Tuesday, December 6, 2016

Speaking in Japanese, English, and FRENCH!?!?

This week has been absolutely crazy! I have seen so many miracles and I feel a TON of things have happened. First off though, shout out to Sister Harvey out there in France. French people are SO easy to talk to. At least when you are in a foreign country where no one speaks French...  Anyway, onto the details.

Mon: We went to FHE (Family Home Evening) with Keita San as I said before and it was really fun. We played a telephone game where we had to write the word in Katakana (one form or alphabet of the Japanese written language) on the persons back in front of us. The teams' answers were dancer and kuruma (car). The correct answer was actually Santa though. Then Nakatsuka Kaichou (President Nakatsuka is my Mission president) gave us a message on what all the traditional Christmas stuff's meanings. It was really fun!

Tue: Pretty futsu (normal). We had DTM (district training meeting) and then had lunch. Then we went to Takahashi-San (the one who was hospitalized) and found out he has diabetes. Really sad, but I really feel that our visit to him was important. I really feel like he needed our love and friendship in that moment. Then we had our mogie (role playing), dinner, and Eikawa (English class) where Elder Larson got destroyed! He wanted to do raps and the entire class utterly rejected the idea, so we talked about music.

Wed: This day was a roller coaster day! At the beginning of the day no one was home and one fairly new investigator dropped us :(. We were feeling pretty low and had no idea what to do. To quote my companion, "This is the first time since I have been Senior Companion that I have no idea what to do." So we ended up going to the Library. We got inside and turns out the Library part was closed. Now we were even more lost on what to do. We go sit down and start reviewing our area book and sending out texts when all of a sudden we hear this guy speaking French to his family. Elder Larson JUMPED up and went to go talk to him. Turns out he is a professor at the College right next to the temple. His wife is Japanese and she speaks not only French and Japanese, but English as well. Now here's the real crazy part. We had about an hour long conversation just jumping between French Japanese and English. What's even more crazy is that I understood a lot of what was being said, EVEN IN FRENCH! Long story short we talked to them about French stuff, missionary stuff, and other stuff.  We got their phone number to boot! Throughout this week we have been texting them in French. (It's pretty funny that the French speaker keeps asking me how to spell words.) Oh and they invited us over for dinner TONIGHT! I also forgot to mention the wife was in France when they met because she was studying French Cuisine. Now I finally get to see what Sister Harvey gets to eat all the time.

Thur: Planning day! However for the one lesson we did have it was AMAZING! The lesson started out with our investigator, Simon, saying straight up that he did not believe in God at all. We talked for a long time and eventually committed him to pray (again) to know whether or not God was there. We knelt down with him and he said a prayer as preparation for that night. I called him the next day and asked him how it went. He said he felt "odd feelings but they felt good". I explained to him that those feelings was his answer. He took a second and was like yeah it was. He said he now cannot deny that God and Christ exist. Quick shout out to my Dad, your tatoe (parable, example) of the spiritual engine blocks verses pieces of paper to make a phone book played a HUGE role in getting him to pray. Thank you for always teaching me! :)

Fri: This was a day of walking with nobody home. BUT, We saw some miracles for people. Once again we went to Tai-San and right as we got there the Sister's investigator was just lighting up a cigarette. If that timing wasn't a miracle I honestly don't know what is. Heavenly Father is pulling all the stops to help this person stop smoking! We also got to meet Tai-San and gave him a Chinese Book of Mormon. He goes home (to China) in about a week. Other cool thing that happened, we went to go talk to a new investigator and she gave us Black Garlic. Basically garlic you cook for about 2 weeks I think? Anyway tasted weird.

Sat: Another make it or break it lesson. This time it was with Yuasa-San. He told us the day before that this will probably be the last time he will meet with us because he wants to go to a church closer to his house. Luckily we got Yuni-kun (a member) to be a team-up. It turns out he was worried because of all the information on the internet was saying scary stuff that isn't even true. We talked a lot about prayer and getting answers from God. Another long story short, he was at church the next day with his friend. Then right after that lesson we made a video with Yuni-kun which was a lot of fun. The rest of the day was pretty slow.

Sun: Yuasa-San and his friend were the only two who came to church out of our investigators. Zan'nen (too bad). We had invited 6 people.  Though it was really good. We had a member Nishino Kyodai drive them to and from Church. We learned later that Yuasa San had wanted to share his testimony during sacrament meeting. He had shared it with Nishino Kyodai in the car. Then we went out to dendo with a different member and the two people we wanted to visit were not home and sick.
But it was really good because we had a car and didn't waste a lot of time walking to be met with rejection. What's even better though was this member was like who should we go to next. We didn't know so we prayed about it and I felt we should visit Huugo Kuhn who we haven't met in forever and hasn't been responding to us. Well he was home, and it turned out that he wasn't responding because right now is the time for College Entrance Exams, so he was studying hard. When we got there he was like HEY ELDERS! I was just thinking of contacting you guys. We had a short lesson but most important was that we made sure he had interest and didn't drop him. Then we texted the French guy (Cedric) and walked around housing before the Bishop's dinner.

Mon: I'm really excited for today. We are going to a Yakiniku (Japanese bbq) buffet for lunch and we are getting a French goach from a new investigator! To be continued


Love Elder Harvey

Zone conference last month


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