This week has been so unbelievable hard! Tuesday was just a
normal day in the neighborhood, al anyone can talk about is the supermassive
earthquake that will hit us soon. I can think of at least 3 signs for sure that
point to the earthquake. 1. A member told us she was reading on the news and
scientists were saying that the 4.5 in LA was just a precursor to what will
hit. 2. We are WAY overdue for a giant earthquake 3. We have been having a lot
of severe weather changes which is also a sign for earthquakes. 4. There is an
Elder in the Bakersfield mission whose Patriarchal blessing says that he will
survive a giant Natural Disaster on his mission. So therefore, earthquake here
really soon, I am really excited!
Wednesday was the cause of my bad week. It was a really long
day and I was feeling really discouraged and very irritated because of the lack
of help from our ward. Every appointment we had on Wednesday fell through and
we decided to go see a HQ referral. His name was L L, he invited us
in, offered water and snacks and then started talking to us. Turns out that he
is a preacher at the local Church of God, and thinks he is a prophet. He began
immediately Bible bashing with us and trying to prove the Book of Mormon wrong.
Of course we defended everything and shut down all of his accusations (like how
Ammon smote the arms off the bandits) but he just kept bringing it out. It got
to the point where he knew he couldn't prove our religion wrong, and so he
started preaching at us and telling us that we don't know anything about
religion.
(here is the part where I gave into temptation)
He tried to show us the name of Heavenly Mother, and the
name of the Holy Spirit....I have only wanted to strangle someone twice on
my mission, once when Baptist Bob said we believe God has physical sex with
Mary and then with L. My decision was either snap him in half, or destroy
his religion. So I decided to destroy him. I pulled out my Bible and I went to
work, he had told us everything his religion taught and I proved it all false.
I didn't even tie it to the Book of Mormon I just disproved everything with the
Bible. After about 10 minutes of me hammering this guy, Elder Lewis (bless his
little heart) said that we need to leave and so we did. Of course afterwards I
felt absolutely horrible, Elder Lewis was really cool about it and he was about
to pull his scriptures out and do the same thing but I beat him to it. It was
not a good spiritual experience for me or for Lamar. I still feel really bad
and we are going over this week to apologize because he didn't deserve that,
even if he thought he knew something like Her name. Which, he thought was
Jerusalem, he got confused in Isaiah where it mentions Beulah. It is Hebrew for
Married to God. The context it is used in only means that when Zion is in
line with gods will, it is Beulah. So he got it confused, and he thought the
second coming happened in 1948 when Israel became a country again.
Im going to teach you a well known "missionary
doctorine." When you bible bash, the spirit will leave you for a certain
amount of time just like it did Joseph Smith. For me it usually lasts for a
week and that week is absolutely miserable. So that is why this week wasn't
very good, my own fault but still. The only good things that happened was I was
able to give a lot of service to a non member family that NEEDS to be members.
Seriously these guys are awesome! They are the M's and they love us
missionaries! It is so great, we did yard work for them for like 3 hours
Wednesday and 4 on Saturday. My entire body is super sore and I am loving it! I
have a lot of high hopes for that family!
Anyways I hope you all have a solid week, I am really hoping
this week looks up, I could use a good week! Love you guys!
Elder Carper
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