How is Canada?? Can't be nearly as fun as teaching people in 110 degrees here in beautiful dusty Texas, eh? hahah. Take pictures please :)
Last week was the cleansing week all in preparation for this week.
We have found several people who have been looking for something more AND our progressing investigators are moving a mile a minute. The guy i mentioned last week, who basically read the whole Book of Mormon in 2 weeks, is still a joy to work with. Sometimes I have to refrain from throwing too much on him. "This talk I just read! He needs to read it!!!!!" "Great ah-ha moment, we should tell him about it!!!!" "Think he would read Jesus the Christ if we gave it to him??" The gospel is true and the spirit drives us to share it with others... within reason. Trying not to smother the poor guy. We did watch Elder Holland's "Safety for the Soul" talk online with him. THAT was powerful. I am convinced Elder Holland shook the powers of Hell with that majestic address. Simple, bold and ever so determined. The spirit is key.While knocking we met a devout catholic woman who majors in history. As we spoke with her about her beliefs, we discovered that she has never read the bible (she hasn't even OPENED IT to read a passage) nor ever plans to.
This was unreal. How can you claim to be devout if you refuse to read God's word? And she was a history major...
Not only is the Bible the most influential book known to the human race, but NATIONS are founded on this ancient script!!! Come on, if not for religious purposes, at least make it part of your curriculum in the name of your major! Baaaaaah! People have so much within their reach that they wont take advantage of. We tried to teach her the importance of scriptures. Sometimes it is hit and miss.I was part of my first Bible bash the other day. My thoughts? Counterproductive and wrong. Nick was a nice guy, majoring in Music, who we found while knocking and invited us to come back the next day. Luckily we didn't go on splits and brought the great wise sister tall with us. He asked us to sit down and offered us drinks, which we kindly refused. It looked as if we has walked into a great teaching setting. FALSE. He pulled out the Book of Mormon we gave him and proceeded to tell us why Joseph smith was this and that, and all the fallacies in the Book of Mormon that he came across while reading it. It was obvious that he didn't read it, he just looked up the references he came across on an anti site. Growl. He even went to the extent to create a false history major degree and frame it. It was obviously printed and we all laugh about it now. It wasn't 15 minutes before sister tall interrupted and told him kindly that we would not teach someone who insists on attacking rather than asking and we left. He kept talking and telling us to come back and watch some video of his until the moment i closed the door behind us. It was flustering.
I love this work. I really do.
One of our new investigators asked us if he could have his own Book of Mormon during the first lesson and is excited to come to church with us this Sunday. He has been studying to become a youth minister and knows the bible really well. Those lessons are the BEST, because everything we believe is in the bible also. I have never loved the good book as much as I do now. Its awesome to see how the Book of Mormon and the Bible work together so well.
out of time!!!
love you all. I look forward to the mailed letters :)
Sister rachel
Quotes of the week:
"This here state is fixin' to burn up right quick!!"
"I would never smoke. I can't stand things around met hat smell... Heck, I can't even paint my own toenails!!"
