So last week we low-key asked Heavenly Father to let us be like Alma and we're regretting it just a bit. The thing is, we had meant Alma 15:13-14 Alma who can call people to repentance and baptize thousands, but apparently Heavenly Father thought it'd be better for us to be Alma 14:2-3 Alma who calls people to repentance and then everyone hates him. RIP us.
See, what happened was we had a wicked awesome Monday and 7/8ths of Tuesday. We found 6 new investigators and taught like four lessons. And then out came the priests of the Order of Nehor. Out of nowhere, Hayato became like a totally different person, dropped us by way of temper tantrum over text (we still don't know what the real reason is. Like what, are you 12?) dropped our other investigator like a bag of hot rocks (also don't know why) even though we all apologized like three times, and the other friend even went as far as prostrating himself on the ground and begging for forgiveness. It was way sad. And stressful. And also very reminiscent of middle-school drama. It's very interesting how people who aren't keeping the commandments can't really progress past that level of maturity. I mean, you can see it in every TV drama ever. It's just middle school nonsense but on an adult scale. Stupid. Stress only.
But it's interesting cos remember how last week we were working on humility? Well it sure is a good thing we did otherwise this whole fiasco could have been a whole lot worse. As it was it was pretty bad, but we were able to be humble enough to apologize quickly and by the Spirit (even though we still don't really know why he's mad at us) and not get all defensive. (Okay maybe we got a little bit defensive but only when ranting to each other and not to him) So thanks Heavenly Father for giving us that keiji (revelation) ahead of time.
Also, to make up for the Straight Nonsense™ of this week we also had a bunch of Straight Miracles™ and it was great. Tatoeba (for example), remember when we went to Matsuyama Castle with Tanaka-san last transfer? WELL...he's been coming to Eikaiwa for a solid year and a half now, and apparently 6 months ago sisters gave him an English Book of Mormon (and only an English Book of Mormon) and he read the WHOLE THING. In a WEEK! So now he has a super strong testimony of Jesus cos he read the whole Book of Mormon, but he has no idea why. We asked him why he's not Christian if he loves Jesus so much and he just went, "Oh...I don't know. I never thought about it. If I want to be Christian, should I get baptized?" and we're just like ???????? Who even is this guy??? He even asked to give the opening prayer at Eikaiwa! So we started doing lessons with him and gave him a Japanese Book of Mormon so he can actually understand it this time. And it turns out he's been to Temple Square before??????? Like??? Most MEMBERS haven't even been! So yeah he's getting baptized next month. It's been wild.
Other miracles more simply put because I'm tired include:
-We set a maybe kind of tentative date for Katsu to go to the temple and receive his endowments. (it's the end of Bagoyo Shimai's and my missions. We told him we'd go with him if he goes by then. So @mom you have to come pick me up so I can hold up my end of that promise and also I wanna introduce you to my angels in Katsura)
-We had a really fun sports event where we got a bunch of really serious Nihonjin to play stupid games with us. These are the only pictures I have this week. Gomen.
-Our district leader, Bailey Chourou, is an angel and we love him.
-We live.
-We miraculously ran into three investigators when we were going out to eat ramen with Katsu
-God protected our lungs as we dendoed these three punks who were going through cigarettes like a family of 8 goes through a bag of Cheddar and Sour Cream Ruffles. It's okay though. They're like baby punks. Not quite fully fledged yet. Only have their little fuzzy punk feathers. There's still hope. They're in culinary school. We call them The Chefs.
I'm tired now tho. I want tapioca. See you next week ✌️
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