Week update
This week has been a pretty good one. It was another
really quiet week teaching wise which sort of stunk. It is interesting to spend
out the days in this area. But we stay busy. Which is good! I will share a
couple of stories from this week though!
One night we were coming home from Harlem and we were
waiting for the subway so while we were waiting we were kicking trash at the
rats on the track, and this drunk gay Asian guy walks past us and said
something about how he loves Mormons, which was weird but we were just like, “whatever".
So he wanders off down the track and we stayed where we where and about ten
minutes later, he came back and asked If there were gay Mormon, to which we
replied that there are gay Mormons, and he was awestruck. This branch I'm in
right now has quite a few gay members in it. Which is pretty unique. It's
definitely a unique branch. It keeps a lot of people coming to church that
normally would have left which is awesome! So we invited him to come to our
church, to which he simply replied that he was drunk and he wandered off.
On Sunday we had stake conference which was pretty rad!
The president of BYU came and spoke; he had a pretty awesome message! He was
talking about Jesus Christ and taught some cool stuff and brought the spirit
really powerfully! It was a great meeting! I also got to see John Payne, he was
a banker I got to baptize when I was starting my mission so it was really cool
to catch up with him. He is getting married to the member who introduced him to
the gospel which is really rad! He is getting married on Saturday in the
temple. So it's cool to see an eternal family! He is a good guy! He wants to
take me and my comp out to dinner when he gets back so that will be cool! It
was a real cool experience!
On Monday we were cruising on our way home from district
meeting and some Muslim guy stopped us, I could hardly understand what he was
saying, but he managed to prove that the bible, and whatever other book Mormons
believe in. (The Book of Mormon) wrong in less than thirty seconds which is a
new record. Anyways he was saying something about how Jesus and Adam are
brothers, which is actually true. But somehow that proves all Christendom
wrong. Then at this point I think he bit his tongue or something but his mouth
started bleeding which creeped me out severely! So I took a step back to get
out of the splash zone and he babbled on for about ten more minutes, for some
reason he was talking about how he met a Jew at a college down the street and
that is important to his crusade for some reason. Anyways he came to a stop, in
which we told him we politely disagree, and offered him a restoration pamphlet.
And he walked off shortly after looking disgruntled. It was one of the more
interesting encounters I've had with the Muslims!
Anyways it was a pretty good week! The coolest part was
definitely seeing that John is getting married in the temple! I hope you all
have a great week and a happy St. Patrick’s day! Have. Great week!
Elder Richards
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