Well, this week we had a great zone conference, and exchange
with the other elders in our district. I went into another area, which is
always a little bit of a break, not having to worry about where to go, but
still engaged in teaching and finding. We found some interesting people, and
had one of those funny drunk guy experiences we haven't had in a long time.
These guys around there truck asked us to come over and talk to them, and asked
us questions about why God lets bad things happen. After trying to figure
out the question themselves, we just went with "well, less bad things will
happen to you if you don't drink so much". That was probably about all the
doctrine they could handle. I'm sometimes surprised about how confused people
are about gospel/religious terminology. A couple weeks ago we were teaching two
people and we were talking about prophets, and one of them asked if lineage was
important to be called to be a prophet. We said the most important thing is
that they are called of God. He asked "well doesn't lineage mean you're a
prophet?" and the lady said, with a tone of duh in her
voice "No, lineage is when you are cleaned from your sins!".
Oh boy, we've got some ground to cover.
We were successful in teaching
many investigators, and finding a few as well. We found a new apartment of
people to teach, and as usual, they all have different interest levels. One of
them we both agreed we could tell was feeling the spirit more than others, and
he is the one we will focus on. One of them you could tell hardened his heart
and in a couple instances laughed at us for what we were teaching, and the guy
who we knew was feeling the spirit had the same reaction we did - Wow, rude. Is
he seriously laughing at this? I tried not to let it bother me, but when he cut
off the first vision and laughed at it, I just asked "is there something
funny going on here?" and I think he had a bit of a wake-up call that this
was the real deal and he shouldn't laugh at it, and he was silent the rest of
the lesson.
Other than that, pretty normal week. not much
time today, so I hope to hear back soon!
-Cam
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