His name is Colin Nicol, Graduated from LSU and lives down there now. Quite possibly the biggest baseball/LSU fan I have ever met. He found two tickets to the LSU UCLA baseball game and sent one my way. It's funny that if I never would have made a crack at him about Alabama football we never would have met! It really is true what they say about the southern hospitality, he made sure I had LSU gear to wear and if that wasn't enough he made sure we both had snacks and drinks. Just an all around guy. At first we were complete strangers who wouldn't have thought about the other a slight bit, but as the game went on we talked about baseball and football, our pasts and even politics! We shared laughs, we shared stories, we shared L-S-U chants at the top of our lungs, but most of all we shared our religions.
Mormonism was very unknown to me at the time and there are still many parts I am trying to understand, you see there are so many parts of Mormonism that line up with Christianity yet there are so many parts that don't. So as he explained the basics to me I listened with my mind, not my heart. I would ask questions to further understand and even at times ask questions to challenge what he was saying. We talked about the past, the present, and my favorite, the future. It was ironic how he talked about how God led him here tonight for a reason and with a big grin on my face I said "I think he did too." I asked him what would happen to me when I die if he was right and he explained how my heart was good and How I was very kind and so of course I would have a second chance to accept. Then we played the scenario what if I was right and he was wrong, instantaneously Luke 6:37 came to mind, "Judge not, and you will not be judged; condemn not, and you will not be condemned; forgive, and you will be forgiven." You see the point I am trying to make here is that I don't know where his heart is at, I don't know what kind of relationship he has with Christ. All I know is that some of the things he was saying would not match up completely with scripture, but how do you tell someone that is so sure about their faith that they are wrong. I'm pretty sure he's trying to figure out that same question right now with me! Jesus calls us to love our neighbors as ourselves, that means even if our views don't line up, that means even if it is a little scary at first. "Go and make disciples of all nations," not just the easy ones, or the ones aren't sure on their faith. It says ALL nations for a reason. 
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