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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Monday, April 30, 2012
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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