We were knocking in an apartment complex earlier this week when we came across a door that had some interestingly sweet smells coming from the inside. We knocked the door and within moments a
pale, dreadlocked man emerged with a cat in his arms and dinner plate sized pupils. He was wearing wooden necklaces with weird stones in them that he later described as meditation necklaces. He introduced himself as "Noah's Arts" and I knew we were in for a truly edifying conversation.
We asked how he was and he replied "Blessed"
We asked if he had ever talked to missionaries and he said: "Yeah I blessed them".
He was a happy guy who talked to us about what he believed. He talked about how Light is all we need and said: 'Eventually when you get living righteous enough, you can transmute your diet so you don't have to slaughter beings or eat plants, you can just live off of sunlight.
He told us that we were God's, and he told us that he was a God, because we were all living in the "Christ Consciousness." Surprisingly he had a lot of similar believes as us, and when he started telling us that he believed our bodies were blessings from god and that we should take care of them we talked a little about the word of wisdom. He talked about how fasting is a righteous act and we told him about Fasting and Praying. Some other stuff lined up, and after we finished explaining our beliefs his eyes somehow got wider and he said 'Wow, yall dope" and invited us to his recording studio so we could hear him composing some Conscious Hip Hop and also told us where we could get meditation necklaces. I think the only place you could have a similar conversation would be at a poetry slam in a sweat lodge or something
Also this week we had an awesome lesson with two cousins who live with a member named Daniel and Charlie. It went really well and they came to church for all 3 hours. I was very nervous to take them to elders quorum, due to the frequency of shouting matches and off the wall political comments. When we got in there we sat down together and they played the talk by Tad R Callister about the Book of Mormon and opened up the discussion do the group. Almost instantly, one of the grumpiest elders started referencing old testament prophecies and steadily increased in volume until he found himself yelling about Isaiah. I was not super encouraged. The discussion progressed and digressed until Daniel, our investigator, raised his hand and asked about what he needed to do to be baptized. The pack of angry old men near instantly quieted down and worked together to answer his question. The spirit came in like a tidal wave and testified of everything the members were saying about baptism. Us missionaries sat back and watched the members swoop in and teach our investigators. Later that day they accepted a baptismal date and now they're on track to be baptized and we're going to see them tonight.
I love you all and hope you have a good week!
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