After graduating from the University of Kansas, getting married, and becoming a missionary for the Fellowship of Catholic University Students, I spent over a month of the summer fundraising my salary and subsequently leaving the Midwest (pause for a moment of silence) for Long Beach, California, where FOCUS sent me to be a missionary. Between my month-long stint of full-time fundraising and my first semester as a missionary at CSU Long Beach, I realized I really needed to be more prepared to respond to on-the-spot objections one might raise to not only what I do as a missionary, but more broadly, the Catholic Church and Christianity as a whole. As the quote goes, “you do not really understand something unless you can explain it” (*maybe* Albert Einstein), and so I figured: what better way to learn how to succinctly respond to those objections than to explain them to you, my mission partners! Whether or not this blog is helpful to you (though I sure hope it is!), it will certainly be helpful to me, and I thank you so much for your prayers and support as I continue bringing the Gospel to students at CSU Long Beach!