So this week has been pretty uneventful! I've been out every day talking to people on the street. We still haven't really taught a lesson yet, which is sort of frustrating. People don't seem too interested in our message, but that's no reason to give up! We have two appointments set up later this week, so we'll see what happens with those! I'm really hoping that we'll get an investigator at some point this week.
Last week on P-Day after email we had a really weird experience. We were waiting at the subway stop and some guy walked up to us and started talking to us, which is really weird cause Koreans usually don't approach us for some reason. We asked where he was headed and he responded rather quick and said, "Heaven," Which just made the whole situation weirder, but we realized that we could talk religion with him. We asked him if he was religious and he was, but doesn't attend church at all because he hates all the strife and conflict that happened amongst churches during the middle ages. We started talking to him about our church, and he told us that he had already read all of the Book of Mormon when he went to Salt Lake City during a tour of the USA a few years ago. He told us that he didn't believe in the Book of Mormon, but he agreed to meet us again. So we met with him on Thursday with a lesson on the Restoration and the Great Apostasy prepared. We meet up with him and talk to him about his religious beliefs and get to know him some more. Here's where it gets really weird... as we're about to start out lesson he whips out a super ghetto-looking book that's compiled in a three ring binder. Turns out the dude is a self-proclaimed bible scholar that is writing his own fan fiction based off the Bible. Apparently this fictional book answers some of the worlds mort important real-life questions such as...
"Did the Garden of Eden really exist on earth? If so, where was it?"
"Did the City of Atlantis really exist?"
"Did giants once roam the earth?"
It was the weirdest thing, and he started talking about how Adam and Eve had dinosaurs and it was just really awkward. Then he started to bible bash with us and tell us that everything we believed in was wrong. He refused to read any of the Book of Mormon and then pray about it. So we talked with him for a bit then left. It was a huge waste of time and was really frustrating, but it makes for a great story. I honestly think the dude is crazy. He wants to meet again this week but I don't think we
The ward here is super awesome and is full of recent converts. Almost all the youth here have been baptized in the last 6 months, so it's really cool getting to know them. We get fed all the time by the ward members and I'm used to the food here now. The phrase "don't ask what it is" applies at most meals. Some salad I had the other day definitely had small octopus tentacles in it. I almost enjoy salad now because it's one of the more normal types of food here, same with fruit. All the food here is crazy spicy, David would love it.
I seriously love and miss all you guys!
Rob
No comments:
Post a Comment