HOWS IT GOING EVERYONE??
In case you're wondering about the weird
title, I'll explain it in a bit.
My companion's family lives in the Tokyo south
mission. He's on his 15th transfer and leaves after the next one. I'm his last
companion. This week we worked HARD. But as you'll read just look where it got
us. We went from one progressing investigator, to 2 progressing, one possible,
and several referrals, also some goodies from the ward (who are awesome by the
way. They love us.)
So some pretty cool things happened this
week. Literally right after
emailing all of you, miracles starting
happening. I'll start with the
focus of this week.
So, we were calling through our area
book trying to set up
appointments because we only have like
one progressing investigator,
and he had to cancel our lesson because
he got sick (which actually a
blessing). So we called a prior
investigator named Nao. He's a cool
guy and speaks decent English so I can
actually understand when we
talk. We called him up, and he pretty
much immediately hung up saying
"no no I'm busy." We figured
oh well time for bed and moved on.
Literally the next day, during
companionship study when we were
planning lessons, our phone rang. It was
Nao. He apologized for last
night and wanted to meet us for dinner.
He knew a good spaghetti place
that was pretty cheap. So of course, we
met with him. Over the course
of dinner, we're just talking to get to
know each other (since I'm
new) and we get to the topic of
religion. That's when the miracle
really made itself clear to us. He said
lately he suddenly started
having interest in Jesus Christ and
Christianity, and what happens
after we die. Well buddy we got the book
that explains it all. With
speed faster than a gazelle I whip out
my モルモン書
(Japanese BoM) and
start sharing scriptures. We ended
talking about e entire timeline of
the BoM, Joseph Smith, the Restoration,
translation, resurrection, and
the after life. He accepted the book and
we set up normal teaching
times to teach English and doctrine. But
it doesn't stop here. He
calls us the next day, saying "I
want to watch Meet the Mormons, 3
times, and maybe invite friends. Dude we
can hook you up. After
watching it he first time, he said he
really liked it, especially the
missionary story. GOD WILL MULTIPLY OUR
WORK, IF WE WORK HARD.
This week has been great. During 英会話
(English class) one of my
students asked me for a scripture he can
share with his friends to
wish them Merry Christmas. He's not a
member so I whipped out John
3:16 (look it up) and read it to him. He
thanked me, opened his bag,
and pulled out a piece of paper. He
gives it to me and says, "I like
to draw things. You are a good English
teacher so I drew this for
you." I was so touched. I wanted to
hug him.
The miracles don't stop everybody! Last
night, we visited a member
named Brother Kamacho. After introducing
myself (I do that a lot) we
were talking about the Nao miracle. He
then gave us a referral for
someone who goes to the religion college
across the street from our
apartment (we go there a lot). We
contacted that referral and set up
an appointment on Wednesday AND Sunday.
Oh and by the way, I was so focused on
the miracles I forgot to tell
you why my nose is a Shinkansen. During
English class, we usually play
a game after. One of the lady's brought
her three year old son, who
was hilarious. He looks at me, everybody
goes quiet, and says "ojiisan
no hana wa Shinkansen mitai na."
Which is "that old guys nose looks
like a Shinkansen." Probably the
highlight of the week.
Things are hot in Okegawa. Loving the
work and I hope you all found
joy in this email. Thank you for tuning
in, this is Elder Moore
signing off.
Picture 1: the drawing
Picture 2: the YSA and Okegawa Elders
and Brother Kakiki's house
Picture 3: McDonald's
Picture 4: just a look at us streeting
モア長老
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