Elder George H. Thomas's Prompting to Visit a Family

“Some time ago while going to a new district to begin tracting, I was passing a point in the road where I used to turn to my former district, when the still small voice of the Spirit told me to call and see a family that I had visited a few days before. I obayed the prompting, knocked at the door, and was invited into the house, where I was introduced to the scripture reader of the Church which the family were members of, and who had heard of my visits to the home. He immediately characterized the ‘Mormon’ Elders as robbers of churches, perverters of Scripture, etc. I then began to explain our mission, when he became angry, snatched his hat, and was about to rush out of the house. I extended my hand which he took with considerable reluctance. I shook it heartily, and asked him to kindly and earnestly read and study the tracts I gave him. He then went out without saying a word to the people he came to visit. The lady told me that a few minutes I came, he had expressed a wish to see me. ‘I will tell him a thing or two,’ he had said. He had no sooner said it, than I knocked at the door.”

— George H. Thomas, The Latter-day Saints' Millennial Star