Hispanics, Scientology and Underwear

Español:

While tracting through the area most people I talk to have never heard of The Book of Mormon, or they ay leasr pretend they havent. One day we knocked on this door and a woman answered in a heavy accent she said, "Sorry, no English" I saw this as a perfect opportunity to try and speak some Spanish and I said (in probably not very good Spanish), "We're missionaries from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints." A look of understanding appeared on her face, "Oh, si, Los Mormones." We were really happy she knew who we were and we gave her a number to call so she could speak with someone. This happened about 6 other times that day, most of the time I wouldn't even finish speaking and they would say "Si, Los Mormones" and now it happens at least once a day and for some weird reason, Hispanic people are the only people who know who we are.

Scientology:

We were tracting a few days ago and out of the blue this car pulled up next to us and rolled down their window. I took a few steps back before I realized the woman inside the car was shouting something at us.

"Are y'all Scientologists!?" She shouted laughing at us

"No, we're Mormons!" I shouted back, also laughing

"You've heard about it though right? Scientology, I mean." 

At this point I could barely control my laughter, I composed myself and said, "Yeah, it's got Tom Cruise and all that jazz" 

The woman laughed as loud as possible, then began cackling like the Wicked Witch of The West and drove off.

I thought it was funny, Elder Rowley did not.

Underwear:

(Im not entirely sure if this next story is appropriate or not)

We've been teaching this family recently, and they've been super accepting of everything and we even set some baptism dates for a few of them. The only problem is they have other very anti-Mormon family members. They were fed a 

lot of bad information and so they looked everything up online. When they said this I started panicking they brought up a lot of things that weren't true and that they didn't believe any of that. Then they brought of polygamy. At this point I thought all was lost. We told them that had been a thing and they didn't care. Like, at all. 

Then the husband said, "Look, I don't care about all that. What I want to know is if your underwear is magic or not."

We were kind of confused but then we realized they were talking about garments.  

We laughed and explained what we could to them, we tied that in to the temp,e and we told them that after they were baptized they could go to the temple and do baptism for the dead and everyone in the family was very excited about that. So crisis averted... I guess.

Love y'all,

Elder Murdoch 

(Yes I know my hairline is receding)