Elder Will Murdoch-Ft. Worth Texas Mission

Anti'd: A few weeks ago this guy just showed up to church and we were pretty excited about that because people just don't show up to church. We started teaching him and he had already read all of the standard works which was really cool and my companion and the other Elder we were on a trio exchange with were really wowed by that and thought he was super solid but I was a little wary. Something was just a little off about all this. A weeks went by and we weren't able to meet with him but this week on exchange with Elder Galmeister we went back and before hand I had prepared a little bit but I wasn't sure what to expect. We went in and after we exchanged pleasantries he threw a fat stack of anti-Mormon material at us. Most of it was garbage, a bunch of blatant lies and half-baked arguments some of the stuff he threw at us I didn't know about and I was caught off guard. His source was some dubious .net site or something. He asked me how in the world I cou...

We grinded all week trying to find more people to teach and we found a couple but we also found a lot of people that would rather have us out of Fort Worth. We were walking to contact this one guy and we saw this other guy wearing some sort of fez I knew that talking to this guy would probably take a good chunk out of our afternoon but we tried to give him a card anyway. He said he didn't want it but then sucked in a breath and walked towards us and proceeded to preach from his sidewalk about how Donald Trump is spoken of in the Qur'an and how he's going to cage us in America. Then of course he talked about race for a good 20 minutes while we tried to leave but he just kept talking. He told us we could be cleansed from sin by our works and we objected but he kept going. He ended by talking about the pyramids in "Ethiopia" and how he has a box set of DVDs that explain how they predict the end of the world and how African technology far exceeded anything that exists...

This week went by super quick but here are a few highlights: This one guy just showed up to church out if the blue and although he wasn't a member knew a bucketload about the church and the gospel and wanted us to come over to "answer some questions." He was really nice but I kind of thought it was a trap. Typically when people randomly ask questions we get hit with a fat stack of anti. We went to his house on Wednesday and he revealed he knew even more about the gospel and started asking some super deep questions that I never really thought/cared about but Elder Thueson who was in a trio with us that day and loves deep doctrine was answering all his questions.  We also went on exchange with the assistants this week, Elder Christensen and I tried to go to a college campus but we forgot it was the Friday before spring break so no one was there. We had one good contact but everyone else in the sparsely populated campus was not super into it. We met these two ...

Texas doesn't usually get cold but every once in a while it'll drop to the 20s and this week was one of those once in a whiles. It was nice just a few weeks ago and the temperature should rise by Thursday. I know 20 degrees isn't that cold but no one that comes to Texas (myself included) brought many warm clothes. We did meet a lot of cool people on the TCC campus (we can't prosecute on TCU so we go tk the local community college TCC instead) we talked to one girl walking to her car and she decided to sit down with us and asked us a ton of questions. College kids rarely give you the time of day so to actually sit down with one who was a complete stranger to us was crazy awesome. She asked the traditional questions about polygamy and blood atonement and all the other rumors that get passed around she kind of knew about the 116 page manuscript which no one knows about outside of the church. She wasn't interested in taking the discussions at first but as we talked s...