Once upon a time in Utah, another missionary and I were going door to door to spread the Gospel. We had gone to several doors and had no luck. Many of the houses that we knocked on were empty, or the people inside did not want to answer. My morale was low. However, despite this, we kept persevering.
Eventually, as we were about to knock on another door, an elderly man who was outside watching us asked what we were doing. We explained that we were spreading the Gospel, and he invited us inside. Once inside, he and his wife invited us to sit down, and we were able to start a conversation about the Gospel. They called themselves ex-Mormons, so they were very happy to hear that we weren’t Mormon missionaries but evangelical missionaries. However, they were still very confused.
They believed both the Book of Mormon and the Bible were the Word of God. The couple also believed that the Gospel of Judas, which is a Gnostic text and is not from Scripture, was an accurate historical text. We tried to explain this to the couple. We also tried to explain how you can’t rely on your own personal emotions as evidence of what is true. The conversation went in circles and lasted for about an hour. While we may have put a stone in their shoe, not much progress was made before we needed to leave.
Despite that discouraging experience, as I was on the van ride back, I reflected on the fact that it’s the Holy Spirit who convicts those who are lost, not me. As 1 Corinthians 3:6-7 says, “I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the growth. So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth.”
I didn’t need to worry about the weight of the outcome in that moment, but I just need to be faithful to share the Gospel and trust that it’s in God’s hands.
Isaac Rivetto, Class of 2027
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