Day 12

Today was an amazing day. I had my discipleship with Ben earlier on, and we had some really good spiritual conversations. Ben does a really good job listening and talking things out. It often makes me forget that we're the same age. Normally, during discipleship, we would go outreaching on the boardwalk/beach but since we were already planning on doing that as a group later, we decided to wait until then.


Our plan during outreach was to use Soularium cards. Basically, you have this set of cards that have some sort of picture on them. There's a large variety of pictures that can be seen and interpreted in many ways. The point of Soularium is to break the ice in conversation with others. Then transition to the Gospel through the same pictures. The questions are:
1. Pick three cards that describe your life
2. Pick three cards that describe how you want your life to be
3. Pick a card that describes how you view God
4. Pick a card that shows where you are with God or your walk with Christ


After walking around and praying for a while we found a couple who was willing to do Soularium. The couple was a Mormon woman and a catholic man. (I think they were either engaged or just planning on getting married). We talked to the lady for a while since she was extremely open to talking to us. We told her to pick 3 cards to describe her life and she ended up picking like 10... which was awesome because she was willing to be really open about herself even though we had just met. After a little while I asked her what she believed as a Mormon. In a quick summary of our 30 min talk, she told us about how she got divorced and was going to remarry a catholic man, but the Mormon church looked down upon this. They told her she needed to go through a "confession process" in order to get right with God. She told us that she didn't agree with a lot of the things the Mormons were telling her. Ben and I tried to encourage her to look into discovering truth outside of the Mormon religion. We left her with a KGP and prayed with her. She was so happy and excited to have us talk to her. She had aspirations to have her kids grow up and follow God. We told her to use the KGP if they desired to have a relationship with Christ. It was an amazing conversation. So when 90% of the people I talk to reject the gospel, the 10 or so percent that do accept make it all worth it. And even still, God is teaching me that I'm not here to save souls, just to plant seeds.