e only had a couple note worthy things happen to us this week.
When I was on exchanges with my zone leader, we went and did some service for our (sort of) investigator again. This time I actually got to give the calfs their shots. It was kind of fun playing vet.
The other thing that that happened was with the guy we met in the post office last week. We went over to his house and tried to see what sort of potential for teaching he had.
I have literally never had a more irritating/frustrating visit with anybody. He literally just spent the whole time trying to tell us how we were wrong, but he had the stupidest arguements that absolutely made no sense. The thing he would always do it rearrange words and letters in phrases to make up doctrine.
For example one of us made a comment on something and he cut us off by saying, or I should say yelling "That's not in the Bible! If it's not anywhere int he Bible then it's not true! This planet is just a demonstration planet to show all the other planets what happens when you don't follow God!"
Obviously that kind of irritated me, so I said, "What?! That is nowhere in the Bible. Where did you read that?"
He replied, "uhh... it's not that complicated... demonstration planet... demonstrate... DEMONstrate.. DEMON---strate... DEMON! Demons come from the devil. The devil tricked Adam and Eve into eating the fruit, which made the planet the way it is now."
We all just sat there for a second in silence, piecing together what he said. I just said, "That... literally did not at all answer my question or make any sense.."
At some point in the conversation he argued that we didn't have any proof that the Book of Mormon is true and that the Bible has evidence that the events happened and that we have original manuscripts from the Bible. he said that if we had the gold plates, everybody would be a Mormon.
I always hate that argument. I told him, "Well, yeah there are manuscripts and stuff like that for the Bible, but is everyone Christian? No. Even if I put the gold plates right in front of you, you would just argue that somebody just made those up too. And then would request more proof"
He agreed that he would. I told him that with The Book of Mormon and the Bible, both with, at some point, require faith the believe in.
We basically just spent an hour and a half at his house arguing stupid points that literally didn't matter at all, at one point we told him that we weren't there to argue and that if he was willing to learn from us, we would teach him but if he just wanted to argue we were not going to come back. We then spent a few minutes arguing about whether or not we were arguing.
On our way out the door he said, "before you leave I have a question for you. Do you know where the word Mormon came from?" Before we could answer he said, "If you take the word Mormon and then put the letter E in the middle, it says More-mon, then you put an IE on the end it said, More Monie. Change the IE to a EY it says More Money! Its all about earning money! I bet you didn't know that's why Joseph Smith called it the The Book of Mormon! It's really The Book of More Money!"
One of my companions replied, "It's a name.."
"What is?"
"Mormon"
"What do you mean its a name?"
"Mormon is a name in the Boo of Mormon"
"No its not"
"I'm pretty sure it is, seriously, just read the book"
It was a really irritating visit. I can't get over some of the stupid arguments he came up with. I could go on for pages but I think I'll just end my email here.
Also, my birthday is coming up. I would love it if I got a Taco Bell or Walmart gift card :)
-Elder Rebalkin
When I was on exchanges with my zone leader, we went and did some service for our (sort of) investigator again. This time I actually got to give the calfs their shots. It was kind of fun playing vet.
The other thing that that happened was with the guy we met in the post office last week. We went over to his house and tried to see what sort of potential for teaching he had.
I have literally never had a more irritating/frustrating visit with anybody. He literally just spent the whole time trying to tell us how we were wrong, but he had the stupidest arguements that absolutely made no sense. The thing he would always do it rearrange words and letters in phrases to make up doctrine.
For example one of us made a comment on something and he cut us off by saying, or I should say yelling "That's not in the Bible! If it's not anywhere int he Bible then it's not true! This planet is just a demonstration planet to show all the other planets what happens when you don't follow God!"
Obviously that kind of irritated me, so I said, "What?! That is nowhere in the Bible. Where did you read that?"
He replied, "uhh... it's not that complicated... demonstration planet... demonstrate... DEMONstrate.. DEMON---strate... DEMON! Demons come from the devil. The devil tricked Adam and Eve into eating the fruit, which made the planet the way it is now."
We all just sat there for a second in silence, piecing together what he said. I just said, "That... literally did not at all answer my question or make any sense.."
At some point in the conversation he argued that we didn't have any proof that the Book of Mormon is true and that the Bible has evidence that the events happened and that we have original manuscripts from the Bible. he said that if we had the gold plates, everybody would be a Mormon.
I always hate that argument. I told him, "Well, yeah there are manuscripts and stuff like that for the Bible, but is everyone Christian? No. Even if I put the gold plates right in front of you, you would just argue that somebody just made those up too. And then would request more proof"
He agreed that he would. I told him that with The Book of Mormon and the Bible, both with, at some point, require faith the believe in.
We basically just spent an hour and a half at his house arguing stupid points that literally didn't matter at all, at one point we told him that we weren't there to argue and that if he was willing to learn from us, we would teach him but if he just wanted to argue we were not going to come back. We then spent a few minutes arguing about whether or not we were arguing.
On our way out the door he said, "before you leave I have a question for you. Do you know where the word Mormon came from?" Before we could answer he said, "If you take the word Mormon and then put the letter E in the middle, it says More-mon, then you put an IE on the end it said, More Monie. Change the IE to a EY it says More Money! Its all about earning money! I bet you didn't know that's why Joseph Smith called it the The Book of Mormon! It's really The Book of More Money!"
One of my companions replied, "It's a name.."
"What is?"
"Mormon"
"What do you mean its a name?"
"Mormon is a name in the Boo of Mormon"
"No its not"
"I'm pretty sure it is, seriously, just read the book"
It was a really irritating visit. I can't get over some of the stupid arguments he came up with. I could go on for pages but I think I'll just end my email here.
Also, my birthday is coming up. I would love it if I got a Taco Bell or Walmart gift card :)
-Elder Rebalkin