This lady was a referral from her next door neighbor who had been a previous investigator, but had become uninterested. So, anyways, the lady answers the door, we tell her who we are and that we have come to offer a message about Jesus Christ. She is offended at first, as most everyone here is, because everyone in Centerville is so devout and pious in their own religions. Right as she is shutting the door, we give her a card with our number on it, just in case she is ever in need of service.
She sees the picture of the temple on the back and gets really excited because she had been to Temple Square before. So she gets to talkin' to us for a minute, then she offers us some water. Of course we decline. But then, she offers us some cupcakes, and I swear the moment that word entered my ears, like my entire brain just went blank and I completely forgot about everything else in that moment, like perhaps even the fact that we were fasting that morning!!! Like, I swear it was complete impulse, so I just said, "..yes, of course!" and accepted the cupcake offer. When the lady turned to go get the cupcakes, Sis. K looked at me all frenzied like '..dude, sister, WE'RE FASTING, remember?!'
OMGoodness. Most embarrassing thing ever! Just the word 'cupcake' and my mind goes completely blank, and I forgot that we were fasting!
So we followed her into the house and asked her if we could just wrap them up to go. We kept talking to her a little more, and the whole time I was praying that she wouldn't notice we weren't eating the cupcakes for fear that she was poisoning us! She wasn't. We wrapped them up and drove straight home and stuck them in the freezer!
WOW! When they say that Satan knows your weaknesses, THEY WEREN'T KIDDING! Cupcakes are a weakness of mine, but if Satan thought that he was going to try and get us to break our fast early that day, he surely had another thing coming!
Not bad results: Satan didn't stop us fasting, and we end up with cupcakes in the freezer!
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