Jesse Killpack. September 8, 2014

Dear Family, 

Well a lot and a little happened this week. We had a great experience finding Maximo again. He was the one that had come to church. We were able to teach him the restoration and he says that he wants to be baptized. On October 19th. Yay!  I'm excited for him. We will see how well he does. He likes church and reading but this week he fell asleep in church. It's okay it happens to the best of us. It was a long church and he works all week. Oh well he still feels like he had a good experience. We talked to a man about the Book of Mormon on the street and then he took us to his house and we taught him the restoration. His friend started to try to go after us though saying that we need to use  the bible more granted. We had already used four verses such as Amos 3, James 1:5, Amos 8:11-12, Ephesians 4:11,12.  He came in after we asked him something and  said ok ok ok, let's put the pamphlet down and talk biblically. So he was going on about how the bible is only 66 books and how he doesn't read about Joseph Smith in the bible and how there will be false prophets. I answered by asking him if he was reading in the bible first, and how that doesn't mean that Joseph Smith doesn't exist because I don't read about him in the bible. We then explained foremost the importance of prayer and reading the Book of Mormon to know the truth. Then we read Matthew 7 about "By their fruits ye shall know them." And Isaiah 11:10. He still wouldn't let those same questions go and so I pulled a sermon like response like in John 8. Basically we told you the truth and you would not hear. We explained better the lack of authority they had and the lack of logic by using the examples  that Christ's name doesn't appear in our Old Testament but we know it talks about him. It also doesn't talk about any prophecies of Paul until it happens in the New Testament.  The other guy that invited us over still wanted to read the Book of Mormon so that was good. Lots of stuff, but that's the story I chose hope it was a good one. 

Love

Elder Jesse M Killpack