Hello everyone,

 

So this past week was busy man we had a lot to do!  We had to set up and take down for the fair!  We had to make sure each district in the zone new when to get to the fair, who they were staying with that night and how long they were gonna be there!  All in all I believe the fair turned out to be a great thing!  we had a lot of supplies there pictures of the savior, book of Mormons (English, Spanish, and Navajo) We had pamphlets and a referral paper!  It worked out really well toward the end of the fair we had the process down!  The way I found the most success is taking around the pass along card that shows Jesus appearing in the Americas to the nephites and I would just ask people if they wanted a picture of Jesus!  Of course they do everyone loves Jesus!  Then when they took the card I would start introducing the book of Mormon to them and telling them how Jesus Christ visited the Americas as well as jeruselum then we would say we would love to come visit you sometime and tell you a little bit more about it!  It went great we got a lot of people to sign up and it looks like we will have a lot of success from it!  There was one day at the fair that this lady come up to us and immediately she didn't look too happy!  She slammed this paper down on the table and told us she was a Baptist preachers wife who was here to prove us wrong! haha It kind of just cracked us up!  She started into this anti Mormon stuff that she found on the internet!  I was very impressed with our missionaries that were there none of them raised there voice none of them argued back we just testified to the lady that if she would read the book of Mormon she would know it to be true as well!  She didn't like it too much and she stormed off!  It just goes to show when your out there trying to do something good someone or something always has to try to come ruin it!  Im glad we didn't argue with her I have noticed on my mission one thing if your going to bible bash with someone it does absolutely no good both people are just going to walk away mad thinking they won and that the other is wrong and that doesn't do any good!  We ended the fair and had a great time doing it!  We had a couple tender mercies of the lord there (fair food,  cool booths everyone, and country music playing in the background!  haha which we didn't listen too)  :) It turned out to be great!  Me and Elder Gnehm had to meet with both stake presidents in our zone and tell them how the work is going in there stakes this week as well too!  That is always a big process we have to fill out a lot of paperwork for the stake presidents!  So its just nice to be able to sit back now and know that those things are done!  Im greatfull for the opportunity to be out here Things have been great and they are only going up from here!  Love you all take care!

 

Elder Rushton