I’m sure every missionary has had a similar experience of investigators progressing, and progressing and then nothing happens. You try your hardest to teach them, to find out what stalled the progression, and usually, just to find them. Eventually your efforts aren’t enough and you have to leave them to make their own decision, which isn’t what you’d wish.
One man, that filled this description, kept coming to mind. He lived in a town where the church only had a branch and no priesthood. My companion and I taught him almost all of the lessons and then he disappeared. He didn’t move; we just couldn’t ever seem to catch him at home.
I wished I could give him another chance to accept. Well, we found 12, monthly ways for him to be exposed to the church. I dug through my missionary address book, found his address, and bought him a subscription to the Liahona. I haven’t heard anything from him yet, but hopefully one of the issues will find him at a time when he is ready to read it and accept.
Dig through your missionary journals, address books, contacts and send us the addresses of those people that have been close to accepting. Maybe their time is in the next 12 months and we can be ready.
