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| What it's all about! |
01/18/2015
Hey everyone.
So this week was kind of cool.
We went to Kitami, and saw our friends, and had a cool DTM (District Training Meeting), and received a
ton of revelation for 2 of our investigators, and then just did a lot of housing,
and pinging, and weren't seeing to much success, but we decided, we were going
to challenge our only 2 stronger investigators to baptism. We met with the one
Tuesday night, and had this really cool plan to use Alma 32, and the Seed
example, to get her to want to be baptized. We watched the restoration video,
and then got ready to dive into it, but then she had questions about some anti-Mormon stuff she found online. So the whole lesson turned into answering her
questions, and then giving her a Joesph Smith pamphlet. Didn't go so well. But
we did slyly "accidentally" leave the DVD at her house, hoping that maybe she'd
watch it again.
Anyway, then we decided we wanted to meet with her and our other
investigator, (Higaki san, and Kanaya san) at the church. Elder Spurling Called
them, and they were both way down to meet with us, and then he asked them if
they could do it at the church (with other members just btw) and they were both
kind of like "umm. mmm maybe... not sure... ok" and they both said they could.
YES. miracle there.
Then on Friday, we went to meet with a new investigator we found named Aoki
san. We didn't get to talk with him a lot, but it does seem like he has some
interest and we have another appointment, so we'll see where that goes. Then we
had an Old Investigator call, that wanted to meet us. Sadly we didn't get to
pick her up, because, she is really busy. We had never met her, and she
literally had only 30 minutes, and it wasn't normal. But she is way strong, and
Golden Investigator material, we just need to have time to meet with her. We'll
see where that goes.
Then I stopped this guy on the street (pay attention, cause
this part is way cool) I started telling him about who we were, and asked him if
he had ever thought about the meaning of life. Per usual for Japanese people,
especially those under 30, he hadn't. So I asked him, why he thought he was on
this earth right now, except I messed up my Japanese so badly. It was funny,
but he was really chill, and did have a question for us about Christians. He
wanted to know the difference between Catholicism, and Protestant churches. We
told him about how Protestant churches are branches off of Catholicism that are
trying to "reform" the old church of Christ. Then he asked us which one we were.
The thing that Elder Spurling then said "That is a question isn't it" So we
asked him if he had some time, and he kind of did, he said Oh I've got my job,
and there's time, but he was going towards his hotel, so we caught him on it,
and he said Ok we can talk on the way to my hotel, and it just so happened, that
the our church was right on the way. As we passed it, we invited him to come in, and
he was like way excited, and we get in, and he starts looking for the cross. In
the end, he started teaching him all about the restoration. Lesson 1 for those
who understand missionary language. The best part is the entire time, he was
talking about how cool it was, and full on understood it. He took a Book of
Mormon and really wanted to read it. He was ready to pay for it, and then we
told him it was free. The only bad part, is he doesn't live in Hokkaido. *face
palm* He lives down in Sendai. But his job (which by the way he told us was
"secret") takes him all over the country. But he did say the next time he came
he wanted to meet us. He was way chill, and was using all this informal Japanese
to talk about how awesome all this was.
Anyway then we taught Kanaya and Higaki on Saturday, and it went ok. In the
end, we dropped Kanaya, and got Higaki to start coming to church again. *fist
pump with tears*
Long story short, we only have 2 investigators now, and one of them is
brand new.
We going to do lot's of finding.
Well that's it for this week.
Love all of you
Do something for someone else this week for free.
Love life, and love homework, and love oranges. :)
Elder Eliot
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