This week was pretty eventful so I'll get started.
On Tuesday we went door knocking in Bishop's Falls which is a town about 15 minutes away from Grand Falls. We knocked on this door and a lady named Julia answered and she let us in. She disappeared into the back of her house and grabbed her Bible. My companions and I looked at each other and we knew that she wanted to "Bible bash" with us. So we sat there and listened to her rip on us for about an hour and half. The whole time we just smiled and laughed, but in a respectful way. We would try to defend ourselves and she wouldn't even let us talk. She was basically just telling us that we were such cute boys and how she's depressed that we're going to hell and how we all should become Pentecostals. She and her sister asked if she could pray with/for us and we said yes. So they grabbed our hands and started praying for our salvation hahaha. They were bawling and shouting "hallelujah" and "praise Jesus". So after listening to her rant for almost 2 hours (!!!!!!), she said how she was sorry for ranting and she invited us over for a Canadian Thanksgiving dinner this weekend (FYI, Canadian Thanksgiving is in October and not in November). So we ended up eating dinner at her house Saturday night! It was just a really strange situation but it was fun.
Then on Thursday night, we were out knocking and a man answered and told us how he and a few members from his church were having a Bible study and it just barely started. So they kindly let us in and we were able to study with them. It was really fun and the people were really nice. It was refreshing considering what had gone on earlier with the other lady. I think we're gonna go back and study with them this week too!
On Friday, we went knocking in a town about 30 minutes away from Grand falls. Some guy let us in and wanted to bash with us, just like the other lady. He told us how none of the religions are true and how he's starting a new religion. His new religion basically just follows the Law of Moses. He also told us that we're cursed because we celebrate Christmas, and how Christmas was established to worship Pagan sun Gods. So that was cool!
Elder Larson was telling me how he had bashed as much this week as he had during his whole entire mission up to this point. We all started commenting as I've experienced more bashing sessions than actual restoration lessons. The bashing isn't really common but my companions say that it'll happen every once and a while.
Further up that same street, we knocked and a lady let us in. She was really sweet and she told us how she always tries to be welcoming to people out sharing the word of God. We taught her a restoration lesson and left her with a Book of Mormon and a first vision DVD. We told her we'd be back in town later this week and she told us to come stop by. So hopefully we can keep teaching her and hopefully she reads!!
So that's about it! Things are starting to pick up and the weeks are going by quick!
Love and miss you all!
Elder Haslam
Images on our way to Bishop Falls:
