The day came for me to meet with the sister missionaries again.
I asked them the questions that had been bothering me and, to my surprise, they had answers for them, and they made sense.
I was impressed, but at the same time I was still kind of leery and decided I was going to find questions to ask with the purpose of tripping them up. Certainly, there must have been things they did not know and had the answer to!
I think I had taken it as a challenge to aggravate them with my questions and I wonder what they thought of me. Nonetheless, they always had a smile on their faces and never once were they belligerent or made me feel I was not worth of an answer or their time.
The first question I had came about as I was reading the Book of Mormon, and Nephi was ordered to kill Laban. I thought, "Wait a second! we have been given the commandment thou shall not kill and here he is ordered to kill...what is going on?"
The two missionaries not only reminded me of Noah and the Flood, but also asked me to read a few verses down from where I had stopped and, sure enough, the explanation was there. "... It is better that one man should perish than that a nation should dwindle and perish in unbelief."
Even the Bible explains this concept. Check out John 11:50: "“And you do not consider that is profitable for us that one man should die instead of the nation, and not that the whole nation perish."
With this question now answered, I moved on to the next one...
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