I talked to a Buddhist who was hammered and knew nothing about his own faith. We had a 94 year old man and his wife take us out to eat one night. Surprisingly, he actually went the speed limit. But we did end up repeating the same conversation numerous times.
We've stated teaching a kid who's parents don't speak any English. Who said I wouldn't need to know another language for my mission? We found an igloo in somebody's front yard. So Elder Henke and I decided to go inside. We both fit. Then the kid that made it came out and stared at us. So we had him take our picture and he's gonna help us build one today if it stops snowing. Once built, we are going to sleep in it tonight. It's gonna be sweet.
We were tracting some apartments a couple days ago when we met a guy who obviously didn't want to talk to us. So of coarse we engaged in conversation. He told us he didn't want to get converted and he had a religion already. When was asked him what religion he stopped for a minute, thought about it, and said "uh.. baptism". So, I was like your a member of baptism? Do you mean baptist? He said "ya, i go every week" and ran inside. It was funny.
Then we taught a FHE lesson yesterday, and there was a 2 year old who decided he wanted to lead the lesson. So he opened his Book of Mormon and said "I'm going to tell you a story. Jesus was a dragon!" It was hilarious. You learn something new every day I guess.
On a spiritual note, we had a sweet lesson. One of the ward mission leaders told us to go visit a girl named Torrie and see if we could teach her. The first 2 visits the dad answered the door and didn't seem very pleased to see us. The 3rd time he told us some other missionaries were teaching her. After we found that was a lie we went back a 4th time. He told us they were busy now and to come back in a month. I was like, how's this Mon at 4 sound? And it worked.
So yesterday at 3 we were walking in front of the high school and saw 2 kids in the parking lot. We aren't really supposed to talk to kids, but we felt impressed to go talk to them. It turned out that one of them was Torrie (who we hadn't met before) and she wasn't planning on being home for the lesson. We were able to talk her into going and told her it'd be short.
So after much work, we finally had the lesson ready to go at 4. We showed up at 4:30 and the parents decided to sit in on it. I was thinking the dad was gonna pull some anti-Mormon stuff, or argue with whatever we said. But he turned out to be the most interested in the lesson.
We had planned to focus on certain things, but ended talking about prayer for a lot of the lesson. Which was exactly what they needed to hear. The spirit led us in setting up the lesson and teaching it as well. The dad, who was so against us teaching, was describing how he felt the exact same way while we were there that he felt when he prayed. Tingly and comforted. We explained that was the spirit and it was telling him what had to say was true. At the end of the lesson he was close to tears and couldn't wait for the next lesson. All of the family felt the spirit.
It goes to show that everyone wants to feel Christ's love, whether they know it or not. No matter how they act. It was amazing to see their change in just the hour we were there. It was the best experience I've had all transfer. Don't give up on anyone. Always keep persisting and do whatever you can to bring them to Christ.
I love you all. Thanks for all the support, keep it up. Keep reading the scriptures and praying. It's amazing how much of a help those two little things are. And if we dedicate ten min to them, our whole day goes by a lot better.
Elder Pearson
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