04/05/2015 | Well It's Been A week
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| Got his dads eyes! |
Coming up with subject names is hard. I don't want to just have it be a
week number, or day number or anything like that, that's boring (sorry for those
of you who do that, it's just my opinion) but they are getting harder to come up
with. Oh well 楽しみにしています
Soooo This week. It was... good? I guess. It wasn't like "BOOM MIRICLES
EVERYDAY. PEOPLE BEING BAPTIZED LEFT AND RIGHT, HEALING PEOPLE LIKE IT'S NO ONES
BUSINESS" But it wasn't a bad week either. just kind of normal.
On Monday, we had P-Day. We had some fun. We fixed up some old trashy bikes
that some missionaries left here, and we biked 13 km to Cape Notoro to do some
photography things. It probably would've been better if it were spring, or
summer, it would've been prettier, but it was still fun. Elder Francis is way
into photography so he has been giving me a few pointers, and the Pokemon you
see in the pictures is some of my practices. He has a little box guy he uses to
practice that kind of stuff, and I've decided to use Fennekin (フォーコ) The little
Pokemon dude that I have. I'll probably be using him in other Photography things
as well from now on, so you'll get to see Fennekin pretty often now. He is my
Photo buddy. I have some other pics I'll try to send next week, but they are on
Elder Francis's camera, and I haven't had a chance to get them off of there yet.
Anyway then we biked another 13 km back home, and got changed into missionary
clothes to go to a members house. We had delicious food with them there, and
taught a lesson about Courage. If you haven't read the April Ensign/Liahona's (church magazine) First Presidency message yet, do it. It's good. Fun fact. In Japanese Sprit is
"Yuuki" 勇気。 Literally it means "Brave Spirit" I like that translation, because
it almost seems to me like it's saying, Be brave through the Spirit. That's what
Courage is.
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| Looks Abandoned |
Tuesday we went to District Training Meeting in Kitami. Nothing super mind blowing about this day
(probably cause I can't remember it to well... tee hee) We came back and did
Dendo, met some cool people, and that's about it.
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| With district in Kitami |
Wednesday. We had a service opportunity this day, got to help sort a ton of
Bottle Caps. (A TON. I think it might have litterally weighed a ton) That was
fun. Then we went and tried to visit some appointments that we had made, but
they all wound up falling through. No one was home. :( Come on people. I can't
save you if you aren't home when I come to talk to you. Kind of a rough day.
Nothing really went to well for us that day.
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| This boy wants to be a missionary |
Thursday. Also a day where appointments fell through. In the words of my
companion it was a "Dead day" Just not a lot seen.
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| Abashiri by Sea |
Friday. We didn't have any appointments, so we just did regular dendo.
Still not a lot coming out of this day (when I go back and retell this it's
slightly discouraging) Taught English class that night. That was fun. I love
teaching English
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| New Photo Companion |
Saturday. We went out to an area called Memanbetsu. There are some less
active members living out there we went to try to visit. Didn't really get the
oppurtunity because we couldn't find severel of them. We found one, but he was
asleep, so we left a message, and left. Fun story though. We got on our train to
come back, and Elder Francis just had a feeling that we should get off the
train. We both kind of ignored it, because there was only one train, it said
Abashiri on it, and we were both tired and wanted to just stay sitting. But then
another train came right as ours was about to pull out. We got up so fast. We
asked someone, turns out we were on our way to Engaru, which is 2 hours in the
wrong direction. We got off that train and ran for the other train, and luckily
made it. So yeah. Spiritual promptings. That happened
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| He is Risen |
Sunday. EASTER. Yay. Happy Easter Everybody. We had church. No General Conference.
We get conference a week late here in Japan, so we will see it next week. We did
see some miricles this day though. This is what makes me know that our work the
rest of the week didn't go unnoticed. Me and Elder Francis had just come from
another fallen through appoinment, just to go to 2 more that also fell through.
We were both very discouraged, very frustrated, so of course whats the best
thing to do in that situation. Listen to the Spirit. Duh. Let's go Ping
doorbells at this apartment. We caught 2 people right as they were going out the
door and both said that they'd would be way down to talk about our message. They
were leaving right then or they would've listened right then. Then that night,
we were calling people, and I found a name, with a phone number, but no note
about them. Thought "Heck why not" called this person, turns out that they don't
know why the missionaries stopped visiting them. Set up an appointment with
them, and we'll get to go visit them too. She was way nice, and I'm excited for
it. The miricle was that I was the one that called her. I was the one that
talked to her on the phone. No help from my senior companion, all in Japanese,
and I could do it. Nice miricle filled day. I'm excited for this week to see how
those miricles pan out in the end.
Well know that this church is true. I know it.
Jesus did live again. He was resurected, and because of that we can
too.
We are saved by his grace.
This work that I am doing is for him.
Love it.
Have a wonderful week.
Elder Eliot
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| P-day at Cape Notoro |
