Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Violence and missionary work

I once heard a full-time missionary speak in sacrament meeting about people “getting hit with” the Book of Mormon, something completely new to them. I got this incredibly vivid image of missionaries bopping people over the head with Books of Mormon, causing the people to then fall into baptismal fonts.

Something about the “converting power of the Book of Mormon” should probably come here…

2 comments:

Heather the Mama Duk said...

Is it sad that as soon as I read the part in quotes I had pretty much the same image pop into my head that you described?

Michelle said...

In a different interpretation - Jim was almost hit in the head by a Book of Mormon in Romania. He and a set of missionaries were outside the entrance to an inactive lady's apartment building, and when they rang her bell she leaned out her window to see who it was. When she saw them she left the window for a couple minutes, then came back and threw her Book of Mormon at them. I guess she was trying to make it very clear that she didn't want contact from the church anymore.