“Jehovah will find a heart that belongs to Him.”

[Friend of Peace]

This experience is so touching and amazing.

 

It was related as part of the WHQ visit to Britain this weekend by Brother Willy Gournon from the Netherlands branch. 

 

 

One brother was serving faithfully as an elder who worked on the railroad. One day, he received a call from his work to do the night shift. So the brother went. Morning comes and he doesn’t return home.
 

His wife is now anxious and contacts the elders to help find him. The police get involved but eventually they call off the search. He’s nowhere to be found. The wife is distraught. 

 

What had happened was as the brother was on his way to work, he was travelling with others in a car and he was deliberately pushed out onto the road as it was travelling. The car was travelling at a fast speed as the brother flew out the car. He was severely bleeding from his head but he survived. He was in the middle of nowhere in Albania, some 100 miles from home! Previously, he could speak Indonesian, English and Dutch fluently. But now because of his head injury, he now had Amnesia. He’d completely forgotten how to speak Dutch, he didn’t know that he was married and he didn’t even know his own name! So, he gave himself a Chinese name. 
 

Later, this brother ended up in prison and after prison he got settled into a homeless complex with other residents with the goal of reintegrating the residents back into society. The complex was made up of many homeless people who had varying religious beliefs. But as the brother was sitting in the library section of the complex, he noticed a small blue book on one of the selves entitled “The Truth That Leads to Eternal Life.”

 

He read it and was intrigued. He noticed the details of the local branch in the back fo the book and contacted the branch. A couple went and studied with the brother and it ended with the brother getting baptised, now for a second time! 

 

Later, this brother was street witnessing in a zoo in the Netherlands where members of his former congregations were visiting at the same time and just caught sight of the brother that they were searching for years ago! They thought he was joking when he said he didn’t know or recognise the members of his former congregation. These members went back to the elders, and both the branch and the elders worked together to kindly tell the brother of his being an elder, his real name and that fact that he was married! He was shown photos of his wedding day that he totally had no recollection of! 
 

Can you imagine how he and his wife felt the day that he turned up back at his house?! Indescribable.

 

The brother accepted what was told him about his life. He is now reunited with his wife and is still currently serving as an elder. We don’t know for certain, but could this be evidence that Jehovah never forgot this brother’s heart even when the police and elders thought he would never be found again?
 

When you are lost, Jehovah will always find you because your heart belongs to him. 

[Mike047]

Indeed, it was a superb presentation, and what a lovely brother Willy Gournon is.

[TheKid23]

You’ve remembered that experience in great detail! Did you make a recording or something?