Hey everyone!! :) Thanks for all the emails and what not, I
always love it! :)
This week has been a blast! Elder Horne and I get
along great, and we're LOVING working together. This is a third week together,
ALREADY! I HATE time. Despise how fast it is... We had a lot of fun, and saw
lots of good things this week. Most notably, we acquired a couch, further
evidence that God does indeed exist, more details later.
So this week we didn't have much opportunity to
meet with our investigators. :( Sato San has been crazy busy, so we haven't
been able to see her, and Riku Kun is busy with school, so that's been rough.
Both are very close to baptism though. Sato San just needs to come to church,
and then commit to do it. Riku Kun gave us the 'why does bad stuff happen
to good people?' question today, so we have to help him answer that
question. He really wants this to all be true, but he says when he thinks
about questions like that, it makes him doubt whether God even exists or
not, so once he can figure that out for himself, he'll know that this
is true. Of that I have no doubt. :) So we're working with them there. So
I mentioned before that I may have received revelation on helping Sato San. :P
She doesn't come to church because she helps her Mom on Sundays, and so I was
thinking about what we could do to help her have the courage to find a way to
come to church, and I had two things come into my head. One, that she needs to
know that she isn't choosing church over family, when she chooses church she IS
choosing family, and that she needs to REALLY understand the importance of
baptism, and I really felt that when she understands those two things, she'll
find a way to come to church. So we have an appointment with her on the 28th
this week, so we're excited to go talk to her about those two things! So that's
exciting!!
But this week we had a TON of success finding. We
found about 4-5 people that have some really good potential, and they're all SO
NICE, so that's definitely a great sign. :) So we have return appointments
for them all next week, and we're very excited to go meet them.
Being with Elder Horne is such a blast. I love
getting to see miracles with him, because it helps him see how marvelous this
work is, and how great being a part of it is. And that's one thing I really
want him to take away from our two transfers together, how flipping AMAZING
being a missionary is. If I can get him to understand that, I'll have succeeded
I think!
So, epic story of the week. We got a couch.
We were out doing some
finding yesterday, and we stumbled upon a bright red leather couch that some
had set to be thrown out. We both look at it, look at each other, and
immediately begin an inspection of this couch. The Otofuke apartment has no
couch, so we DESPERATELY wanted a couch. Turns out this work of art is in DANG
good condition, and so we tried the most important test. We sat on it. And we
were filled with indescribable joy. ;) So we decided to pack it home with us.
We ended up hiking about 2.5 miles home with this couch on our backs, getting
the GREATEST FACES from the Japanese people that I've ever seen! OH MAN, we
had way to much fun carrying it home. And it fits in our apartment beautifully.
Miracles, people. They're out there!
Love you all so much, looking forward to
hearing from you all!!
Love, Mike
P.S. Powder for gatorade is way fine! Thanks on the
work for the glasses! And other requests?... As of right now, I have no idea.
Beef Jerky would be nice. Other Elder's have gotten it just fine as of late, so
maybe it's ok again? I dunno...OH!!! The bricks of cheese like you had at
Christmas time! PLEASE!! I'm begging you! It was wonderful! :) Thanks for all
you do!!!! LOVE YOU!
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