Monday night we drove down to Fredericksburg for exchanges and were there all day Tuesday and Wednesday.
Tuesday was awesome, got go spend all day tabling(set up a table with a poster and a few other things) on UMW's campus, stopping random students as they walk past. I talked to a couple really awesome people and handed our a ton of BOM's with the other missionaries there, later that day we had a lesson with someone that I found on the last exchange with these Elders, shes on date now which is awesome! During the lesson, which was in one of the buildings on campus, this girl was just eyeballing us the whole time and right after we were done she came up and asked to talk with us. I guess they had given her a BOM a week or so before, anyway she just started bashing hard core, she's studying anthropology, so you know she kept saying how there is no evidence to substantiate our claims blah blah blah, eventually she started saying how when Nephi asked the Lord to give him strengthen according to his faith in God to break his bands that he was bound with, she said that he prayed wrong cause you can only pray according to the faith God has in you, not the faith you have in God. That's news to me I guess. But she was crazy Haha.
Wednesday, one of the Elders we were on exchanges with had a hernia and had surgery for it on Wednesday, so most of the day was spent in the hospital, waiting for him to be thru with surgery. We did (I did) get to talk to the doctors and nurses and ask them lots of questions during the pre-op, so I loved that. At the end of the day we had Interviews with President Smith, which were great, then we drove back to Culpeper.
Saturday was exchanges again with the Piedmont Elders in my district, it was a good day, lots of door knocking, they other set did find a new person for us to teach though, so that was a huge miracle. Sunday we knocked doors all afternoon in the rain. People kept telling us to stay dry Haha, it'd be a lot dryer if you let us in that's for sure lol.
Thought for this week- Jacob 4:4-5
The crazy girl was all caught up on how Nephi was writing during old testament times but kept talking about Christ and his resurrection. She was baffled how the Old Testament wasn't as clear as the BOM and therefore it must've been written by Joseph Smith lol. Another testimony to me of the truthfulness of the Book and how it truly does clarify and expound upon the things we know in the bible.
P.S. transfer calls are this Saturday so I'll find out then if I stay or not.
4 For, for this intent have we written these things, that they may know that we knew of Christ, and we had a hope of his glory many hundred years before his coming; and not only we ourselves had a hope of his glory, but also all the holy prophets which were before us.
5 Behold, they believed in Christ and worshiped the Father in his name, and also we worship the Father in his name. And for this intent we keep the law of Moses, it pointing our souls to him; and for this cause it is sanctified unto us for righteousness, even as it was accounted unto Abraham in the wilderness to be obedient unto the commands of God in offering up his son Isaac, which is a similitude of God and his Only Begotten Son.
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