10/23/2014
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| Here's the haircut you told me to get. :) |
Good bye to everyone
Don't be to disturbed by that message. It's just stating that i'll
talk about my Senpai. They left for Japan this week, and I want to talk a little
about some of them.
So this week was a little bland. We had a few funny moments, but we did
finally get kohai. That was cool. One of them is Tyler Meldrums cousin too so
that was cool. They are pretty cool kids, and will do well in Japan. This next
part is about a language mess up that one of them made his 2nd lesson. If you
don't want to read about it, it's funny, but it's "language" so just be
forewarned that some people my be put off by this. Elder tait, in his lesson
wanted to ask if he felt the power of the spirit, which is "Seirei no chikara o
kanjimasu ka" but instead of saying Seirei he said Seiri. Their "investigator"
broke character and became the teacher and just laughed. The lesson was lost
after that, but after they came back to class they looked up what Seiri meant.
When they found it in the dictionary, it said that it was "to begin one's
menstrual cycle/period" so instead of saying do you feel the power of the
spirit, they asked if he could feel the power of his period. It was great.
Skip to here if you don't want to read that last part. One other language
mess up that I want to say, not as bad as the last one, but one day in one of
our lessons, my companion, I don't know what he was trying to say, but he said
"Iesu Kirisuto wa (name of investigator) o koroshitai desu" which translates to
"Jesus Christ wants to kill you" It was pretty great.
I don't really know what else to talk about here, there hasn't been a ton
going on. Our awesome Senpai left this week. They headed out to Tokyo south,
Kobe, and Nagoya. Including Mac Johnson. Ill send a pic that we took of all the
Salemites heading to Japan. We took it right before he left. I don't really know
what to say anymore here. I've pretty much explained everything that goes on
here. We did have a really good lesson this week. One of our Kyudousha
(investigator's) has a smoking problem, that we found out about when we taught
Word of Wisdom. We left that lesson with him feeling a little discouraged,
because he wants to be baptized, but he doesn't think he'll be able to quit
smoking. It'll be to hard. We were going to teach law of tithing next, but
something told me uh uh. We need to talk about this again. So as we were asking
how his reading was going, i wanted to see if he was actually getting things out
of the scriptures, or if he was just reading. So I asked him to ready 1 Nephi
3:7 to see what he got from that verse. Turns out yeah he was getting things out
of the scriptures, but the comment he made was that it obviously didn't apply to
him, because God gave the commandment of the Word of Wisdom, but he smoked alot
and he didn't think he would be able to quit. So using the Spirit, I: 1. Relayed
an experience of my Grandpa quitting smoking. Told him of the night that he
drove down to a drug store to get some cigarettes at like 2:00 am, and while he
was driving back, realized how stupid it was, and threw them out the window, and
never smoked again. 2. we shared like 10 scriptures about how God will help, and
that he just has to try hard, and 3. we shared an object lesson with him. We had
him get on his knees, and try to draw a straight line from the bottom of the
chalk bored, to the top. Obviously he couldn't make it, so my companion then
told him that sometimes we can't get all the way up but God has a long arm and
as long as we have gone as far as we can possibly go, he will help us the rest
of the day. He felt pumped and felt that he really could quit this. So we set a
goal tat by next friday he'll be completely done smoking, so that he will be
able to be baptized, and not have that craving anymore. It was pretty awesome.
We could totally feel God talking to him through us.
Welp. I'm out of time. Please please please. Send me some questions so I
have stuff to talk about next week. It is so hard to think of what to write in
these.
みな 愛してます
エリオット長老
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| This is my friend Elder Tsuru. He his doing 1 pull up. He couldn't do that before he came here. |
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| It was really cool, but then he slipped and that happened. |
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| This is my Friend Elder Cannon |
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These are some pictures of the sisters in the Ni Hon Jin (people
from Japan) as you can tell, they were a lot of fun to talk with and get to
know.
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| This is Miranda Choro, all the way from Brazil, he doesn't speak much English, but we got to be good friends before he left. |
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| Me with Ikeda, and Ishijima Choro. The nihonjin elder's. Sad to see them go but
it was fun getting to know them while I could. |
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| My District with the Nihonjin Sisters |
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| The 4 Nihon bound Salemite missionaries. |
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This is Santos Choro. He is from Florida, and he is one of my
Kohai. He's way cool.
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