We had Elder Arnold of the Seventy speak in our mission on Thursday. It was
really inspiring. He talked a lot about where our mission is, and where we are
going. We have six missionaries online now doing an hour of facebook contacting
a day. Basically they go and teach "finding lessons" where they invite people to
write down every single non-member they know (pulling out phone contacts or
facebook is ok), then star the ones that 1) are in the missionaries' area; and
2) that they feel inspired they should contact. The missionaries then contact
people in their area or facebook contact those outside of their area. Yes, that
means they teach people all around the country/world over facebook! I think it's
pretty cool anyways. This is just for the Elders covering YSA areas for now in
our mission.
Halloween in our mission isn't really any different than any other day. We
found a couple potentials, contacted referrals, etc. But we do get a lot of
candy while "tracting" :) As a result of Elder Arnold's talk, there seems to be
a renewed energy in the mission to get things done. Everyone's faith is high,
and where faith is miracles follow, which we're seeing daily.
--Elder Chandler
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We've run into a ton of apostate members lately (not that we don't run into
them pretty much every day anyways here in Utah...). More than usual. So it's
made me think a lot about how basic and important the knowledge given by the
Holy Ghost is in our lives. Almost all of them leave because of "when they are
learned they think they are wise".
In one specific case, a returned-missionary-gone-inactive told us that in
order to find out the truth we have to "set aside our testimony of the Book of
Mormon and look at the other facts for a while". And so I wondered for a while:
Is there ever worth in doing that? Could you glean some facets of information
that you wouldn't be able to otherwise?
To a mormon-gone-atheist the answer is yes, but to those of us who have
felt and recognized the Spirit, there is no need to ever do so. We cannot deny
that the Holy Ghost has touched each of our lives, and these experiences serve
as a foundation for our testimonies (Matthew 17). This source of knowledge need
not be questioned as a "false source of information", for each of us who have
felt the influence of the Holy Ghost knows that the knowledge gained therefrom
is not to be cast aside.
So just to finish up the story part, we stopped talking to this guy when I
told him anti-mormon material was biased. He told me I was biased, to which I
agreed. But he then told us that he had no bias, so in order to keep from
laughing out loud in front of him Elder Mintey and I said goodbye and left. To
have come away with a knowledge, though, that I will never deny, was worth the
whole 15 minutes.
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