¿Qué esta pasando mi gente?
Great news everyone! We got our transfer emails last night, and it looks like I'll be staying here in Minden for another transfer (six weeks) to finish training Elder Patchett. We were both honestly pretty relieved. It's a good area (if not wild at times), and there's still so much we need to do. So we're looking forward to another six weeks togther. One thing that's going to throw us through a loop is that the Brownlee Elders (Elder Meyers and Elder Per) got doubled out and are getting replaced by....... sisters. Unfortunately this means that our district is now a Relief Society. (meaning we're the only elders in the district.....) Pray for us. No I'm sure we'll survive.
This week we meet some of the craziest, if not THE craziest people of my mission. Buckle up for some stories.
Sister Tokata
Alright, alright. I've met a lot of whackos on my mission, but this lady takes the cake. She's a super old, super nasty, insane lady (child of God) that lives WAY out in the swamp on the edge of a lake. She lives by herself, because her family left her because they thought she was evil. (and she was teaching their kids evil stuff) During the last Presidential Election she actually ran for president, and instead of reading the bible or book of mormon (she's a former member) she now worships the constitution as holy text. She believes everyones out to kill her, and she was telling us some of the nastiest crudest things I've heard on my mission. I mean I've baptized a wiccam on my mission, but this lady was a legit witch. I was on exchanges with one of my zone leaders when we stopped by, and it was the craziest visit. We literally had to forcefully remove ourselves. She wouldn't let us go.
Dorothy
Dorothy was a referal we recieved Friday night. We called her and she seemed like the sweetest black lady. We went by the next morning to answer her questions about the Book of Mormon, and we got halfway into the Restoration Lesson when she all of a sudden started spouting off the craziest doctrine I've ever heard. She was telling us how because Pharisees accused Christ of being a glutton and wine bibber, and how he healed on the sabbath that he was a horrible, filthy sinner. And that when Jesus explained to the pharisees why he was doing what he was doing that he was just making excuses for he and his disciples sinning. Then she told us that it was actually John the Baptist who was called to be the holy one. "I mean they both had disciples, right? And the wicked one (Jesus) just got what was coming to him on the cross."
I was not going to let her get away with a remark like that. I hear people slander Joseph Smith all day long, but I'm not going to let them slander Christs name like that. And I'll be honest, I've gotten a lot better at not engaging in bashing and just walking away. But this was about to be an exception.
It was glorious. I've never expounded the doctrine like I did during that lesson. I felt like Paul in Acts 17:2
2 And Paul, as his manner was, went in unto them, and three sabbath days reasoned with them out of the scriptures,
Now one thing you need to understand about bashing/reasoning from the scriptures, it's never effective...... unless your name is Dorothy! After an hour of intense discussion (in which I was using three bibles at once), she admitted defeat and humbled herself. She gave up her foolish and false beliefs for truth. She realized we were preaching truth, and she asked us to come back next Saturday to teach her more about the Book of Mormon. She was humbled and accepted truth. I couldn't believe it. That never happens. Missionaries 10 - Satan 0 Hopefully next time we can just read the Book of Mormon and the focus on the simple, pure truths found therein.
A lot more happened this week, (including Elder Patchett getting hit on by a gay person) but it would take forever to explain. Here are some quick explanations to the pictures.
2) Some smashed in the back windshield of the Shreveport Elders car..... Luckily they got it fixed pretty quick!
3) We found this hilarious chiuahua that would make the funniest/angriest faces 😂
4) There's a record player in our apartment, so we've been bumping the black gospel music in our apartment..... it is in fact, the best.
5) I rescued a turtle crossing the road, and had to take a picture.
6) The Brownlee district! (+Zone Leaders)
This work is true ya'll, and I wouldn't want to be anywhere else.
Be blessed, and love life!
Elder Clark Fox
(La Iglesia De Jesucristo De Los Santos De Los Últimos Días)
(102 Emerald Drive Apt. 7 Minden, Louisiana 71055)
(102 Emerald Drive Apt. 7 Minden, Louisiana 71055)
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