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| Sister Jarvie and her companion Sister Au-Yeung Sister A-Y speaks four languages fluently! |
This week was kind of slow but a couple of interesting things
happened. So we have been really used to the square being slow lately but all
of a sudden a few days ago, all the phones were ringing to ask if there were
sisters there to give tours! So we had just finished a tour with these two
super cute ladies from China. One of their names was Potato; I love the English
names Asians choose. They're the best. Anyways, they both referred AND wanted
copies of the Book of Mormon!! Whenever people from mainland China come to the
Square and want to refer, all we can do is get all of their information and ONE
copy of the Book of Mormon each. Obviously, we can't send missionaries or call
them because that country hasn't opened up yet. They were so great! Hopefully they will read the Book of Mormon!
So, we had just finished evaluating and Sister Sukbaartaar asked
if we could take a group on a tour. So we meet them and they are obviously not
members, but they have their Bibles with them and one of them has a quad... You
guessed it... An anti-mormon group. Anyways, they were actually super nice and
seemed open to sincerely learning. But they had the standard questions that
these groups usually come here with. So it turns out that it was a huge group
visiting from a World Religions university class that was studying Mormonism. Sister Gilbert’s group was
TOTALLY anti but she is going to forward me that story soon. So maybe there
will be more on that next week. So, it is always funny and sad to talk to
anti's at the square.
Oh, and the guy from the Bahamas who was baptized last
week? All 4 of his daughters are now investigating
the Church! Yay!
Love you all!
Sister Jarvie
Xoxoxo
CTR
oh, I just
got Sister Gilbert’s anti-mormon tour group story—here it is:
Here is a
great “Sisters Encounter Anti’s On Temple Square” to show you what we often face
here at Church Headquarters. It happened
this week to Sister Gilbert!
From
Sister Steffany Gilbert of New York—
Story of
the week is when I pulled a total Abinadi in front of 4 anti-Mormon kids. They
were my age, visiting from La Mirada actually!, and asked for a tour.
Immediately we knew it was sketchy when the boy was holding a very LDS looking
bible, but was clearly not LDS. So he introduces himself and the 3 girls with
him as students from an evangelist Christian school coming to share the
"joy of Christ" with others. (Clearly, our faith only.) We begin the
tour and I felt icky inside because of their fake friendliness and how they
inched their way into telling us we were wrong, in a "nice" way of
course. It wasn't my first run-in with antis, I have been out here on the
square for 100 years you know, but it made me mad when they would try to
separate my companion and I as one of their tactics to convert us. So I started
being a little sarcastic and felt myself being rude. I knew at some point this
tour had to end because they were completely wasting our time. After Sister
Kemp quoted the Bible to the boy as he tried to open his scriptures, a girl
"bore her testimony" about how she knew the Book of Mormon and
Doctrine and Covenants (red flag, girlfriend!) wasn't true and I was DONE! I
prayed for the ability to shut them down...in a Christ-like manner...and here
is what I can recall saying...."We appreciate your faith in Jesus Christ,
but we can't continue this tour. I know what you're doing and I don't
appreciate you coming here to try and combat our beliefs. We believe in Jesus
Christ, the Son of God, so you don't need to do this." Then the boy
ringleader pipes up with, "We aren't trying to combat your beliefs, only
to share the Bible and Chr..." and then I responded "We would never
come to your church and do this to you, so I do not understand why you come
here to do this to us. We respect your belief in Christ, but every missionary
here knows what you are doing. What we share is true. I live 10 minutes from
the Hill Cumorah and I know how this works!" BAM. Shut. Down. Then the boy
once AGAIN has the nerve to speak and asks us if he can pray for us at that
moment and I told him they could go pray for us somewhere else but not with us
on Temple Square. Moral of the story: the SPIRIT rocks, ANTIs DO NOT.
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