So this week was pretty good I guess. So Naoko-san had a baptismal
interview scheduled, but it turns out that she's not going to be able
to get baptized just yet, but she talked to her parents about church
and we consider that a huge step forward. Not many people tell their
parents that they are meeting with missionaries and Naoko-san seems to
be like one of the only people that has done it...at least when I've
been here, so her parents got a little against it, but it was a huge
step forward. But I'm sure that she's going to get baptized soon, and
the Sasahara family! I love them so much! They are so cool. This week
we met with a Bro. Ogard, and he took us out to lunch! It was a super
good Katsudon place, and it was way good! Delicious. This week we had
a split with Tsuruoka too, so it wasn't a very productive week, cause
we had to go far away, but it was good. Bigger choro and Brown choro
are doing a really good job. We got to see a matsuri in Tsuruoka too.
Pretty great! People were dancing in the streets and passing out free
Sake (alcohol) to everyone in the streets. Then we came home and then
on Sunday we had a good Sacrament meeting where we got to see one of
the Sisters on TV. She has no feeling in her hands so she has had to
go her whole life with no-hands and she cuts vegetables with her feet
and eats with her feet and writes with her feet...pretty awesome, and
awe-inspiring, but we watched that as a ward and then we did a Preach
My Gospel class for the YSA's that was way good. I hope they all go
out on missions. Another thing that made me super happy, was that in
Kamisugi I did a PMG class for all the YSA's and recently in the new
Liahona there was 3 new missionaries from Kamisugi ward! That is
crazy! I think that is probably the most from 1 ward that Sendai has
ever seen. Crazy, but that made me super happy! Anyways that was all
for this week. Until next week! Bye-bye!
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Monday, May 28, 2012
Monday, May 21, 2012
Talent Show Miracle
So last monday we celebrated one of the Young Single Adults
Birthdays...we blew up a bunch of balloons and put candy and a puzzle
in the balloons and we went to her house...4 elders, and we sang happy
birthday to her. She was way grateful, so that was good. Then on
Tuesday we went to Naoko-san's house to do a lesson with the Takahashi
Couple and we talked to her about Faith...Alma ch. 32, and we pretty
much read the whole thing and talked about it. Way powerful lesson I
thought. Then the Takahashi couple took us to the Sasahara family's
home and we did a lesson on the Plan of Salvation and then a lesson on
Baptism. It was pretty great. We did the whole Salt in Water and use
soap to push away the salt......yeah, I know you don't understand. At
any rate, it was way good lesson. On Wednesday we had English Class
and we went in front of the train station and played the guitar while
we passed out English class fliers. It was a pretty good day. I love
passing out fliers with the guitar, because it makes passing out
fliers way more fun, and the people are actually willing to take them,
because of the music. We had a new guy come to English Class too, so
that was pretty good. Then on Thursday we had a lesson with
Watanabe-san and we talked about the Temple and how she needs to go
their to help her family with salvation and stuff like that. Pretty
good lesson, we had to push our way through it. Then we had a lesson
with Yuma-kun who brought a friend along with him. Way awesome, I
think his friend might be interested in hearing the word, so it was a
good day. On Friday we went to the Sasahara's again to teach the
little ones english and it was pretty fun. I hope they can get
baptized soon. Later that night we taught Yuma-kun, because the day
before he brought his friend so we couldn't really do a lesson
strictly for Yuma-kun, but we talked about how he can get his parents
to know more about the church, so he is going to try to get them to
know about Eikaiwa. We'll see how it goes...he is a long time
investigator and his only problem is that he can't tell his parents
that he is coming to church, so we'll see how that goes. Then on
Saturday we had the coolest Talent Show EVER! We had 11 investigators
show up to it, so that was way good! I did the MC and the Elders at
the very beginning of the show did a super mario skit, I played the
piano and Okada choro was Mario, Sanders choro was Luigi, and Tanaka
choro was Peach/Bowser...way funny. Oh and before that Sanders choro
acted out Dragonball Z for everyone...super funny. I wish I had it all
on tape because it was hilarious! But that was by far the best event
that I've ever been too. Then on Sunday we did the Preach My Gospel
class for the Young ones. And we taught them Chapter 8, which is by
far the coolest chapter in PMG. You may think I'm crazy, but ch8 is
one of the most important, so we did a class on that. Then Today we
just got back from a lesson with Naoko-san and we did it at the Oishi
Family's home, it was a pretty good lesson. I hope she gets baptized!
She might be getting baptized on the 9th so I might be able to see it!
It might ruin all of our plans, but a Baptism would be nice to see.
Anyways see you in a few! Bye-bye!~
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Birthdays...we blew up a bunch of balloons and put candy and a puzzle
in the balloons and we went to her house...4 elders, and we sang happy
birthday to her. She was way grateful, so that was good. Then on
Tuesday we went to Naoko-san's house to do a lesson with the Takahashi
Couple and we talked to her about Faith...Alma ch. 32, and we pretty
much read the whole thing and talked about it. Way powerful lesson I
thought. Then the Takahashi couple took us to the Sasahara family's
home and we did a lesson on the Plan of Salvation and then a lesson on
Baptism. It was pretty great. We did the whole Salt in Water and use
soap to push away the salt......yeah, I know you don't understand. At
any rate, it was way good lesson. On Wednesday we had English Class
and we went in front of the train station and played the guitar while
we passed out English class fliers. It was a pretty good day. I love
passing out fliers with the guitar, because it makes passing out
fliers way more fun, and the people are actually willing to take them,
because of the music. We had a new guy come to English Class too, so
that was pretty good. Then on Thursday we had a lesson with
Watanabe-san and we talked about the Temple and how she needs to go
their to help her family with salvation and stuff like that. Pretty
good lesson, we had to push our way through it. Then we had a lesson
with Yuma-kun who brought a friend along with him. Way awesome, I
think his friend might be interested in hearing the word, so it was a
good day. On Friday we went to the Sasahara's again to teach the
little ones english and it was pretty fun. I hope they can get
baptized soon. Later that night we taught Yuma-kun, because the day
before he brought his friend so we couldn't really do a lesson
strictly for Yuma-kun, but we talked about how he can get his parents
to know more about the church, so he is going to try to get them to
know about Eikaiwa. We'll see how it goes...he is a long time
investigator and his only problem is that he can't tell his parents
that he is coming to church, so we'll see how that goes. Then on
Saturday we had the coolest Talent Show EVER! We had 11 investigators
show up to it, so that was way good! I did the MC and the Elders at
the very beginning of the show did a super mario skit, I played the
piano and Okada choro was Mario, Sanders choro was Luigi, and Tanaka
choro was Peach/Bowser...way funny. Oh and before that Sanders choro
acted out Dragonball Z for everyone...super funny. I wish I had it all
on tape because it was hilarious! But that was by far the best event
that I've ever been too. Then on Sunday we did the Preach My Gospel
class for the Young ones. And we taught them Chapter 8, which is by
far the coolest chapter in PMG. You may think I'm crazy, but ch8 is
one of the most important, so we did a class on that. Then Today we
just got back from a lesson with Naoko-san and we did it at the Oishi
Family's home, it was a pretty good lesson. I hope she gets baptized!
She might be getting baptized on the 9th so I might be able to see it!
It might ruin all of our plans, but a Baptism would be nice to see.
Anyways see you in a few! Bye-bye!~
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Monday, May 14, 2012
YSA activity was awesome!
So this week on Monday we went to the Sasahara's house to do a Family
Home Evening, and we set a baptismal date with them, so that was such
a miracle. We set it for the 2nd of June, so hopefully they make it!
I'm excited for them. They said they would do their best to get an
answer from God. The next day we went to Watanabe shimais house and we
did a lesson on the Sabbath Day, and it's always way tiring to go to
her house because she tells us the same stories over and over and over
again, but I guess that's just how old people work. That is one thing
I've noticed is that living by yourself must not be very fun at all.
You have no one to talk to, so that's why when other people come over
you spill out everything and talk forever. It's the terrible circle we
must all go through...can't wait...Anyways then after Watanabe-san's
we visited another member who lives by herself and she is pretty old,
so we went to help her pull her weeds, and it was a good expirience.
After that we went with the Sasahara's to the Festival in Yamagata. It
was pretty much a bunch of tiny stores lined up on the street selling
stuff, but it was fun. We got to walk around with them and see how
they were doing. On Wednesday we had Eikaiwa in the morning and then
had a lesson with Cho-san which was ma-ma...he was already baptized in
a different church so he doesn't think that the Priesthood makes any
difference. Then we did a way cool Eikaiwa for the night class.
Sanders choro and Okada choro did a skit thing and we played a fun
game with cloths afterwards. Pretty fun. On Thursday we had weekly
planning and we made a funny picture for the Sasahara's and we made a
little puzzle and a game and brought it to their house, secretly put
the game in their mailbox and secretly put the treasure in the
backyard, then went to go visit Uchiumi-san, but she wasn't home so we
went back home for the day. And that way it for Thursday...for Friday
we went into Sendai because another 70 came to visit. Yamashita couple
came and gave a long presentation on how to work with members pretty
much. So that was fun. It's great to see all the missionaries and to
know that everyone is working hard. On Saturday we went on one of the
main roads and did guitar dendo again...passed out English class
fliers and Sanders choro played the guitar, so that was fun, and then
we had a lesson with Naoko-san and we set another day for her baptism,
we set it for the 9th so I hope that one goes down too. If it so
happens that she does get baptized on the 9th, then I might have to
change my plans to come and see it. But after the lesson we had a YSA
activity and in total we had 17 people come, and 5 of them were
non-members, so that was way good for us. 5 non-members at a YSA party
is way awesome right! We just ate soup and played ping-pong, but it
was way fun. Then on Sunday Watanabe-san called us and told us that
she didnt want to be a part of this church anymore because there was
this lady that she let into her home that tried to steal her money and
she hit her in the face, but then when she came to church she lied to
us and told us that she didn't hit her, so later that night she called
us and told us that because she lied to us and she hit someone that
she didn't think she could be part of the church, but we talked to her
about it and it ended up alright. Then it was Mother's Day in America
today so I got to talk to my family and that was my week! Have a good
next week!
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Home Evening, and we set a baptismal date with them, so that was such
a miracle. We set it for the 2nd of June, so hopefully they make it!
I'm excited for them. They said they would do their best to get an
answer from God. The next day we went to Watanabe shimais house and we
did a lesson on the Sabbath Day, and it's always way tiring to go to
her house because she tells us the same stories over and over and over
again, but I guess that's just how old people work. That is one thing
I've noticed is that living by yourself must not be very fun at all.
You have no one to talk to, so that's why when other people come over
you spill out everything and talk forever. It's the terrible circle we
must all go through...can't wait...Anyways then after Watanabe-san's
we visited another member who lives by herself and she is pretty old,
so we went to help her pull her weeds, and it was a good expirience.
After that we went with the Sasahara's to the Festival in Yamagata. It
was pretty much a bunch of tiny stores lined up on the street selling
stuff, but it was fun. We got to walk around with them and see how
they were doing. On Wednesday we had Eikaiwa in the morning and then
had a lesson with Cho-san which was ma-ma...he was already baptized in
a different church so he doesn't think that the Priesthood makes any
difference. Then we did a way cool Eikaiwa for the night class.
Sanders choro and Okada choro did a skit thing and we played a fun
game with cloths afterwards. Pretty fun. On Thursday we had weekly
planning and we made a funny picture for the Sasahara's and we made a
little puzzle and a game and brought it to their house, secretly put
the game in their mailbox and secretly put the treasure in the
backyard, then went to go visit Uchiumi-san, but she wasn't home so we
went back home for the day. And that way it for Thursday...for Friday
we went into Sendai because another 70 came to visit. Yamashita couple
came and gave a long presentation on how to work with members pretty
much. So that was fun. It's great to see all the missionaries and to
know that everyone is working hard. On Saturday we went on one of the
main roads and did guitar dendo again...passed out English class
fliers and Sanders choro played the guitar, so that was fun, and then
we had a lesson with Naoko-san and we set another day for her baptism,
we set it for the 9th so I hope that one goes down too. If it so
happens that she does get baptized on the 9th, then I might have to
change my plans to come and see it. But after the lesson we had a YSA
activity and in total we had 17 people come, and 5 of them were
non-members, so that was way good for us. 5 non-members at a YSA party
is way awesome right! We just ate soup and played ping-pong, but it
was way fun. Then on Sunday Watanabe-san called us and told us that
she didnt want to be a part of this church anymore because there was
this lady that she let into her home that tried to steal her money and
she hit her in the face, but then when she came to church she lied to
us and told us that she didn't hit her, so later that night she called
us and told us that because she lied to us and she hit someone that
she didn't think she could be part of the church, but we talked to her
about it and it ended up alright. Then it was Mother's Day in America
today so I got to talk to my family and that was my week! Have a good
next week!
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Monday, May 7, 2012
Watanabe-san Baptism
So this week was pretty good. We had Watanabe-san's Baptism and it
went really well! But that was on Saturday, so I'll get to that in a
bit. On Monday we went to a place called Yamadera and it was way cool.
It's pretty much a huge Shrine that you have to walk up tons of stairs
to get to and the view on top is beautiful! The Sakura trees were in
full bloom so it was the best time to go up. Then on Tuesday we went
to do Volunteer in a place called Rikuzentakada, and it was a good
time...in all respective terms. We had our friend Naoko-san come with
us. Then on Wednesday we had Eikaiwa in the morning and then the
Takahashi's took us out to eat Yakiniku...delicious. I love Yakiniku.
Then we had a lesson with Akira-san before the night Eikaiwa and then
during the night Eikaiwa we had Okada choro do his break dance and
then Sanders choro play his guitar, so it was really good. We also had
Sae come to Eikaiwa too! She was coming to Eikaiwa about 3 months ago
and so since it was a holiday she came back home and decided to come
to Eikaiwa. Then on Thursday we had interviews with President and
pretty much just prepared for the Baptism. We had a lesson with
Watanabe-san and we went over the baptism procedure and who is going
to do what for the program. Friday we did something way fun! We went
to the Eki and Sanders choro brought his guitar and he played guitar
while I sang songs and the other Elders passed out English Class
flyers. It was so effective and way fun! Hopefully people come now.
Then on Saturday we had the Baptism. It was pretty spiritual and I
think everyone had a good time. We had a about 3 investigators there
so it was a huge success. We made Watanabe-san a little picture album
and she was so grateful! She also bought all the Elders ties to wear.
Then on Sunday Okada choro did the Confirmation and it was pretty
weird cause he lost all his energy after he did the confirmation. But
it all went well. Watanabe-san bore her testimony too so it was a
really good meeting. Then today we are just trying to get all the
paperwork and stuff in, so we've been pretty busy today, but today we
are going to meet with the Sasahara family in a few hours so I hope it
goes well. Well hope everyone has a great week! Love ya!
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went really well! But that was on Saturday, so I'll get to that in a
bit. On Monday we went to a place called Yamadera and it was way cool.
It's pretty much a huge Shrine that you have to walk up tons of stairs
to get to and the view on top is beautiful! The Sakura trees were in
full bloom so it was the best time to go up. Then on Tuesday we went
to do Volunteer in a place called Rikuzentakada, and it was a good
time...in all respective terms. We had our friend Naoko-san come with
us. Then on Wednesday we had Eikaiwa in the morning and then the
Takahashi's took us out to eat Yakiniku...delicious. I love Yakiniku.
Then we had a lesson with Akira-san before the night Eikaiwa and then
during the night Eikaiwa we had Okada choro do his break dance and
then Sanders choro play his guitar, so it was really good. We also had
Sae come to Eikaiwa too! She was coming to Eikaiwa about 3 months ago
and so since it was a holiday she came back home and decided to come
to Eikaiwa. Then on Thursday we had interviews with President and
pretty much just prepared for the Baptism. We had a lesson with
Watanabe-san and we went over the baptism procedure and who is going
to do what for the program. Friday we did something way fun! We went
to the Eki and Sanders choro brought his guitar and he played guitar
while I sang songs and the other Elders passed out English Class
flyers. It was so effective and way fun! Hopefully people come now.
Then on Saturday we had the Baptism. It was pretty spiritual and I
think everyone had a good time. We had a about 3 investigators there
so it was a huge success. We made Watanabe-san a little picture album
and she was so grateful! She also bought all the Elders ties to wear.
Then on Sunday Okada choro did the Confirmation and it was pretty
weird cause he lost all his energy after he did the confirmation. But
it all went well. Watanabe-san bore her testimony too so it was a
really good meeting. Then today we are just trying to get all the
paperwork and stuff in, so we've been pretty busy today, but today we
are going to meet with the Sasahara family in a few hours so I hope it
goes well. Well hope everyone has a great week! Love ya!
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Monday, April 30, 2012
This week...
This week was way fun! I love dendo! Well today we went to a place
called Yamadera and we had to climb up tons of stairs and at the top
is a great view of the valley and a shrine, it was way tiring, but
pretty cool adventure. Anyways, we had a baptismal interview with a
person named Watanabe-san, and it went good. She is getting baptized
on the 5th, so that will be great! We also have been meeting with a
guy named Akira-san and we meet with him before English class. We are
still meeting with the Sasahara's and the other day we went to their
house to help them paint their chairs. It was pretty fun. We also went
to a members house to meet his non-member family and introduce them to
missionaries. It was a pretty successful event. On Sunday we had a
Ward dinner and a member brought a friend that can play really good
guitar. By the way we got 2 new elders in Yamagata and one of them is
Sanders choro. He is way good at the guitar! So with the members
friend and Sanders choro, we are going to do a talent show and have
everyone show off their talents. I think that's going to be later on
in the month, but it should be pretty great! The other Choro is Tanaka
choro, he's from Fukuoka. This week on Friday we are planning on doing
a dance/guitar dendo. We are going to do it near the eki and pass out
English class fliers so I'm pretty excited about that. The reason we
are doing that is because Sanders choro can play the guitar and my
companion Okada choro can break dance, so it should be a good time.
Tomorrow we are going to do service again! One of our friends
Naoko-san is going to come with us, so that should be pretty fun.
Other then that this week was....ok, ok...lets be honest...I don't
have April's Planner on me right now, so I can't remember what I did
this last week, so I'm sure that next week's email will be better
cause I'll have the right Planner. But we should be having a Baptism
next week so that should be good. Thanks! Bye!
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called Yamadera and we had to climb up tons of stairs and at the top
is a great view of the valley and a shrine, it was way tiring, but
pretty cool adventure. Anyways, we had a baptismal interview with a
person named Watanabe-san, and it went good. She is getting baptized
on the 5th, so that will be great! We also have been meeting with a
guy named Akira-san and we meet with him before English class. We are
still meeting with the Sasahara's and the other day we went to their
house to help them paint their chairs. It was pretty fun. We also went
to a members house to meet his non-member family and introduce them to
missionaries. It was a pretty successful event. On Sunday we had a
Ward dinner and a member brought a friend that can play really good
guitar. By the way we got 2 new elders in Yamagata and one of them is
Sanders choro. He is way good at the guitar! So with the members
friend and Sanders choro, we are going to do a talent show and have
everyone show off their talents. I think that's going to be later on
in the month, but it should be pretty great! The other Choro is Tanaka
choro, he's from Fukuoka. This week on Friday we are planning on doing
a dance/guitar dendo. We are going to do it near the eki and pass out
English class fliers so I'm pretty excited about that. The reason we
are doing that is because Sanders choro can play the guitar and my
companion Okada choro can break dance, so it should be a good time.
Tomorrow we are going to do service again! One of our friends
Naoko-san is going to come with us, so that should be pretty fun.
Other then that this week was....ok, ok...lets be honest...I don't
have April's Planner on me right now, so I can't remember what I did
this last week, so I'm sure that next week's email will be better
cause I'll have the right Planner. But we should be having a Baptism
next week so that should be good. Thanks! Bye!
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Sunday, April 22, 2012
Splits and Miracles!
So I'm going to keep this one short. On Tuesday we had a lesson with
Watanabe-san she is doing great. Keeping the Word of Wisdom...but she
might have a heart attack if she keeps it for too long...not a good
thing, but she is 100% committed to it. We also had lunch with
Naoko-san and had a really good conversation about the church and
about God and about our purpose of life. I hope she gets an answer to
her prayers! That night we went to visit the Kikuchi's and we got to
meet the older sister finally! She came out to the door this time, and
we only had time to give them a cake and then we left. On Wednesday we
went to Sendai to get training from President. Then afterwards we had
a lesson with a guy named Akira. We found him on the street back when
Kamio kyodai was here still and we finally did a lesson with him and
talked a lot about the book of mormon and about God. We shared the
expirience where Ammon talks to the king about The Great Spirit. Then
we had a good Eikaiwa...I'm getting really sick of planning the
Eikaiwa's by-the-way...I have not done the same game twice while I've
been here and I'm kind of running out of ideas! Then from Thursday to
Saturday we got to go work in Tsuruoka and helped out Bigger choro and
Brown choro. They are working hard in Tsuruoka and we helped them out
a little bit. There is a miracle story that I want to share. So me and
Brown choro decided to go visit this one guy Enomoto-san is his name,
but apparently he had some way bad troubles at his work this last week
and it was so bad that he decided to quit his job. Then when he quit
his job he saw the book of mormon on his desk and flipped it open to
any verse and he read that "the pure in heart will recive Gods word"
then the next day we showed up on his doorstep, so he told us the
story right there and how he thought God was trying to tell him
something. We also visited some of the people I taught a year and a
half ago. They were doing just great! I love Dendo! Thanks for
everything! Bye-bye!
Watanabe-san she is doing great. Keeping the Word of Wisdom...but she
might have a heart attack if she keeps it for too long...not a good
thing, but she is 100% committed to it. We also had lunch with
Naoko-san and had a really good conversation about the church and
about God and about our purpose of life. I hope she gets an answer to
her prayers! That night we went to visit the Kikuchi's and we got to
meet the older sister finally! She came out to the door this time, and
we only had time to give them a cake and then we left. On Wednesday we
went to Sendai to get training from President. Then afterwards we had
a lesson with a guy named Akira. We found him on the street back when
Kamio kyodai was here still and we finally did a lesson with him and
talked a lot about the book of mormon and about God. We shared the
expirience where Ammon talks to the king about The Great Spirit. Then
we had a good Eikaiwa...I'm getting really sick of planning the
Eikaiwa's by-the-way...I have not done the same game twice while I've
been here and I'm kind of running out of ideas! Then from Thursday to
Saturday we got to go work in Tsuruoka and helped out Bigger choro and
Brown choro. They are working hard in Tsuruoka and we helped them out
a little bit. There is a miracle story that I want to share. So me and
Brown choro decided to go visit this one guy Enomoto-san is his name,
but apparently he had some way bad troubles at his work this last week
and it was so bad that he decided to quit his job. Then when he quit
his job he saw the book of mormon on his desk and flipped it open to
any verse and he read that "the pure in heart will recive Gods word"
then the next day we showed up on his doorstep, so he told us the
story right there and how he thought God was trying to tell him
something. We also visited some of the people I taught a year and a
half ago. They were doing just great! I love Dendo! Thanks for
everything! Bye-bye!
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Sunday, April 15, 2012
To Shirataka and back???
So we had a lot of things happen this week, but it was way fun. Last
Monday we did a Family Home Evening with the Bishops family and we
invited Naoko-san to it. There were a few different people there, but
we did a lesson on the Spirit and how to feel it, and then we talked
about the Bishops and his wifes conversion stories and then afterwards
we played the doubles game, where you wrap the present up and you roll
dice and then if you get doubles then you can open the present...ma,
if you don't know it then oh well. It's way fun! Then on Tuesday Okada
choro and I decided to ride our bikes to Naoko-san's house. We felt
way bad for always calling her and asking her to come to Yamagata
because she lives about an hour away by car, so we decided that we in
turn would ride our bikes to her house to do a lesson! Bad
idea...Tuesday was definitely not a good day. The bike ride was 2
hours 15 minutes one way! Not to mention it was pretty much all up
hill. We also had to pass through 3 tunnels to get to where she lives.
Tunnels are super scary riding your bike through by the way. One wrong
move and you crash into the wall or you go into the street and get ran
over. So in total I think it's about 50 kilometers...crazy! Never
doing that again, unless Naoko-san insists that she will be baptized
if we did it again. ^^v
Later that night we visited the Kikuchi's house and we gave them a For
the Strength of Youth pamphlet and then we had to catch our train
home.
Wednesday we had an Eikaiwa class and then we taught Kin-san and then
Ota-san, and invited Ota-san to come to church, and she said that she
will come to church on the 22nd, so that was good. On Thursday the
Zone Leaders came over and did splits with us and Ruefenacht choro
went with Okada choro to go visit the Sasahara's and invited them to
start praying as a family together. Takei choro and I went to go visit
a sister out in the boonies and we pretty much just dendo'd the whole
time. On Friday we went to the Dentist for Okada choro and then we
went to visit Watanabe-san in Tendo city. We visited her and on
Thursday night she said that she had a dream where she met a man
dressed in white with his hands out and told her that from now on he
was going to be her father. So that was pretty crazy. I'm pretty sure
that Watanabe-san is going to be baptized. It's inevidable...she even
tells us over and over that she wants to be baptized. So it should be
pretty good. Later that night we did weekly planning, and I was super
tired. I've noticed lately that I'm getting way tired! So me and Okada
choro talked about what we can do to loosen up...it was a good
conversation. I'm so grateful for Weekly Planning. Then on Saturday we
had a party here at the church. It was a crepe party and we had about
7 investigators show up. Sasahara-san is way good at cooking crepe's
and then afterwards we played signs! It was a way good bonding
expirience for everyone. Ohh yeah, we also did another lesson with
Naoko-san before the party and talked about repenting and gave her the
October Liahona and told her to read it. The only block she has left
in order to get Baptized is to talk to her family about it. So we
tried to help her out about how she can help her family understand
more about the church. Then yesterday at church we had a really good
sacrament meeting...well Watanabe-san just about died in the hallway
of the church during sacrament meeting, but the Relief Society sisters
and us helped her to a room and had her lay down for a bit...she threw
up a few times but in the end she was ok! Other than that Sacrament
Meeting was pretty good. Then Naoko-san and Watanabe-san stayed for
Sunday School too which was way awesome! And that was my week this
week! Pretty awesome right! I feel like I'm going to die of being so
tired, but ohh well! We'll see how next week is!
Monday we did a Family Home Evening with the Bishops family and we
invited Naoko-san to it. There were a few different people there, but
we did a lesson on the Spirit and how to feel it, and then we talked
about the Bishops and his wifes conversion stories and then afterwards
we played the doubles game, where you wrap the present up and you roll
dice and then if you get doubles then you can open the present...ma,
if you don't know it then oh well. It's way fun! Then on Tuesday Okada
choro and I decided to ride our bikes to Naoko-san's house. We felt
way bad for always calling her and asking her to come to Yamagata
because she lives about an hour away by car, so we decided that we in
turn would ride our bikes to her house to do a lesson! Bad
idea...Tuesday was definitely not a good day. The bike ride was 2
hours 15 minutes one way! Not to mention it was pretty much all up
hill. We also had to pass through 3 tunnels to get to where she lives.
Tunnels are super scary riding your bike through by the way. One wrong
move and you crash into the wall or you go into the street and get ran
over. So in total I think it's about 50 kilometers...crazy! Never
doing that again, unless Naoko-san insists that she will be baptized
if we did it again. ^^v
Later that night we visited the Kikuchi's house and we gave them a For
the Strength of Youth pamphlet and then we had to catch our train
home.
Wednesday we had an Eikaiwa class and then we taught Kin-san and then
Ota-san, and invited Ota-san to come to church, and she said that she
will come to church on the 22nd, so that was good. On Thursday the
Zone Leaders came over and did splits with us and Ruefenacht choro
went with Okada choro to go visit the Sasahara's and invited them to
start praying as a family together. Takei choro and I went to go visit
a sister out in the boonies and we pretty much just dendo'd the whole
time. On Friday we went to the Dentist for Okada choro and then we
went to visit Watanabe-san in Tendo city. We visited her and on
Thursday night she said that she had a dream where she met a man
dressed in white with his hands out and told her that from now on he
was going to be her father. So that was pretty crazy. I'm pretty sure
that Watanabe-san is going to be baptized. It's inevidable...she even
tells us over and over that she wants to be baptized. So it should be
pretty good. Later that night we did weekly planning, and I was super
tired. I've noticed lately that I'm getting way tired! So me and Okada
choro talked about what we can do to loosen up...it was a good
conversation. I'm so grateful for Weekly Planning. Then on Saturday we
had a party here at the church. It was a crepe party and we had about
7 investigators show up. Sasahara-san is way good at cooking crepe's
and then afterwards we played signs! It was a way good bonding
expirience for everyone. Ohh yeah, we also did another lesson with
Naoko-san before the party and talked about repenting and gave her the
October Liahona and told her to read it. The only block she has left
in order to get Baptized is to talk to her family about it. So we
tried to help her out about how she can help her family understand
more about the church. Then yesterday at church we had a really good
sacrament meeting...well Watanabe-san just about died in the hallway
of the church during sacrament meeting, but the Relief Society sisters
and us helped her to a room and had her lay down for a bit...she threw
up a few times but in the end she was ok! Other than that Sacrament
Meeting was pretty good. Then Naoko-san and Watanabe-san stayed for
Sunday School too which was way awesome! And that was my week this
week! Pretty awesome right! I feel like I'm going to die of being so
tired, but ohh well! We'll see how next week is!
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Sunday, April 8, 2012
People asking to be baptized? Crazy!
So this week was a pretty good week. Last Monday Okada choro and me
went to the mall to find him a suit. Japanese suits are awesome, by
the way...he needed one because he only has 1, we also taught the
Sasahara's and taught them about reading the Book of Mormon again, but
this time we used the childrens Book of Mormon Stories book to teach
them. Then on Tuesday we had a huge Typhoon that came through Japan
from the cold north winds, and for about 2 days it snowed a ton! And
the wind was blowing roofs off the houses. If you think Japan can't be
nature tourtured enough...think again! We had to go to the dentist for
Okada choro because his tooth fell out of his mouth, so that day was
pretty fun, we had the wind against us the whole 2 days. Then on
Wednesday we went to this one person named Haruka-san's house and she
and her husband met the missionaries only a few months ago, but we
went there and talked to them about church and about English Class. It
was a pretty good meeting...later that night we had English Class and
3 new people showed up so that was really good! On Thursday we had a
district meeting scheduled in Tsuruoka, but when we went to the bus
stop to see if we had a bus, we found out that they apparently changed
the bus schedules and so we were stuck, but we gave the Senior Couples
in Yonezawa a call and they came up and picked us up. Later that night
we had a lesson with Naoko-san, and we talked to her about the
Gospel...literally...and then gave her a copy of Preach My Gospel and
told her to read it! Kind of funny, but an investigator wanting to
read Preach My Gospel...she is the one that is waiting for an answer
from God. She says if she gets an answer then she will be baptized.
Then later that night we made cookies for our Ward Mission Leader who
had some health problem earlier in the week that made him go to the
hospital. On Friday we went up to Tendo and met with Watanabe-san and
talked to her about being baptized. She started to break down and told
us that she wants to be an official member of the church, and she
insisted that we tell her all the requirements of being a member right
then! So we did a baptism interview right on the spot with her and the
only thing she has a problem with is Tabacco...after she is over that,
then she will be baptized. So we set a date for her and now she is
working towards it. Crazy miracles, right? Not many people strait up
say that they want to be a member of the church, and demand to hear
the requirements...I thought it was cool. Then on Saturday and Sunday
we got to watch General Conference! Awesome, right? It was pretty much
all about building families up, bragging about the church...(not
really, but kind of...haha) and pretty much telling the men that they
needed to shape up. At least that's what I got out of it. Building
families is the most important thing we can do on the earth. I loved
the Afternoon Session with Elder Holland...the closing line of his
talk was way bold and powerful. This church is pretty awesome isn't
it. Hearing the talks made me realize just how crazy awesome this
church is. I'm way stoked to be a member!
went to the mall to find him a suit. Japanese suits are awesome, by
the way...he needed one because he only has 1, we also taught the
Sasahara's and taught them about reading the Book of Mormon again, but
this time we used the childrens Book of Mormon Stories book to teach
them. Then on Tuesday we had a huge Typhoon that came through Japan
from the cold north winds, and for about 2 days it snowed a ton! And
the wind was blowing roofs off the houses. If you think Japan can't be
nature tourtured enough...think again! We had to go to the dentist for
Okada choro because his tooth fell out of his mouth, so that day was
pretty fun, we had the wind against us the whole 2 days. Then on
Wednesday we went to this one person named Haruka-san's house and she
and her husband met the missionaries only a few months ago, but we
went there and talked to them about church and about English Class. It
was a pretty good meeting...later that night we had English Class and
3 new people showed up so that was really good! On Thursday we had a
district meeting scheduled in Tsuruoka, but when we went to the bus
stop to see if we had a bus, we found out that they apparently changed
the bus schedules and so we were stuck, but we gave the Senior Couples
in Yonezawa a call and they came up and picked us up. Later that night
we had a lesson with Naoko-san, and we talked to her about the
Gospel...literally...and then gave her a copy of Preach My Gospel and
told her to read it! Kind of funny, but an investigator wanting to
read Preach My Gospel...she is the one that is waiting for an answer
from God. She says if she gets an answer then she will be baptized.
Then later that night we made cookies for our Ward Mission Leader who
had some health problem earlier in the week that made him go to the
hospital. On Friday we went up to Tendo and met with Watanabe-san and
talked to her about being baptized. She started to break down and told
us that she wants to be an official member of the church, and she
insisted that we tell her all the requirements of being a member right
then! So we did a baptism interview right on the spot with her and the
only thing she has a problem with is Tabacco...after she is over that,
then she will be baptized. So we set a date for her and now she is
working towards it. Crazy miracles, right? Not many people strait up
say that they want to be a member of the church, and demand to hear
the requirements...I thought it was cool. Then on Saturday and Sunday
we got to watch General Conference! Awesome, right? It was pretty much
all about building families up, bragging about the church...(not
really, but kind of...haha) and pretty much telling the men that they
needed to shape up. At least that's what I got out of it. Building
families is the most important thing we can do on the earth. I loved
the Afternoon Session with Elder Holland...the closing line of his
talk was way bold and powerful. This church is pretty awesome isn't
it. Hearing the talks made me realize just how crazy awesome this
church is. I'm way stoked to be a member!
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Sunday, April 1, 2012
Praying makes the world go round
So this week was way awesome! There was so many good things this week,
it kinda blew my mind. So the best thing this week was that we had the
Sasahara's come to church and then another investigator Naoko-san come
to church this week. Hopefully they had a good time. Sasahara's kids
went to Primary and it was pretty good. We also got to teach this one
guy named Kin-san. He is an Eikaiwa student and I'm pretty sure that
the reason that he wanted to investigate the church was because of a
member that came to Eikaiwa. He really wanted to know why our church
is so active and why everyone is so friendly? He thought that we must
have a dark side to us because there is no way that everyone could be
so friendly! So we taught him about the restoration and after English
Class he came up to us and told us thanks for teaching him. So I felt
really good after that. One bad thing about this week was that one of
our Eikaiwa members moved to Tokyo for college, so after English class
we threw a party for her and we had a good bye-bye party. We also
talked to her a ton about the church and explained to her a bunch of
different things regarding being an investigator and what the church
stands for and stuff like that, so hopefully she goes to Eikaiwa in
Tokyo. Our lesson with the Sasaharas was really good. So this week I
received a book entitled "Our Expiriences from the Tohoku Disaster".
It had the testimonies of a ton of people including one from one of
the missionaries in our mission. She is going to be going home at the
same time I am, but her testimony from the Disaster was so powerful
that we had to share it with the Sasahara's, and so they read it and
we are going to ask them today what they thought about it, but it was
a pretty powerful lesson. Using the disaster stories is a really good
way to help people feel closer to God. Because it's so relateable, and
everyone knows about it. Other then that, I had a really good Fast
Sunday this week and then a really good weekly planning, and then last
night I talked to one of our investigators on the phone and she has a
really really strong desire to learn if this is true or not. She is
really trying hard to find out for sure if it's true. I also learned
something really interesting today about Prayer. I was reading in
Moroni 7 and I learned about prayer to an intense deep level. I don't
know if I can put it on words on the screen, but the second paragraph
in the Bible dictionary under "Prayer" mixed with Moroni 7:16-17?, and
any verses that talk about God being a miracle maker in chapter 7,
plus any verse in the Book of Mormon that talks about being prideful
or humble...really opened my eyes to what prayer is for. It really has
a long term effect on nations. One person praying could decide the
fate of a whole nation, or the whole world! And to those that have no
idea what prayer is for, why you do it...Anyone that has a problem
thinking that prayer can change God's mind...Bible Dictionary under
Prayer...2nd Paragraph. Crazy! I know that no one understands what I
mean by any of this, but if you study those scriptures all together
then I'm sure you can figure it out! ^.^v Good luck. Well thats all I
got for today, Hope everyone has a great Spring!
it kinda blew my mind. So the best thing this week was that we had the
Sasahara's come to church and then another investigator Naoko-san come
to church this week. Hopefully they had a good time. Sasahara's kids
went to Primary and it was pretty good. We also got to teach this one
guy named Kin-san. He is an Eikaiwa student and I'm pretty sure that
the reason that he wanted to investigate the church was because of a
member that came to Eikaiwa. He really wanted to know why our church
is so active and why everyone is so friendly? He thought that we must
have a dark side to us because there is no way that everyone could be
so friendly! So we taught him about the restoration and after English
Class he came up to us and told us thanks for teaching him. So I felt
really good after that. One bad thing about this week was that one of
our Eikaiwa members moved to Tokyo for college, so after English class
we threw a party for her and we had a good bye-bye party. We also
talked to her a ton about the church and explained to her a bunch of
different things regarding being an investigator and what the church
stands for and stuff like that, so hopefully she goes to Eikaiwa in
Tokyo. Our lesson with the Sasaharas was really good. So this week I
received a book entitled "Our Expiriences from the Tohoku Disaster".
It had the testimonies of a ton of people including one from one of
the missionaries in our mission. She is going to be going home at the
same time I am, but her testimony from the Disaster was so powerful
that we had to share it with the Sasahara's, and so they read it and
we are going to ask them today what they thought about it, but it was
a pretty powerful lesson. Using the disaster stories is a really good
way to help people feel closer to God. Because it's so relateable, and
everyone knows about it. Other then that, I had a really good Fast
Sunday this week and then a really good weekly planning, and then last
night I talked to one of our investigators on the phone and she has a
really really strong desire to learn if this is true or not. She is
really trying hard to find out for sure if it's true. I also learned
something really interesting today about Prayer. I was reading in
Moroni 7 and I learned about prayer to an intense deep level. I don't
know if I can put it on words on the screen, but the second paragraph
in the Bible dictionary under "Prayer" mixed with Moroni 7:16-17?, and
any verses that talk about God being a miracle maker in chapter 7,
plus any verse in the Book of Mormon that talks about being prideful
or humble...really opened my eyes to what prayer is for. It really has
a long term effect on nations. One person praying could decide the
fate of a whole nation, or the whole world! And to those that have no
idea what prayer is for, why you do it...Anyone that has a problem
thinking that prayer can change God's mind...Bible Dictionary under
Prayer...2nd Paragraph. Crazy! I know that no one understands what I
mean by any of this, but if you study those scriptures all together
then I'm sure you can figure it out! ^.^v Good luck. Well thats all I
got for today, Hope everyone has a great Spring!
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Sunday, March 25, 2012
Kikuchi miracle
So this week was pretty much a regular week in terms of lessons and
stuff...we had a lesson with this chinese guy named Cho Senzan-san,
and he wanted to debate with us and he told us at the end of the
lesson that he was expecting more of a fight from us, because he said
that he had studied Mormons before, but the whole entire time we
pretty much agreed with 98% of everything he said and at the end of
the lesson he was really moved by our attitude. We didn't argue about
nearly anything, and he said that we wanted to hear more and talk
again, so we agreed. I thought that was pretty cool. Attitude can
change a lot! Another thing that we have been doing this week is going
around to different stores and trying to put up Eikaiwa (English
class) posters and place flyers in stores and such...it went pretty
well, it reminded me of going to the universities to put up flyers and
talk to administration about Helping Hands. Way scary, but when you
get someone that will listen then it's worth it! We also have trying
to meet our neighbors more, so the other day me and Elder Okada made a
ton of french toast sticks and went around to the neighbors and gave
them out and invited them to Eikaiwa. That was pretty fun. But the
coolest part of this week was I got a call from someone that Brother
Kamio and I found in his first week and we have been trying and trying
to get them to do a Family Home Evening with us, but the other day I
gave them a call and asked again if we could do an FHE and the dad
said to me something so sweet! He told me that because Brother Kamio
and I asked their family so many times to do a FHE, the younger
brother in the family had been persuading the family to make some
family time together, and because of that, they decided to make some
more family time and he said that they grew a lot closer together. He
said it was because of us that their family had grown closer together,
and then at the end he said that it would be alright if we went and
did FHE with them sometime! I was way stoked after I heard that! That
was definitely a miracle if I've ever seen one. But yeah, next week
will be really good. Tonight we are having another Family Home Evening
with one of the members and our investigator, so we are hoping that
will go down good. But that was my week in a nutshell. Hope everyone
else is doing great! Love ya all! Bye-bye.
stuff...we had a lesson with this chinese guy named Cho Senzan-san,
and he wanted to debate with us and he told us at the end of the
lesson that he was expecting more of a fight from us, because he said
that he had studied Mormons before, but the whole entire time we
pretty much agreed with 98% of everything he said and at the end of
the lesson he was really moved by our attitude. We didn't argue about
nearly anything, and he said that we wanted to hear more and talk
again, so we agreed. I thought that was pretty cool. Attitude can
change a lot! Another thing that we have been doing this week is going
around to different stores and trying to put up Eikaiwa (English
class) posters and place flyers in stores and such...it went pretty
well, it reminded me of going to the universities to put up flyers and
talk to administration about Helping Hands. Way scary, but when you
get someone that will listen then it's worth it! We also have trying
to meet our neighbors more, so the other day me and Elder Okada made a
ton of french toast sticks and went around to the neighbors and gave
them out and invited them to Eikaiwa. That was pretty fun. But the
coolest part of this week was I got a call from someone that Brother
Kamio and I found in his first week and we have been trying and trying
to get them to do a Family Home Evening with us, but the other day I
gave them a call and asked again if we could do an FHE and the dad
said to me something so sweet! He told me that because Brother Kamio
and I asked their family so many times to do a FHE, the younger
brother in the family had been persuading the family to make some
family time together, and because of that, they decided to make some
more family time and he said that they grew a lot closer together. He
said it was because of us that their family had grown closer together,
and then at the end he said that it would be alright if we went and
did FHE with them sometime! I was way stoked after I heard that! That
was definitely a miracle if I've ever seen one. But yeah, next week
will be really good. Tonight we are having another Family Home Evening
with one of the members and our investigator, so we are hoping that
will go down good. But that was my week in a nutshell. Hope everyone
else is doing great! Love ya all! Bye-bye.
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Monday, March 19, 2012
One lost and another found...
So this week was pretty good. On Monday we went to the japanese chess
(shogi) museum and looked at how they make the shogi pieces. We went
to Tendo to do that, and apparently Tendo is famous for pumping out
strong shogi players, so since Kamio kyodai loves shogi we went there
for his last P-day. It was pretty fun. Then afterwards we went to the
Sasaharas to do a lesson with them. Taught them about the Spirit and
how it warms us and makes us feel comfortable. The next day was a
split with the other missionaries in the house. We had to go around
with them to pick up all of the investigators that they had. So we
taught a few people lessons and we went to visit some people at where
they work to tell them that Ruefenacht choro and Mead choro were
transfering. The next day Kamio kyodai and I went to Sendai to go pick
up my new companion. His name is Okada choro and he is from
Shiga-ken...so Kyoto Stake. So he speaks Kansai-ben like no other. He
is working on fixing it though. So we picked him up and then Kamio
kyodai left on Friday so we were a 3 doryo for a few days. Anyways, he
has been trying way hard to get into the missionary feel of things. He
passed out his 1st Book of Mormon the other day and we did our first
Baptismal commitment the other day too. For his first week in the
mission he is seeing tons of miracles. It's pretty awesome. On
thursday we went to a members home to eat dinner and do a lesson and
then after that we went to a Less Active that lives nearby and invited
her to church in which she came, so that was very awesome. Church this
week was way sad. There is a family that lives here that is moving
away. Probably one of the central families in the Ward, and they are
moving away as well as tons of the YSA's. (Young Single Adults). But
yeah, we are all doing great and the snow is melting away, so maybe we
can get by without wearing a coat now. We'll see. Anyways, Other than
that this week has been awesome. Okada choro is going to be a great
missionary. Well until next week.
(shogi) museum and looked at how they make the shogi pieces. We went
to Tendo to do that, and apparently Tendo is famous for pumping out
strong shogi players, so since Kamio kyodai loves shogi we went there
for his last P-day. It was pretty fun. Then afterwards we went to the
Sasaharas to do a lesson with them. Taught them about the Spirit and
how it warms us and makes us feel comfortable. The next day was a
split with the other missionaries in the house. We had to go around
with them to pick up all of the investigators that they had. So we
taught a few people lessons and we went to visit some people at where
they work to tell them that Ruefenacht choro and Mead choro were
transfering. The next day Kamio kyodai and I went to Sendai to go pick
up my new companion. His name is Okada choro and he is from
Shiga-ken...so Kyoto Stake. So he speaks Kansai-ben like no other. He
is working on fixing it though. So we picked him up and then Kamio
kyodai left on Friday so we were a 3 doryo for a few days. Anyways, he
has been trying way hard to get into the missionary feel of things. He
passed out his 1st Book of Mormon the other day and we did our first
Baptismal commitment the other day too. For his first week in the
mission he is seeing tons of miracles. It's pretty awesome. On
thursday we went to a members home to eat dinner and do a lesson and
then after that we went to a Less Active that lives nearby and invited
her to church in which she came, so that was very awesome. Church this
week was way sad. There is a family that lives here that is moving
away. Probably one of the central families in the Ward, and they are
moving away as well as tons of the YSA's. (Young Single Adults). But
yeah, we are all doing great and the snow is melting away, so maybe we
can get by without wearing a coat now. We'll see. Anyways, Other than
that this week has been awesome. Okada choro is going to be a great
missionary. Well until next week.
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Sunday, March 11, 2012
1 year anniversary...
Hey, so this week was pretty good I guess. It was transfer week and such,
but yeah. On Monday last week we visited a girl named Riku-chan and it's
too bad but she was so interested in deep stuff. Like God and Purpose of
life, and prayer and such, but it turns out that she is going to be moving
soon so we couldnt meet her anymore. Then on Tuesday we went to Sanjo
shimais house and we did a Family Home Evening with her, with the Ward
Mission Leader. We taught about Love and the Love that Christ has for all
of us. Then we went to the Sasahara's place and did a lesson on the
Restoration and the Book of Mormon. It was a pretty good lesson I think.
The dad was pumped to read the Book of Mormon to his kids before dinner. So
hopefully they read the Book of Mormon. Then on Wednesday we had our
English classes and the first English class we had was in the morning. Then
afterwards we had the actually Eikaiwa and we had about 20 plus people
there. Eikaiwa is always a good time. Then on thursday we had our district
meeting and we talked about Testifying and then since it was the last
district meeting of the transfer we had a little testimony meeting,
and it was way good. It was also one of the missionaries Birthday's so
we bought him a cake and we all ate cake together. Then later that day
we just dendo'd like regular. Friday was just another one of those
dendo days, but we did do our Weekly Planning that day. Saturday was
all a dendo day. Knocked on houses all day long. But we did get a new
investigator that day. Mayuko-chan is her name and she said she was
going to be coming to the Relief Society Anniversary party thing on
Saturday, so we'll see how that goes. On Sunday...way cool. It was the
1 year anniversary of the big Tsunami and Earthquake, so at 2:46pm
everyone in the church had a minute of silence time and the Bishop
just rang this bell thing and everyone just meditated for a minute.
Also before that we had a Baptism take place. Brother Akashi got
baptized on that day too. He said that he wanted it to be on the 11th
so that he could always remember his baptism day. Pretty cool right?
So we had all that take place on Sunday. Then this morning we got our
call from President and we all got our transfer calls. Obviously I'm
staying...I'm going to be in Yamagata till the end, but Kamio kyodai
is going home and then the other two elders in the apartment are going
to be transferred, so I'm left all by myself again. Yamagata is going
to go back to a 2 elder, and my new companion is going to be a
Japanese fresh off the plane. So we'll see how these last 2 transfers
go. But this week was pretty fun, hopefully the next week will be good
too. Well, Love ya all! Bye bye!
but yeah. On Monday last week we visited a girl named Riku-chan and it's
too bad but she was so interested in deep stuff. Like God and Purpose of
life, and prayer and such, but it turns out that she is going to be moving
soon so we couldnt meet her anymore. Then on Tuesday we went to Sanjo
shimais house and we did a Family Home Evening with her, with the Ward
Mission Leader. We taught about Love and the Love that Christ has for all
of us. Then we went to the Sasahara's place and did a lesson on the
Restoration and the Book of Mormon. It was a pretty good lesson I think.
The dad was pumped to read the Book of Mormon to his kids before dinner. So
hopefully they read the Book of Mormon. Then on Wednesday we had our
English classes and the first English class we had was in the morning. Then
afterwards we had the actually Eikaiwa and we had about 20 plus people
there. Eikaiwa is always a good time. Then on thursday we had our district
meeting and we talked about Testifying and then since it was the last
district meeting of the transfer we had a little testimony meeting,
and it was way good. It was also one of the missionaries Birthday's so
we bought him a cake and we all ate cake together. Then later that day
we just dendo'd like regular. Friday was just another one of those
dendo days, but we did do our Weekly Planning that day. Saturday was
all a dendo day. Knocked on houses all day long. But we did get a new
investigator that day. Mayuko-chan is her name and she said she was
going to be coming to the Relief Society Anniversary party thing on
Saturday, so we'll see how that goes. On Sunday...way cool. It was the
1 year anniversary of the big Tsunami and Earthquake, so at 2:46pm
everyone in the church had a minute of silence time and the Bishop
just rang this bell thing and everyone just meditated for a minute.
Also before that we had a Baptism take place. Brother Akashi got
baptized on that day too. He said that he wanted it to be on the 11th
so that he could always remember his baptism day. Pretty cool right?
So we had all that take place on Sunday. Then this morning we got our
call from President and we all got our transfer calls. Obviously I'm
staying...I'm going to be in Yamagata till the end, but Kamio kyodai
is going home and then the other two elders in the apartment are going
to be transferred, so I'm left all by myself again. Yamagata is going
to go back to a 2 elder, and my new companion is going to be a
Japanese fresh off the plane. So we'll see how these last 2 transfers
go. But this week was pretty fun, hopefully the next week will be good
too. Well, Love ya all! Bye bye!
PS. Shimizu Yukimasa Kyodai, the young-man in our ward going to
Waseda, is probably going to be in the business/economy major...unless
he gets into Law...but probably the business/economy major. Yoroshiku!
^^v
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Sunday, March 4, 2012
Another Regular Week of Miracles
So this week we taught the Sasahara Family again and we taught this
time about the Apostasy and how the church of Christ was lost from the
earth. It was a good lesson and hopefully they learned a lot. We also
went up to the Sato Family. They are a pretty cool half czech half
japanese family and we shared a message about being thankful and then
later that night we went over to the Kikuchi Family's home to see if
they would be willing to do a FHE with us. We met them probably the
first day we got to Yamagata and we have been trying to get them to do
a FHE with us, but we are slowly moving them forward and we are
probably going to be able to get one eventually. Then on Wednesday we
had Eikaiwa again and there was quite a few people there, but yeah,
there was this new guy that came to class that I talked to afterward
and we pretty much had a whole discussion on the topics of the First
Lesson and the Restoration and the scripture that we shared in the
spiritual message hit him deep, so that was the reason we started to
talk about that kind of stuff. Hopefully he comes next week, but yeah,
way cool expirience. There was also a day when we went to pick up some
Potential Investigators and we went to this one house and talked to
this girl about the Restoration for maybe 25 minutes and eventually we
had to give her a pamphlet and tell her to try to pray because I
guarentee you wont feel any bad feelings from it. The rest of the week
we had the opportunty to help one of the members move their stuff into
a moving van and then later that night we went to the bishops home to
eat dinner. It was a good time. We taught them about the Restoration
and did some magic tricks and stuff. Then on Sunday we did the Preach
My Gospel class after church and we had like 5 of the young men there
to listen to the message. We talked about the Commandments and what
blessings you can recieve from them. One of the young men here in
Yamagata just got accepted to Waseda-daigaku and he is leaving pretty
shortly, but he says he wants to go on a mission so that was good.
Well that's been my week so far hope everone else's has been good. See
ya!
time about the Apostasy and how the church of Christ was lost from the
earth. It was a good lesson and hopefully they learned a lot. We also
went up to the Sato Family. They are a pretty cool half czech half
japanese family and we shared a message about being thankful and then
later that night we went over to the Kikuchi Family's home to see if
they would be willing to do a FHE with us. We met them probably the
first day we got to Yamagata and we have been trying to get them to do
a FHE with us, but we are slowly moving them forward and we are
probably going to be able to get one eventually. Then on Wednesday we
had Eikaiwa again and there was quite a few people there, but yeah,
there was this new guy that came to class that I talked to afterward
and we pretty much had a whole discussion on the topics of the First
Lesson and the Restoration and the scripture that we shared in the
spiritual message hit him deep, so that was the reason we started to
talk about that kind of stuff. Hopefully he comes next week, but yeah,
way cool expirience. There was also a day when we went to pick up some
Potential Investigators and we went to this one house and talked to
this girl about the Restoration for maybe 25 minutes and eventually we
had to give her a pamphlet and tell her to try to pray because I
guarentee you wont feel any bad feelings from it. The rest of the week
we had the opportunty to help one of the members move their stuff into
a moving van and then later that night we went to the bishops home to
eat dinner. It was a good time. We taught them about the Restoration
and did some magic tricks and stuff. Then on Sunday we did the Preach
My Gospel class after church and we had like 5 of the young men there
to listen to the message. We talked about the Commandments and what
blessings you can recieve from them. One of the young men here in
Yamagata just got accepted to Waseda-daigaku and he is leaving pretty
shortly, but he says he wants to go on a mission so that was good.
Well that's been my week so far hope everone else's has been good. See
ya!
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Sunday, February 26, 2012
Oaks Taikai
This week as pretty good. We had some cool things happen and some regular things happen, but lately the only thing we`ve been doing in Yamagata is trying to find people and we have been teaching Sasahara Family about the gospel and thats about it. This week we went to a few members houses and did family home evening with them. We went to the Hirai Family`s for dinner and FHE. They fed us Sushi and it was way good. We ate the sushi with our hands instead of our chopsticks cause apparently thats how they rolled back in the day. Other then that we have been trying to find people like crazy. We called this one person last night that was super excited to hear from us. They had their entire family on the phone trying to talk to us cause apparently its been a long time since they have seen the missionaries and they were super excited to hear from us, so hopefully that turns into something. Today we are planning on teaching the Sasaharas about the Apostasy. We are going to show them some pictures and build a house out of blocks and wreck the blocks down and tell them that that is what happened to the church of Christ. Hopefully they understand everything, but I think it`ll be good. Other then that every week we have been teaching a few of the members out of PMG and doing PMG Lessons with them. Talking about each chapter. Last week we taught about chapter 3 and how all of the lessons are tied together. Its crazy how put together PMG is. Umm...What else...Oh my goodness I totally forgot until just right now. We had a mission conference and Elder Oaks of the 12 came and gave a talk. He is a way funny guy! Way cool. We got to take a picture with him and shake his hand I told him I was from Ogden and he gave me a sarcastic face and said "hmm...I think I might know where Ogden is" then he chuckled. Elder Oaks talked about a ton of different things. He talked about the nature of God and some things about Patriarch blessings and the Trinity and the things not counted are often more important then the things counted for, he also said that this will be a turning point for Japan. It was pretty awesome. We also had a pretty good English Conversation class. On saturday we had 2 appointments but they all spoked us, which was a bummer but other then that this week was really good. I hope everyone else has a good week. Love ya all! Bye!
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Sunday, February 19, 2012
Sasahara FHE's
So last week was a pretty good week. On Monday we went to the Sasahara Family's house to do another family home evening. This time we taught about Prophets and we talked about how Samuel the Lamanite got on the wall and he was protected from the arrows and stones and stuff. Today we are planning on going to their house again to do another family home evening. We are going to talk about the Living Christ and about Baptism and stuff like that. It should be fun. Other than that this week we had a split with the District Leader and he came to split with me and with Brother Kamio. The split was a pretty good time. The only thing that we did for 2 days was finding. Thankfully, on the split with the District Leader and with Brother Kamio they found this 16 year old kid that they met on the street and made an appointment with him at the church for Saturday, and no one thought that he was actually going to come, but he showed up and we got a new investigator that day. Ohh also this week, way funny expirience. So we are talking to people on the streets and we stop this one girl. We start talking to her about some different stuff. She likes her family and happiness and then she also liked the Beatles and Hollywood movies and so we talked to her about that stuff for a little bit then we told her that we needed to go visit a referral that we recieved and she asked us if she could come along with us. She likes Lord of the Rings and adventure stuff like that, so she thought it would be a great adventure if she tagged along with us. It was pretty weird, but she tagged along with us and we dendo'd like normal even though she was there. Way funny, but whatever. Later that week we met her again, of course it was an appointment that we did, but we tryed to convince her that Jesus Christ was a ton cooler than Aragorn and Legolas...I dont know if she bought it, but she totally might have. So I think we are planning on meeting her again next week at the church with one of the members, so it should be pretty awesome. Anyways, other than that Takeru-kun that we met on Saturday is a pretty cool kid. He is part of a 2 person band and he playes the drums. He is 16 years old, but he really has intrest in the message. He really wanted to know what happiness is and whatnot. Way cool kid. Then on Sunday we have been doing this PMG class with a few of the members in the ward and last week we did a lesson on chapter 2, and it was really good. Later tonight we are going to be going to the Sasahara's again to teach them, then after that we are going to go to a members home to have another Family Home Evening. It should be pretty awesome. Hopefully everone will have a good time. Kamio Kyodai is doing really great. He is one of the best missionaries that I know. He hasn't even started his mission yet, but he's going to be crazy good. Anyways, that was pretty much it this week, catch ya later! Bye-bye!
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Sunday, February 12, 2012
Yamagata
Hey! Thanks for all the support. So the only thing that has happened really this week is that we went to a family named Sasahara family. They are way cool. They let us in and we do FHE's with them. It's pretty awesome. They like learning English too, but the other day the 7 year old asked his mom what the purpose of life was, and the mom was like "Oh, why don't you ask the missionaries because they will be coming over in a few days" So they waited till we came over and we taught them the purpose of life. It was so cute though, cause he whipped out his notebook and a pen and he couldn't write the Kanji yet, but he wrote down 2 Ne 2:25 and Alma 34:32. The two purposes of life. He wrote them down in his little book and told us that he understood. Way cool expirience. The parents were pretty into it too. We also have another family that we are trying to get a Family Home Evening with called the Kikuchi family. They are way nice. The other day when it was snow mega hard we went to a place called Sagae and we were trying to find a member family and they happened to be outside shoveling their driveway and we offered to help if they helped us, so they helped us and we helped them and then they took us in their car to find the member. Later that week we brought them kit-kats and cheese crackers and then they let us in their home for a few minutes because our train wasn't for another 30 minutes. At that point we couldn't really do any talking about gospel stuff, except for we tryed to explain FHE and stuff, but it's going to take a few more interactions with them to get things going. Well, other than that we have just tryed to visit members and we are starting to do FHE's with members a lot more. Maybe to help them to get into dendo a little bit more. It makes it really easy to just invite a friend to come to their home to do an activity. It's super cold and the wind bites, and the snow is crazy, but it's way fun. My companion is doing way good. He hasn't been to the MTC or anything, so he didn't have that training that other new missionaries have, but he is getting along just great. Yamagata Ward is the best! Love it! Hope all is well back home!
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Sunday, February 5, 2012
Blizzards in Yamagata-ken
So this week I was transfered to Yamagata! Sorry that I haven't had any time to post anything for a long time. My time as Assistant was really thin, so I barely had any time to even get on the email. But Yamagata is great! My new companion is Brother Kamio. That's right...Brother Kamio. He hasn't been set apart as an Elder yet, but he will be soon. I'm going to be his companion for 6 weeks and then he is going to go on a full time mission. We have been studying really hard lately and trying to find as many people as possible, but no success so far. We literally came into Yamagata with nothing. The area book doesn't have much in it, and I didn't really get the feeling that we had many investigators to begin with, but it's been good. We have been visiting the members a ton recently. The other day we went to the Miller Family. They are a half-japanese family, and it was the youngest daughters birthday the other day so we went over there to say hi! Then the next day we went to go visit another family that lives in a place called Sagae and we visited them and the snow was crazy! There had to have been about 2-3 meters of snow there. It was ridiculous. We visited them, but no one came to the door, but the good thing was, that when we went to visit this member, we got to help out a family that lived in the same neighborhood. The Kikuchi family, and we gave them a pass-along card and stuff, but we didn't really get to talk to them about the gospel, so we are going to go back and give them a thank you card and then offer to teach them how to have a family home evening. So hopefully that will be good. Other then that, we went to church yesterday and gave our testimonies and then gave a little introduction of ourselves. After church we shoveled off the church roof. It had about 3 meters of snow on top of it, and we had to shovel it off or else the roof could cave in. Then we did a role-play lesson of Lesson 1 with one of the members that is planning on going on a mission soon. And that was pretty much it for this week. Ohh wait, so on Thursday when we were trying to get to Yamagata, we waited at the bus line for 3 hours, to get on a bus. Apparently the buses for Yamagata were all down and we were waiting in line of about 200 people. Finally a bus came and we got to get on it, but it was freezing and I definitely thought that I was going to get frost bite on my feet. Crazy week, but way fun. I'm super excited to get back to regular dendo. Wish me luck! Domo!
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