Rejected by tons of people as we knocked their doors and invited them to learn about the blessings Christ can bring to everyone. Rejected as we tried to chat with people on the street. Rejected by slammed doors. Rejected by people waving us off with their hands. Rejected by old people. Rejected by a 6 year old who wouldn't even look at us. Rejected by Buddhists. Rejected by Catholics. Rejected by Mormons.
Luckily my companion and I were able to laugh through the rejection (although we were a little sad that all those people are missing out on the blessings of the everlasting gospel of Christ). The worst rejection was when someone was excited to read the book of Mormon then when we met with her, spent the whole time telling us about how Joseph Smith was a fraud and she told us how we're wasting our time and we're under the influence of Satan -___- I was like, it's ok to reject us. It happens every day. But at least reject with respect.
Funniest rejection: We were going through the list for our church ward/congregation and found someone who we didn't know so we called, the number was kong hao (not a real phone number? I don't know how to say it in English.) so we decided to visit their house. We went and rang the doorbell. A girl came to the door, said oh, then said she'd get her mom. We wait for 5 minutes and no one came. So we rang the doorbell again and waited while my companion, Sister Eley, was playing with their dog. After about a minute or two, we hear an adult man on the phone calling the cops on two Wai Guo Ren (foreigners) and so we ran out the gate and jumped on our bikes (my bike basket was broken from falling down in the rain) and my basket tipped over and was held on by one zip tie as we biked away as fast as we could. Hahaha, fun times.
And a lot of times we like to have members come with us to do missionary work, it is more effective and they get blessings, but a lot of them say they're too busy to come with us (I believe that a lot of people are busy). So our Elders always say, "If you won't help us ____ (knock doors, work, contact, teach lessons), we'll baptize someone who will!" And the person who was baptized last week did that with us this week! She came in the freezing cold rain for 1.5 hours to knock doors and I felt kind of bad because we didn't have that much success, but afterward she said she wants to come with us after church every Sunday to do missionary work! So cool!
I love you all and hope that your week was as full of sumptuous food as mine was and filled with less time outside in the cold rain.
Love,
Sister Perkins
ps. I'm sorry if this sounds complain-y, I don't feel complain-y in my heart. We worked hard this past week and God blessed us with 2 new investigators and a baptism!
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