Life after death as a missionary is fast approaching and it stresses me out so this is probs gonna be a shorter one. Gomen.
Lots of way cool things happened though, which was awesome. Tuesday ended up being crazy busy because we had three appointments. Busiest day we've had in ages. Just bounce after bounce after bounce to new people in new places. A real wild ride. But the lesson we had with this cute old lady named Yoko ended up going super well. We taught her about who God is and the Spirit was so strong. It was so cool bc she mostly just had interest in English but we could tell she really liked the message we shared.
Also we finally got to meet with Kazushi after like forever! Turns out he's actually really interested and wants to learn more about Christianity. We were very surprised. We got to tell him our experiences about coming to know the Church is true and he said he was really fascinated by them. We're very excited about it.
We also had a very fascinating appointment with one of the members in our ward, Kitamura Shimai, and had a really cool discussion about how we can learn different nuances from the scriptures in different languages. She talked about how the history of Japan gives the word we use for "endure" (taeshinobu) in the Church a bad vibe. And she told us that when we teach new people, they'll likely respond better to the word mochikotaeru (持ち堪える). It was very fascinating. Makes me really wanna read the Book of Mormon in other languages.
Friday night ended up being crazy though because we were planning on meeting with this one friend of ours, Haruka, and out of nowhere she just brings a friend visiting from Denmark who said flat out that she's interested in learning about religion and it ended up that they both came to game night. Long story short, it was a really crazy two hours.
The coolest thing this week though is what happened with Myoujin Kyoudai in our ward. We had messaged him the other day just to kinda follow up with him about how his scripture study is going (spoiler alert: not the best) and he actually set up an appointment with us and the elders for the next day to do Come Follow Me with him, and it turned into this whole lesson about the covenant path and he really opened up to us about his desires and struggles with the gospel, and it was honestly so cool. We were really able to learn what he needed to progress along his path and how to help him. Bishop was way happy we got him to open up, because for a really long time, missionaries had thought he was weird and not worth working with, and didn't really have a good relationship with him, but we were able to really bond with him and be his friend, and it was just the coolest miracle ever. And the whole thing happened by us just asking him if there was anything we could do to help. He was so surprised that we actually cared and wanted to be his friend, and long story short, I can testify of the power of friendship, and that charity really does never fail. We're super excited to start working more with Myoujin Kyoudai and helping him out.
愛しています！💕
Sherwood 姉妹
Fun things:
Dettmer Chourou: I don't like sweet things.
Tobler Shimai: well what do you like?
Dettmer Chourou: a little bit of orange juice, a little bit of lemon juice, and a lot of water in a glass. Delicious.
*five minutes later*
Ejima Shimai: Dettmer Chourou is all legs
Ejima Kyoudai: yeahhhhh I bet he's tall because he drinks that orange lemon stuff
Ejima Shimai: ummmm
Ejima Kyoudai: yeah I'll just start drinking that and I'll get taller perfect
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