Monday, July 18, 2016

The Foreign Literature

Clarification:
So I've been receiving a lot of emails on me being a "loose cannon missionary" I would like to clarify that I am still doing my best to be strictly obedient to the white handbook. For example: my list of music that I regularly listen to has been severely decreased in the last few months because although some of it could be bent to be white handbook worthy, that's not how being strictly obedient works. That being said, I do have a certain style of doing things that may not be according to the social norm of the mission or other norms that made Elder Wilson conclude that I'm a loose cannon missionary :) I'm thankful for all of your concern on my well being and such so keep it up :) 

The Foreign Literature:

So other than tracting all week long because everyone decided to cancel our appointments without letting us know so that's fun. But, in an appointment that didn't lunch us I found out some interesting things. The guy that we went over to talk to was a Seventh day Adventist. Tangent: I've decided a lot of the colored people in North town go to the Adventist church in town so that's fun. Back on track: So we had a great discussion with this guy and I not knowing much about Seventh day Adventists was interested to find out that they very much believe in the apostasy and modern day prophet(s). So we were like "We've presented our message and really the only way you're going to find out if it's true is if you read the Book of Mormon and pray about it" and after a bit of thinking he decided to make a deal with us. He told us he would read and pray about the Book of Mormon if we took some Adventist literature. So I now have "Steps to Christ" and "The Great Controversy Ended..." By Ellen White (I think..) I can neither confirm nor deny whether or not I have read some of both books. But I'll just say that their church would be very complemented if they used the Book of Mormon and I guess if they did that you might as well call them Mormons but hey it's all good :)

On top of that I finally got a silver bullet from the Jehovah's Witness church. I'm not entirely clear on whether or not we can read translated Bibles so I've just been reading it. It's no replacement to the King James Version with JST footnotes but it's unique reading the bible in modern day tongue. If you want an idea on something that might be lost in translation in this circumstance if you find in your readings of the bible the word perish switch it out with be destroyed and see what kind of difference that makes. But other than that it's quite interesting :) 

I think that's all I've got time for but I'm sure I'll have more stories for next week. 


Love yous and have a great week

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