Hello everyone!
This week has been pretty great! We surpassed our mission's standards
of excellence this week, so things are going super well.
On Monday, we had a lesson with a guy named John Davis. We read 1
Nephi chapter 1 with him and his member wife. It was super funny
because he had a funny take on the events. A memorable line was "Of
course [Lehi's] quaking! He's on Fire!" He got a lot out of it though.
On Tuesday evening, we went on splits with some members of the Elders
Quorum. I went with Brother Klippel, and we had an awesome lesson with
Elissa, and now Brother Klippel is super fired up about missionary
work! Elder Leavitt had a lesson with an investigator we have on
baptismal date. By the end of that, we had her husband on date as
well!
Wednesday, we had a Mission tour conference with Elder Arnold of the
Seventy. It was a really good meeting, and we got some good ideas to
help us be better missionaries. Apparently he's speaking in general
conference this April, so look out for him!
Friday and Saturday Morning, we picked weeds for non-members. I got
super stuffed up, which kinda stunk. Luckily, on Saturday, the lady we
were helping gave me some Benedryl, so I'm doing better.
We had a super good set of church meetings yesterday. One speaker gave
a talk on Joseph Smith and bore some pretty powerful testimony which I
hope touched our investigator who was there.
That's about it except for some weird/funny stories. To preface these,
Elder Leavitt is big into science, and he gets kind of riled up when
people use pseudoscience to make arguments against the church. He
actually worked as a scientist before his mission.
We went by this inactive lady's place, and she went on for forever
about this conspiracy theory about how Jesus actually survived his
crucifixation and escaped to the south of France with his wife and
child, who suddenly surely existed for some reason. Her whole ten
minute rant about how the Bible lies and this and that was all based
on how Christ wasn't on the cross long enough to have died. Luckily,
Elder Leavitt was able to restrain himself until we got back to the
car, then he spent like 5 minutes debunking her argument. It was very
funny.
Later, we went by this part member family and the husband kept talking
about how God couldn't possibly exist because of all sorts of weird
reasons. He then put the cherry on the cake by telling Elder Leavitt
that "no real scientist" would ever believe God exists. Elder Leavitt
is still kind of annoyed about that one.
Anyways, have a good week everybody!
Keep Hauling that Water,
Elder Joseph Richardson
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