Last P-day, we really didn't do much after The Incline, as we were seriously recovering. But The Incline was very brutal.
I had my first interview with the Mission President. Went well. It's funny when he looks at you, and you can tell that he is scanning your soul, and you feel completely vulnerable. good times. Some lady was from Salt Lake to do a survey on the Ad campaign that's going on. For those of you that don't know, Colorado Springs is one of 8 missions in the States running a "media blitz" ad campaign for the church. There are commercials that you can watch on mormon.org, billboards (seriously!), and new pass along cards! It's crazy, and people here actually like them. Now when we tract, people tell us they hate us, but like our commercials, so it equals out. We haven't seen a baptism from it yet, but i haven't seen a baptism yet anyways. But that will probably change within the next couple weeks. Exponentially.
So this week, me and my companion were getting tired of being called a cult, people telling us to read our bibles etc. So we decided to turn the other cheek....so that we could back roundhouse kick them with our witty comebacks. (i'm sure that's what Jesus meant when he said that)
Woman: You guys are a cult
Me: A colt? Like you mean a horse?
Woman: No, a cult, like uh...culture...uh..
Kilgore: We know what you meant (fake laugh at the end to make it awkward, as planned)
It got really funny because a) the woman realized she didn't know what a cult really was, and b) she realized how much of a jerk she was being to us. So she got dramatically kinder to us after that. And then told us that we didn't need works to get into heaven. So we questioned her intelligence even further.
THEN! Some guy told us that we need to read our bibles. If you know anything about Colorado Springs, you know that people here don't actually read their bibles, they let their preacher read it for them. So my companion rose to the challenge.
Guy: You need to read your bible
Kilgore: If you read YOUR bible, you'd see where it says that Joseph Smith is a prophet and the Book of Mormon is true!
Guy: (VISIBLY nervous) Where does it say that
Kilgore: I'm just kidding it doesn't say that
Guy:(VISIBLY relieved) I know you are (no, you were scared dumb-dumb)
The funny thing is there are numerous references in the Old testament, New Testament, and Even the Jewish Talmud contains a prophesy that a man named Joseph, who's father would be named Joseph, would restore truth to the world.
Also, we had dinner this week, and it turned out that we got invited to the high priest social. Now, i'd never been to one of these things before but it was interesting. At one point, the guy who's house it was turned on his new TV to kind of show someone what it looked like, and I glanced over out of instinct to see football players wearing Green and Gold. Yep, his television turned right on the Eskimos/Hamilton game. It even said Edmonton at the bottom of the screen. Tender Mercy. Turns out the guy (Brother Hollister) inspects buildings for the church, and inspects the ones in edmonton area as well. So Dad, try and see if you can say hi to him. Another funny thing that happened, was I was walking past 2 guys that were discussing deep doctrine. Like, I caught the words "Jesus Christ must have transcended multiple dimensions in order to get into the upper room, because it was locked" My first thought was "Haven't you heard of quantum tunneling?" but I kept my thoughts to myself.
Also, this area is exploding. Me and Elder Kilgore thought about what we needed to do to baptize in this area, fixed some things, and the DAY AFTER the area started to explode. We have referrals coming at us from all directions, and people randomly coming out of the woodwork. We were tracting this street, and started walking towards a guy on the phone, as we got closer, he got off the phone and started walking towards us. We were anticipating a bash, but got a new investigator. It probably didn't hurt that when he mentioned he was from Modesto California, I burst out with "THAT'S WHERE GEORGE LUCAS IS FROM" and he got all excited and it pretty much broke the ice no problem.
I gave a blessing this week to a guy that is a super solid investigator as well. It was such an awesome spiritual experience, and afterwards, he said that I said exactly what he needed to hear. Epic. This is Chris by the way, the guy that was chasing after women in the stake adult session. He is so solid now, his comment on the book of mormon: "There is only one problem with this book; I can't put it down!" Epic.
And sorry I didn't email yesterday, it was Columbus day and the libraries where closed. So for p-day yesterday, we played disc golf with a couple members. Afterwards, I noticed the guy had his body armour (afghanistan) in the back seat, and so I asked if I could get a picture wearing it. So he let me. I tell ya, if I was sent to Colorado Springs to find out what i'm doing for the rest of my life, it's probably going to be military. Sorry mom and dad. Military is everywhere here, and I'm starting to love it. Also, i've seen some sweet airsoft guns. anywho, that's all for now.
One last story: I noticed that there were some Jesus fish bumper stickers that were spelt with an I. That's when I realized that Jehovah is spelt with an I in greek. I wonder where I learned that. (*cough* last crusade *cough*)
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