Painting in the Park

What is the way you introduce yourself and break the ice. For me, it's art. I finally got to use art to talk to people about Christ and the wonderful blessing of the Book of Mormon.



Does anyone remember the black and white picture that only looks like blobs, until you stare at for 30 seconds, then close your eyes and Jesus is imprinted in your vision? That is what I painted, on a big wooden board.

We went to a construction store and bought a big board. Then had to walk 20 minutes back to our apartment. Sunday morning we reversed our steps, flipping and passing of the board down the 4 flights of stairs in our building, caught the bus to the center of the town, then walked the rest of the way to the church. After church we walked to another bus stop and took a bus to a park on the opposite side of the city, where I  painted that giant board.

Sora Adams and the
nice man from the bus

Some guy talked with us on the bus when we got on; I'm not sure if he was homeless or not. He showed up at the park where we were painting, and talked with us until the elders showed up.

The painting was an interesting and different approach and turned out to be really fun. Children loved it and when we could get people to follow directions, even adults loved it. We found out we had to tell people to stare in the middle with their eyes open or else they closed their eyes. I'm not sure why they did this. I always thought you had to have eyes open to look at something. Maybe the meaning got lost in translation.