Nov.7,2011 A visit with Anna

We had a wonderful lesson with Anna Asaf. She is great and she always has a smile and she laughs. I think it's refreshing. She is dating a less active member and he is not making the best decisions such as asking (Anna) to move in with him. We figured that we should talk to them about the law of chastity and how chastity and the Gospel of Jesus Christ intertwine. Well, we first started talking about faith and repentance. Anna has a belief in Christ but not a lot of faith in Him. We are helping her to understand the role that Christ plays in our life and when we are striving to develop faith in Him we have a desire to change our lives (repentance). She doesn't quite believe it is possible so we taught her accordingly.That took up most of the lesson so I thought
," Well, I guess we will wait until next time to teach the law of chastity-
Well, let's just say that the Spirit had a different plan. And he really didn't even notify me (ahead of time) to let me know that we needed to talk about it, because for some reason something that was said made it possible for me to open my mouth and say,"you know,Brandon, you're suppose to wait until you're married to move in with each other". I was shocked that , that statement so bluntly came out of my mouth! It was bold but the spirit was there. He had a shocked look on his face because he didn' t know we knew (they were moving in together) because Anna had told us earlier. He sat there quietly and I continued to talk with great love. I know that it was the Spirit. So we talked for 1 hour and 30 minutes on the law of chastity. After talking about it with him, I knew why the Spirit put those words in my mouth, because he needed to hear what we taught him, as well as her.It was not an awkward conversation as we all know it could have been, but the Spirit had control and it went really well. I'm still in awe about it. When we left the first thing that came out of Sister Alberts mouth was," Wow, I can't believe you just said that. It was so blunt, I was just shocked...". I.m just as shocked, but after talking with each other, we realized that it couldn't have gone more perfectly.