Ok, so I just barely drank some chocolate milk, and I thought it tasted weird, but I still swallowed it for some reason, and now I don't feel so good. I think Ive had it for too long. I really don't feel good right now. Anyways, this week was pretty eventful. We had a lowkey bash with a Evangelical Preacher of the South Park Church of Christ. It was pretty interesting.
Bashing
Ok so we met with Chauncey at a coffee shop, and we just sat down to talk. We were going to go over some of the things he sent us, a video of the testimony of an ex-mormon, went over some things about the Holy Ghost, and what he's read in the BoM. We were like secluded from the open area of the Cafe, in this cozy booth. Then this guy sat down with us, and just invited himself into our conversation. He introduced himself as a preacher, and then proceeded to ruin our whole conversation. It was pretty frustrating, because I couldn't think of anything to say, and anything I DID say, he would chew it up and spit it back in our faces. It was pretty frustrating, and eventually we just had to go, because we'd been there for 3 hours. But Chauncey asked us to meet again this week, so we met on thursday, and he invited Chris Jones to join us again. I spent the day in between studying vigorously, as if I was preparing for a bash, and finding lots of verses of the Bible to back up our beliefs, and had really thought through some of the claims he made that did not sound right. And The Zone Leaders had a lesson fall through at that time, and we invited them to join us, which was actually very much needed. It was a good convo, but not really mutually beneficial. Chris said many things that just weren't true. He was like "Do you even know your church's history? Not what the church tells you, but what actually happened." And we were like "yeah," and then barely got started on the first vision, when he was like "OK so you don't know your own history." Then he went on about how Joseph started 2 religions before the "mormon" one, and they didn't stick, and how he got most of his ideas for the Church from a inter-denominational revival in Kentucky that he spoke at. Upon further research, I learned that he in fact did NOT speak at that revival because it was in 1801. He wasn't even born yet. And the other churches he "created" were not in fact different churches, but the same church that went through a few name changes. First it was "Church of Christ" then the "Church of Jesus Christ" and then "the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints." It was funny, cuz he was like "the truth is out there, just go search it up," and then 1 search said how he was just totally wrong on that. The discussion was interesting, and he also brought up 1 Cor 13, and how that proves that prophecies and prophets have ceased, and after reading it on my own a bit (in his bible, because he has a different translation) while everyone talked I was like "I think you're interpreting it wrong." And then I told him how I interpreted it, and the conversation didn't last long after that. I can't remember everything we talked about, but all of us missionaries left feeling more confident in our beliefs. It was a testimony builder for sure. Chauncey told us after that he wants ti come to church with us to see what it's like, and we're meeting with him again, without Chris, because he agreed fhat Chris wasn't very christlike. Hé said he doesn't think Chris is a real preacher. We basically left him with "We can't prove it to you. We just ask all people to read the Book of Mormon and ask God himself if it's true."
Ok I'm really not feeling good, so I'm gonna stop it here, but I love you all.
- Elder Wride
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