tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13204146981418455912024-03-13T07:38:46.116-07:00Bryce's Adventures! Email styleAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00448761650358460496noreply@blogger.comBlogger40125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1320414698141845591.post-21200542308788568512015-08-28T11:48:00.001-07:002015-08-28T11:48:06.365-07:008/23 Hello :)<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">Hey! Sorry last week's email was super long! So I won't write as much</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">this week. But lots of good things are happening! We now have 8</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">investigators with baptism dates! I felt like the spirit guided almost</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">everything we did, and things just worked out better than I could have</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">imagined. We're trying to have enough faith to see 6 people baptized</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">this transfer together, and at he begging of the week, it looked</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">impossible, but we kept the faith, and kept praying, and found</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">prepared people. We will have a baptismal service every </span><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_794776611" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">Sunday</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;"> of this</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">transfer if everything goes as planned :D Pretty insane for Japan</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">haha.</span><br />
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This was beautiful. Beautiful in everyway. I loved it :D</div>
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<u>Monday</u>: p-day's are usually the most stressful. Because there's so much to get done in such little time! But this P-day was just beautiful. We had a plan to teach HIrai, and Sawada our two grandpa's together since they because friends. But Sawada forgot the time of the appointment and came at 6 instead of 4. So we taught them separate. Hirai needed some coaching though so it was a blessing. When he came to the church I noticed a coffee can in his car, and took and pocketed it. We taught the lesson, and at the end I took out the coffee and asked him what it was. It was pretty hilarious. Hirai, is really slow...he apparently didn't realize de-caffè was still coffee. We took a video of him dumping it in the gutter haha then we went to a convienient store and quizzed him on what drinks were ok, and which ones weren't.</div>
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Look for the missed fist bump, it's so bad. I love Hirai, he acts like a black person, it's awesome :D we decided to move his Baptismal date to the 30th so we could review everything again for some better understanding. We also, fixed my bike, called lots of people, played bubbles and sword fought with 2 year old, practiced sining, and got tortillas, salsa and Costco muffins from Erik!</div>
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<u>Tuesday</u>: We pretty much did Less active work all day, we got to visit with 5 less active members! One of them nishizawa. Is now reading the BOM in English and Japanese, and praying daily again. It's so cool to be able to see people progress closer to God. Then at night we taught in Vietnamese! Really we just pretty much used google translate to communicate haha. It's way fun though. Vietnamese guys are super nice. </div>
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Kinda blurry picture, but this is Thaath (pronounced tie) and Bac. They're cool. We taught them on Tuesday and Saturday. </div>
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<u>Wednesday</u>: We went to lunch with some cool members the 市川家族. We arrived a little early and ran into a guy we had met yesterday on the train! Tui! He's Vietnamese, and super suteki (good looking) we had actually gotten an appointment with him on the 23rd for him to come to church, but we decided he probably wouldn't come since he doesn't speak Japanese very well. So we didn't count him as a new investigator. But then since we happened to run into him again the next day, we figured it was probably God trying to tell us we should help/teach him, and count him as an investigator.</div>
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We just did a review of prayer so Hirai will stop reading his notes while he prays haha. The board says, prayer, thanks, questions, and things to ask for, then we listed different things from the scriptures and from their ideas. It was fun. </div>
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<u>Thursday</u>: All our appointments actually fell through on Thursday, haha but it ended up being a beautiful day! We did weekly planning, then decided to call Bruno to see if he wanted to go to Homie Danchi with us. Homie Danchi is a place famous in the mission. It's just a mini Brazil in Japan. A couple thousand Brazilians all in one spot :D We had never dendoed there before, since there was a brazilian missionary here. But he transferred out, so now Brazilians are all game! It started to rain, and Bruno asked if his Brother Erik could come so he could drive. We went there and split up, me with Erik, and Hadteiter with Bruno. We visited 5 less actives, only two were actually home though. I had a prompting to knock on the door next to one of the less actives I visited. And...we found a Soccoro! She was super nice, she's catholic and goes to church every week, has a family of 4 and was planning on moving this Saturday! She said we can teach her, but she wants her whole family to be there for it, so we set up an appointment in two weeks, we also told her we'd stop by to help her move Saturday morning. </div>
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Then on the way back we met a nice girl named Thais in the elevator. It was kinda awkward, she didn't have a ton of clothes on... so I was just looking at the wall, but she started talking to us, and asked if she could come to church. Erik switched FBs with her, she's should be coming this next Sunday. We'll just have to bring an extra button up shirt for her so I can actually look at her haha.</div>
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After homie we still had time, so we went on a road trip! There's a road that goes way up north with a bunch of less actives on it, ending with the Bishop. It takes a full day to bike up and back since it's so far, which was actually our original plan for the day since we had no plans. So we made it all the way up to bishop! Such a beautiful day :D I love it when plans cancel haha</div>
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<u>Friday</u>: Another beautifully guided day. Our only appointment that day was teaching Hirai and Sawada again with Aatsumi shimai as a member present lesson. We called her and asked if we could visit Mori-mura, another investigator, at his shop before Hirai's lesson. On the way there a crazy Japanese guy in a pink shirt with a British accent stopped me and started telling me how I need to go home and kick Oboma out of the presidents seat haha. He was way weird. But it turns out he had studied Mormonism before, and he wants to study again, and he brought us in to a shop we were standing outside of and told us to teach on of the workers there haha. It was way random. We're meeting them again this week. It was way funny because Atsumi shimai and Misuzu shimai went to temple square on their missions and were telling us about how weird Americans are and how everyone is normal in Japan....Then we had this guy stop us and prove our point that Japanese are stranger. Haha</div>
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<u>Saturday</u>: we helped Soccoro move! She introduced us to a bunch of her friends, and we're going to teach them all together next week haha Portuguese! Then we had a BBQ with two of our other Brazilian investigators, Fabricio, and Leonora. It was a party :D Now that they're friends it'll be easier for them to want to come to church.</div>
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<u>Sunday</u>: Sunday we had Shokujikai! A meal meeting! At night we visited Leonora again, Eriks mom. We showed her the "reclaimed" Mormon message and talked about forgiveness and how it makes us happier. Her ex-husband cheated on her, and she still has a hard time forgiving him, we had a way good talk. She's going to come to church when we sing. It was actually way fun. A lot of their family came over a different times while we were there. We are teaching a lot of their family. Angel, their cousin, Nilda their aunt, Leonora, the mom, Kaho, the daughters best friend. This family is so Golden.</div>
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Then when we were leaving my lock got caught in my wheel, so I had to stop and fix it, then a couple of women stopped and gave me a light so I could see what I was doing. They were Peruvians but they've been here forever so they speak Japanese pretty well. 3 daughters and a mom. When they found out I was a missionary they were way happy. We're going to teach their family this Tuesday. </div>
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Pretty much everyday we didn't follow our written plan...but we were able to follow God's plan somehow, and it has made everything amazing. He helps us if we will allow him. Just have to get out of the way and let him work :D</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00448761650358460496noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1320414698141845591.post-11052689887863273842015-08-28T11:40:00.001-07:002015-08-28T11:40:14.873-07:008/9 Week of tears and trials :')<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">Hello errybody :)</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">This week, not gonna lie, was incredibly stressful. But it's all good,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">cause God's in control :D</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">Lots of lessons fell through, some scary stuff happened, I got really</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">angry at a ward member, and then transfer calls. But all in all a good</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">week. I'm staying in Toyota! Woo hoo! I've got another 6 weeks to try</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">and work some miracles here.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">Some interesting points of the week:</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">We've been teaching a Catholic lady named Justine who lives across the</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">street from the church. She is crazy. Her lessons are always insane,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">and super long, she has SO Many questions. It's really hard to teach</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">her, because she'll ask a question, and then we'll start answering but</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">half way through she'll ask another question, or she'll just cut us</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">off and talk about the saints haha. It's been a nice trial of my</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">patience, I did pretty good the first few lessons. In the past three</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">weeks we taught her, first a 1 hr lesson, then a 3 hr lesson, then a 4</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">hr lesson, and then to say goodbye another 2 hr lesson. The last one</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">we didn't have time to get to a lot of her questions before we had to</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">leave so we went to our friend Erik's house, and wrote down all her</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">questions and found answers to them from the bible. Erik is injured</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">right now and so he just spends his days studying the scriptures. The</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">next day he spent 10 hours writing a paper with all the answers to her</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">questions so we could give it to her before she left. By the end she</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">has committed to read the BOM and find out if our message really is</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">true. She feels like she was meant to come to Japan to meet us and</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">learn, i feel like she will be baptized in America sometime, it was</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">just a heck of an experience getting her to this point. We usually</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">never like to teach someone more than 45min to an hour, but she was</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">leaving soon and it's super hard to get out. The last lesson I snapped</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">a little when she started talking about how faith is built off</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">miracles, and feelings/the spirit is unable to be trusted.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">^that was obnoxious, and pretty stressful.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">Actually now that I look back on the week it was really cool. Everyday</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">there was something that for me was really hard. Really pushed my</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">buttons. And about half the time I had control and passed the test,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">and half the time I snapped and got angry/just didn't handle it as</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">Christ would have. But this week also had lots of amazing things</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">happen. Every time something bad happened, something good came of it</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">by the end. I just need to trust God more and not worry as much.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">Some cool things that happened.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">Sawada forgot the time and day of his appointment, and came to church</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">during Hirai's lesson. So we taught them together, and they became</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">good friends! Now they want to be baptized on the same date and we</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">teach them together form now on. It's amazing because Hirai has</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">problems understanding, he barely understands anything...but he never</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">asks questions when he doesn't understand. Sawada is opposite. He is a</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">pretty slow learner as well, but he always tells us when he doesn't</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">understand and repeats things back to us when he does understand. So</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">he is helping Hirai to progress much better. That was a pretty cool</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">miracle.</span><br />
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been awesome! But I don't have any time to</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 107%;"><br />
<span style="background: white;">email..sorry! We had a district activity today,
we went to Okazaki and</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">had a giant nerd war! So fun :D Dendo has been
the best recently.</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">We're setting some crazy records. I think we
have the best stats in</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">our mission...our zone has the best stats in the
mission, and we have</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">the best stats in the zone, so that's fun. God
doing a lot of cool</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">stuff in this area right now :D</span><br />
<br />
<span style="background: white;">One cool miracle this week was meetin Miho! She
came to Eikiwa with a</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">friend, we set up 30/30 program with her, taught
her the next day,</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">and....committed her to baptism! Now we have 4
people that should be</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">baptized next transfer. :D transfer calls are
this Saturday, I really</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">want to stay with Hastriter, so much cool stuff
is happening, and it's</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">sooooo fun :D he has requested he mission
president 3 or 4 times that</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">I stay with him, so hopefully we will.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="background: white;">This week I taught priesthood, it was kinda
stressful preparing the</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">lesson in Japanese, but way fun. I think since
this is so short, I'll</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">just attach the English copy, so you all can
read it. It was about</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">prophesying and the Book of Mormon. Fun stuff :D</span></span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 107%;">Helloooo America! Or
wherever this email happens to find you.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 107%;"><br />
<span style="background: white;">So, life's been pretty good recently. Well it's
been pretty great</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">spiritually, and good for the work, but
physically I'm dying haha. I</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">think we haven't eaten both lunch and dinner in
the same day in over a</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">month haha. We're just too busy, it's so good :D
we found 12 new</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">investigators this week, almost half of them
were people that our new</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">investigators from last week invited to our
lessons. Their families or</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">friends. It's a pretty cool compliment, they
thought our message was</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">specially enough that they wanted their family
and friends to hear it</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">too.</span><br />
<br />
<br />
<span style="background: white;">So I don't really have time to email today
unfortunately..but lots of</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">cool things happened I promise! Haha we did lots
of music dendo this</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">week, we rapped to a random kid on the street
then made up a song in</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Japanese for him, then when we went to leave
Haustriter tried to give</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">him a handshake but the kid thought he was going
for hug, and it was</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">the most gloriously awkward hug ever haha. We
rapped and beatboxed and</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">breakdancer probably everyday this week haha.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="background: white;">We also had a huge firework show last night, we
threw a party on our</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">roof. It was awesome. Erik and his whole
Brazilian family came and our</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">awesome investigator Sawada came. He's so funny.
After the show ended</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">they made Hastriter dance, and in tern he made
everyone else try and</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">dance haha. Sawada even did a summer sault and
then wanted to try a</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">hand stand, but we stopped him (he's almost 70
years old haha)</span><br />
<br />
<span style="background: white;">We also had a lot of fun run ins with drunk
people this week. Gotta</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">love drunk people :)</span><br />
<br />
<span style="background: white;">Anyways I love you all, thank you for your
prayers, they help so much.</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Keep on dendoing!</span></span></div>
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<o:p></o:p>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00448761650358460496noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1320414698141845591.post-19618348856349237472015-08-28T11:33:00.002-07:002015-08-28T11:33:44.122-07:007/19 The miracles never cease!<div class="MsoNormal">
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Gozaimasu! Life is good, God is Good Dendo is</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 107%;"><br />
<span style="background: white;">great! Man! Have seen some cool miracles
together! I don't even know</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">how it's happening, or even why it's happening.
I'm NOT that good of a</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">missionary, but good stuff just keeps happening!</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">So this week I really am appreciative of the
power of music, and</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">especially the hymns. They have made such a
difference in my dendo, in</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">our member work, less active work, investigator
lessons, it brings the</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">spirit so fast it is incredible.</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">D&C 25:12 A song of the righteous is a
prayer unto the Lord." Elder</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Bryce Coleman</span><br />
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</span><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-font-family: "MS Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: "MS Gothic"; mso-hansi-font-family: "MS Gothic";">コールマン長老</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 107%;"><br />
<br />
<span style="background: white;">We've had other similar experiences like this
with investigators as</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">well. This Sunday we had 6 investigators come to
church, and two of</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">them came because we said we would sing for them
before church</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">started. It is the easiest way to teach people
what the spirit feels</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">like, and what it will feel like when they
receive an answer from God.</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">The ward has now asked us to sing a hymn before
sacrament starts every</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">week to bring the spirit into the meeting.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="background: white;">One other cool experience we had this week, was
on my exchange with</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">the other elders in Toyota. They aren't doing so
good, they only have</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">3 investigators and are losing hope... Me and
Lehman had a long talk</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">about obedience and faith and how that relates
to how much God can</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">help us in our work, then we prayed to find a
prepared person. We only</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">had an hour left of the day to dendo, and we
went to a less active</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">lady, tanaka shimai, that I had been working
with for a while. She was</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">actually busy and said she couldn't talk at
first but she had a friend</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">over, so we just talked to him. His name is
Fujisawa. I came in and</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">started talking to him, and I could feel the
spirit working on him,</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">and see in his eyes that he needed what we had.
He looked at me for a</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">little while and then said I was glowing, he
said I looked like Super</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Saiyan in Dragon ball Z, then he looked at Leehaman
and told him he</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">would eventually become like that. He now has a
baptismal date for the</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">9th of August, I'm kinda sad that I don't get to
teach him, but I'm</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">way happy that the other elders have someone
preparing for baptism. We</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">made a companionship goal to baptize 6 times
together, so that I could</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">fulfill the mission goal of one month one
baptism. I wasn't in control</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">of my circumstances much before but now I feel
like God is preparing a</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">way for us to build up his kingdom.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="background: white;">Some other miracles.</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">-Hirai has magically been able to stop smoking,
drinking, and</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">everything else needed for baptism. He's the
coolest!</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">-We had a lesson with Mori-mura on Wednesday,
which isn't the usually</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">day for his lesson, and while walking here we
ran into Bruno! Who just</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">so happens to be the kid we brought to his
lesson last week! The</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">lesson was beautiful. We tried to commit him to
baptism, and then</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">found out what his real problems were. His
family has been Buddhist</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">for generations apron generations...and he feels
like he can't betray</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">that trust. But besides that large problem, he
said if it wasn't for</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">that he could keep all the commandment, change
his day off to Sunday,</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">and be baptized. I have no idea how to help him
though, just gotta</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">pray for a miracle. Bruno helped a ton in the
lesson, it was such a</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">miracle he was there.</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">-We got a little discouraged on Wednesday
actually, because we still</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">hadn't found anyone new yet that week, so we
decided to stop and pray</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">to be able to directed to find someone, then we
took a path under the</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">railway and met a cool guy in a scooter/wheel
chair named funehashi.</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">We set an appointment to meet him this last
Sunday. We went over</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">yesterday and had an amazing time just getting
to know him, and</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">helping him feel loved. We sang for him and then
he said he'd come to</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">church this week. We also complimented him on
his hair, and he said he</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">had it so long because he can't afford a
haircut. So we told him we</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">could have a member give him a free haircut if
he'd like. So he's</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">going to get a haircut, from brother Takami
(who's actually less</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">active, but he's a barber and he's cool) on
Wednesday. He can't use</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">most of his left side of his body, so it's hard
for him to walk/get</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">around. He's an armature painter and has some
pretty awesome</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">paintings.</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">-We had 7 lessons on Saturday, it was by far the
most I've ever taught</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">in a day. People called us during the day and
asked us for</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">appointments, we found 3 new investigators. It
was awesome. It looked</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">like we weren't going to be able to accomplish
our goals, but we</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">actually ended up exceeding them!</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">-We had interviews with the mission president
and the zone</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">leaders/Ap's on Wednesday. It was fun receiving
training from them,</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">they pretty much just told us to keep doing what
we're doing. In</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Hastriter's interview he requested that I could
stay one more transfer</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">with him, and Ishi kaicho said he's consider it.
If I can stay another</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">transfer, we can baptize 6 times. I don't know
how, but it will</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">happen.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="background: white;">That's about all the time I've got. The past few
weeks have been</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">amazing, and soooo busy. I love being busy. Keep
up the faith and</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">please pray for the missionaries! Prayer is the
best use of your time,</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">all the time.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white;">This week has been crazy! I feel like I say that
every week, but like</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">for real, God is awesome :D</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">So I don't have much, but there's so much to
tell so I'll probably</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">just do a list.</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">This week it rained almost everyday. It ruined
our dendo. People</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">wouldn't talk to us on the street, which is our
main source of finding</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">investigators, the investigators we found last
week on the streets</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">didn't show up tot their appointments because of
the rain, it was</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">beginning to look like our streak of success had
run out. But! Rain</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">doesn't stop God's work from going forth! And we
still saw a TON of</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">miracles!</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">-We accomplished nearly all the standards of
excellence, 15</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">investigator lessons, a member present lesson
everyday, a referral,</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">etc. it didn't look like we were going to have any
stats this week,</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">but the last few days God just pulled through
miracles so that we</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">could accomplish e goals we had made in faith.</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">-The rain stopped Saturday so that we could have
our lesson with kato.</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Our paragliding grandpa, but there was no wind,
so while we waited we</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">taught the whole first lesson, then taught him
prayer, and told him we</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">could pray so that God would send wind, and
guess what... We prayed!</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">And guess what, there was wind! The wind was so
strong when Hastriter</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">tried it, it picked him up off the ground 3-4
feet!</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">-Since it rained so much this week, and
streeting wasn't working, we</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">tried to house at every opportunity. BUT
something I have now realized</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">that housing In the day, in Japan is a dangerous
thing! Sometimes,</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">people don't have close on when the answer the
door! Three people In</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">particular left fairly scarring images....yah.
Watch out kids. It's</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">been really really hot and humid, so people just
shred their clothes</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">during the day, and sometimes don't have time to
put them on again</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">when we knock I guess..haha</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">-We met with the Suzuki fufu, something we had
been praying for, total</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">miracle, we taught all of the restoration
message and they are excited</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">to pray!</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">-We met, taught, and committed to baptism a cool
grandpa yesterday. We</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">now have three yakuzokusha's! We're actually he
only elders who have</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">anyone with a baptismal date in the zone, I
guess we actually are the</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">only ones really having much success in general
actually...I don't</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">really know why, but they read us the average
stats for the zone and</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">they were less than a third of our average for
the past three weeks.</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">We sorted and threw away probably 20 trash bags
full of garbage this</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">morning, it took 4 hours or so, no one who had
lived in the apartment</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">before had known how to throw away/sort the
trash, so it had really</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">piled up!</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">-ok here's the big one! So this week we had been
praying for 3 things,</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">tachiai lessons, a referral, and a family. We
really really wanted to</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">teach a family together. And we set out to find
one Saturday night,</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">housing. But! Everyone kekkoed us (said no) and
we were kinda sad, we</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">really felt like we would find a family! So we
biked home, and on the</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">way home my seat broke off my bike, and I jumped
off! I wasn't riding</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">with hands at the time so I just kinda hopped,
and my biked kept</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">riding without me. For 30-40 yards! It went
across the Main Street,</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">and turned left the finally fell over. It was
crazy! We were in shock!</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Then we thought that there must have been a
screw that fell out that</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">made the seat fall over so we begun looking for
the screw. Then a</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">family crossed the street and asked if we were
ok, and what had</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">happened. They saw it form their car! Anyways
they are super prepared,</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">they are looking for God's true church, their
read the bible daily,</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">and pray and their daughter goes to a catholic
school, and they lived</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">in Michigan and speak fluent English! Sooo
prepared! God found our</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">family for us! We didn't get their number, but
they want to meet, and</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">will hopefully call us or come to church, I feel
like they will, God</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">wants them to be taught.</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">That's all I have time for right now, I love you
all! This work is so amazing!</span><br />
<br />
<span style="background: white;">This morning's project!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00448761650358460496noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1320414698141845591.post-24864706133761209312015-08-28T11:21:00.002-07:002015-08-28T11:21:48.763-07:007/5 Obedience + faith= Miracles!<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 107%;">Hello all! How are you?!</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 107%;"><br />
<span style="background: white;">This week has gone by so fast and has had so
many cool miracles I. It,</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">I can't remember half of them haha. And since I
only have 10 minutes</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">to email, I'll only write half of the half that
I do remember haha</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">sorry.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="background: white;">So first off, I'm in love with my companion my
Hastriter. He's just a</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">straight up good missionary! It's his first
transfer as Senpai and</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">he's still pretty young, but we both just love
missionary work and</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">work great together. This week has been magical.
So my last companion</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">told me that the standards of excellence for our
mission, were</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">physically impossible to get, and that this area
is really bad for OYM</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">(steeting) BUT me and Hastriter. Have prob Ed
both of those tho ha to</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">be wrong! God can do anything, in any area of
the world! Even Buddhist</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Japan! We have averaged finding two
investigators everyday that it</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">hasn't rained, just from talking to people on
the street on the way to</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">appointments. We had 15 investigator lessons
this week! And three</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">people come to churn! And 5 people progressing
towards baptism!</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Everyday has been absolutely insane, and hundred
percent guided by the</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">spirit. Like you don't even understand how
incompetent of a missionary</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">I am haha, but Heavenly Father is making us into
something great. Eve</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">just my struggles of finding investigators
houses. Like yesterday</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">wanted to visit Kawai Keiko, a friend who
stopped investigating 3 or 4</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">weeks ago, and I had no clue which room she was
in this HUGE apartment</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">complex, but as I prayed to know where she was,
and just started</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">walking, flash backs of random memories came to
mind that led me to</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">where she was. And like just last Saturday (two
days ago) we were</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">biking and I randomly had a thought that John's
Market was really</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">close, even though I wasn't actually that close,
but because I thought</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">of it, we decided to just to go there for fun,
and met Takami Rae</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">there! Which was a miracle since we hadn't been
able to meet with her</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">for two weeks and haven't been able to set an
appointment. But! Now we</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">have an appointment and are back on track. Her
baptismal date isn't</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">until<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="aqj">September 13th</span>.</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">So anyways we've just been doing everything we
could to have the</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">constant companionship of the Holy Ghost, and
it's made a world of</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">difference in every part of our dendo. Our
lessons are better, our</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">companionship is happier, we are focused, our
prayers are being</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">answered. Missions are a wonderful thing if you
let them be :D</span><br />
<br />
<span style="background: white;">I like lists, then I don't have to tell the
whole stories haha. Some</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">cool stuff that happened this week:</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">-We had a awesome spirit filled lesson with
Fabricio, we brought Erick</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">with us, my favorite Brazillian :D He testified
powerfully of his own</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">path to conversion. Fabricio is progressing well,
just needs a bit</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">more faith and time and he'll be ready to be
baptized</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">-Taught a fun 30/30 program to Jackie, Ericks
sister, we taught her</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">English for 30 min, and gospel for 30 min. She
doesn't know much about</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">the gospel, even though she's a member, so we're
trying to help her</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">out.</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">-Hirai became a yakuzokusha (person with a
baptismal date) after some</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">seriously inspired teaching based off his and
our questions. He will</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">be baptizedAugust 9th if all goes well.</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">-Taught almost the entire plan of salvation on the
street to a kid</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">named Daiki in English. He doesn't believe in
God, but after talking a</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">while he realized he would be much happier if he
did believe In God,</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">and a life after death.</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">-Mori-mura, an eternal investigator who has
never really progressed</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">has started progressing. He's keeping the word
of wisdom this week and</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">praying everyday if he should change his shops
day off to Sunday. He</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">also started reading the BOM on his own without
us asking him too, and</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">he taught his friends in his shop the plan of
Salvation, with my map</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">haha.</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">-We're teaching a less active lady's son, I love
part member families</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">:D So now we'll be able to strengthen the mom,
teramoto shimai, and</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">the son at the same time! (He's like 40 btw
everyone in Japan just</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">stays with the their parents haha)</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">-We went to Ikai shimai's house, and played her
accordion and sang</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">songs haha we've been sining to everyone we
visit, I love being able</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">to harmonize again :D</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">-We had a lesson with a recently reactivated
less active member,</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Morita shimai, she wants us to teach her all the
lessons over again,</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">since she doesn't know anything about the
church, I don't know how she</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">was baptized... But it's good we get to help her
:D</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">-Our recent convert Takahashi now has a date to
get the Melchizedek</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">priesthood! We also got to teach him about
family history and temple</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">work yesterday, that was way exciting, he's way
excited to help his</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">grandparents!</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">-We spent to nights at the church, we brought
the maps to the church</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">and the ward record. Haustrider can read kanji
really well, so he</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">looks up where people live (less actives) and
puts them on the map so</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">we can visit them, and I just spent the time
calling people :D I love</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">phone dendo! We got two more families to come
back to our Eikiwa</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">class, and had a way intense spirit filled
conversation with a long</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">ago dropped investigator. I testified that God
loves him, cares about</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">him, and can help him overcome all the problems
of this life, through</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">the love and grace of the Atonement. It was an
intense phone call, at</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">the end he wanted to meet with us, and set an
appointment, but the</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">next day he texted and said not to visit, how
sad.</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">-We had another breakdancing/beat boxing lesson
this week, and at the</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">bunka center some of the Japanese teachers asked
me to give a</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">presentation, so I beatboxed and had Hastriter
breakdance (see video</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">below) it was pretty fun!</span><br />
<br />
<span style="background: white;">Oops, we spent a lot longer than the 10 minutes
I planned on, haha</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">sorry if this is too long for you to read!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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writing. My name is elder<br />
Hastriter. Just wanted to praise your son for being super awesome. He<br />
has such a great spirit about him and is really good at Japanese for<br />
only being here for a few months in Japan.<br />
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Elder Bryce Coleman<br />
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This week has been Insane! Mostly, because I just don't know how to<br />
get around Toyota still...we got lost, pretty much everyday haha.<br />
Oops. My companion probably hates me haha. But it's way fun anyways.<br />
Guess what? I have been out over 6 months now! Woo hoo! Seems pretty<br />
crazy, I feel like I just got to Japan yesterday.<br />
So this week we set a record for investigators found. We found 9! Just<br />
from talking to people on the street as we went to appointments. One<br />
of them is a breakdancer. His name is June, Haustrider is pretty pro<br />
at breakdancing, so they breakdance while I beatbox, and then we do a<br />
Lesson afterwards haha. Adventure dendo!<br />
We also had our ward conference this last Sunday. The ward mission<br />
goal was to have 120 people there, and we had 121! Got it!<br />
Hastriter likes to sing and can hold his own on the melody if I<br />
harmonize, so we've been sining to people a lot, less actives, at<br />
member visits. It's going to be a fun transfer.<br />
<br />
So only time for one story. So Friday I totally had a random prompting<br />
to bring my planner to the church when we worked out in the morning,<br />
but I ignored it...because....there's not need for a planner, so I<br />
thought that was silly. And anyways, God pretty much had prepared a<br />
way for us to go in a car with a member to visit a bunch of less<br />
actives, and tachiai for our lesson. But instead we ended up having to<br />
bike that day, and it rained, and we got lost, and ended up somehow in<br />
Nagoya, and missed our lesson. So....heed the small promptings! No<br />
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Fathers Day! Go give Dad a hug!</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 107%;"><br />
<br />
<span style="background: white;">So transfer calls were this week! Lots of
exciting things happened!</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">I'm with an elder named Haustrider! I heard he's
really cool, a hard</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">worker, and really good at break dancing...haha
I'm excited we're</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">going to see a lot of miracles this transfer :D</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Hardcastle is going to Matsumoto! That's where
he wanted to go, it's</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">actually kind of a miracle, he had wanted to go
to Matsumoto for a</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">while, but didn't tell Yamashita, but one of our
investigators</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">MuriMura had been praying that he'd get sent
there, and he did! Haha</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">what's more is that he's with his MTC companion
again, and has 3 of</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">his original MTC district in his district and
his trainer in his zone.</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">So that's good for him.</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">In other news Smith Choro went trainer, he's my
dokie, he went trainer</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">transfer 4, which is pretty much unheard of in
Japan unless you are</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Japanese, or studied for years. So that's way
cool! He's the most</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">dendo fired missionary I know, and he's the only
elder I REALLY want</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">to work with. So that's pretty crazy.</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">This week was awesome. Every week is awesome, I
mean...I'm in Japan,</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">and I'm on a mission. It can't not be awesome
haha.</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Some highlights for this week were...</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">-We went paragliding again, I didn't get to go
we had the or elders try.</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">-Had 2 Kokans (exchanges) both were a party</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">-I sang in church I'll go where you want me to
go, Craig Petrie's</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">arrangement, I just wrote in the Japanese from
the hymn book. I sang</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">it with the dendo shuning (ward mission leader)
who happens to have</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">been in a college accapella group, so he's super
good.</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">-Hard castle said bye to everyone, tears were
shed</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">-We had the funniest law of chastity lesson, in
the history of law of</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">chastity lessons, with my friend Murimura.</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">-My bike tire popped. That sucked.</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">-I got really sick...most of the week, that
really sucked.</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">-We finally had a sports activity! Yea! I've
been wanting one since I</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">got here, and it finally happened! Now the ward
wants them at least</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">once a month, and wants all our ideas for
activities too :D 28 people</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">showed up, mostly members, but eikiwa students
and investigators too.</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">-I started learning Japanese sign language from
a lady in the ward, I</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">keep running into deaf people and all I know is
what Aaron Blake</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">taught me, which is just like...nice meet you,
my name is elder</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Coleman. But every time I do just that they get
way excited that I</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">know a bit, so now I want to learn more.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="background: white;">Yup been a fun week. Gotta plans for the
upcoming transfer, I'm excited :D<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00448761650358460496noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1320414698141845591.post-88782015454249985652015-08-28T11:16:00.001-07:002015-08-28T11:16:10.402-07:006/15 Today I Flew<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Herrooo! How's everyone doing?!</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br />
<span style="background: white;">This week has been AWESOME! Lots of miracles all
the time!</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">We got to work as God's hands in so many ways
this week! It's the best</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">feeling! We're just like wandering through life,
trying to do all we</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">can to help these people and God is just taking
our stumblings and</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">making them into something great! Like I have no
idea what to do most</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">of the time, but God just kinda some way or
another has us do what he</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">wants us to do, say what he wants us to say, go
where he wants us to</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">go, I've felt the spirit stronger than ever this
week!</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">So starting from Monday, we had three lessons,
and that's on the day</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">we have "off" and when your p-day is
that good you just know you're</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">going to have a good week :D We had 8 member
appointments this week as</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">well, everyone wanted to hang out with us! A big
part is they want to</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">say bye to Hardcastle before he leaves, everyone
thinks he's going to</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">transfer (he's been here almost 9 months...) so
that was way good,</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">lots of food :D</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">We also had zone conference this week with
Yamashita kaicho and</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">shimai, they did an open question and answer
with everyone, and we</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">said our last goodbyes, they're leaving next
week at the end of the</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">transfer, it's way sad. I love them.</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">So we had a lot of appointments this week, which
is awesome, but it</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">also meant we had absolutely no time to try and
find, to go knock</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">houses, or talk to people on the streets, so it
was interesting to see</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">how God would find people for us even thought we
didn't have time to</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">find haha. I found one investigator while
Hardcastle was trying to</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">figure out where we were on the map, just
talking to a guy on the</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">street, he said he believes in God and wants to
know more about him,</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">so we're teaching him this Friday, then on
Sunday we still hadn't</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">found anyone else, and we had set the goal for
2-7. Which is a big</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">leap of faith for Hardcastle, he used to set it
at 1-7 but he's</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">realized every time we've set the goal at 2-7
and prayed to accomplish</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">that goal, we've always gotten it. So now we
wanted to see if the</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">pattern would keep even if we couldn't spend
much time on it...and low</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">and behold a guy we had talked to on the street
almost a month and a</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">half earlier randomly came to church and brought
his wife and baby! So</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">now we get to teach a family! Yah! I love
families :D Working with</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Hardcastle this transfer has been 100% different
than last transfer.</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Last transfer he wouldn't street contact (OYM)
because he said it</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">didn't work, and he had a pretty low
expectations for what we could</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">do, but now this transfer the only finding we've
done has been OYM,</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">our obedience is way better, dendo is fun again,
our friendship is</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">good, we see miracles everyday. It's a way cool
transition to watch,</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">the ward here is changing, their faith and love
for each other and the</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">gospel is growing stronger, Hardcastle's faith
is way strong now, life</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">is just good haha :)</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">So some other miracles, there was seriously 3 or
4 a day that were</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">easily recognizable, so I don't know how many
I'll be able to write</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">about haha. Anyways Wednesday we got a call from
Ichikawa shimai, one</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">of my favorite members, asking for a blessing.
She wanted to go to he</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">temple with her daughter who just got off her
mission. But she had a</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">really bad toothache and it was painful to do
stuff...so we gave her a</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">blessing and in it told her she would be healed
so she could</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">experience the spirit of the temple with her
daughter unhindered. So</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">the next mowning she texted us and said she had
no pain. Then on</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Sunday she told us that she was pain free the
whole time she was in</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Tokyo, but then as soon as she got back to
Toyota, she had pain again</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Haha. So that kinda stinks, but it's a cool
witness to the power of a</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">priesthood blessing.</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">We also have another blessing last night to
sister Linguiton, she's a</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Philippena lady, and she probably has breast
cancer, the test result</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">aren't 100% yet but...it looks pretty bad. So we
went over and shared</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">a message of comfort and gave her a blessing. We
shared D&C 121:7-8</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">and 122</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">"7 My son, peace be unto thy soul; thine
adversity and thine</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">afflictions shall be but a small moment;</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">8 And then, if thou endure it well, God shall
exalt thee on high; thou</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">shalt triumph over all thy foes."</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">122 is God talking to Joseph smith when he was
in Carthidge Jail, just</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">before he was killed.</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">"7 And if thou shouldst be cast into the
pit, or into the hands of</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">murderers, and the sentence of death passed upon
thee; if thou be cast</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">into the deep; if the billowing surge conspire
against thee; if fierce</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">winds become thine enemy; if the heavens gather
blackness, and all the</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">elements combine to hedge up the way; and above
all, if the very jaws</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">of hell shall gape open the mouth wide after
thee, know thou, my son,</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">that all these things shall give thee
experience, and shall be for thy</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">good.</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">8 The Son of Man hath descended below them all.
Art thou greater than he?</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">9 Therefore, hold on thy way, and the priesthood
shall remain with</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">thee; for their bounds are set, they cannot
pass. Thy days are known,</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">and thy years shall not be numbered less;
therefore, fear not what man</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">can do, for God shall be with you forever and
ever."</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">It was one of the most spiritual experiences of
my mission. We were</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">able to comfort her and her family, and help
them have faith hope and</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">courage, that God is in control, and will never let
them go threw</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">something that they can't handle, I'm confident
there will be a</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">miracle with sister Linguiton, her faith is
strong, and you can feel</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">the strength and love of her and her family.
She's going back to the</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Philippians next week so I </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 107%;">might not get to see her
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what God has planned</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">for her.</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">So this email got long already, sorry about
that. But just one or two</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">more cool things...so we had a BBQ today as a
district activity, me</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">and Hardcastle just bought our own BBQ haha it
was fun, played</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">frisbee, soccer, bubbles, water fight all the
good stuff. Anyways at</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">the park there there was a guy kiting his
paraglider....which is just</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">cool, so of course I had to go talk to him, so
me and Larson our zone</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">leader went over and ended up becoming way good
friends with this guy,</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">he's a 72 year old dude named kato, he was a
taxi driver, but he</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">somehow has tons of cash to blow...since he had
three paragliders, and</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">a propeller to go with it. So he gave me and
Larson flight lessons! In</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Japanese haha...I spent almost an hour flying
his paraglider! Haha</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">it's on my bucket list to go paragliding! I
already went skydiving and</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">hang gliding, this is the last one I needed to
get haha. So I've got</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">another paragliding lesson this Thursday, and in
return we agreed to</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">teach him how to become happy through the gospel
of Jesus Christ haha.</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Life's always an adventure :D We're not doing
real flights, that's</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">probably against the implied mission rules, but
I'm getting good at</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">controlling the parachute, which is what you've
got to learn before</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">you can fly.</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">I also spoke in Sacrament meeting yesterday,
about faith miracles and</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">the Book of Mormon. I testified that if the ward
members studied the</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Book of Mormon everyday they would be able to
recognize miracles in</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">their life, everyday. That's another thing, so I
reset my personal</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">goals this week, I figured out if I read 10
pages of the Book of</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Mormon a day I'd be able to finish before the
end of next transfer</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">(it's a week longer than normal) so I testified
about that, and how's</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">it's blessed me and our work just this week. I'm
also reading the</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">grammar book 10 pages a day. I'll finish that by
the end of next</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">transfer too. And I'm writing in my journal!
Before I didn't ever, I</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">was always spending all my free time
memorizing/studying the ninja,</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">it's a book with the phrases and sentences to
teach all the lessons.</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">The Yamashitas really want everyone to pass it
off, by reciting it to</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">your companion and a ward member, or the zone
leaders. So this week I</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">went crazy on it, I woke up at<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="aqj">4:30</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>a few times to get extra study</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">time in, so I could pass it off before zone
conference. That's when</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">your receive your badge for it, and I wanted to
finish it as kinda a</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">going away thank you gift to the Yamashita's. So
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<span style="background: white;">Helloooo!</span><br />
<br />
<span style="background: white;">How's everyone doing?</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">This week's been great! Toyota is slowly but
surely turning into a</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">land of miracles :D we only have two more weeks
of the transfer but</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">we've got a lot of fun things planned.</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">So this week everyone in Japan invited us to
eat. I ate at 3 different</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">buffets this week, I've been going from one food
coma barely</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">recovering, and then getting the next haha. The
one on Monday,</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">yakiniku king, cost around $30 and you just
order any meat you want</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">and grill it on the mini grill on the table.
Just from that meal</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">alone...I gained three pounds haha. I'm pretty
dang fat...but it's ok</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">I love being fat, it's something I've always
wanted to try in life</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">haha.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="background: white;">So besides being fat...we've made a lot of good
progress. The ward</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">loves us, we're finding people again, it looks
like we're going to</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">have fun activities soon, life's looking pretty
good. I keep finding</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">people from Nepal as investigators which is
kinda difficult. Because</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">they don't speak Japanese or English, and we
don't even know if they</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">make a Book of Mormon in their language... So
they'll be fun to teach.</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">But hey at least we're finding friends! Haha<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white;">How're y'all doing?!</span><br />
<br />
<span style="background: white;">This week's been good. Me and Hardcastle are in
our groove :D we got a</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">good teaching pattern, down, and he wants to
work a lot more now that</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">he's district leader, and wants to be obedient!
Haha it's been way</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">fun. We've already seen tons of miracles!</span><br />
<br />
<span style="background: white;">So... Pretty much we just decided to challenge
all of our</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">investigators to baptism haha. 2 said yes, one
said no, and one said</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">probably haha. They were all phenomenal lessons
though, we felt the</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">spirit directing the lesson and testifying of
everything we said so</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">strongly. It was amazing. The first one we
taught was to a Brazilian,</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">we taught it in English, we did the lesson
almost the same way as</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">German from the district. Haha in case there's
any RM's reading this.</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">With the Follow thou me scripture from 2 Nephi
31. He's actually the</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">only one who didn't except invitation, we've
only taught him a few</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">lessons though, he didn't want to commit to
something he didn't know a</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">whole lot about, he really likes us though and
he said he knows we</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">have something special, and wants to have the
happiness we have. He's</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">awesome. The two that accepted are Rae shimai
and Tsutsuki shimai.</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Both of them aren't for another few months
though. Rae shimai is the</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">half Chinese investigator we have, we got our
hair cut by her parents</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">this morning actually. Chinese people feed you
so well :D anyways her</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">mom is recently reactivated and her dad is
almost reactivated, he just</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">can't get work off on Sunday's, and she wants to
be baptized..but her</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">mom is leaving to China this week, so we have to
wait until she gets</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">back in 3 months to have the baptism. So I
probably won't be here for</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">it, and Hardcastle definitely won't be here.</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Then there's Tsutsuki. She can't come to church
because her daughter</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">has basketball games/tournaments every Sunday
until August, so her</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">baptismal date isn't until then either. She's
way cool though.</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">The last one was Keiko, we housed into her a few
weeks ago, and had</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">the best first lesson either of us have ever had
on our missions. She</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">has a super genki, hyper 1 1/2 year old son, and
a slightly Autistic</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">12 year old son, although you can't tell at all.
We barely found out</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">last time we visited her. She had a concern
about how God could let</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">her son be he way he is, I guess he doesn't have
many friends since</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">he's a little slow. And so we taught about how
this life is a test,</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">and through trials we become stronger. The
little kid interrupted us</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">after we gave the baptismal commitment and we
never could bring it</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">back, so we'll probably re-invite her next time.
She's way good, the</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">gospel could help her so much!</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">There's a sad amount of single mothers here in
Japan. I heard that a</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">lot of women start saving for when their
husbands leave them when hey</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">get married...which is way sad. All three of
these women are single</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">mothers who's husbands left. That's why they are
humble enough to</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">listen to the gospel.</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Our other single mother investigator Fujikawa is
progressing well too,</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">we'll probably invite her as well in a week or
so. Her kid loves me,</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">we gave them Oreo balls, and I usually make some
sort of origami</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">something to entertain/play with him while
HardCastle talks to the</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">mom. I learned how to make origami samurai hats,
shirt and tie, ninja</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">stars, flapping birds, and cranes haha gotta
keep them kids happy :D</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Oh and thank you for sending me recipe's family!
I found out that you</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">can use a rice cooker to make cakes! So I ended
up buying cake mix and</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">making a cake in the rice cooker and then I
melted some chocolate and</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">spread it on top. It looked pretty good, but we
didn't try it...but</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">the family wants the nonexistent recipe! Haha so
it couldn't have been</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">too bad haha.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="background: white;">This week has just been full of tons of daily
small miracles. And</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">food, lots of that too. We ran out of money on
Wednesday, because of</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">all the trains we've had to pay for recently, so
we just prayed that</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">got would give us food....and everyone gave us
food! Haha. Like we</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">visited 7 less actives last week (which in
itself is a miracle,</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">usually people aren't home or we can't find
them), and they all gave</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">us food haha, except one, she gave us $10, which
I used to buy the</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">cake mix haha. We also had 4 member
appointments...with food!</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Haha one of the less active ladies we visited,
she's kinda crazy, she</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">always talks about really random stuff, which is
hard in Japanese</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">haha. Like this time she talked about tornados
and dolphins and phone</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">the TV told her that we evolved from fish, but
she said that it can't</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">be true haha. Last time it was about how her
steroids she's taking are</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">making her fat haha. Japanese people aren't at
all shy about talking</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">about being fat btw. They'll call you fat to
your face and not think</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">anything about it haha. It's kind of sad
actually because a lot of</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">sister missionaries here gain weight on their
missions, and the</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">members usually tell them so haha.</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Anyways so this lady is pretty crazy,min all
meanings of the word. And</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">so I pray at the end of the visit with her, and
I'm pretty</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">exhausted...so I messed up my Japanese, I meant
to say kenkou o</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">ukerareru youni tasukete, shukufuku shitte
kudasai...which means</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">please help her and bless her so that she can
receive health, but</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">instead I switched the word kenkou with kekkon,
which mean marriage,</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">so I said please help and bless her to relieve
marriage</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">hahahha...kinda awkward...</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Anyways I don't have much time see ya!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white;">This week...felt like an eternity haha. It was
solo long. But it was</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">packed with good stuff so it's all good :D</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">We saw some nice miracles this week, God takes
care of us pretty dang well. :D</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">One pretty awesome miracle was...we got 3
referrals! We didn't get a</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">sing referral last transfer, and this area hadn't
got any two</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">transfers before that as well...but we got 3
from different people</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">just this week! It's been difficult finding
people to teach recently,</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">our teaching pool is shrinking instead of
growing, so I'd been praying</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">why we weren't finding people and got the answer
A) I need to make</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">sure I focus hard on the people we are teaching,
and then God will</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">provide a way for us to find people, then B) I
felt prompted to pray</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">that God could lead people to us, and set up a
way for us to help the</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">pele he wants us to help.</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">So that was a pretty cool experience.</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Some other cool stuff that happened this week:</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">-I beat boxed battled a high school kid on the
train, he was way good!</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Everyone on the train clapped forums when we
finished haha.</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">-Our Oreo ball bribes worked and our
investigator is progressing again! Haha</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">-I gave a talk in relief society about how
awesome Mom is haha</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">-We went to a Young Single Adult Activity, and
ate okonomiyaki! Osaka</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">style and Hiroshima style </span></span><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-font-family: "MS Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: "MS Gothic"; mso-hansi-font-family: "MS Gothic";">おいしかたよ!</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 107%;"><br />
<span style="background: white;">-None of our investigators came to church! First
time we haven't had</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">anyone there :(</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">-Hardcastle's bike broke down..that was an
adventure haha. We biked 5</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">miles to find a less active members house and
his tire popped, so we</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">had to walk to the nearest Erion And buy a patch
repair kit and a pump</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">to fix it. Then his other tire popped two days
later, from his tire</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">spokes being too bent and the tire rubbing
against the brakes</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">wrong...so now his bike is in the shop and he's
riding a mamachari</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">which is a granny road bike haha. It's funny
because he takes really</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">good care of his bike, and bought a pretty
expensive nice bike to</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">start with...and he has all these bike
problems...and I found my bike</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">at an eki that was left by a sister missionary
who went home a long</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">time ago haha, and I haven't had any problems
with my bike yet. Well</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">that's not true, my brakes pretty much burnt out
by the second week</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">here. This places is pretty much a giant
mountain haha. All hills.</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">This place kills bikes, we have a bunch of dead
bikes at the apartment</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">from missionaries haha. I've been using my feet
as brakes the whole</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">last transfer, and finally replaced my brakes
last week when we took</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">his bike to the shop. We never had time to go
before just to replace</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">my brakes, but since we were forced to go, I
finally got them changed</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">haha.</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">One last thing...any one have any good easy
recipes? We've been</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">working with this less active family, and their
daughter has become an</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">investigator, and their grandson is crazy genki,
he's always running</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">around and likes to fight, he's 4 or 5 I think.
Anyways we did a</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">family home evening with them last week and
committed them all to</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">family prayer, then we told the kid that if
helped his family to pray</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">everyday and marked that they prayed each day on
the calendar, I'd</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">bring them a treat the next week. So they did
it, they prayed! And I</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">gave them Oreo balls! And so this weeks lesson
we made a coloring book</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">thing with scriptures, where when they read the
verse, they color in</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">that part of the picture. And I told them I'd
bring him another better</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">treat this week if they finished the picture
before next week.</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">But...when I told hold them I'd bring a treat I
was planning on</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">playing giant bubbles with he kid. But...the
Japanese dish soap</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">doesn't make giant bubbles well! So in need to
come up with some thing</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">else...so if anyone has any suggestions I'm all
ears!</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Thanks for writing me people! It's fun to be
loved!</span><br />
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<span style="background: white;">Jamata!</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Coleman choro<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white;">Guess what?! I'm not a bean-chan anymore! Sad
day!</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">This week was pretty good, lots of fun stuff
happened, and some not so</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">fun stuff...haha</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">1st off we won the push up competition in he
zone! As a companionship</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">we did 12,822 push ups or sit ups in two weeks.
We won by 6000 haha We</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">tried to average a thousand a day, which breaks
on Sunday's. Did a</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">pretty good on that.</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">-Our recent convert Takahashi has made lots of
friends with the ward!</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Everyone is inviting him over for parties and
family home evenings!</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">That was way good. Of course we were invited
too...so we had lots of</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">members feeding us his week :D</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">-We went to Okazaki castle last Monday as a
district activity! While</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">we were there one of the workers taught me how
to fold an origami</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">samurai hat. Which I've made a couple times this
week out of sticky</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">notes and gave to kids.</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">-I did lots of shimai dendo (sister missionary)
this week! I made</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">almost 50 Oreo cheese cake balls, and gave them
to investigators that</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">had kids! They 're suuuuuper good.</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">-We got to do a service project at an old folks
home! We went and sang</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">old Japanese folks songs to them, and just
talked and became their</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">friends. That used to be my favorite service
project back in college</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">so I was way excited to go :D</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">-There was a typhoon on Tuesday! We were
supposed to practice a song</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">with the ward mission leader and then go dendo
with him...but he</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">called and said it was to dangerous to drive in
the storm, so he</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">cancelled on us haha. So...instead we biked out
and went housing in</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">the storm! And we're blessed by our efforts! The
very first house we</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">knocked became an investigator!</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">-So the real big news was the results of
transfer calls! We were both</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">hoping/praying that Hardcastle would transfer,
we don't always get</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">along so great...and he's been here 7 and a half
months already and</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">really wants a change of scenery. And just kinda
doesn't like Toyota</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">in general..but God laughed at our prayers and
made him stay! So he's</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">on transfer 6 in his bean area now! He also
became our district</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">leader. It won't be so bad. This transfer is
only 5 weeks instead of</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">6, and I'll get to go on exchanges with the
district once a week which</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">will be really fun. And now I have another 5
weeks to learn the area</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">so I hopefully won't be completely lost when
it's done. And for the</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">past two or three weeks our lessons have been
pretty awesome, so</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">hopefully we've figured out how to work with
each other, hopefully we</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">can keep it going. It is kinda funny
though..he already said bye to</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">all our investigators, and wrote them meishis.
Everyone expected him</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">to leave, me and the ward mission leader had
prepared to sing I'll go</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">where you want me to go, We had invited people
to church to hear him</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">speak, bishop didn't have any speakers lined up
expecting the</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">missionaries to give farewell talks, we even had
a party with tons of</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">ice cream on the day of transfer calls. We took
a video of him getting</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">the phone call, it's pretty great, his face
drops so quick, he was</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">depressed all day Saturday. All 4 of the Toyota
missionaries stayed.</span><br />
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<span style="background: white;">Anyways, that's about all the big stuff, have a
great week everyone!</span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white;">So I spent my email time skyping the family for
Mother's Day so I</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">don't have time to do a real email...I'll
probably just thrown some</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">pics and call it good haha</span><br />
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<span style="background: white;">But to just sum things up...</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Takahashi got baptized yesterday! It was the
first baptism for our</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">area! This week went great, thank you so much
for your prayers. Me</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">and my comp got along pretty well. I think if we
weren't companions</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">we'd be good friends. We had a barbecue with our
Brazilian</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">investigator on children's day, it was suuuuuper
good. Sooooo much</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">meat :D now when I go home I can BBQ Brazilian
style. And of course</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">did lots of good dendo :D<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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your week has been fantastic! It`s still a party up in Toyota this week.
It`s golden week this week where there`s a couple different hollidays in one
week, so everyone just gets the whole week off. It`s been pretty crazy haha A
bunch of crazy stuff has happened this week! Both good and bad! We`ve had some
of the best miracles of the transfer this week, and some of the biggest
dissapointments.</span></div>
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week we had 4 investigators drop us, one a day sunday
through Wednesday, that kinda stunk, expecially Fujicawa. She had just
came to church, she loved it, her kid loved it, she had an awesome experience
with prayer where she was littlerally healed after praying with us...and
then out of the blue she texts us and says she doesn`t want to meet.
Crazy. We also had an investigator litterally dissapear. Like he doesn`t
exzist somehow, we wen`t to his house to visit him, and there was this other
guy living in his house...and we asked him a bunch of questions like...where
our investigator mizuno was, if he lived there, is mizuno moved recently...etc
and he answered everything with naidesu, which is pretty much just no.Then when
we pointed out that mizuno`s name tag was still on his door, the guy tried to
scratch off the metal name plate off the door! And said he doesn`t know why
it`s there! So somethings up with that...we`ll try by again and see if it`s
still the crazy guy living there, or if Mizuno came home and kicked him out or
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mexican food twice! We went to a mexican restaurant and had tacos...3 tacos for
10 dollars...like little dollar size tacos from taco bell haha what a rip off.
It was nice though, it`s been ages since I`ve had Mexican food. We also found
some totillas in a Brazilian import store so I made tacos on Sunday! I made
them Grandma Paxman style and fried the tortillas! We taught one of our
investigators about keeping the sabath day holy at church and told him it was
better to not shop, but he was already fasting that Sunday, and he didn`t have
any food at home...so we ate tacos with him! Haha That is Takahashi junpei,
he`s awesome, if this week goes as planned, he`ll be baptized on Sunday :D I`m
super excited for him. They found him at a pizza place a week before I got to
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old kids birthday party and challenged all of them to a basketball game. It was
super fun! It was 4 missionaries vrs 13 or 14 13 year olds haha. We played on a
super getto dirt court. We didn`t do any dendo, but we gave them all </span><a href="http://mormon.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">mormon.org</span></a><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> cards
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Tithing Lesson (Both of our first times) With a fun object lesson. We bought
$20 worth of candy for it. Gave him 10 candy bars, asked for one back, and then
dumbped bags of candy on him haha :D<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Kaicho, and shimai (mission president) and did a mogi with them, and some
training. That was way fun.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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this week. It`s golden week in Japan right now, where everyone has work off and
goes to party. So it`s been super fun just crashing parties haha.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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abomination! We`re friends with the owner though, since his shop is super close
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desune?! It`s gorgeous over here! It stopped raining this week, and the
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">-We got IPads! They`re
awesome! They have sooo many cool resources! We had to use it to translate for
us from Japanese and English to Indonisian just yesterday! (We got a new
indonisian investigator :D)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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President Yamashita 3 times this week! He and the new mission president came to
our ZTM where they gave us Ipads, then he came to our ward on Sunday to speak
and do a devotional, and he wants to do a role play lesson with us on tuesday
and do some training for just us 4 missionaries in Toyota. Kinda intimidating,
but it`ll be cool :D<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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talk on Sunday! I was scared to death! I was speaking in front of my mission
president, and over a hundred people! I prayed so hard...It felt so good,
Japanese words just kinda fell out of my mouth that I didn`t really know how to
use haha. It was awesome!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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push up/sit up challenge. My compaion really wants to win...so he`s set our
companionship goal to 1000 a day, needless to say my butt, neck arms, abs, and
chest are rediculously sore. I didn`t realise how out of shape I`ve gotten on
my mission. I need to go on a diet...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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first time yesterday! We helped suzuki do his home teaching to the Philippeno
sisters. It was kinda awkward because he just pretty much called them to
repentence the whole time, which is really awkward to translate, so I changed
it a few times haha. He doesn`t know so it doesn`t matter though.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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ward goal to have 100 people at sacrament meating! Had 105! Usually our ward
averages about 60-70 people.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Ipad, please email me whenever! I can read emails anytime I want now, I just cant
reply to them until Monday. Love you all!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00448761650358460496noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1320414698141845591.post-32570677874983394392015-08-28T10:44:00.002-07:002015-08-28T10:44:18.818-07:004/19 Toyota's a Party<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
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Hope everythings going good! This week was fun, it was my worst week
I`ve had as far as stats go, but it was still a good week I think.
Did alot of biking in the rain, apparently everyone knows the worse
the weather is that you dendo in, the hotter your wife gets. That`s
what I`ve been told at least, and that`s how Hardcastle motivates
himself to keep dendoing haha.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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has alot of potential to it. We checked out the sports college last
night, I really want to get some sports activities going, we have
12 YSA in the ward (most are less active) a sports college, and a but
load of Brazilians. To me that just screams soccer dendo. But apparently
it`s been years since they`ve had missionary activities haha.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">It was actually really
fun housing the college yesterday. I love college dendo. It`s always super
interesting and fun. My trainer hates it though haha. Last night I crashed
a baseball party. It was super fun, there was probably 15-20 guys all hanging
out in and around an apartment, and I just walked in and dendo`d all of
them haha. It was hilarious, they were trying to convince me that they were Austailian.
I got them all to say they`d come to Eikiwa on Wednesday, I highly
doubt they will, but who knows, maybe we`ll have a whole baseball team
there. My trainer really doesn`t like doing anything that could be
considered rude.. that`s why he doesn`t like me doing stuff like that, he
won`t let me call people at night, or dendo later than 8 either,
which is kinda obnoxious....since all the college kids parties start after 8.
But It`s all good. Hopefully next week we`ll see some more miracles.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00448761650358460496noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1320414698141845591.post-9753849711953047922015-08-28T10:40:00.002-07:002015-08-28T10:40:46.843-07:004/13 Toyota Land of the Cars<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
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day, we visited a less active earlier this morning to bring her chocolate
filled pancakes, and while we were waiting outside I watch this old dude walk
down the street to his neighbors house, pee in this guys front yard and then
walk back home. Weird. I guess it`s more rude to chew in public than it is to
pee in Public in Japan. Good to know ;D<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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could have survived without knowing that culture point...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Woo Hoo! My Companion is Hardcastle Choro! He`s way fun! He`s also in the
airforce acadamy, which is weird, there`s only three elders in the acadamy,
and two of them are training me, and the third replaced me in Toyama.
Hardcastle is a really young trainer, he`s only been out 6 months, and he`s
never left Toyota, this is his bean area. And he doesn`t know how to cook
anything...but sandwitches, which is what he eats for every meal. Good thing I
learned how took last transfer :D He`s got a way good work ethic, he ran cross
country and track in high school, and he works out hard everyday, so hopefully
I`ll get in shape. He wakes up at 5:30 everyday to do an extra hour of language
study, which I figure probably wouldn`t hurt, so I`m doing it to now.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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beautiful. All of Japan is pretty awesome :D The ward here is totally insane.
Like absolutely crazy. A lady two months ago called the whole ward to
repentance from the pulpit for fifteen minutes...then last fast Sunday a guy
professed his love for the organist from the pulpit...But apparently it`s
improving alot right now. The ward used to hate missionaries, and now
they like us, so that`s good.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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since I`ve gotten here, I decided today that I love the rain. Because if
I didn`t it`d be way hard for me to love my mission. So now. I love the
rain. At least that`s what I tell myself. Hopefully it`ll be true someday.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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good. I only got to listen to saturday in English. Sunday we went on
splits to fellowship our investigators. I didn`t really get anything out
of it...Formal Japanese is rough. We get Ipads soon though, so I`ll re-watch
them then.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Soo we didn`t
get to do too much dendo this week. Alot of it
was Hardcastle showing the other two missionaries and me around,
since they white washed this area. But we did have some miracles! My first day
here we had a lesson at night, but we got there 20 min early, so I asked if we
could go tracting in the mean time...He said ok, and we started
knocking doors. The very first door we knock...the peopledidn`t answer...BUT
their door was unlocked and something cool I learned from my last companion was
that apparently the Genkan, the first part of the house where you put your
shoes, isn`t considered part of the house in Japanese culture, so you can
open the door and go in to that part and it`s not rude. He calls
it Gomen Kudasai-ing since that`s what you yell when you walk in
the person`s house. Anyways I open their door and
yell Gomen kudasai and step into their house, and my new
companion about has a hart attack. But a guy came to the door, and talked to
me, he was way nice, it turns out he had investigated the church in Kobe, he`s
came to church before, read the whole book of mormon, and wants to meet
with us. So we got his number, he and his wife said they`d try and come to
conference (which they ended up not being able to), and we got two new
investigators! Fun stuff!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Enjoyed conference! The prophet is awesome! The church is true! Go do member
missionary work!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white;">Some news:</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">-We had our missionary newsletter go out
yesterday. It was bomb</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">-I got two free kimono`s from an investigator
for Kaylee and Mom :) </span><br />
<span style="background: white;">-We had Volley a volley ball and basketball
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Party at Eikiwa this week, had everyone die eggs, and we had an egg toss for
kids eikiwa, that was pretty interesting haha. We couldn`t find plastic eggs
for an easter egg hunt though<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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full bloom right now, the Oh so famous Japanese Cherry Blossoms. They`re
gorgeous! But I havve`t taken any pictures yet<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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reason I`m transferring. It`s kinda way sad. I guess my MTC companion
Pennington Choro, tried to go home. He is pretty discouraged working in
Toyota...so he got emergency transferred to the area next to Toyota, and
they`re transferring me to Toyota to try and cheer him up haha. We`ll get to
work together on exchanges, and at district meetings. Which is super sad and
suprizing, he`s a way good missionary. We taught super well together in the MTC
and he was so good at Japanese that teachers sometimes asked him for help with
Grammar. So I feel like something really bad must have happened for him to get
discouraged enough to make a run for it.<br />
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Anyways... on that note I think for now on, I`ll just share something I learned
from this week and then whatever strories go along with whatever that thing
is...because it`s hard choosing which stories to put in, and I just want to
tell them all...and then I have giant emails...so hopefully this`ll be better
:) I`ll probably just tell the rest of the stories with lots of pictures,
they`re more fun anyways :)<br />
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So this week the little insight I want to share is D&C 123:17 17
`Therefore, dearly beloved brethren, let us cheerfully doall things that lie in
our power; and then may we stand still, with the utmost assurance, to see the
salvation of God, and for his arm to be revealed.`<br />
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So pretty much everyday I sit down and pray that I`ll know what heavenly father
wants me to do that day, and then I write down ideas of whatever comes to mind.
I`ve done this sort of thing before my mission as well and it was awesome
because I could just do whatever I felt I needed to do, but now...I have to
convince my companion that that`s what we need to do, and some of the things I
write down aren`t always the most logical path haha. For example this Last
Monday we only had three hours for missionary work (that`s how it is on P-day),
and we already had a dinner appointment that night with a member pretty late,
But I really wanted to visit fujimoto. A less active sister who is in a wheel
chair, and it happened to be her birthday. But when I suggested visiting her, I
got shut down pretty quick by frost Choro. That`s where I learned my lesson
haha. Usually I would have been kinda mad, and would have argued with him, and
then the spirit would leave and it wouldn`t matter what we do because you can`t
accomplish anything without the spirit. But instead this time instead of
arguing I just kinda took a step back and said to God `Ok, if you want us to
visit her, you take care of it` and I didn`t really think of it again. But when
we were finishing dinner with tsurumi kyodai Frost Choro asked him if he wanted
to visit a less active with us, and he said sure, so we visited fujimoto shimai
together. ANd it turns out tsurumi kyodai was waaay good friends with her back
before she went less active, and they had a great time catching up, and we were
able to invite her to church, and her brothers to sports, and clean her turtle
cage, it was lots of good fun. And of course we brought a cake and sang to her.
She loved it! She didn`t really get to do anything fun that day, so she really
appreciated us thinking of her. BUT the part that I thought was way cool...was
that... God Takes care of his Children! It`s his work were doing, and he
doesn`t let little things like trunky companious stop his work. So I just need
to learn to trust him to be able to provide a way to whatever he wants me to
do. I had 3 other similar experiences like that this week as well, where
instead of arguing I just prayed and sat back and watched to see what God would
do, and every time it turned out great :) <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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really know what makes a castle a castle in japan...but this one is super small
haha<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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good. They dry the fish for 3 days in the sun, then he soaked it in vinegar and
garlic for a month, and deef fried it, and gave it to us with rice! And you eat
it all with your hands. I love philippenos :D<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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The bottom orange one is one of them I chose for Kaylee. I have no idea why
they wanted to give us free kimonos...but I`m not complaining haha. She hand
makes them as part of their business.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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These gates are all over japan and they`re awesome. Usually they are red. this
one is kinda faded though Most Japanese don`t even know why they`re there and
what they mean...but according to Japanese scholars they represent the blood of
a lamb on a door way. Kinda like a certain biblical story...Shintoism actually
has almost everything about it similar to Christianity and Judaism. You can
take almost anything they do and figure out what it is in our church too. It`s
awesome, I wonder when they split off from Israel, and how Japan came to be!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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This is they gym we rented out. Pretty cool eh? We made fliers for it and I
passed out nearly 100 of them just walking around waiting for it to start along
with </span><a href="http://mormon.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">mormon.org</span></a><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> cards! We got an investigator from one it and another guy
who wants to play soccer with us next week :)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">So takahashi is one of
our eikiwa students and his wife has been in the hospital for surgery so we
visited him on P-day and sang to him. He showed us his ancestors samurai
sword...like a real one from his ancestor who was a samurai. Legit right?! He
texted another one of our friends and told her about how happy he was that we
came and the spirit he felt when we sang. It`s crazy how it all works. Latter
he arranged with his friends who have a clothing store for us to pick out any
kimono we wanted, and when me and frost choro came back to pick them up, the
people there put two in my bag and 4 in Frost Choros (since he has 2 sisters)
So your welcome Kaylee and mom! Hope you appreciate them!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Eikiwa Easter Party :) Our Eikiwa class is getting huge, we had 24 students
last week with 5 new ones...We might have to split into a begining and
experienced classes soon.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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At the second hand book store there`s literally a wall of Yugi-Oh Cards, made
me think of Danny :)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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enough. We had an extra hour to email...so what better to do than just throw on
pictures? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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great Easter!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00448761650358460496noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1320414698141845591.post-67245049571849851302015-08-26T11:28:00.003-07:002015-08-26T11:28:59.734-07:003/29 My last week in Toyama! :(<div class="MsoNormal">
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Lottss of News this week! First off, this has probably been one of my favorite
weeks of my short 20 years, everything happened even better than I hoped
(prayed) it would, which is saying alot, cause I dream pretty big! haha The
work is going so great here. We had to plan for 32 people for weekly planning
this week between our investigators, Potential investigators, and Former
investigators that we`re going to meet with..it took three days! Haha But it`s
so great to be so busy! Just on Tuesday we had 6 lessons! And found 4 new
investigators! That`s more lessons than I taught my whole first week! Crazy!
Haha<br />
Really the huge success we had this week was because of the members, we visited
members whenever we could, and invited them to come do something with us, like
visit less actives, or to our next appointment whatever we were doing at the
moment. So we were able to have alot of member present lessons this week (9 of
em!) and they usually took us out to lunch after which was great too :D<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">One fun one was on Wednesday, we were visiting
a really old couple, the Ooi family, they`re super great, but they talk forever
so our lunch visit with them ran over until we had our next appointment with a
really old couple that was a former investigator some years ago. They were
dropped before because it`s really difficult to get them to focus and stop
talking long enough to have a lesson...so in the middle of Ooi kyodai going
off, I got the prompting to ask him if he would want to teach the plan of
salvation today. It turns out he had been preparing a plan of salvation lesson
all week for his seminary students as a substitute and then the real teacher
came back so he wasn`t able to teach it. So he was overjoyed to get to put to
use some of his studies and we went and taught the lesson. It started out as
usual with the ikeda fufu talking alot of about life for the first 10 minutes,
but then as soon as we got to start sharing our message Ooi kyodai went off on
them...oh it was so great. I was wondering which of the chatterboxes would win
out, and it looks like we came out ahead. He`s a way good teacher, so I didn`t
mind not being able to teach much. By the end he had pretty much taught them
all the lessons...and they were committed to read and pray about baptism. Which
was pretty awesome :D So yea for old people power!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">(gomen `going off` mean talk alot, slang I
picked up in the MTC...)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Soo the really big
news that I`ve been trying to avoid talking about issss....transfers. Man I`m
so bumbed. I getting transferred to Toyota. It`s all good, I`ll go where the
Lord wants me, but we were really getting into our groove. We have good
companionship goals, the ward is super dendo fired now, we have of ideas and
plans for this area. It`s turned into a gold mine. And now I have to leave...
:( It`s kinda funny actually, I`ve spent all my P-days cleaning this apartment
and doing stuff for this area, I wrote all three hundred members (less actives
really) birthdays in a list, so I could call them or visit them on their
birthday, and I bought a map and cut it up/blew it up, so we could put stickers
where everyone lives, and visit less actives in the area of wherever we`re
going...I organized a monthly missionary news letter with the bishop and ward
mission leader, with the wards goals, upcoming activities/pictures from old
ones, Ballard`s 90 challenge (to Japan) and a bunch of other things. And I feel
like most of it will not be continued/used when I leave. :( That`s what I`m
most sad about...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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I kinda think I`m getting transferred because my current companion needs to go
to the gym for two hours a day in order to get in shape for the air force
acadamy, and they don`t want me as a bean chan to be wasting all that time,
when I should be studying Japanese and training. Which is true, we rarely ever
have time for language study, I just figure I`ll learn it by doing it, so I
just try and talk all the time and have my training fix things when I mess up
haha. Which has worked pretty well so far. Oh well can`t change it now.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Our mission president came to our ward on Sunday, he spoke in Church, and had a
dendo fireside afterwards, which was fantastic, helped everyone get hyped. He
focused mainly on Less actives. We had 4 investigators at church, so it was
cool having them meet him. He is so nice, I`m going to miss him. He`s leaving
after next transfer, so this was the last transfer calls he made. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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that where the car company is located, there`s a large Brazilian population
there that works in the factories. My MTC companion is there right now, so I`ll
be working with him, last I heard from him (2 weeks ago) he had only taught one
lesson, and it was in Portuguese...haha so it`ll be fun trying to get the work
started up over there haha. I`ve heard that the ward over there is kinda crazy,
but pretty awesome too, they have alot of big families with lots of kids, one
of the members apparently got up and called everyone to repentance for 20
minutes last fast and testimony meeting. Sounds pretty fun :D I was hoping to
learn Portuguese after I learned Japanese, but it looks like I might end up
speaking Portuguese first haha. My new companion`s name is HardCastle, he`s a
transfer 5 missionary I think? So that`ll be fun, trying to survive without a perapera
(fluent) companion. Apparently he was also in the air force academy, and is
even bigger than my current companion (which is insane...seeing as he`s 6 foot
3 and can bench 400...) so hopefully it`ll be good :) Transfer calls came a
week early, this time, so I still have a week in Toyama before I go over there
and meet him.<br />
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college kids we found by the international college! They`re from Russia, Korea,
and China, but we all spoke Japanese to each other haha They made us dinner :)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Less actives and then next time we visit we give them the picture with a note
on the back :) This girl gave us a big box of chocolates, but half of them had
alcohol, or coffee in them...haha<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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investigators (sorry don`t know how to flip pictures, everything is in
japanese...) He`s a professional piano player, we went to a concert he had on
Saturday, and then taught him afterwards. He`s way cool.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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missionaries :) Mineta shimai is the asian one, then Wilcox shimai, then Frost
Choro, toshiaki, a potential investigator (he comes to Eikiwa) then me :) The
shimai are super fun to dendo with, and super funny. We lucked out with them.
We live in the same building so we trade food alot, they even made me a cake
yesterday :)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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beatbox for them because they heard about it from the Takoaka members haha. It
was fun :)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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long, kinda mendokusia email. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Everyone better enjoy
this Easter week and watch Because He Lives! I`ve been looking forward for this
video to come out for ages :D It`s super great! Give it a watch!<br />
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</span><a href="http://www.mormon.org/easter?cid=HP_FR_3-27-2015_dMIS_fMRMN_xLIDyL1-A_" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">http://www.mormon.org/easter?cid=HP_FR_3-27-2015_dMIS_fMRMN_xLIDyL1-A_</span></a><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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God is listening!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Oh and sorry if I
emailed you this out of the blue, I just pick random names from the address
book to send emails too haha :)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00448761650358460496noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1320414698141845591.post-86205887659354880152015-08-26T10:26:00.000-07:002015-08-26T10:26:04.528-07:003/22 Hey!<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;">So really, there`s waaaay to
much that happened this week for me to write...especially now that I only have
15 min left haha</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">So we had a mission
conference this week about getting IPads! So that`s exciting! It also kinda
stunk because we had to waste three days with traveling...a day to go there, a
day for the conference, and a day coming back...so we didn`t get to do as much
actually missionary work as I would have liked. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I also had a kokan in
takayama on tuesday, which was really cool! Except it was a 5 hour train ride
to get there, and another 5 hours to get back...so again lots of wasted travel
time...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">But! Lots of other
good stuff happened in the bit of time we did have to dendo, so it`s ok!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">So some quick
news...only have 15 min. So probably won`t include too many stories.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">-Mahikari is
scary...they`re a cult that thinks their hands are Gods the center of their
religion thing is right next to the elders apartment in Takayama...they can
perform miracles, which is cool...but it`s not in Christ names...so...wonder
who`s power their using?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">-I met some yakuza in
Nagoya! That`s the Japanese Mafia. So that was cool. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">-I should be getting
an Ipad next month! They already have them, they just haven`t passed them out
yet. Once we get them we`ll have everything digitilized. I`ll have to put all
the records on the ipad, which will take forever...we`ll also eventually get FB
and I will be able to read emails whenever I want, I just won`t be able to
respond to them until Monday still. So that`ll be nice. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">-We had the Talent
show on Satuday! It was the craziest talent show of my life! It was such a
fail...Takoaka Elders put it on, and pretty much no one showed up, everyone in
their ward is old, so no one showed up to do a talent except for people from
our ward, so the missionaries had to come up with a bunch of acts last minute,
I did 3 of them...and I MCed haha so that was fun. Yasui shimai from our ward
dressed up as elsa with a really strange home made costume made from a table
cloth and trash bags...then after she sand she played a super random japanese
line dance, and made everyone dance with her. Which was actually super random
and super fun. For my talent I had people give me words, in English or
Japanese, then I`d turn the word into a beat. It was a crows killer. They`d
never heard of beatboxing before so everyone was pretty amazed haha. Then I
turned to a random song in the church primary book and made another elder rap
it. Haha He actually did a really good job. I forgot my camera, but my
companion might have recorded some of it, maybe I`ll put it on next week.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">-Next Sunday our
mission president is coming to our ward. And it`s my birthday, so we`re trying
to get everyone to church to meet him, and using my birthday as leverage haha<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">-And one last thing,
we found and taught an awesomely prepared lady on monday! She teaches an art
school, so she gave us an lesson on abstract art...haha it was super random.
Then we taught her and one of her students the plan of salvation. It was super
great, best lesson I`ve had so far. We asked her to pray about if it was true
at the end of the lesson, and she was just kinda like, `I already know it`s
true` she`s a pretty special lady, she can see a bit beyond the veil I think.
Unfortunately she`s moving to tokyo in two weeks, and is gone all this week...so
we won`t be able to teach her again. We`re helping her pack/move on saturday
though, and she promised to come to the first 45 minutes of church this sunday
before she leaves. She also wanted 5 more plan of salvation pamphlets, because
she has more art students who want to know about it haha. So Tokyo will get a
nice referral of her and all her students (They`re moving with her)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Anyways, that`s all
I`ve got time for. Thank you for the prayers! Miracles are happening in
Japan! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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in the city part of our area. It`s a pretty small castle`<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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So those hole in the ground toilets aren`t the only kind they have in
Japan...They either have those...which you have to buy your own toilet paper
for...and they stink...or they have these babies. It opens up when you walk in,
some of them talk to you and are voice operated....they usually have seat
warmers...and they can do a variety of tricks...like spray water at different
angles at you...kinda weird.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00448761650358460496noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1320414698141845591.post-6677352940448631492015-08-26T10:19:00.001-07:002015-08-26T10:19:18.751-07:003/15 I can put pictures on now :D<div class="MsoNormal">
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probably notice, my cousin Cole taught me how to shrink pictures, so I can put
them in my email now! So yay! Lots of pictures!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">First a quick
update. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Miracles. I like to
talk about miracles, because I`m on a mission and everything we do is a miracle
haha so some miracles we saw this week....<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">-We Have 18
investigators! How awesome is that! Most of them are pretty flaky
investigators...but that`s a huge answer to my prayers! We only had 5 or 6 when
I came! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">-We had zone
conference, lots of cool stuff happening<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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only have a few minutes to typle left but...I:ve been praying alot to find
someone who could be baptized this month...and then we had a snow storm and our
plans got canceled, (this is last monday) so we decide to stay inside and go
through all the old records that I found while cleaning out the closet, they go
back to 1997...pretty cool eh? So anyways we are calling people, and find some
new people to meet with, and it`s awesome..and then we decide to look through
the old eikiwa records and see who`s in there, which don`t have any
investigators in them. And we find this guy yoshiki`s old investigator record!
And he`s taken all the lessons! And been to church like 10 times! And So I called
him last night and pretty much straight up told him God wanted him to be
baptized this month, and that he needs to read the Book of Mormon and Pray
again. So he agreed to find his Book of Mormon, and read and pray to know if
the church is true, and he`s coming to church again on the 19th. There`s more
to this story...but I budgeted my time poorely and am out of time. Anyways God
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I love being with my companion because he actually eats more than me! (Most of the time) Which is awesome because he`s a good cook and he makes a ton of food! So we`re always feasting. It`s great. I`m trying to fatten up right now. I figure I`d be nice to have some portable food storage, and insilation, so I`ve been downing lots of fried foods and white rice :D I`m always freezing in our apartment, and everywhere else for that matter Our heater doesn`t really work, we asked for a new one this week, and they said maybe...since it`s pretty much the end of winter. I`ve been doing push ups to stay warm, I`m averaging 1-200 a day, it`ll be interesting to see what shape I come back home in, muscular from all my push ups? Or obese from all my eating? haha\</div>
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This is the gun I bought. 9 bucks. Yep Awesome. 2nd hand stores in Japan are seriously the best things in the world. If it has ANY defect at all it`s practically free (Japan is a perfectionist society..even their fruit in the super market is perfect). So now I have a nice pellet gun! It has a crack on the magazine that`s like the size of a finger nail clipping...haha. I figure that if/when the world goes crazy right before the 2nd coming I`ll pretend it`s a real gun for leverage. No one has guns in Japan anyways so it`ll probably work.</div>
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tons better than last week! And last week was good! Haha So last P-Day after I
emailed I spent the whole day cleaning the apartment...It was pretty bad. I
threw out three trash bags of old expired food from the pantry. I just focused
on the kitchen and my closet the whole day. I finished the kitchen, get to do
the closet again today haha. But! I found lots of cool stuff while I was
cleaning! I now have a nice pair of ear warmer things that are nice to bike
with, and some nice shoes, and gloves, and some ties...etc. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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where I am, or what it loots like, just google Toyama snow. There`s some
pretty sick pictures out there. Luckily both the big snow storms are past this
year, so it won`t look like that anytime while I`m here.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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answered this week. We found 4 new investigators! And I got to teach some real
lessons! 17 to be exact :D It`s been great! I feel like we can get this area
alive and have some good dendo fire with a bit of faith and effort. Our mission
goal is one companionship, one month one baptism. And I feel like no one really
pays attention to it, or thinks it as a realistic goal (Most missionaries here
never see a baptism). Maybe it`s because I`m fresh out of the MTC and don`t
really know the "real world" yet but I think we can do it :D Just
gotta get my comp on board now, he`s getting kinda itchy for home and not super
motivated sometimes. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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this week, On Tueday a memeber drove us up the mountain, we rode the ski lift to
the top and read the book of Mormon together! That was pretty cool! You could
see all the way to the ocean from the top. We went sledding a bit too. I feel
like it should have been a P-Day activity probably, next time I`ll ask more
questions during planning haha.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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awaited quest to learn to cook! SO now when I come how I won`t have to mooch
off girls all the time! (not saying I won`t...just it won`t be necessary for
survival). I committed my comp to teach me a new recipe every P-day haha last
week we made katsu Don, Pretty much just bedded fried pork. It was delicious
though. I started making a mini recipe book of things I should know how to make
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times last week with the Brazilian Elder, that was fun. For the first three
hours of the first split, I thought he didn`t speak English so I just spoke
with him in Japanese haha Then I found out he spoke English I while later when
I didn`t understand a word he used haha so that was fun. He`s a cool guy, he`s
been out 6 months now, and he still hasn`t taught a lesson in Japanese haha. He
has taught in Portuguese, Spanish, French, English, and Italian though haha.
That`s what happens when you know Portuguese, other languages come easy, since
they`re all pretty similar.I learned the correct pronunciation from him, so
when I do start studying Portuguese I won`t say everything wrong.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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went on splits I got to hang out with Elder Smith, he was in my district at the
MTC, he`s awesome. Although he`s not doing so awesome right now...he`s been
sick since he got here, and he got hit by a car haha so that`s fun...He`s fine
now though, so it`s all good. I got alot of language study tips from watching
the other Elders at their apartment, my comp doesn`t really do language study
much, he just reads the BOM in Japanese. Actually we`ve only done language
study 3 times in the past two weeks haha...which kinda stinks, we always set
time for it, but other things end up taking it`s place. I made a pretty awesome
Language Study Plan though, and I`m learning alot every day, so I`ll survive
even if I don`t get the hour we`re supposed to have. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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church yesterday! It was really good! I`m really working hard to get the wards
trust, and support, and get them more dendo oriented (dendo means missionary by
the way...sometimes I forget it`s not english...sorry). And I think I made alot
of progress :D<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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off my strengths alot more here than I expected. People like talking to tall
blong kids, which is cool. We have a soccer game next Saturday, which will be
awesome. Maybe I can do my dream of betting a Brazilian that if I can beat him
in soccer he has to take the lessons haha. I always wanted to go to Brazil or
any soccer playing country and do that for my mission haha. We also have a
talent show in 2 weeks that they asked me to do something at, so I think I`ll
beat box for that. And one of our investigators wants to do a song with me in
church! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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have a great week! I might send another couple emails with pictures if I have
time! Maybe I`ll make a drop box or something...since we`re only able to send
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prayers! They help SOOO much!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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trash I threw out on Monday<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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and a Japanese toilet! We went to the temple with a lady I met at Eikiwa while
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cool. I gave her a plan of salvation pamphlet and she seemed excited to read
it. We went inside the temple and she told us all about the pictures and
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