So since last time...we have been meeting with Takeshi-san every day for the past week and he is going really well. We have just been strengthening his faith and getting him to stop smoking, but he is doing awesome. We got this really cool non-smoking program that we have been getting Takeshi-san working on. It deals with brushing your teeth every morning the second you wake up, and drinking grapefruits juice and a bunch of other funny stuff, but it actually works! Anyways, just yesterday we actually got to meet his little sister. We have been planning on meeting his family for a few days now and we finally got to meet his little sister. She was way awesome. We did a lesson with her and Takeshi, and then afterwards we went to eat some lunch with them. And she told us during the lesson that she was going to come to his baptism. So from that, hopefully she will have to desire to do the same thing as her older brother. It would be pretty cool to see something like that happen. Brother and Sister getting baptized...So as of now, we will have Takeshi-san's baptism on the 20th of this month. He goes around telling everyone that coming in contact with Page choro and I was a miracle from God, and he goes on and on...it's pretty awesome to see his testimony grow.
We have also been meeting with Mariko-san for a while, and this week we had a lesson on the Word of Wisdom...and she has a big problem with it, so we'll see how she goes. Her fellowshiping in the ward is amazing though...she has so many friends in the ward it's way awesome. I think they are all going out to eat in a few weeks together.
Anyways...as for funny stories...we went to a members house the other day, Furukawa couple, and they are known for feeding the missionaries tons of food. So we had 8 missionaries and a few members there, and we couldn't even get 1/4 of the food off the table. It's always a battle when missionaries go there. Apparantly there have been a number of missionaries that throw it all up before they leave the house. Ellis choro and Mizuochi choro had a ton of food, they didn't throw up, but they were sick for a few days...pretty funny.
On the same day that we went to the Furukawa's we had service, and this time we went to Natori city to make lamps for the city festival...pretty weird, but whatever. We made a ton of the lanterns and then we got to watch the Waseda University's orchestra play some stuff for us...it was kind of not normal, but yeah pretty awesome. The lanterns are for the deceased spirits to find there way safely back to heaven...or something along those lines. It's a festival that they do every year, I think.
Other than that we have had a Zone Leader council to figure out more about what all the rules are going to be for the mission and etc., and we also did a meeting with the mission president and the stake president to talk about all the missionary's and missionary work going on in the stake. Hopefully these meetings will be put to good use. On the way back from one of the meetings President Rasmussen told us all the transfers that are going to happen in the Zone and told us to get ready for them. Next transfer hopefully we don't have any problems in the zone, but it sounds like it's going to be another good transfer. So hopefully it will be! We are staying in Kamisugi for another transfer, and we are probably going to be here for a few more after that too, so this is where I'll be. Peace!
PS. Thanks Hailey and Grandma & Grandpa! I Love you guys!
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