On Tuesday I met another one of the original Biola Utah Missions guys, he is legit and currently at Talbot and wants to help out with prep for our next trip however he can. Ok God.
Then later that night, my buddy Joe ran over and grabbed me saying something about lacrosse. Turns out there was a high school kid who played and wanted to talk with me about the sport. I laughed because 1) Im terrible at lacrosse and 2) I only played for a few months... but ok God, sure open door, go through? We ended up talking/hanging out with this young man for about four hours, we hung out again Wednesday night, we are hanging out Thursday night, and Friday... oh and he wants to come hang out at Biola when he goes to Disneyland with his family next year... Ok God.
Additionally, Joe and I drove up to Salt Lake on Wednesday to spend time with our Conference Center friend (tour guide). We met up in the Joseph Smith Memorial Building and found a place to sit and talk (this was at 11:00am). He started right off by asking us what Bible verse was most important to each of us... no small question. I started to freak out, in the midst of my freaking out God, as He always does, pulled through. As my dear Mormon friend handed me his quad, I turned to Romans 3 and read to him from the King James text these lines:
19Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.20Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.21But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets;22Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference:23For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;24Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:25Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;26To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.27Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith.28Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law.
He then went on to ask about the nature of the Trinity, the place of works in our faith, how we show love to Christ, and honestly nearly every other doctrinal/theological topic you could imagine. It was great. Joe and I were totally blown away by his openness and genuine desire to share and learn.
After lunch we figured it would be time for us to go... but he wanted to keep talking with us! We went for a drive out of the city up a beautiful canyon on the Eastern side of the Salt Lake valley. By the time we were done talking and had made it back to my car it was 6:00pm! The day was absolutely crazy awesome.
Please continue to pray for the conversations that will be taking place at the Manti pageant over the next three days as well as for continued relationship building opportunities! Thank you so much for your support dear friends!
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