September 12, 2011

as far as adventures, this last week we ate at a members home from nigeria.
 they fed us their traditional food. the meal was of fried fish, a HUGE bowl 
of custard, and this strange bean bread. they make the bread by cooking
 these beans, then they skin the beans, then they grind them down to a paste 
and make a dough. then they deep fry the dough to make bread. being a missionary 
is a challenge sometimes, especially when they dish the food for you. they 
gave us two plates heaping with food, and then a bowl of custard on top of 
that. the bean bread (called "akara") was super spicy because they put
chilies in it. otherwise it was ok. my faith in prayer grew because i had to
 pray to get all of it down. that meal was on monday, then the rest of the
 week i was a little ill. 

so this week was strange.
 we did have a monumental lesson last night, for any of you who know who 
ellen white is, you will know that she is the founder for the seventh day
adventist church. we were in a lesson with two investigators who are getting
 baptized on the 23rd of sep. we asked how their praying is going, they said
 they know joseph smith was a prophet. then we started to discuss their
 baptism. one of them is an sda, the other is a muslim. the sda asked us a 
question that related to the priesthood authority. we asked him if he
 believed the power and authority of the priesthood was restored by the
prophet joseph smith in these last days? he answered that he had no doubt
 about that, but he also thinks that ellen white restored the priesthood as 
well. then he began to tell us her story. the muslim in the meantime was
 sitting back sort of chuckling, then when the time was right, he added his 
story about mohamad! can you say confusing? my question is, who would win, 
ellen white, mohamad, or joseph smith? the muslim was just adding
 information, he doesn't believe in islam anymore and is converted, but the
 sda, he is still working on his testimony. he'll come around.

 

in the meantime, keep praying for our investigators! love all of you, have a
 super week and just so you know, the answer to the previous question is 
obvious, joseph smith would win because he was a true prophet called of god
 in these last days, he restored the priesthood, and translated the book of 
mormon.

 this church is true.

 

love you again,


sister blum