Christian shared a "first" in one of his recent emails.
I also had my first, eh...spiritual debate, if you will. An older man answered one of the doors we knocked and stepped outside and said that he was really glad we had stopped by, and wanted to talk with us. After hours and hours of tracting without any success, this certainly seemed like the opportunity we had been waiting for, until he continued and said, "I used to be a Mormon, until I studied science. Now, I know that you and the Jehova's Witnesses are just the craziest people out there." And thus he proceded to explain why we were crazy and brainwashed and that religion didn't do anyone any good (and yet he said that we all need to learn to love one another--was this not Jesus' great commandment, the basic principle behind all of His teachings?). He told us that he believed in science because it was fact (though in truth much of it is just ideas that haven't yet been proven wrong) and that we believed in crazy magic (while, of course, a brief study of the history of science will prove that magic is nothing more than that which science can not yet explain). I was, somehow, able to refrain from actual making any debate with him--which is why I had to throw all my points into this email, just so I can get them out!--and instead simply bore my testimony that all the studying in the world of man's knowledge could not compare to the simple yet powerful witness that I had received from the Spirit of God that our message was true. Granted, this didn't make much of an impact on him, but it was all in all a really interesting experience, and I can see how much worse it would have gotten had we tried to actually debate our point.
As hard as he works, it seems that there is still time for some fun and typical goofy guy stuff. Christian finally sent pictures our way, so here are some from the last several months.
It has been so awesome hearing from Christian and hearing about all of his experiences! He sure is making us proud.
