I continue to sleep with a stuffed dog.

YAYYYYYY for another perfect child added to the fam!  I'm so excited to meet the new kitty.

This week Sister Savelio and I had a good chatting session one day with about 20 people who were trying to waste our time.  We got rid of them so fast.  One of them named Marty told us that he needs help because he thinks he's in love with his mom.  We can watch what the guests type before they enter it and he started typing about how there's a big man named Biff... but then he erased it.  I asked him if he had watched Back to the Future lately and he responded with some unknown words because they were *******ed.  So anyway, we briefly chatted with one man who seemed kind of obsessed with Mitt Romney and wanted to go to Church because of him.  We didn't get to know too much about this man but we told him where the closest Church was and what time they met.  We told him that we'd call him after Church on Sunday to see how it went.  So we called Rafiki (that's basically his name) and it turns out that he is the most prideful man in America.  He hated Church.  He didn't understand why there were kids running around and he didn't understand who was in charge.  He said there was no rhyme or reason to anything, there was a 14 year old talking at the pulpit, one woman cried during her whole speech so he couldn't understand anything, and no one connected with the audience.  He honestly went on for 30 minutes about how much he hated Church.  I have never known anyone to hate Church.  Right, sometimes people think it's boring but this man was ripping the worship service to threads.  I couldn't handle talking to him.  I tried but he cut me off so many times that I had to put the phone down for a little while to find my sanity.  If it was up to me, the conversation would have ended in 10 minutes.  I would have said, "Your loss" and ended it but my companion cared about him much more than I did.  She tried to teach him about Church but clearly he wasn't in any state to be taught.  He told us that he knew all about how this religion started out with one boy who thought up a religion and got a lot of followers.  Okay...  So, we scheduled an appointment with Rafiki to teach him the next day about how this Church really got started.  We did our best to get to know Rakifi on the phone the next day.  He told us that he doesn't associate with his family, he believes that life is a path that we just have to endure and in the end, we will choose what we want, and he believes that Moses wasn't a very good person with a bad temper.  We asked him what a "prophet" was and he said that a prophet is a poser.  Okay... He thinks that the people who voted for Obama voted for the destruction of America.  I think my favorite Rafaki line though is, "I think the average person is an idiot."  He told us about how he doesn't have a very good income but he spent 400 dollars on clothes to wear to the Church service that he hated.  He criticized everything we did and said and he always told us that we weren't giving him enough credit because he's such an intelligent 37 year old man.  After our lesson with him, I was a hundred years old.  However, he did commit to reading the intro to the BoM and 1st Nephi chapter 1 and praying about if what we shared with him is true.  We called him the next day and he told us that 1 Nephi chapter 1 was very boring.  He went off again about connecting with the audience.  Awesome.  So we read the intro to the BoM with him because he hadn't read it yet.  With the first sentence he said, "They spelled fullness wrong." I wanted to drop him right there but he kept telling us that he wanted to know the truth about our Church.  Then we had a- poke your eyeballs out conversation about faith with him.  He told us that you'd be an idiot if you didn't believe in Jesus Christ because there are so many evidences to prove that he was the most important man who ever walked the earth.  His definition of faith was that it is something that you believe in but you can't prove.  So we said alright so without all that proof, why do you believe in Jesus Christ?  There were moments throughout our conversation that his cocky mouth got shut because of something we taught.  Even though he was still being a big fat jerk, we recognized that he had become a softer big fat jerk with us.  We called him this morning and he essentially told us that he has decided to trust man instead of God.  We pleaded with him over the phone to find out the truth for himself instead of through inaccurate sources.  Even though he became a softer big fat jerk, he remains a big fat jerk.  I hate how much I love that man.  I did not want to teach him but I was able to poor my heart into teaching him.  I had a much easier time dropping him than my companion did but we did all we could with him and gave him back to the Lord for some severe preparing.  

Even though talking to Rafiki took years off my life, we were able to teach some amazing people.  We have an investigator named Endurance who i perfect.  Obvi he's African but he is studying in the Netherlands.  He asked the perfect questions at the perfect times and he even told us that we should start with a prayer when we first taught him.  We're also teaching a 13 year old girl from Utah.  She sounds like a really smart 7 year old on the phone.  Her best friend takes her to Church all the time so she has a really solid foundation already.  The square is slowing down and getting ready for Christmas but we have been able to take a lot of investigator lessons with Utah missionaries.  We love teaching those who progress and we love inviting people to go to the temple.  

We just started an amazing program on Temple Square with the producers of, "Savior of the World."  Savior of the World is basically a musical featuring the birth and resurrection of Jesus Christ.  The show starts today and lasts until just after Christmas.  We, Temple Square sisters, get vouchers for free tickets to give to Temple Square guests.  We don't give free tickets to greedy members but we find people, teach them and then invite them to learn something by watching the musical.  I am excited to start giving out vouchers and then we'll call the people to follow up on what they learned through the musical.  We got to watch the dress rehearsal last night to better understand what our guests will feel.  

Transfers are on Monday so I will likely part from my Samoan and I'll probably have a new pday too.  

I wish everyone well in holding the babies that I cannot hold while I continue to sleep with a stuffed dog.  

Love, SISTER KYOOOLE