"Easters"

It´s funny you talked about being pagan at Easter, Mom, cuz that´s what we were called just the other day. allow me to explain.

So we were headed to a house of a girl we had been teaching, and she´d already been to church twice, so we thought it might be a good idea to teach her, and all that, but when we got there her Mom answered the door, and wow... she wasn´t happy. She goes to a church called *the tabernacle of Faith* and started a barrage of all her beliefs and how all ours are wrong. Here´s how it went:

1. Our baptism is wrong cuz we do it in the name of the father, and the son and the holy ghost. but the godhead is just one person, with three duties. not *three persons in one like the Catholics believe* and not *3 different people like you pagans believe* just one person, with three jobs. you should only baptize in the name of Jesus Christ, duh.

2. We are antichrists because we believe in another scripture besides the bible.

3. We´re ignorant because we don´t read the bible all the way through once a month.

4. We´re ignorant because OBVIOUSLY Melchizedek is just another name for God, so god came to the earth once before with the name Melchizedek.

5. There will be a 3rd coming of Christ.

6. The fact that Steven saw *Christ on the right hand of god* is just an idea I made up.

Pretty much these last days me and elder erickson have been making fun of her for being so....so...."misinformed". She was way angry at us cuz her daughter had been going to our church and reading the book of Mormon instead of the bible, she´s just scared of the truth.

Anyways, talking about apostasy, IO found an old book in our house the other day. It´s entitled *what does the bible REALLY teach?* It´s a book from the jehova´s witnesses, so we spent a few minutes during study time to read a bit, and this is what we have learned:

1. Michael is Jesus Christ
2. Blood transfusions are forbidden by god
3. Christmas, Easter, Halloween, and birthdays are evil and should be shunned
4. Rebellious angels left the presence of god and came down to earth, and had children with the people here, and that´s why god sent the great flood. And that´s also why there were giants.
5. In 1914 Jesus finally became king of heaven and that´s when the *great war in heaven* happened
6. The star that led the 3 wise men to Jesus was the devil.

It´s bad to laugh at other peoples beliefs, but it was hard for us to resist.

Yeah, the other day we met a guy in the street, who was already reading the book of Mormon, and wanted us to help him out to learn more about the Jews, so we willingly passed by his house later, and his wife gave us a book that he had left for us, along with a note asking us to translate certain parts. The book is the encyclopedia Britannica and he wants us to translate a whole 5 pages of it or so. Good luck to us.

So yeah, this week we decided to to a division with one of our district leaders who is suffering because of all the crappy companions he has had, so i brought his slacker companion here to my area, it wasn´t too bad, we actually accomplished more that we normally get done on a normal work day, so that was good, but then I realized that elder erickson still had the keys to our house with him, so I had to call Elder Van Zeben (or Elder Harry Potter as the members call him) and arrange an emergency sleepover. And in the morning, I was surprised to find out that the only one following the morning routine, and doing exercises was... me. Of course, so I got "very angry", I started yelling at all three of them telling them to get off their fat butts and do something with their lives. So I was relieved that morning, to finally return this terrible missionary to his rightful companion. how sad. I don´t know why president hasn´t sent him home yet.

We taught a couple pretty awesome girls yesterday, we were visiting a recent convert, and she has two nieces living with her, so we taught them the first lesson, and during the prayer as we were all kneeling down, the one that was doing the prayer started crying, then the recent convert, so that was AWESOME!

Anyways, I sent off Mariah´s letter, so that should be getting home sometime.
Easter really isn´t that big here, just a bunch of chocolate eggs in the store, all the stores are closed, and all the churches packed full of screaming, jumping, rolling people.

But that´s about it that´s happened this week. we´re running after just about anybody that can be baptized this last Saturday of the month.. ugh, how nerve-wrecking. There are a number of things adding to my frustration, but that´s best left for another time.

*Brigham young headed west in his bullet-proof vest*
LOVE YOU ALL!!
Elder Webber