Lars and elisabeths love story — believing at midnight

The day after Elisabeth Elliot's second husband, who was a professor at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, passed away, Lars Gren, a student at Gordon-Conwell, moved into her home as her second boarder. See my first blog post for more details on that. Lars lived there for 2 years, but after the first year, his feelings toward Elisabeth started to change.

He told me, "I was eyeballing her a little bit differently than just as a landlady, and she didn't think I knew that she knew. But by the end of the second year, she knew that I knew that she knew! He agreed—although he said his blood pressure sky-rocketed! When Lars returned home later that night, he asked to see Elisabeth: "We sat down, and I said: 'You have every right to ask me to leave.

There's no problem in that, but I don't appreciate the way you did it. I'm not some kid coming out of high school here.

Lars gren is he still alive

I've been around a little bit; I've been in business. We do things in a more gracious manner. That was the end of it—there was no discussion. Lars moved out, but he kept pursuing Elisabeth, and they ended up spending quite a bit of time together. When I asked Lars why Elisabeth spent so much time with him knowing his intentions toward her, he said it was because she was sure he couldn't possibly be serious about her.

Elisabeth was in her late 40s at this point and had already been married twice, and Lars was 9 years younger and had never been married. But Lars stuck around, and the Lord started working on Elisabeth's heart.