Hey everyone,
Hope u all have had a
good week. These past 4 days since Thanksgiving have been pretty tight.
Friday we had 5 lessons planned, and 5 cancels...and then we were
supposed to have 5 investigators come to church on Sunday and they all
said they were coming that morning, and then church came and a solid
zero ended up coming. So that's a rip but you can't win em all.
So
we've been doing a lot of street contacting since we've been having
little success with lessons. On Saturday we were stopping by to give
this one lady a Bible she requested and some really ghetto looking guy
with a huge goatee and a blunt in his hand answers and is like "what do
you want" so we tell him we're here to give the girl her Bible, he says
he will give it to her, so we're about to leave and I give him a
Christmas pass along card, and he goes "oh u wanna talk about Christmas
cuz we can talk for hours about that but you ain't gonna like it" now
these are moments I really can't stand cuz I'm a missionary and cant
just rail them in the head while they spew all this false doctrine at
us, but my companion LOVES these moments, so he's like "yeah we have
time tell us" so that proceeded into an hour and a half back and forth
thing with this dude on his front porch while it's freezing. He's just
going off about how we are going to hell because we believe in Jesus,
and he says we shouldn't have Christ's name in our church because...i
really don't know because halfway through I just completely zoned him
out and started thinking about food. I wanted to knock that dudes teeth
out, but however that probably wouldn't be best for anyone
I wanted to just walk away so bad but my companion kept asking him questions because he loves this kinda stuff
Also
guys! It's almost December, and our church is doing this thing called
#LightTheWord because Jesus is the light of the world, it's basically 25
Days of December, and 25 days to do service. It's super dope, and we've
been handing out a lot of those cards and advertising it a lot so go
check it out at mormon.org, or lds.org.
I know this church is true, and that with Christ we can overcome
anything, and by giving service we are giving back a tiny fraction of
what Christ did for us. Miss and love y'all!
-Elder Carlson
Pics descriptions:
1-3. Me and elder Selu saw cool leaves and took pictures with them
4. With a package my mom sent
5. One of the Light the word poster things
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