Today for lunch we were meeting with the lady in charge of the Pequot Lakes Food Shelf. She was telling us about how she has interviewed a lot of people about their needs and situations and how each situation is a set of unique and extraordinary circumstances. And then she told this story:
I talked with a homeless woman, her situation just broke my heart and I invited her to come to my house (which I don't do very often because I am not allowed to) and then I was called into the office for some reason and when I came back she was gone.
I worried about her and prayed for her every night. She came back about 6 months later and gave me a big hug. She said because I had shown her kindness, she had decided she could get a job. After searching for a while she found one, and then she started saving money and was finally able to find a place to rent and stop living in her truck.
What an amazing example of what President Monson meant when he counseled us to "Never let a problem to be solved be more important than the person to be loved."
