So this week was TRANSFERS! πππ Hattanda Shimai has gone off to my beloved Shikoku to be the sister training leader in Marugame with Eyring Shimai! Omedetto! Meanwhile, I'm still here in Kitarokko with Jones Shimai! She's like me but less mellow. Also turns out we both share a deep and abiding love and appreciation for animated robots that disguise themselves as various vehicles. She's a fifth transfer which makes me the SENPAI aka I'm the one in charge of understanding everything now and it's only extremely stressful. I don't know what I'm doing. "Average missionary knows what they're doing 3 times per day" factoid actually statistical error. Missionary Georg who lives in Brazil and knows what he's doing 10,000 times a day is an outlier adn should not have been counted.
But anyway, this week we've had lots of really good lessons! Might as well just go through them by investigator.
Imanaka: We had a couple lessons with him this week. We had a phone call lesson actually on Monday. We read Enos together, and interestingly the main thing he got from it was that Enos was able to obtain forgiveness through prayer. (Gospel of Jesus Christ anyone?) He said he'd try praying, but when we went and followed up with him on Saturday, he hadn't, and seemed a lot more down and depressed than usual. He also said a great many things that neither I nor Jones Shimai were able to understand due to the fact that gamer Japanese is impossible to understand. But the fuinki (vibe) we got was that his mental and emotional health status is making it difficult for him to even accept the idea that God is there. Unfortunately, we have neither the Japanese nor the stewardship as sisters to really help him through it, so we may need to stop teaching him. He probably will struggle to progress until there are Japanese elders in the area.
Sofiah: We met with her on Tuesday and wow what a great lesson! Naganuma Shimai dousekied for us and we were able to help Sofiah resolve a lot of her concerns. She didn't understand the connection between the events of the Bible and the Book of Mormon, so we went through an overview of the contents of the Book of Mormon and watched the Restoration movie with her. By the end of it all she was really excited to read the Book of Mormon again and said if she received a witness of its truth she would get baptized! (that conversation ended up involving a more in depth discussion of the priesthood than I've ever needed to teach ever before in my life. #DendoInACountryWithoutAChristianBackgroundWoo) We're way excited.
Maho: We met with her again on Friday for a 30/30 but the gospel discussion part ended up taking longer than expected because she had so many questions! She said that she doesn't think God exists but is really fascinated (like a large very huge rock in her figurative mental view of the world shoe #Ravenclaw) by the fact that we keep telling her we know He exists. She's super willing to try things out for herself and has set up appointments with us for the next three weeks! Also we're going to hang out with her today for P-day. It's a good time.
But yeah so that's the gist of this week! More to come as things and investigators progress!
ζγγ¦γγΎγ! ππ
Sherwood ε§ε¦Ή
1.) Walking through a jungle path to Imanaka-san's house
Imanaka: We had a couple lessons with him this week. We had a phone call lesson actually on Monday. We read Enos together, and interestingly the main thing he got from it was that Enos was able to obtain forgiveness through prayer. (Gospel of Jesus Christ anyone?) He said he'd try praying, but when we went and followed up with him on Saturday, he hadn't, and seemed a lot more down and depressed than usual. He also said a great many things that neither I nor Jones Shimai were able to understand due to the fact that gamer Japanese is impossible to understand. But the fuinki (vibe) we got was that his mental and emotional health status is making it difficult for him to even accept the idea that God is there. Unfortunately, we have neither the Japanese nor the stewardship as sisters to really help him through it, so we may need to stop teaching him. He probably will struggle to progress until there are Japanese elders in the area.
Sofiah: We met with her on Tuesday and wow what a great lesson! Naganuma Shimai dousekied for us and we were able to help Sofiah resolve a lot of her concerns. She didn't understand the connection between the events of the Bible and the Book of Mormon, so we went through an overview of the contents of the Book of Mormon and watched the Restoration movie with her. By the end of it all she was really excited to read the Book of Mormon again and said if she received a witness of its truth she would get baptized! (that conversation ended up involving a more in depth discussion of the priesthood than I've ever needed to teach ever before in my life. #DendoInACountryWithoutAChristianBackgroundWoo) We're way excited.
Maho: We met with her again on Friday for a 30/30 but the gospel discussion part ended up taking longer than expected because she had so many questions! She said that she doesn't think God exists but is really fascinated (like a large very huge rock in her figurative mental view of the world shoe #Ravenclaw) by the fact that we keep telling her we know He exists. She's super willing to try things out for herself and has set up appointments with us for the next three weeks! Also we're going to hang out with her today for P-day. It's a good time.
Aside from all that we've been walking everywhere because Jones Shimai's bike hasn't come yet and also I would rather go out Abinadi-style than bike up a hill. (which actually isn't too far off from what could actually happen because it's blazing up in hereπ₯π₯) So we've had lots of time to bond and talk about our investigators and also life in general. I have accidentally reached High Elder Sister Role Model status within a matter of days. Idk why. I don't actually know what I'm doing. I'm just pretending I have my life together and hoping it works. #FakeItTilYouMakeIt
But yeah so that's the gist of this week! More to come as things and investigators progress!
ζγγ¦γγΎγ! ππ
Sherwood ε§ε¦Ή
1.) Walking through a jungle path to Imanaka-san's house
2-5.) Japanese filters with Maho-chan
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