One day (on Christian radio) I heard a minister say: if you ever receive a vision without the interpretation then you should probably forget about it: when a vision is truly from the Lord, He always gives the understanding -along with the vision. Since we had already spent quite a while trying (unsuccessfully) to understand the vision, -after hearing that I decided it was best to forget about the vision concluding it must not have been from God. I made that decision as I sat at the dining room table skimming through Melinda's copy of Tyndale's New Bible Dictionary. (I hadn't told Melinda that I had decided the vision was not from God.) In the back of the Bible dictionary under "writing" I came across a table of ancient alphabets (in Hebrew, Greek, etc.) Until then I hadn't realized that the symbols in the vision were actually alphabet letters. As I went down the alphabet table, suddenly I recognized/remembered the previously forgotten last symbol in the vision: it was a strange looking E ().

Excitedly I told Melinda I had "found" the last (missing) symbol. Several times she asked if I was sure that the symbol -listed as "sigma" was the missing symbol from the vision. When I assured her it was the symbol, she paused -as if she suddenly remembered something, then she went looking for her Bible. When she found it (instead of opening and reading from it) she flipped through it and then lifted it (open) above her head and began shaking it. As she did so a piece of paper floated to the floor. She snatched up the paper and said: The morning you first told me about the vision, the Lord showed me this (referring to the folded paper in her hand.) The Lord told me then that the day would come when you would doubt that the vision was from the Lord. He also told me not to show this to you until AFTER you remembered and identified the missing symbol. Then she opened the scratch paper and revealed a written duplicate of the "missing" symbol -which I had just found and identified for her in the book. (We then set out in another vain attempt to understand the vision.)

Meanwhile, months earlier I had begun attending Melinda's church (a local independent Full Gospel ministry) in addition to maintaining regular weekly attendance at Mass. I noticed there was a lot of emphasis in her church on Bible reading (something I had never done.) Newcomers were strongly encouraged to seek the Lord to find out what "your ministry" is. So I bought a KJV Bible and started praying to find what my ministry was. But, -when I asked the Lord what "my ministry" was, He rebuked me. He said: "There is enough I, ME and MY in ministry, -why don't you pray and I will do." When I confessed I really did not know how to pray, He said: "I will teach you." The Lord instructed me to go to the church every day to pray. Since I knew going to this little neighborhood church every day to pray would draw the attention of other church members, I asked the Lord if I should just pray at home where I would not be seen. His response was: "My house shall be called a house of    ?" When I answered that it was called a house of prayer, He repeated His instructions to go to the church every day to pray.

Shortly after I started going to the church to pray, I also began attending the women's Friday intercessory prayer meetings. (I thought perhaps they could help me learn how to pray.) It was during one of the first few prayer meetings (as I knelt off to the side of the sanctuary praying) that I was given a vision of: seven churches. The seven churches were buildings, actual churches located in the surrounding community. In the same vision (after I was shown the seven churches once) I was shown each of them a second time. But the second time all the churches were all painted over white, the signs were painted over white and the doors were all open.