Baptists and Mormons

The members out here arent very good at alot of the things that they do are really different from out west but i guess thats why they send missionaries from the west to the east to show how to run the church and send the missionaries from the east out west to learn how the church is run.


im really looking forward to this jacket and my scarf.
So for this week it was very interesting but one of the most interesting things that happened was this: so a while back this baptist chaplain for the jail grabbed us at KFC and is from AZ so he gave us his card and invited us over for some chimmy chongas if we ever wanted some. So the other day we finally got around to calling this guy and he was super excited that we did so we went over for some dinner and they were all very nice and welcoming(all-him,wife and 5 daughters) and we had a very good time over there and we talked about how much better Az is than IN and we had alot of laughs, it was a very homey environment and the food was soo good. Anyways at the end of it all before we left he extended us an invitation that if we ever were hungry or wanted to play games or watch tv we would be welcome, we told him that we would love to come back but it wouldn't be to watch tv or play games, to me it kinda sounded like a trap to test our dedication to being obedient, but that is just me jumping to a conclusion. Anyways after that he told us that if we would like to talk "theology" for half a day or so then he would love to and he wouldnt beat around the bush about what we disagree on but he said we would do so on one condition and that is that we will not argue with each other, that it will have a discussion like adults, and once he said that we accepted his polite offer. As we left we made sure to show them all our appreciation and thanks and they said that hopefully we could build as friendship off of more than just cause were from AZ, hahaha, and he also gave us each a copy of this book that is the biography of his father who has past away,he said its alot about AZ and their church and that it talks about how his father grew up ouside of Eager and how much he loved the mormons, so we thaught cool and went on our way. Now the day after right before i was gonna put away the book for after the mission i was looking at the table of context skimming over the chapter in it we i saw that one was labeled: "mormonism" so i skimmed through the few page chapter and basically he was bashing the church and said that he had stumped some missionaries on the whole adam-god thing by President Young so that made us think that this guy is gonna try and get us in a corner and it really makes me mad when people are so judgmental about the church and think they understand things that they really dont.

anyways this week was alot of fun and this week we get to hear from a quorum of the 70 and we’re gonna help on extreme makeover in kokomoso be watching for that show, lol.

love ya and its really nice to get details about back at home,
Elder Nelson