This week was pretty interesting. For some reason we came across a lot of preachers this week from a bunch of different churches. They come up to us and start asking us questions like they are interested, then we set up an appointment with them and then when we finally get the chance to teach them...BANG.. they start throwing out a bunch of questions and then they tell us all about their church and about how we are wrong. Elder David my companion happens to be very knowledgeable in the Bible and fluent in Tagalog so that helps haha. At the end of the day all we can really do is testify to them because if we start arguing with them the spirit goes away and it is pointless to teach without the spirit.
One of the people we tried to teach was a preacher for the Kingdom of Jesus Christ church. They believe that a guy named Quiboloy is the "appointed son of god" and that jesus' spirit is in his body...weird. They also believe in only one god. SO after and hour of him telling us about his faith we started asking him about all the verses in the bible that mention the father and the son. Of course there was no progress but I did have some good laughs while he was trying to explain the doctrine to us. Long story short we left and now he texts us bible verses every morning so we can be "spiritually filled" every day. Awesome.
The other man was a preacher for the message of christ church. His big concern was: "what was gods name before he became god?" We both kinda looked at him for a couple seconds and than tried to explain that we dont know but we then told him all the names we could think of that explain our Father in Heaven. Long story short he got up and walked out of the room while i was reciting the first vision and we had no idea where he went. After like 5 minutes of us sitting in his house with no people there we decided to leave, and maybe not come back.
Someone came up to us this week in the street with to big sign that said "The Church of Mary Christ of Latter Day Saints". We started to ask him about the signs and he said it was the mormon church. we tried to explain to him that it was the wrong name and than he said that his son Nephi gave him the Melchizedek priesthood and that mormon was going to meet with him later that day at his house......I had no words. I couldnt help but bust up laughing. I asked who Mary was and he said "Joseph Smiths wife, of course. I should have known that.
So yeah this week was very interesting and it made me realize just how many churches there are in the world. It makes me feel really lucky that I am part of the true one, and that I do not have to rely on a preacher or a bishop telling me what is and what is not true I can ask God and receive revelation for myself. I know with all my heart the The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints is the one true church upon the whole face of the earth. That we have a Father in Heaven who loves us and sent us his son Jesus Christ to the world for us. I know that the Book of Mormon is true and that Joseph Smith is a true prophet. If you do not have a testimony of these things yet...please do what it takes to get one.
I love you all and hope you all have a great week!!!!!!!! Also on march 6th I have been in the field for 6 months!
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Elder Hunter Munk
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