The last two SDA persons I felt a kind of warmth in my heart for, were a lovely paratransit bus driver who very gently shared her faith, and --- you'll never goess--- punk-rocker Patti Smith. Of course, she's ex- SDA, and went through quite a nihilist perod, but I think she may be traveling the "long roads" of her life back to belief in Jesus Christ.
I started humming the old hymn "Faith of Our Fathers" in that graveyard and was hit with grief over having thrown all that wonderful Christian education they sacraficed to provide all four of their children over the side!
Thank you for sharing your contact experience with the two ladies with me. Not being "into" punk rock, I don't know Patti Smith. Jesus always expressed his greatest love for the lowly and the sinful. The rich and famous have that camel going through the eye of a needle problem that he once described I guess.
Unfortunately, some Christians of different belief systems get a tad too militant acting when they encounter people of other faiths. I've always believed there may well be as many, or even more Catholics in Heaven as Protestants, yes, even SDA's. (grin)