Week 8

Well! Another week gone by. It was kind of slow, but it was good. This week, we have been teaching our investigators, and been working with a ton of less actives, and trying to get the members to be strong. It’s hard, a lot of the members love the church, but don’t know a lot, as in if me and my companion have doctrinal questions or something, we have to figure it out for ourselves, because none of the members would know. But that is all good. So when we meet with members, we try to teach them new and also very simple principles, it’s pretty awesome.

Story time! There is a man in our stake, who everyone loves, and is super friendly with the missionaries and all that awesome stuff, and he is also from Venezuela, (shout out). So one of our other missionary friends took him for a member lesson with an investigator, and apparently the member and the investigator got into a fight, and they lost the investigator. So that is nice. I asked my companion about it, and he said that a lot of the members are not good for lessons, because they always want to teach over the missionaries, so I guess we really have to pick and choose who we will use for our lessons really carefully.

Anyway, we were teaching an investigator, and his name is Antonio, and he is old and is really catholic. Anyway, he was reading the Book of Mormon, and he said that because Joseph Smith wrote the Book of Mormon in the 1800´s, there is no way it can be true, because in the book of Revelations, it says that no one can change anything of this book of prophecy. So, I tried to explain to him that it is talking about the book of Revelations, not the Bible. He didn’t like it. so then I asked him that if anyone added to the Bible, then they would be damned, and he said yes, so then I said that John finished his Gospel, his second epistle, and his third epistle after he finished Revelations, so according to his theory, we should not have all those. He didn’t accept my answer. So we told him that we would go research it more and come up with an answer. And my companion found a scripture in Deuteronomy that says the exact same thing, so we are going to try and explain it to him. Hopefully it goes well.

Our other investigators are progressing, the ones who aren’t married but are living together. they are now a lot more interested with us teaching than with the other missionaries, as now they are taking it a little more seriously, which is really awesome. and our super-duper less active is reading the book of Mormon, and will hopefully come back, I don’t know if she needs to be re baptized, but if so, then so be it. I don’t know. But a great week! I hope you are all doing well!