Hello dear mother of mine!! It was good to get your newsletter and the brief paragraph of your week. Sounds like you are just being an otsukaresama and doing your best. I love you so much. It sounds like dad had quite the week going to the cabin and all. I want to go so bad. My time will come though.
So i think your prayers are being answered. YOu said that you are praying for mine and ELder Chens success here. Well I think they are being answered. Please dont stop praying whatever you do. We found 5 new investigators last week. It was amazing. We talked to a lot of Chinese poeple too. haha. almost 1 out of every 5 was chinese. But i will start from the begining.
THe past 2 weeks have been nothing but clouds and rain. I hate the rain as a missionary. I told you last week that it was raining a ton. Well it carried over into this week as well. It rained all week. I think i might of seen sunshine once or twice. I dont like it. Its no wonder why everyone here is so depressed all teh time, The weather sucks!!! AZ weather is so much better. Anyways, monday like said was raining so we went and housed inside china town. We had to buy bananas too and they are cheaper in CHinatown. Well It was super funny. We were on the 5th floor of a 10 floor building adn we had just knocked this door and then all of a sudden the door next to it opened up and a bunch of guys came up. They lined teh hallway to the elevator. THen a guy walked out of the elevator and all the lined up men bowed and said something. THen they all went inside the house except for 2. THey came to our door and opend it up and it was the same room and building. After all said and done Elder CHen looked at me and told me that that was a Yakuza (Japanese Mafia) Boss man. We housed his house. hahaha. Way funny right!!!! COol story. ANyway, on the 3rd floor a lady opened up and she was of course chinese. Elder CHen adn her talked for like 40 min in chinese adn i was just smiling and saying yes to everything. Turns out that the lady had been converted to a different Church but hasnt been going. She loves Jesus CHrist and she wants to be the better person. She seemed really cool. I cant tell you everything because i dont know but htat was pretty much the whole of it. We said a prayer with her and exchanged info and then left. She is a super good P.I. as of now. We are having a BBQ on Saturday with the ward and she said she would come. So it should be fun.
Tuesday we had a nice talk with a member about Faith. He converted about 11 years ago. He is one of my favorite members. We shared expeirences and stuff like that. It was fun. It rained tonight too. But i liked it. It was a thunder storm!!!! It was the first one i have been in since coming to Japan. It was so cool and the rain was coming so hard. It looked like an AZ rain storm. It was really cool and i really loved it so much!!!!
Wednesday it was raining like usual. We had to be at the church at 4 for some preparation and then a lesson at 4:30. Well it was about 3:30 and we were more than 1/2 an hour away. We just got done stopping somebody and ELder CHen said we should go. Well i thought we still had time and i stopped one more man. Good descion. His name was Komuro. He had just moved to Yokohama from Sendai. His entire family of 18 died in the Tsunami last year. Thats why he moved here. He ahs been to prison too for 3 years. He spends all his days drinking sake. We met him when he was drunk but he liked us and told us he wanted to meet us again. We met him on friday and had a great lesson with him. But hard work pays off. Hopefully he will be a good investigator. 20 minutes before English started a 60 year old man walked in the door and said that he wanted to study the book of mormon. WHAT???? He had met the missionaries a year ago and they gave him a flyer for eikaiwa and he lost it. Well this mans hobby is studying the bible. He really wants to study the book of mormon and the bible at the smae tiem. He found an english flyer in a gas station and he came. It must of been an old flyer because the type of flyer he showed us, i havent had in over 5 months. Pretty crazy uh? The Lord sure is blessing us alot here. We quickly set up a lesson with him for this week on wednesday.
Thursday we ahd a zone meeting and on the way home we went and did work in the very north part of our area. Of course it was raining. Well everyone was super nice. We met a 21 year old who said he would meet us again for Ping Pong and to hear our lesson but he never showed up. It was good for Elder CHen though to finally see some success right after success. It sure makes a mission easier. That night we had a lesson with Tamari. We taught him about Repentance and the Atonement. I thought it was a good lesson. Tamari isnt too smart so we teach through lots of examples. I was thinking of a good one when i stumbled upon one in the Aaronic Priesthood tecahing manual. YOu have a bag. YOu tell them that they always have the bag. You explain that in your bag of life you have nessecary things like clothes, food, water, etc. You dont want any unnessarcy stuff in the bag. But when you sin you put bad things in your bag. and then you add rocks and heavy things into the bag. But you then tell them taht through Jesus Christ Atonement, our bag becomes light because He takes all our rocks away. I thought it was a good example but i didnt have any rocks at the church. So i loaded my bag up with all my wieghts and then started the trek to our church. It is a 20 minute walk. It was SO HEAVY!!! Elder Chen fell down trying to put it on. It was so funny!!! But Tamari understood the lesson really well. I was happy.
Friday we went out and worked in the morning and found a super nice chinese man who had been to church before but has a bad image of church. Someone told him that all churchs hate eachother and he didnt like that. He really wants to go to a church too. Well we told him we liked all churchs but we just want to add knowledge to what he already has. He liked that. He said he would have to talk to his wife. He was super nice. I had such a good feeling when i was thinking after talking to him about him and his wife and family getting sealed in teh temple. It made me super happy. Friday it was of course raining. Our 21 year old didnt show up for his lesson so we went streeting. I saw a guy walking behind me, so i turned around and started talking to him. Turned out he was chinese and didnt understand anything so elder chen took over. THis guy had been to 2 different churchs but didnt like them. He was cool with meeting us again and we are going to meet him agian on thursday. He is looking for the right church i feel. Our lesson with Komuro was great. He commited to read the book fo mormon, come to churc and pray. He also said he wanted to meet us 3 times a week.We shall see how it goes. After his lesson we had dinner. A new PIZZA shop opened up and it is super good. Just like america. Well i decided taht me and Elder CHen are going to do Pizza Friday. GOod mission memory right? SO we had pizza for dinner and i was suepr happy!!!!
Saturday we were in our apt pretty much all day planning and doing stuff on our computer. But we also had FHE at teh church. It was super fun. I am getting good at ping pong. I can beat japanese and chinese at ping pong I am dangerous ahah.
Sunday was super great but super sad too. Lili got baptized last week and her confirmation was today, but she didnt come. I was super bummed about that. Her and Panda broke up and i am wonerign if she will come to church again if he is there. I hope that isnt the case. I think i overthought a bit much and it made me sad adn kinda depressed. I really like Lili and want the best for her. Now the good part. After sacrament, we talked to a lady who had recieved a english flyer adn thought the class was on sunday so she came for all of sacrament. Well she turned out to be chinese from Hong Kong with a 16 year old son. We talked about when eikaiwa was and all that. She made friends with all the chinese people in our ward. There is a chinese corner and it is super fun to sit in. haha. She was about to leave and i asked Elder CHen to invite her to the Gopsel Principles class which she came. She really enjoied it. She read teh G.P. Book alot and told Elder CHen that she had tons of interest in the stuff we were studying and that she wanted to come to church every sunday. CRAZY!!!! Chinese people are so GOLDEN!!! When china finally opens for the work, it will be crazy, i just know it. Hopefully before the transfer is over, we will have enough chinese members to make a branch. How cool would that be? It makes me happy!!!! We spent the rest of the day streeting and doing work. But ya church was super good!!!
SO that is my week in a wrap up. WAY BLESSED!!!! Hopefully we can see another baptism by the end of this transfer. We have a ton of good PIs that we are working with that will hopefully become gators and get baptized. We shall see. With all this success i still feel really down about something but i dont know what it is. I have a interview with president tomorrow and i will talk to him about it. This will be my last interview with President ALbrecht. I am way sad. I love President so much. I am planning ot keep in touch with him for a long time. I love him just like i love dad. Of course i love dad more though!!!! I will really miss President Albrecht though.
So i think i have sent you home 2 camera cards! If you could send them both back to me. I really need them. I sending you one back in a letter for Kendi tomorrow. Please send it back as soon as possible. I want to send them to you once a month. I am sending them at the very begining of the month. But ya. Aprils camera card is way good. You will like it. I love you so much mom. I cant wait for Mothers day. Only 2 weeks. CRAZY!!! TIme is really going by so fast. I hope that you have a great week at home. Thanks for everything. YOu are amazing. YOu are probably done reading this now, it is super long. haha so i will go. I love you so much. Stay classy!!!
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