This southern accent thing is starting to take a hold of me down here! "yalls" and "aints" its like a plague man! Its alright though because im already in a white shirt and tie when its 105, i dont need to stand out even more ;) The other thing that people say is "have a blessed day" I really like that one though because it shows that so many people are keeping christ in their minds! Thats really important! Whatever you have on your minds constantly is what you will become, so if we can keep christ on our minds then slowly we will become like christ! so everyone have a blessed day! :)
Alright so the south is just awesome! we talked to a black woman and her daughter for like an hour in the cereal isle at walmart about christ one day! The people here are just very open to talk about religion and even though they may not listen, at least it shows that Mormons and missionarys are good faithful CHRISTIANS. some people dont think we believe in christ so by changing the general opionon of LDS people from bad to good, we can make a lot of difference! A huge part of that is service, taking every oppurtunity to help your fellow man. We always talk about developing a habbit of helpfulness, i encourage all of you to do the same. Develope a habbit of helping anyone and everyone with anything! all the sudden the world becomes a much better place :)
So now im going to share a story, this story is awesome because it all came from impressions for me! I felt impressed as we were driving towards home last night that we should stop and contact at walmart for a bit so we did. then this whole crazy thing happened!....
So we had a super cool experience last night! I started talking to a Hispanic man in the bathroom (his name is Sido). I gave him a card and then we started walking the other way in Walmart. A few seconds later he came back over to us and asked if we would call his friend who was having a hard time with a recent divorce. He said his friend could really use a message about Jesus Christ. We walked out with him to his car and got the number (who we are planning on calling later today or tomorrow, he lives in Oklahoma though) then started having a great conversation about Christ with Sido. We gave him a book of Mormon and explained it and then right in the middle of testifying to this man a teenage kid walked over. He was an anti, so he hands this man a card and starts spewing all of these random anti Mormon scriptures (in English, sido barely speaks any English) and tells us strait up that we are liars and that the Book of Mormon isn't true. Then the guy we are teaching pulls out a bible scripture that backed us up! we just stood back and were polite, we didn't try and bash or contest or anything and the teenage guy was all taken back and just left.
So as it turned out, Sido has strong faith in Christ and could understand the references the anti was saying but was offended at how rude he was being to me and elder Jackson who were just trying to serve the lord. we finished having an awesome conversation about Christ and why we don't do things like that that cause contention (it just drives the spirit away!). The spirit was very strong and you could tell that we had made an influence on Sido, he respected us and knew we testified of Christ and the truth. We have his number and hope to set up some future appointments. Super awesome guy!
So that is just a testament to me that the devil will do anything he can to stop you from teaching the truth. However, if we teach by the spirit. Not with contention. We can teach with power and authority so that the devil will be of no influence. im loving my mission so far, and im loving how even our non-Mormon Spanish speaking contact backed us up against an anti with out us doing anything but trying to act as Christ did. Super funny! me and Elder jackson started cracking up about it after because the anti mormon guy really did make a fool of himself haha. super great experience, im just praying we can turn this into a new convert and help change Sidos life for good!
So yeah, that was crazy! I sent the same expirience to my mission president so thats why its all a different color, but it was just really cool to me because all of that happened because i had a prompting to go to walmart! and if we follow promptings we will always led for good :) Practice listening to the spirit, it will just get easier and easier to hear and follow its instuctions :)
I also really hope that yall had a chance to look at the mormon messages! hopefully you can share those and help bring others to christ, im telling you, member missionarys can change the world, be a part of the mission work in your citys! bring people to christ! you will have more joy doing that then anything else in your life! I hope everyone is doing awesome! Im doing awesome here :)
Love, Elder Steele
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