Japan is so different than what I expected. The sidewalks
are tiny, food is way expensive, and I love it.
Tue: This was a weird day. We just biked around looking
for people and no one was home. My IPad also got reset somehow so we had to re
install everything which was a pain. But in all it wasn't a bad day.
Wed: We had a zone conference which was really cool. I
learned a lot from the different workshops. Also you won't believe what I ate
this day for lunch. There is a bakery (actually 2) called Boston Bake which has
some really good food. Then we had a lesson with an investigator who pretty
much just wanted to fight us with words.
Thursday: This was a really fun day. So all this past
week we had been handing out fliers for a church event called kanshasai? Which
kind of was like a thanksgiving type event. We cooked some food and we had
stalls outside where the "money" was a sticky note where you had to
write a message about something you are thankful for. It was really cute. We
also had some investigators there and found a new investigator. Sometime during
all this chaos the kids were going to do the blindfold watermelon splitting
thing. The first like 5 year old kid makes his way to the watermelon with the
directions of the audience and with one swing of the wooden sword he cracked
the thing clean in half. Then we had
basketball with some less active members and an investigator. It was a really
good opportunity to build some trust. We then did a priesthood blessing for one
of the sisters’ investigators and right after the blessing she shakes her hands
and as she shakes my hand her eyes went huge. She exclaimed "kiseki"
which means miracle. She couldn't move her arm very much and couldn't move her
hand without intense pain. But she showed us that she had full movement of her
arm and her hand didn't hurt any more. She just kept thanking us and saying
kiseki. Everyone was tearing up a little. Then we had a lesson with Simon.
Simon is a really interesting guy for reasons I won't expound upon but it was a
really good lesson.
Fri: This day was raining which sucked. Elder Larson got
the impression during our planning that we had to go to an investigator we have
named Megumi-san. So we biked through the pouring rain and we met with her for
a while. She runs a handmade paper shop. We talked with her for a bit and found
out she is going to Tokyo for this next whole week for a handmade paper
convention. We were so surprised because she had to leave the next day so we
wouldn't have been able to meet with her unless we went right when we did. Then
we shared a message about remembering and about the BoM. Then we went to go
talk to some other people and did our planning in a Starbucks while eating
these awful chocolate chip scones. (Should have gotten a cookie or cocoa X/ ).
Sat: gonna skip over this day because of time but pretty
much we housed and talked with some people but no success.
Sun: We thought it was fast Sunday for some reason but
right as sacrament started we noticed they had people to give talks and then we
realized. So we aren't supposed to fast any other time than fast Sunday so
technically we were breaking rules but we ate right after church. The church
members gave me a grape and I had no idea what kind of fruit it was until Elder
Larson told me it was a grape. Grapes here are HUGE. It was probably 5 times
the size of a normal grape. I also now know where grape flavored candy get its
flavor from. This grape tasted so similar to a generic grape flavored soda or
candy, yet it was sooo juicy. Then we went to go visit people and another
miracle occurred. We were at one of the apartments we were at on Saturday to
visit an investigator that wasn't home the last day but we walked in the same
time the only person we talked to out of this apartment was getting her mail.
So we shared another message with her that we felt she really needed to hear at
that time. After some more dendoing we
went back to the apartment and grabbed some French pamphlets. Then we had
dinner at the bishops house and did a dendo meeting. Once again you will not
believe what we ate at there. So another
member came and she brought with her CLAM CHOWDER! It was so good. We had other
food but ya. Then we were able to go to the French guy because the Bishop drove
us but he wasn't home but we felt we should leave a pamphlet with a message on
the back.
Mon: This morning we played basketball with an
investigator named Huugo with his friend. Right at the end we shared a message
with them and they asked if we could play basketball again tomorrow. We said
sure and asked if we could invite some more people (maybe some Less actives or
LAs) and they said sure. We also invited them to church and not only agreed but
the friend asked if he could also bring a friend to church. It was definitely a
miracle because we had planned to go running but at about 1015ish Huugo asked
if we could play basket ball. We debated
on whether or not to respond and felt impressed to call him. Without that
impression we probably wouldn't have had this miracle happen.
Love you all
Harvey Choro
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