One day as my companion and I were walking a woman stepped out of her house and called us in so we could speak with her son. She thought he needed some help from hearing the good word of God. We said, sure, we loved to help and share a message with him. She declined to join us.
So we go in and see her son who is about 25-30 years old. He was polite and willing to listen to us. We began to teach the first discussion and everything was going very well. He was listening attentively and responding to questions in just the right ways. We talked about Heavenly Father, Jesus Christ and the atonement, Joseph Smith with the Book of Mormon, and even baptism. The guy seemed very open to everything.
As many RM's will recall, what was the 6 discussions at the time included covering the topic of prayer during the first discussion. We reviewed this with the brother and showed him the flip-chart outlining the steps*. He said he would love to say the prayer but declined to use the flip-charts. He said he knew what he was doing.
So this guy starts praying and begins things correctly by addressing Heavenly Father and expressing gratitude. In fact, he did all the steps perfectly. But what he said during each of the steps is not what we expected. He thanked God that he was better and smarter than use and not fooled by stupid beliefs. He asked God to make sure we never came back again to darken his doorstep. After saying amen he looked up at us with a polite but condescending smile and pointed to the door for us to leave.
Needless to say, both my companion and I were a little shocked. The lesson was going so well and then the guy didn't just ask us to leave, he prayed for us to leave with us right there. He reeled us in and then got us with a sucker punch when we least expected it. Silver lining: he still helped us reach our target goal for number of lessons taught that week.
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