Outmatched

Just this past week we met with a man who lived an alternate faith. He was very excited to meet with us and wanted to talk to us about our church. Unbeknownst to us, he wanted to disprove the lds church and its teachings. Oh how poorly equipped we were to deal with him. Every single point or argument we presented was shot down to pieces. He lived revelations in the Bible and wiped what we had. It was sad really, we were ill prepared to defend our faith and belief against him. As missionaries our goal is to find, teach and baptize. We really aren't supposed to Bible bash or try to prove our point. We left rather quickly after we learned we were no match for a young man not much older than we were and his Bible. For me, I didn't care so much. However, my companion was frustrated. He didn't understand why the spirit had failed him in conquering the opponent. I didn't have any words of comfort other than: "I'm sure he was just upset about something." I don't know why they don't give us more about the Bible and ways to help actually prove our church. It seems the only way we can convince people is if they decide to feel the spirit.

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A little update! Dec 6th 2017

Hello! It is now the third transfer which is some interesting stuff! Just recently I learned water and electronics don’t mix well and my keyboard is out of action for a little bit. Besides that, it has been a decent couple of weeks! My new companion is very much like my last one in that he likes staying inside so there really isn’t much ‘work’ being done. Recently we had another zone conference for the new transfer, I learned the church has over 18k vehicles at a combine worth of a quarter billion from it. I dunno what that means for anyone but I thought it was a cool statistic. Before I forget, merry Christmas! If you don’t celebrate Christmas, merry/happy whatever you celebrate!