Vegetables

Minasan konnichiwa! 

Just looking at my planner and thinking about making a full report on everything we did this week makes me tired so this will probably be less involved than last week.

We found a new investigator named Edward. He likes art and cooking. He was a referral from Hikaru actually, and we're dendoing him through family history cos he has lots of stories about his family. I got to show him my seven generation fan chart that I laminated and we committed him to filling out the My Family booklet with his mom. We're gonna see him again tomorrow. It's a good time.

Also we've visited Hayato virtually every single day this week and it's been a huge success for his progress. We even managed to do a lesson with him outside his shop for 15 minutes! It was so good and he's doing so well. The only thing is we promised him that if he would make the sacrifice to do a lesson with us outside his shop, he would get a lot of customers that day, but when we followed up with him about it, he said it didn't happen. So we're kind of like ?????? about it because we thought that was the promise we were supposed to make but he didn't see it fulfilled and now we're kinda not sure what to do because when a promise isn't kept, the trust in future promises is significantly lower.... But the weird thing is that when we were following up, he said that being able to do the lesson was a tender mercy so we're just confused in general.

We're really excited about Hayato's progress though. We had a meeting with Smoot Kaichou's first counselor, Nakajima Kaichou on Friday cos he's a part of Matsuyama Branch, and we've determined that the source of all of Matsuyama's (and Japan in general) problems stem from a lack of young people, which makes a lot of sense tbh. He was saying that without youth and YSA to fire up the older generations, everyone is just tsukareta and stuck in Renlund Chourou's problem box of no attitude or effort. Therefore, because Hayato has like a million young friends who he counsels on like a daily basis, if he gets baptized, there will be a wave of young converts that follow him. Thus, we're trying really hard to focus on and work through him, and get our handful of YSA to be fired up about dendo. Most of them have the attitude (sort of) but are generally lacking the effort. Which is really annoying sometimes, because the way to get out of that is to experience the joy of dendo but if they're too lazy to come out in the first place, then we're in a vicious cycle.

But in order to help with that, we've initiated a mission prep class at the blessing of the ward council! We're all making PMG Books of Mormon together and discussing how to better relate the gospel to people so they will see that it really is for them. More on that as it starts going.

But yeah other than that, Ai chan is a literal kinjin and she's just absorbing the gospel like a sponge. The only struggle we're having is that it's hard to set up things with her over LINE, so we're going to try and catch her on her way home from work today to set up an appointment this week. Hopefully Hayato's influence will help her as well.

In other news, Bagoyo Shimai and I spent three hours compiling a list of the best scriptures in the entire Book of Mormon for Suzuki-San and Hayato. As a direct result, we have these amusing quotes:

"Suzuki-san can't handle the meat of the Gospel yet. He can only have milk." - me

"Hayato can have...vegetables" - Bagoyo Shimai

"How many verses are there in the book of mormon?" - Bagoyo Shimai

"So many." - me

Yeah fam that's all I got gomen. Sleep is needed lol. Til next week! 

愛しています! 

Sherwood 姉妹 💕

1.) We gave Hayato the broken guitar that's been sitting in our apartment for who knows how long and he let us write this scripture on it

2.) Hayato did an introduction in English for y'all 💕

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