This week originally had exactly zero appointments, but them ended up being crazy full of all sorts of last minute appointments and stuff. I'm still not entirely sure what happened, but it's fine.
We had a lesson with the Relief Society president's son, Issei on Monday. He's 12 and loves chemistry so we made a baking soda volcano with him and turned it into a really solid tatoe about faith and how it's a principle of action and power, of trying the word and seeing if it has any merit. It was really fun and also cute. His mom was really happy about the lesson and he got all ureshii about trying to be more faithful. We extended the Jesus Christ challenge to them as a family. It was way good.
On Tuesday, we visited Nakamura-San and gave him a prayer rock to help him remember to pray. We told him we would pray together to help him be more genki cos his hips really hurt and he put the rock by his CD player that he uses every day so he would remember. It was really nice having a nice simple lesson for once instead of the all over the place messes it's been lately with dousekis that have been too strong.
Thursday we got to spend time with Jenny and talked a lot about truth and how she's come to know what she knows now. She said she Googled the Church (gotta love the Google. Giving people problems and random annoying deep doctrinal questions about the Church since day 1) and as a result had a number of questions about the godhead and eternal families. I must confess I am not used to having to deal with such kinds of questions and thus was rather stressed. But hey it ended up working out and long story short she's down to learn more, but is currently very hesitant about baptism, though she is open to the possibility that the church is true, which is in and of itself a miracle I don't see very often.
Friday was full of lovely district meetings and friendship, as well as a really solid chunk of visiting less-actives with the Ooshimas. It was way cool actually because this one lady Okamoto Shimai basically committed to coming back to church thanks to the Ooshimas being total rock stars and not letting her use a bunch of the typical excuses. It was great. We also had a lovely dinner appointment with the Fujikawas and not only did we get to talk about the gospel, we also got to discover that Japanese Settlers of Catan does exist, and there were many hilarious quotes by the six year old of the family. Highlights include
Me: "Kou chan where do you want to go on your mission?"
Kou chan: "Disneyland. Or USJ"
Hina: "英語でウサギは何？" (What's 'rabbit' in English?)
Kou chan: "Carrot!"
Then there was volunteering at the Kobe Marathon on Saturday and that was super fun. My voice kinda hurts from asking like a thousand people about their lives as I handed them their race numbers, but that's okay because we got a couple solid contacts out of it. Everyone was very happy that we tried so hard to talk to everyone and take interest in them. It was way great. And then the Tokunous fed us ramen and it was delicious. All in all a way good day.
Sunday was truly the day of miracles though. Natsuki came to church and we practiced English with her by reading Book of Mormon Stories with her. We roped a couple of the youth into it too. It was way fun. And then after church we had Music Night, which four of our investigators came to! Even Ooyama-san who we were sure was too busy to make it showed up! It was awesome! (@Hollingworth長老: eternal 感謝 man your song made this all possible) She told us about how her daughter just got baptized and she got to go to the service. The Lord be willing, I think she might be able to get baptized by the end of the year. But wait! There's more! When we went to go pick up Nakamura san, he was super genki! Not a single complaint about his hips, and when we asked him about his prayers that week, he said he saw a miracle! Get this: he loves music and listens to his CD player every day. But then randomly it stopped working and he couldn't get it to work. At that moment, he saw the little prayer rock we had given him and he decided to pray that his CD player would work. AND THEN AFTER HE PRAYED IT STARTED WORKING! He totally recognized that God helped him and it took quite a lot of self control for me to not scream very loudly and joyfully. I think he might actually start really progressing finally! Hallelujah! The Lord loves us. It's been a good week.
All the best!,
Sherwood 姉妹
19歳 20歳
1.) the prettiest red tree
2.) we found tobacco Popeye and Hatchett 長老 almost died laughing. His face in this photo is my favorite
3-6.) hiking with Suenaga-san today
7.) baby's first ramen shop
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