Hey kids,
I got to announce for french tours again on Sunday. I'm starting to get sick of all this fame. That's a lie. The frenchies were a no show but I got to take 4 people around on an English tour. One woman from New Brunswick was just in love with our religion. I think my companion and I each asked her twice if she wanted to learn more from the missionaries in her area and she said she was cool with remaining Catholic. She just went on and on about a mormon family that she knew 20 years ago and how awesome they were and how good they were at living their faith. She also said that she wrote a 30 page paper back in the day on mormonism and she just fell in love with our values. She loves our emphasis on education and on family. After everything we said, she told us how beautiful our faith is. Thank you, lady. Now try it out for yourself. This woman was a nice change from the angry Christians who judge us so harshly. Throughout the week we talked to so many people who loved everything we had to share and thanked us for our service so that was nice.
On Saturday my companion and I got chased by a leprachaun. No joke. It was a fun that so many people were dressed in green and I commented on one young man's Irish gettup. Then he wouldn't leave us. I think he was after his lucky charms but I didn't have them. He wasn't the most talkative leprechaun but for an hour, he creeped around behind us. Then it just became a game of cat and mouse. Obviously I wasn't going to lose so we would go down the escalator and ride up the elevator then run oustide in a missionary fashion. We might not have been the most effecient missionaries that afternoon but hey, no one's perfect and we're still alive.
Last night I answered the mormon.org line and talked to a serial caller. I didn't know that he had a reputation with the sisters here when I was talking to him. After probably 30 minutes of exhausting conversation and a growing headache, my zone leader came to my resue and told me to just bare my testimony and get out. I'm mad that I didn't do that sooner. This man seemed to genuinely want to understand our beliefs. He could not grasp the concept on the Godhead. He was obsessed with the definition of words and speciific titles that it did no one any good. Especially my brain. He told me that godhead was an incorrect term because it's not in the scriptures and that Jesus wasn't the Christ until his crucifixion. He just went on and on about different titles of Christ and claimed that Jospeh Smith changed his belief about who God really is. I could barely get two words in and he just told me story after story and read passage after passage of scripture. I plainly told him that we believe in God the Father, His son Jesus Christ and in the Holy Ghost. And always have. They are three seperate beings but are united in purpose. He was not satisfied. I couldn't belive how hard this man made his life by confusing this simple doctrine. I was frustrated because I know the gospel makes sense and answers every question but he seemed like he could not be helped. After the call I found out that he calls in and talks to many sister missionaries about the same thing. He refuses to believe what we say and is never satisfied so he keeps calling back. I think it's a chronic call-back disease but now I know to get out sooner.
I love having time on the square to talk to people. My square time is limited because we're in the HIVE a lot but it makes me appreciate everyone we are able to talk to on the square. We talked to so many awesome members this week. I feel like a selfish missionary because sometimes all I do is hear their sweet conversion stories or hear about their trials in life and how they were able to grow from them. Life is good.
Love you all! Conference is in a week and they're opening the new mall here tomorrow. Woooooooooooot!
-Sister Kateezy Kyle
P.S my mission now has a blog: slctemplesquaremission.
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