Week 69: Halloween and the secret to winning a Bible Bash

Hey Family and Friends!

I hope you guys had a great week! It was pretty good for us. Halloween is a little more of a thing here than in Nederland, so we saw a few trick or treaters, but it made it pretty difficult to do any work since we didn't have any appointments that night. The next day was also a holiday, so we thought it would be a great day to find people at home, but it turned out that everyone was out and about, so it turned into a pretty long day.

We did some more banner contacting this week, and it went pretty well. One of the guys that we stopped ended up coming to church, but he said he was too busy to make any appointments before December, so hopefully that will work out.

Dijana told us this last week that the 18-year-old girl who came with her to church is in love with Elder DuWors, and she in continually trying to pair them up now... So they will definitely be taught by the Sisters from now on. It is a good thing that he is more handsome than me :)

We had a super good afternoon after a dinner appointment. We went out to knock in their neighborhood for a little less than an hour, and we only made it a few doors because of all of the people who wanted to talk to us. One of them was Dina, who is a 28 or so year old woman who knows the Bible really well. I have developed a pretty good knowledge of that on my mission, so we had a really good conversation and she wants a Book of Mormon, so we are going to bring that to her tonight. I am excited!

Related to that, we talked to a couple Jehova's Witnesses this week! And they tried to bash us... They got destroyed :). The first one we talked to tried to pull out a few scriptures on us and I totally tore them apart. The secret to winning a Bible Bash without actually bashing is just to supply facts about the scripture they gave, and put it into context. Or agree with it and supply another scripture that goes along with it, giving you control of the situation. And then testify! I always like throwing in some good metaphors too. While being nice, of course :). I think I like it a bit too much. But hopefully they got the point.

We got a little lost. So we thought we should a least take a photo.

Have a great week!

I love you all!

Love,

Elder Thornton