Hey it's stake conference for us this next week too! We're going to Sarasota on Saturday and Sunday for those meetings. Should be good! And it'll be nice to meet in
like...a...regular sized meeting house.
So this last week we put off Saturday
(because we didn't have like....anything else planned) as a day of
complete inviting all day. So we walked around for like 6 hours (got a sick tan) and talked to every Hispanic that was visible outside their house and gave out a ton of
pamphlets on Joseph Smith and Family Proclamation thingy and such. It
was pretty fun. I think that's more people than we've talked to since
like we've been here and we did it in one day. We met a few people that
were crazy drunk or high. That was also fun. Always good conversations
with them. This one guy (spoke english) asked us who mother nature was
and if we work out. He straight up told us he was high and drunk but
totally coherent somehow. That made my day! Funny people out here.
We went and talked to a guy that was a referral
from a member. Tano. We went to his house and he was outside cleaning a
birdcage. He spoke enough English to talk to us in it. We told him what
we do and if he'd ever heard or read from the BoM. He told us he'd heard
of our church and how we believe a different Christ, not the one from
the Bible, came to America and we receive revelations from stones to
start church. So he went on to tell us we couldn't possibly be
able to teach him anything about life since we're so young (he said
pointing to me "what you're probably only in your late twenties"......I
think correcting him would've made things a bit worse) and went on to
say how we're wasting our lives and such. But the whole time I felt
comfortable and I thought of my patriarchal blessing which says stuff
like that will happen, a lot, and I thought of the story from some
general conference where the missionaries knock on the door of the
pastor and he tells them they can't tell him that Joseph Smith was a
prophet, and then the greenie wants to go back and bear testimony that
they can do that. So I just
stood firm and told him look we don't claim that we can teach you the
ways of life and we understand that we're just young still, but what I
do know is we can teach you the ways of God and the Spirit can as well
as you read this book. And I went on to bear my testimony, not letting
him interrupt me when he tried, and then E. Lids did the same after me.
After that his countenance changed a lot and he stopped bad mouthing us.
He still rejected us in the end, but we left him a BoM and invited him
to read it. Good stuff!
Transfer calls are this Saturday!
The word is they might shut down the Spanish area here and put in a
Zebra companionship as Zone Leaders. Which means an English and a Spanish together as companions. That's something that's not in this
mission yet so we'll see if they do it. But yeah I'll find out if I'm
staying or going this Saturday!
Yep! Nothing much else going on here in old Arcadia.
We got some lessons planned for this week and a lot of inviting again. (By inviting I mean
tracting)
Hope all is well! I actually just sent you the
article from the Arcadian today....so now you'll have two I guess! Oh well. Another thing to get in the mail!
Have a good week! Do some good! Serve the Lord!
Live Hard,
Love Hard,
Laugh Hard,
Elder Bryson Davies
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