I think the manual is just about right!
Anyway, this week hasn't been too eventful. We did teach a pentecostal family though -- they were completely insane. So I'll give you what happened with them.
Elder Phillips and I were knocking some doors in hopes of finding some people to teach (obviously, why else would I knock doors...) anyway -- we knocked on a door and a girl about 15 answered and we asked her "Who is this in this picture?" and she answered "Jesus Christ" then her father came over, great! So we asked him a couple questions, if he has a faith in Christ... etc. I noticed his daughter was wearing an abercrombie shirt with a dress, this was my first clue. He then invited us in, next clue, and then I felt like I was in a polygamist home. His wife, and 4 daughters all were wearing normal shirts with dresses... hard-core pentecostals. I was quite scared to say the least. I could only imagine what was going to happen next. I was afraid he was going to start feeling the holy ghost and murder me. We talked to him for a little and he said "So you believe that you can drink, just as long as you get drunk, DON'T YOU!?" (it was more of an attack than a question). So I said "no, we don't drink at all." and then he said "You have one day where you can dance as much as you want, DON'T YOU!?" and I said "No, we can dance every day!" He thought we were J.W.s, he was a little confused. So we shared a message with him about the Book of Mormon. He asked me about baptism and he said "Do you know why we need baptism?" And I said "el que no naciere de agua y del Espíritu, no puede entrar en el reino de Dios." He was a little caught off guard because you could tell he thought I wouldn't have any bible knowledge. He then said "Yo no se si tu sabes, pero si una anade a la biblia..." and then I cut him off and said "The plagues of God are added unto them, it says it in Deuteronomy, too." He said "Yeah, and if someone preaches a word other than the word of God..." and I cut him off again saying "He is of the devil so says galatas." He was obviously surprised, so I explained to him that if he read ezekiel 37 he'll find information about the Book of Mormon. But, it was surprisingly a good lesson. We have another appointment with him, so who knows! If he converts, I know he'd be a great member, so we're going to pray about how we need to approach them without just bible bashing, because people have been doing that since Christ died and look what that got us... NOTHING! Just a gazillion churches and a bunch of confused people. So, we're going to simply enter and testify that Joseph Smith was a prophet of God.
Not much else has happened this week! Our family (Lopez') didn't come to church :( but we're still praying. We continue to work hard with them. We had an awesome lesson about Lehi's dream in 1Nephi 8! We took an old lamp we have and taped real leaves to the shade so it looked like a tree and then turned all the ilghts off in the room. We took apart our clothes rack and used an aluminum pole from it to be the iron rod and then used the TV as the great and spacious building and we took them piece by piece through the dream Lehi had. It was way fun! It was a neat way to show how it really must've been. The tree had the light and then everywhere else was dark. Hopefully they took something from it!
I love you and I pray for each of you. The Book of Mormon is the word of God. This is His church and it is run by Him. The authority of God resides in this church and none else -- this is the way, Jesus Christ is our Savior -- He knows our needs, weaknesses, strengths, and desires. He's our advocate with the Father, He will plead for us at the last day, "despues que hacer cuanto podamos."
Love
-Elder Conner Allred
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