This week we were able to meet with a lot of our
investigators and 2 new investigators Elder Horne and I finally are
really teaching good lessons together a lot more 50 50 part of that is
that he has been pushing me and that I have wanted to try and jump in
more on lessons it really seems that because we are teaching together
our lessons are going very well together!! The sad this is that is
wednesday is transfer day and there is a 99% chance that we are
transfering because trainer and trainee are almost always 2 transfers
only together.
One of our lessons this week was on
the word of wisdom we got him to commit to living the Word of Wisdom he
drinks coffee and smokes but he really wants to stop, we are giving him
a good scripture every day to read to help him and we are going to
follow up this weekend. 2 Ladies we found while housing we were able to
meet with again with one we had about an hour lesson the other was about
a 30 minute lesson they were good and we will probably meet with them
again this week!
A miracle happened last sunday a
Korean girl just came to church to see what is was about, she speaks
fluent japanese, english, german, and of course Korean!! Since she came
last sunday she has had 3 lessons with sisters and came to church
yesterday, they have another lesson tonight she is what we call a kinjin
(golden investigator) I was amazed by how prepared she was by the lord
I'll keep you all updated if I dont transfer..
Anyways love you all talk to ya next week!!
Elder Stevens
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January 26, 2015
Another Great Week!! I am
pretty sure that when I start an email every week I say that but it
really is true I have been thinking about it recently and I really do
have a good week every week I have yet to have a bad week during the
mission! There are hard days that sometimes seem like they go on forever
but even after those days you feel accomplished so I am not
complaining.
We met with a lot of investigators
and got 3 new investigators as well. One of our new investigator speaks
perfect english and wants people to play basketball with so we went and
played bball with him on saturday so it was a lot of fun then we talked
about missionary work with him and what we do and why we are serving.
But we did set up another appt so I think that we made a pretty strong
relationship. Another new investigator is 18 and he just wanted to take
us out to eat after we talked to him once, I am not sure if he has all
that much interest but he is super nice and we made a really good
relationship with him he loves us because we are young americans and he
loves video games so we talked about some of the videos games I knew and
he knew so glad that I have a really extensive knowledge on them;) But
we did set of another appt with him I hope we will be able to start to
teach him, he was really amazed that we didnt play any games or watch tv
for 2 years I love telling that to people because they are always just
so amazed by that! The last investigator is a girl I going to say she is
29ish idk the first time we met she told us that god was a important
matter and she would love to talk to us again she even gave us sodas
when we left she was a super nice person, we talked to her on sunday
again it was short because she didnt have much time but we scheduled for
another appt on tuesday so I hope that that goes well. We met with our
goach family again we left them a present on thursday and then had a
lesson with just one of the daughters on sunday because the parents
werent home so we just taught at the door we taught the method of prayer
and who god is less 1.
Housing this week went
really good as well we set up three strong appt. and one of them was
done all the way by me and I was so shocked when it happened I started,
she had interest, I kept talking asked her what her most important thing
in life was she said families, talked about familes she thanked me for
what I said, then I said, sorry this was a really all of the sudden
visit and set up an appt for this tues so I hope it goes good. I have
told people that we were coming back and they said it would be ok
if they were there to stop again but this time it was a super strong
appt, and it gave me a lot more confidence in just being able to talk to
people. I'm not going to lie there are still a lot of times when I have
no Idea whats going on but the understanding is coming and the none
akward give me like 1 min to translate in my head responses are coming
as well!!
Finally we were able to meet with a lot
of our investigators this week as well but my favorite was a lesson with
one of our investigators named Hongo he has the coolest name but in
that lesson we taught lesson 3 it was easily the best 50 50 lesson that
me and elder Horne taught, and I acutally really felt like I knew what
was going on the whole time in Japanese!!! Not perfect but I knew enough
to be able to talk and stuff so that made me really happy. But I want
to share an experience from that I was doing a holy ghost example(tatoe)
I cant think of the word in english example works tho, anyways I said
before we have the gift of the holy ghost the promptings are like me
just touching his had but after we recieve baptism it is like me
grabbing with both hands and leading you during your trials in life,
When I let go he told me to do it again and I was a little confused but I
didnt hesitate I grabbed his hand again. After that he told us that he
felt something in his chest my thoughts after that was OH MY GOSH THIS
NEVER HAPPENS, ITS JUST LIKE THE DISTRICT( for those of you who dont
know what the district is it is just like missionary training videos
when you are a missionary you watch them a lot.) But it was just an
amazing crazy experience, The only thing that would have made the lesson
perfect would have been a bap Date we tried but he said he wants to but
he has a lot of Catholic friends so he has to think about it, I was
just so heart broken but I still feel like he is gonna accept next time,
We left him with 2 nep 31 and told him to pray about baptism so I hope
it goes great when we meet again!!
Anyways long
email and kind of a weird story but I just wanted to share that
experience as it strengthed my testimony of you dont have to speak
perfect Japanese to invite the spirit. Anyways I love you guys hope you
all have a great week!!!!
Elder Stevens
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