Let
me set the stage....
We are at the other Elders
apartment, picking up our laundry and chatting a little bit. Elder Huish
mentions that he would pay money to have seen me back in my Bible bashy days,
before I got better at just bearing testimony and being more respectful. A
couple of minutes pass. Their phone rings, one of the random numbers they
called earlier is calling them back. Elder Huish picks up the phone and goes in
the other room. Faint strains of conversation drift into the room we are
in..."y'all believe you are descendants of Israel,
right?"..."yeah, I can go deep, man, I love history"..."what
about the Assyrian captivity"...Elder Huish reenters the room and holds
the phone in front of me. The man on the other end doesn't notice the switch,
but we are soon deep in a discussion about the House of Israel. After about an
hour he hung up on me because I was resolute in my testimony in Jesus Christ as
a separate being from God. While I never like getting in such a discussion, I
was pretty happy...my temper never rose. And Elder Huish was happy because he
finally got the full experience of me bearing down in full and sincere
testimony.
Honestly, an exciting
day. The random numbers we called, about 20, all hung up after I said I was a
missionary, so that was rough. Elder Morgan told me to stop calling because he
felt terrible by association, listening to me get hung up on over and over
again.
We also had Brad
Wilcox give our devotional today, it was really good. He began by talking about
effective studying, by reading the lines (putting it into your own words)
reading between the lines (what concepts lead into this scripture/how do these
things look) and reading out of the lines (applying it to your life/people you
know). He used Mosiah 3:19 as an example, and asked different people to share
their thoughts.
Well, love from the
mission field.
Elder.DeFord
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