I don't know the first thing about teaching a Muslim

May 2, 2006

Dear Family,
Hey, Becky and Michelle, that's cool that you won a contest. I want to hear more about what happened. Those pictures look like you had a good time. Did you get their CD for free? :P.

Okay, so on to about my week.

John Raney is still on to be baptized on Saturday, solid as solid can be.

We started teaching John Moran on Sunday, and he's doing well. He has a tentative date of mid-June, when he graduates from college. He's studying video game design, and got interested through his girlfriend Jill Zor. He's keeping up on his reading assignments and coming to church, so he's pretty solid on the road to getting his answer from God.

During the first couple days of this week, we met with a lot of rejection. We tracted a lot and were turned away and received rude or offensive comments several times. But we kept going through a few hard days, and finally started seeing some success.

A couple days ago, we did a check back for a young man named Abrar, who looked Indian. When we knocked and asked for Abrar, his father answered and scolded us for asking for him because he was a minor; if we wanted to talk about religion we should talk to the father. So we asked if we could talk to him, he said yes, he let us right in, and we had a great discussion. We gave him a book of Mormon and he gave us a Koran, and at the end, he apologized several times for getting angry. It just goes to show that a soft answer to an angry person can turn away their wrath and open hearts to you. Now, I don't know the first thing about teaching a Muslim, but at least he's reading the Book of Mormon, and maybe he'll come to the knowledge of its truthfulness. It was very interesting to get to know him. He said we can come back sometime.

Yesterday, we tracted and, for the first time ever with Elder Holt, got in a door. His name was Luis; we taught him the restoration and committed him to read the Book of Mormon and come to church. He's not an investigator yet, but he has promise. He is from Mexico and has very good English. Then, a few doors later, we met a lady who seemed very anti at first, and we nearly got into a bash with her at the door, but we were able to bring it down a little bit and ended up talking for about 1 1/2 hours at the door. Elder Holt apologized for getting a little bit intense and flustered, and she really warmed up to us. she said she'd invite us to have dinner with her except she didn't know what they were having or when, but said she'd like to see us again when we're in the neighborhood. She had a lot of questions, and we invited her to go to mormon.org and look through it. She said she would, and I think she had a little more understanding when we left than when we got there.

We did a little bit of service this week too. Actually... a lot. We helped move a couple people.
So, basically, it was a fairly slow week at first, and we found a few potential investigators later on in the week. We have two progressing investigators with a lot of promise.

I hope you all have a great week. I love all of you.

Love,
Elder Myers