Week #10 - Salton City - San Bernardino, CA Mission

Well this week has been very interesting and long. We have been teaching and traveling a lot. This week had a zone conference so we had to wake up 5:30 in the morning so that we could make it to the conference.  We then drove back and had barely enough time to do some studies before going to teach another lesson.

This week has been interesting because we've had some curveballs thrown at us through out the week. First of all, one of the people we are teaching asked us about polygamy. This caught us off guard because we were ready to teach about the Gospel of Jesus Christ. I'll also admit that this was the first time I've been asked that in the mission. No one in Peru ever asked me about polygamy. Most of the concerns were about accepting the Book of Mormon and Joseph Smith because though they are mentioned in the Bible, they are not referred to by their names. My companions were also surprised so it was kind of all over the place in trying to answer her.

Another curveball that was thrown at us was with another one of the people we were teaching. We went over the baptismal questions with him. Afterwards, he said that he felt that one of the baptismal questions was too probing and that it was wrong to ask people if they had committed serious sins. He also made the point that people can just lie. I've never had any one with that concern, either. We tried our best to help him resolve it. We explained  that the baptismal interview questions are Thankfully, we have a good relationship with him and hopefully the spirit can testify that those questions were set by prophets to help people be prepared to make the baptismal covenants.

We also ate out at wingstop today for P-day. They had some cool pictures of the P-51 Mustang

Love you guys!

Elder Green