Mon: We went to the zoo as a district and when we got
there our friend called us and we hung out with him at the zoo. Then a miracle
happened. He brought us to an import
store and they had DOCTOR PEPPER! Ok not really a miracle but it was awesome.
Then we went to the temple together and had a Family Home Evening activity with
our dendo (mission) Kaichou (president). It was a really cool experience. Then
on the way home we took the subway back and another area's investigator came
with us. She's a JK (Josei Kousei) or a high school girl. I talked with her
about why she was interested in the church and kind of expounded on those
things sharing my testimony. All in Japanese.
Tue: Coolest thing here was our Eikawa (English class) My
class only had 2 people, a nonmember and the coolest person in Japan
(Oda-shimai).
Oda shimai is an obaa-chan (pretty much people above 60)
but she is amazing in every sense of the word. This Eikawa class we celebrated
a sister missionary's birthday and had a bunch of extra food. Oda shimai made
most of it (she made cheese cakes, curry sandwiches and more).
Wed: This was a long day where not a whole lot happened.
Except for a miracle. We were planning to say hi to a new investigator family
the sisters had found when we decided to house the whole building. Well we
housed 3 floors with either no one home or people not so kindly rejecting us.
But the last door before we talked to this family (aka their neighbor) was this
Chinese guy. And he was interested in what we had to say. We talked to him a
bit and agreed to come to general conference in 2 weeks. He had work this
Sunday. AND he gave us doctor pepper. He was so nice and really funny. The
hardest thing for him being in Japan is not having delicious food....and he
works in a restaurant. Then we talked to the new family about eternal families
it was really cool. Oh and we were fed breakfast by an investigator that was
delicious. He is adamantly bukkyo (Buddhist) because he is the oldest in his
family and feels a sense of duty to be bukkyo.
Thursday: This day
was weird. We somehow ended up going home teaching for the night. And sometime
in the afternoon we taught a referral investigator. More like we got to know
him. This was the first time I had to sit seiza (kneeling) since I got to
Japan.
Fri: This was an awesome day! We found 2 new people
interested in the gospel while streeting. Both are Highschoolers. We also gave
an English Book of Mormon, the only one we could have it was from the sister,
to the artist from Portland Oregon. We also met 2 high schooler investigators
later that night. We ate some sushi they got from us which was delicious and we
gave them a bunch of deserts and Books of Mormon. We taught about the Gospel of
Jesus Christ and when we were talking about baptism and asked them a little
jokingly if they wanted to be baptized (we thought for sure they were going to
say no but wanted to let them know that this was our purpose in order to get
people to the celestial Kingdom) one of them very strongly said yes and the other
was a little hesitant but said yes. We were so shocked! We explained a bit more and showed them the
baptismal font and asked them again if they really wanted to be baptized and
from both we got Yes I really want to be baptized. The boy who had a hesitant
answer even said he wanted to go to seminary the next day. Even I didn't want
to go to seminary at 6 in the morning. We told him that of course he could come
but then realized the next day was Saturday so we told him that and then made
an appointment to read the Book of Mormon together instead.
Sat: I'm out of time so briefly we did some dendo made
cookies and biked all over the place to drop them off. We also grabbed boxes
for an investigator to help him move and did some more home teaching.
Sun: we had 3 out of 7 people come to church. It was
really cool. We also had curry rice for dinner at a members house.
Mon: We played ping pong with the two High school boys
who wanted to be baptized
I have been learning so much out here it's crazy. I am so
excited for Elder Bednar to come talk to us missionaries on the 15th and then
again to all of Sapporo later. Still haven't seen General Conference but will
get the opportunity to next week.
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