Alma obeyed with exactness and returned speedily, deserving the miracle that happened next: The Lord had prepared the heart of a rich and influential man (Alma 10:4); he would join the Church, become Alma’s missionary companion, and quickly become a great prophet-leader. Like Alma, Paul, and other “chosen vessels,” Amulek was stopped in his tracks by an angel of God and redirected in the course of his life (Alma 10:7).
The angel had told Amulek to receive into his house this missionary-messenger from God.
A zone leader wrote about the following miraculous incident in his weekly letter to his mission president in Chile: “On Monday we didn’t have anything planned, so we decided to knock at a couple of houses on about every street in our proselyting area. Getting close to the end of the evening, I felt impressed to knock on a certain door. They let us in. We taught a family of six people, five of whom could be baptized. After we finished the discussion, the wife started telling us about a dream she had. She told us that three days before we knocked on their door, she had a dream of two angels appearing to her. When she saw our faces, she almost started crying because ours were the faces of the angels. I am so excited to have the opportunity to teach this family.”
Did the Lord not say, “I will go before you?”