This weekend I saw Van Helsing. Me and Ray are totally into vampire movies so we have to see them when they come out...well, most of them. Anyways, we were discussing whether we should be ashamed or not of this desire to see vampire movies so to continue with that theme, we wore something to the movie that we had but were ashamed of having. Ray wore his MTV gear and I wore my Metallica concert T-shirt. Anyways, I enjoyed the movie. I felt it was a good start for the summer blockbusters. It's a fun action movie with monsters.

Anyways, I'm back in Mormonia this week. What a difference this week was from last week. I arrived and the winds were at 45 mph. Not only that, but the temperature was around 90 degrees last week. It's dropped below 50 this week. I'm glad I brought a jacket, but I'm wondering if it will be enough. There are also supposed to be some crazy thunderstorms while I'm here. I'm glad I packed my poncho, but I have no rubber boots. Hopefully, I won't need any cuz I sure don't want to pack muddy boots in my luggage for the way home. Last week, this place was infested with gnats. There were piles of them it was so bad. This is indeed the land of ten plagues.

On an encouraging note, I got to share Christ with a man from New Zealand on the plane. It was really cool cuz he just kept asking me questions and the answers just kept leading to my experiences on my missions trips. He asked if I was a Mormon, and I said, "No, I'm a Christian." He asked some interesting questions like, "Do you go to a strong church?" and "Are the people in your church of the same mind politically?" He said he was in the church when he was young, but he said he made a choice not to live his life that way anymore. It was kind of sad, but I asked him if he would let me send him some information of some Bible teaching churches in his area. He said he would and he gave me his info. I got to tell him some good stuff like if you're guilty of one sin, you're guilty of breaking the entire law and moralism isn't the path to heaven, but only Christ can cover your sins no matter how good you may think you are. I also told him that only the Bible is the true authority and it really doesn't matter what man thinks about how to be saved or what is right. I told him I would rather be on God's side and against the entire world than to be with the world and go to hell. His name is Simon. Now I just hope I can find a Bible teaching church for him in Auckland. He also told me of some cool ways to work as an expatriate engineer in the South Pacific. I'll have to look into that, but I have a feeling I'm not experienced enough yet.

Of all the things I do, it's only evangelism that is truly the only worthwhile thing cuz that's the only thing I can't do in heaven and it's the only reason that God keeps me here on Earth since I could easily glorify Him more in heaven. I always feel burdened that I should be witnessing more. I'm not very good with bold random evangelism. The event today happened because he struck up a conversation with me. I just was never very good with talking to strangers. It's funny though that whenever a stranger talks to me, I usually end up telling them about Jesus. I still wish I had more opportunities though. The people I see daily are pretty hard to the gospel. They will listen for as long as I want to talk, but I can tell that they don't believe. They just want to be polite by listening. Sometimes it's hard, but I try not to lose hope. I know that God has placed these people in my life so that they can hear about Him. Nothing happens by chance.