<TITLE>05. Par 37-52</TITLE>L-37 And I down there, the season is out for everything else. Lions kill a lot of cattle. And I know a lot of ranchers up in the country. And every time they get a kill, why, they call me, when a lion gets amongst sheep. A certain friend of mine, the other night, lost about thirty-five hundred dollars, in one night, by one lion killing just lambs. He got in, and, course, the rest of the lions are going to have to pay for his sin. And so I got the lion, and so it was a great big lion, and nine-foot long, and weighed close two-something, so it was--it was a good big lion.

L-38   And then I went from the country of Arizona, up into Utah, to hunt. And so I was told that there was people up there, that a man that I was going to hunt with, was a government trapper, "And, for goodness sakes, don't mention anything about religion, around him." Said, "He was really a rough fellow."

L-39 And I said, well, I told the man I was going with, I said, "I won't mention it."

L-40 He said, "Don't say 'preacher.' If you do, you'll never get to go hunting. He wouldn't take you." Said, "I hunted with him three days, and slept with him every night, eat with him every day, and he never even said, 'Good morning. How do you do? You want something to eat? Wash the dishes.' Nothing!" Said, "Now just don't say nothing about it."

L-41 I said, "I won't say a word." So I didn't tell him I wouldn't pray, but I just kept on tell him that I'm... And I pray.

L-42   So when we got up there, the man was a very hard character, and I didn't think he believed anything. And he had just lost a baby a few nights before that, a stillborn baby. So, we went hunting. And on the second day, the man I was hunting with had told him, said I get to hunt everywhere around the country. So when the other hunter, was with me, had left, we were way in top of peaks; where we just run a lion, till we got him into the rocks, and he had got away. And so we were sitting there waiting for the dog to return. And this man said to me, he said, "The other hunter, your friend, tells me that you get to hunt everywhere. You got plenty of money?" Said, "I guess it's none of my business."

L-43 And I said, "No," I said, "it isn't plenty of money." I said, "I--I'm sponsored."

L-44 And he said, "Oh, I see." He said, "Well, I guess it's none of my business again, but," said, "are you with a firm that sponsors you?"

L-45 He was pulling it right out of me. I promised I wouldn't, see. So I said, yeah, I said, "No, sir. I'm a preacher, a missionary."
He said, "A what?"

L-46 I said, "Missionary." And he just stood and looked at me for a few minutes.

L-47 I said, "Do you have any hope for Life hereafter? What is your hope?"
He said, "I'm a Jack Mormon."
And I said, "A what?"
He said, "A Jack Mormon."
I said, "What kind is that?"

L-48 Said, "The one that swears and drinks coffee, and smokes cigarettes."
I said, "Well, an honest confession is good for the soul."

L-49   And then he said--he said, "I want to ask you something." He said, "I am told that the Mormon church is the only true church there is." He said, "Do you believe that?"

L-50 I said, "When it comes to church, I guess it's as good as any of them. I only know one Truth, and that's Jesus Christ." I said, "I know He is True."

L-51 "Well," he said, "I had a baby born the other night, stillborn." He said, "I am told that this baby, because it was stillborn, God never did breathe the breath of life into it, that I'll never see it again." He said, "What do you think about that?"

L-52 "Well," I said, "You won't as a Jack Mormon, you sure won't. That's one thing sure, you won't see it as long as you stay a Jack Mormon." And he said... Well, he had been pushing me, so I push him back a little bit, you see. We had--had time to push back. So he said--he said... I said, "What's the matter?"
He said, "Oh, I don't know." And he said, "Well, what do you think?"
I said, "I am acquainted with many fine..."


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