Sunday Evening Fight Night

Well, we didn’t really have an out of the water week, but it was still good! Lots of being locked inside because the  P O L A R   V O R T E X  is ripping through OK, and they’re telling all of us to stay inside. All I’m saying is that a “real feel” of -25 isn’t enough to stop the greatest work on planet earth. And it doesn’t, because we just work from inside now. The only problem is, we haven’t been able to get a hold of about half the people we usually talk to this week, so that’s unfortunate. But the work never stops.

As far as things that have happened, the most exciting was this Sunday. Last week I talked a little about the Free Book of Mormon post we threw up, and we decided to give it another shot on Sunday! It had been a full week, the weather was so delightful, and we optimistically posted it on Facebook.

Not even three minutes later we had the first comment:

“Still trying to give away this trash?”

And instantly we knew: It was gonna be a good night. Well, after this challenger entered the ring, he rallied his other bashing friends on their “Bash the Mormons” group chat, and the comments started raging. As missionaries, and just as decent human beings, we respond to all the comments as kindly and patiently as possible. Now, we might have been standing up and laughing about the comments people made, but they didn’t know that. Anyway, we were in the ring, elbow-blocking these chumps, as they threw around some of the most oddly specific threats and insults I have ever heard.

“Joseph Smith was a snake oil salesman”
What does that even mean???? Who’s going around selling snake oil???? Because Joseph Smith wasn’t…

“I hope the law crushes you”
Oh yes, THE LAW is coming to piledrive me into the sidewalk.

I hope you read those with my confused and sarcastic tone of voice in your head, because that’s precisely how we talked about those questions to each other. After a little bit of this, the main bashing guy (we’ll call him Steve) just got DROP KICKED (metaphorically) by this random lady in the comments, who responded to something he said with, “You’re being SO RUDE. They’re just offering a book.” I would’ve thought that such a comment would silence this man, but he didn’t even flinch. He backed up his actions, claiming that it was his “duty as a good Christian” to set us straight.

And then another random lady just gave him a finishing uppercut after that one, saying, “You really aren’t being a good Christian.”

OH MAN, I thought Steve had been knocked out of the ring for good. But the tenacity of that man’s ego was a sight to behold. I genuinely believe that his mind was INCAPABLE of even grasping the idea that he MIGHT be wrong.

But no.

He tried to prove his self righteousness with some of the most unrighteous language I’ve ever seen. And pretty soon, the battle was no longer against us. We were literally just watching comment after comment come in, as we read them out loud and freaked out when Steve got kneecapped for the fourth time in a row. It was the bashers against the “First Amendment advocates” (as I call them). They weren’t saying our religion was right or anything, but they were just telling the bash boys that they were being really disrespectful. And as the fire raged ever brighter, I saw some of the most petty things being said. Like, one of the basher ladies called somebody out for a SPELLING ERROR. Wow. It was a

C U T
T H R O A T
C O M M E N T
S E C T I O N

And at one point, Elder Grace (whose first name is Summit) got called “Summer”, so that was a good time.

Oh sweet biscuits and gravy. It only lasted about an hour and a half, but it was so fun. The post got ripped down and we got blocked from the group, but once a new missionary comes in here (to replace me), that comment section might just light up again.

Wow, those comments were stellar, I can’t do them justice in this email, but know that they were amazing.

Other than that though, nothing really noteworthy happened.

Hope everyone is staying warm, and enjoy this great month!

The 18th is coming up sooo….

THE RAFFLE:

Over and Out

SHOUTOUTS:

  • My Parents – Wow, I’m lucky to have such wonderful parents. They do so much for me. No wonder commandment number 5 exists (It’s “Honor thy father and thy mother”)

Pics:

  • It’s never too cold to do the work of the good Lord