"Boom, you looking for this?"
Starting with Monday, we went to this sweet island for District P day! We had to take a boat to get the island, and I felt like a pirate, so it was pretty sweet. When we got to the island, we went on a sweet hike and chilled on the beach, and skipped some rocks😁😁
Wednesday, we had exchanges with the APs, and so we went up to Kobe and spent the day finding people in their area! 😁😁 We met a lot of people and found two people who have a lot of potential! 😁😁
Friday, I had some sweet dreams come true... We have a sick inactive member we are trying to reactivate, and we went with him to his business, and he showed us all of his katanas... Yeah, the guy has over 900 swords, and they are all SO COOL😆😆😆😆 I've got lots of flicks on the album, so you'll have to go and check them out... Words don't do it justice.
Saturday, we went over to my Japanese family's house (the Clark's), watched some football, ate some tacos, and then we all went to his son's hockey game together. It was such a fun day, and I love spending time with them... We have transfers coming up, and I am most likely getting transferred, so imma miss them so much 😢😢😭
Sunday we had our friend Mari come to church again!! 😆😆😁 It was so good to have her come again, and I think she is slowly starting to get more interest in the church! 😁😁😆 After church, we had a super fun mission prep class as a ward, and we were able to share our testimonies and cool experiences from our mission. I'll share with you what I shared with them.
Basically, in April of last year, I was in a very countryside area called Uwajima. While I was there, my comp, Elder Perkins, and I tried our best to find, teach, and baptize. But, there were not a lot of people, so it was really hard, and we didn't see a whole lot of reward for the work we were putting in. However, one day, we were outside when Elder Perkins had the prompting to go and talk to this dude who was sitting on a bench by himself. When I looked over at him, he was very clearly homeless, jobless, and maybe even a little crazy. But, my comp felt we should talk to him, so we did. Our new friend Wada was also mostly deaf and we had to shout to talk with him. But, he spoke English and so we invited him to our weekly English class. To our surprise, he instead came to church the next day (we still don't know how he knew when church started). After church, we gave him a Book of Mormon and told him to read it and set up another meeting . Again, to our surprise, he not only read it, but at our next lesson, he was asking really good questions about what he had read. This went on for another 2 or 3 weeks, and then I transferred.
Well, I'm very about to announce that on Sunday, our friend Wada got baptized and confirmed a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
I was able to watch him get baptized on Zoom and even had a short conversation with him, and to my absolute pleasure, he remembered me and the lessons that we taught him so many months ago.
God is real. This is His church, and blessings will always come to those who are patient. In the name of Him, whose name we bear, even Jesus Christ. Amen
Well, that's all I've got for this week. Feel free to email me!
That's all, folks.
Day with my Japanese family
The hockey game😆😆
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Wada's testimony after his baptism! 😆😆
Pictures at his baptism! 😁😁
