Week 53- 10/3/16 I Got One!

Hello family. Let it be known you heard it first here because this

past week was a very special (and weird) week. I have officially lived

long enough to see one of my investigators baptized. THATS RIGHT FOLKS

ELDER MOORE'S BAPTISM COUNT HAS SHOT UP TO 1! I'm now on level with the

average missionary in the Tokyo Japan mission. Shuma from Kiryu got

baptized this past Sunday. I was going to go and attend but something

came up and decided not to go. I'll talk about it later. But I'm so

stoked!!! By the end of this transfer we're looking at one more

baptism as well.

As to why this week was weird, things just kept happening and or

falling into our laps. First I'll tell you why I wasn't able to go to

Kiryu. One of our investigators families just straight up left for

Peru and aren't coming back. They left they're home, dogs, and him. So

we went over on Sunday to see if he was alright and if we can help.

Kind of sad I couldn't go to the baptism but hey, another person

needed me.

We also found three new investigators this week, a personal record.

Remember that Japanese kid that trashed us in basketball? Well he had

interest and now we meet with him. And while we were playing him

another kid walked up and joined and we got his number. Then at

scripture study class we got another investigator, and at church some

guy walked in and became a new investigator as well. Abiko is on fire

right now and we are in the center of it.

One fun story for this week, we met a man and taught him the

restoration. He seemed into it but hen started saying how it's

impossible for us to be the same family (Gods children) because white

people come from Japheth, and Asians come from Ham, despite there

father (Noah) being the same guy. He also got mad when he learned

that Christ appeared to America and not Japan (as far as we know)

because America only has 200 years as a country and Japan is old. Then

he denied the reality of the Book of Mormon by saying there's no such

thing as branches of Israel anywhere else except Israel and Japan. By

the end of the lesson he was lecturing us on how the big 9.0

earthquake a few years back was not actually a disaster but a terror

attack by Israel and America. The whole time our investigator Hiroki

was sitting in because we were already teaching him and he's just

watching with a look of bliss on his face. We were afraid this guy

would put some wrong idea in his head but after Hiroki was like "that

guy was crazy, it was like a movie, I can't wait to be a missionary."

He'll be baptized for sure. He has a date in 2 1/2 weeks. Long story

short, main stream Christianity in Japan is more confusing than

Americas. He let saying that the Book of Mormon is evil, but I still

got him to take it and read it.

Well that's about it from me. Don't spoil conference for me. We get it

a week later here.

I am the happiest Elder ever.

Shuma's baptism!

Playing hide'n'seek but you have to stay within sight and

sound of your companion

Elder Swenson broke the chair

This is a good half way picture

A turtle we found. Named him Homer.