond, "yes" but it wasn't very enthusiastic. We also invited her to come to church, and although she had problems come up with a friend that kept her up the entire night before, she still showed up for sacrament meeting.
Much of the second lesson went similarly to the first, but as we got to the end and invited her to read in 3 Nephi 11, Brother Mesotten re-emphasized the importance of reading and praying, and (in much better Flemish than ours) committed her to read 15 minutes every day and then to pray about it.
When we came back, we found out that she did. She had been reading
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