An albino with white hair and pale, translucent complexion, Grace looked just like an angel - the appearance of which only seemed to grow throughout the course of meeting with and teaching her all the missionary lessons.  Her eyes seemed to glow.  She was truly an amazing sight to behold!

When we started to teach her the first discussion she was open and receptive.  She enjoyed hearing all about God, Jesus Christ and the Restored Gospel.  The Spirit prompted me to invite her to be baptized right away.

I was shocked by her immediate reaction of, "NO!"

After such a beautiful lesson, it was strange to be so promptly rejected.  I responded by asking her to start reading the Book of Mormon and praying about it before making such a definite decision.  I was comforted by her willingness to listen and do those things.

Over the next couple of weeks we made a special effort to call every day to check up on her.  We'd sing to her, share scriptures, or just see how her day went.  She enjoyed reading the Book of Mormon and was even praying, but hadn't received any answer yet concerning baptism.  We remained encouraging as always with our lessons, which continued to spiritually invoke very strong feelings.  Yet an answer from God regarding the veracity of what she was learning remained elusive.  We too, prayed hard for her everyday.  She was our angel and we wanted a miracle!

The next time we met we had planned to just follow up on topics discussed in our previous visit.  We thought we'd read together and inquire about her how she expected to receive answers to her prayers.  As soon as we were seated, she looked at us and shouted, "When can I be baptized?"  Our jaws dropped and we looked at each other in total amazement.  She then went on tell us how when she was reading, she felt a specific impression that she needed to be baptized.  Thrilled for her, we scurried to quickly regain our composure and set out to make plans for the day of her baptism.  It was a miracle!

With one week to her baptism, she hit us with a sudden turn of events.  She told us that she needed to hold off another couple months before getting baptized.  Her job needed her to enroll in a two-month long class for work-related reasons.  This would take up every weekend, leaving no time for church meetings.  I was heartbroken!  A requirement of baptism is strict church attendance each Sunday - a commitment that had to be demonstrated at least a minimum number of times before a candidate for baptism could be deemed prepared to receive such an ordinance.  I had hoped to sit down with her that night to plan the baptism service and arrange the music.  Leaving her house I had to fight back the tears of disappointment as I jumped on my bike.

I was relieved to have some time to clear my mind while riding to our next appointment.  While riding back, my heart and mind were continually drawn out in prayer to Heavenly Father for a solution.  I didn't know what He could or would do, but I wanted a miracle!  As her spiritual guides, we had seen her come so close to her own personal goal of baptism, that the thought of her potentially losing her progress was disheartening.

That following week was just as discouraging.  Contacting was rough, tracting seemed hopeless, and everything seemed to be going bad.  It was as if everybody wanted to hide from us.  Yet remembering the tendency in life for relief to follow the tests of adversity, I retained a hope for a miracle on the horizon.

A couple nights later while getting ready for bed, the telephone rang.  It was our sweet Grace sounding excited and confused at the same time.  She told us she had good news but didn't understand how it had all worked out.  The professor of the class abruptly decided to push the class back an entire month, for no apparent reason.  This meant that Grace could still demonstrate regular church attendance and be baptized!  We couldn't believe our ears.  We hastened to make immediate arrangements and were able to set up her baptism for that coming Saturday.  After all we could do, Heavenly Father had heard our prayers and had once again given us the little miracle to help us do we could not have done alone.