Dasara

October 17, 2016

Hey y'all,

Not too much happened this week because of Dasara, Which is like the "goddess" holiday or something. Its kinda like Ganesh Festival but for girls. Its really hard to explain India, I myself cant explain somethings here, even when Im watching them do it. All our investigators were in the "villages" this week. When they say village I believe that means wherever they grew up, or where the majority of their family lives. 

This week we basically visited less actives, and members. The Batula kids sadly wont be baptized on Sunday, and David has plans to move back to his village next month. At church a guy named Anand came in and wanted us to teach him about Jesus Christ. Well he tells us he is Atheist and it blows his mind to the fact that we believe there will be life after this life on earth. He was born Hindu and when I asked him when he became Atheist he said "When I started thinking". He said religion is crap and his goal is to "Kill religion". I thought that was interesting and told him he basically made his own religion that Quote believes in "killing religion". He is a very smart man, and said we are not qualified to teach because we have read the other religious books, such as the Koran or Torah) and because of that we are in darkness. He said he read the Koran and thought it was a waste of his time, and then read the BEGINNING of the Bible, and stopped reading and thought it was also a waste. I told him he too isn't qualified to go to Christian churches and discuss religion and try to "kill it" if he hasnt read the bible and he too would be in darkness. Our conversation was very interesting, it wasn't bashful by any means, this guy is very logical and the basic doctrine of the Christian religion isn't logical to him, I tried to help him realize that the stuff in the Bible isn'l worldly, and he has to think spiritually and that God doesnt have to follow the "rules" or the world and the science that goes with that. Turns out he met with Elder Pereira when he was serving here, and Anand wants to hear more about our believes. He seems like an interesting guy and the lesson with him had more excitment than my normal lessons with investigators. Lessons are more enjoying when people ask questions. I also when on an exchange with Elder Conrad and that was a lot of fun, it could possibly be the last one! We had a great time and ate Mcdonalds.

Love,

Elder Magnusson​