"Excuse me, sir."

One of my areas was super hard to come into. My companion and I replaced some elders who had been sent home, and there was nothing in the area book. We spent all of our first few days in the area doing nothing but tracting and contacting (and trying to get ahold of the ward). On one of those days, we were exhausted as we headed in for lunch. As we were walking into our apartment building, I saw a man walking his dog nearby, and we went over to talk to him. I yelled, "Excuse me, sir!", but when he turned around, I realized he was a woman! She was bundled up because it was so cold outside, and I hadn't been looking to closely. :) We talked to her and it turned out that not only was she our neighbor, but she was a member of the church who was inactive to keep peace with her husband. During the next weeks and months, we were able to visit her frequently and get some church contact back in her life. She started reading the Book of Mormon again. She was never able to come back to church, but one day she told us she had been praying for the Lord to send someone to help her. That was the day we stopped and talked to her. When I called out "sir", she had heard "sister". I didn't tell her the truth, but it's good to know the spirit can translate.