Dear all,
Following up from last week, we spent a lot of time finding this week, and got some numbers for our efforts. Again, none of them seem super solid, but at least they were interested enough to see us again.
We had a lot of a fun thing we call "bashing" this week. I'm not a particularly big fan of having "discussions" about the scriptures. In my experience, there is no amount of scriptures or logical arguments or discussion that will change anyone's mind about religion. Elder Vargas however, is very, very good at it and enjoys doing it a quite a bit. The other day while we were knocking, we knocked into these three young African guys who invited us in. They proceeded to ask us a bunch of questions about why snakes don't eat dust if the Bible says they should, and how we can know if the Bible is being metaphorical or literal. They were very intent on the Bible containing the whole truth of everything, and very much weren't interested in the idea of an open scriptural cannon.
Yesterday we had a similar experience with another lady, but this time we brought a member named Frère Morin for backup. He is also incredibly gifted with explaining the Gospel very well and just getting along with people. Elder Vargas and I pretty much just sat and watched Frère Morin try to explain the need for a restoration and everything like that, while she tried to rebut and reject what he was saying. It was a very long discussion, and went pretty much nowhere in the end. She was very much not interested in listening to what we had to say.
All in all, my opinion on bashing really hasn't changed. Sometimes it's nice to at least just talk to someone, but nothing really happens.
We had a district activity last P-Day, but there was a torrential downpour at the last minute, so we had to scrub our hike. We instead just hung out in the church, made Latino food, and played soccer and basketball in the gym. It was enjoyable overall. However, I didn't take any pictures because there wasn't anything too interesting. I've taken probably about 5 pictures total this transfer. I'll take some boring ones this week, just for kicks.
Love you all,
Elder Hadden
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