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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