Or you know everyday doing the same
things with completely different results.
Well, this week was rather short. We did quite a lot, and at the same
time, it feels much like we didn't do much at all. Then again, it always feels
like that. So why should this week turn out any different?
Anyway, we had quite the time on Monday, that is to say, we shopped,
came and put the food away, sat and talked for a while and then just kind of
stared at the wall. It was good though, I love a good wall stare. Then that
night, we went to President Teraguchi's house for a FHE. It was really awesome
and Yazaki Kyoudai came with us too! We got to teach his wife, who hasn't
really been coming to church recently and talked about Nephi/Lehi's vision of
the Iron Rod. It was really good!
Then on Tuesday, we got to go change sheets at the Hospital! I mean, we
do this every week and all, but it is just way fun. And it is the best when
there are students there because for some reason we are just way faster than
them and they always say things about it because they think we don't speak any Japanese.
It is way fun. Then we went with our Yazaki Kyoudai to our the Sakai house and
she wasnt home, but her son was and he let us in and so we talked for a little
and showed him pictures and stuff and then I helped him and Yazaki figure out
how to make a Pokémon go account. So yeah, I also now have an account that is
active on Yazaki's phone because his email wasn't working. Yep. I will be a
powerful player before I ever get a chance to play. Hahaha! Also Sakai Shimai
came home and we had an awesome discussion about life and how she feels about
church and such.
Wednesday, we had peer support eikaiwa and talked about
Japanese culture and one of the guys sang a song for us. The video will be
included (Batteries will not). It was awesome. Also at one point he came up and
grabbed my thigh and then tried to have me do the same to him. I absolutely
love peer support eikaiwa. That night we had our regular eikaiwa class and as
always our friends Uehira and Yazaki were hilarious. The video will be included
(again batteries will not).
On Thursday we had a little disaster. We decided to try our hand at
shimai dendo (which is essentially like visiting teaching, you know just like
bring them cookies to show them love). Well, we decided to make and old classic
of no-bake cookies and bring them to some people. We had all the stuff except
the oats. So we went to the store really fast and looked and the only thing
there was rolled oats. We figured that it was ok. We make it and well, lets
just say that we made some really good chocolate oat goo. It didn't work for
the cookies though. There goes shimai dendo.
For Friday, we had DTM in Kanazawa again and it was pretty good! We
talked about what we can do with faith and such. I would encourage you all to
read the talk from October 2010 "The Transforming Power of Faith and
Character" by Richard G. Scott. It is super good! Then we went up to Nanao
with the stake president to figure out how to set up the Nanao church for stake
conference. He is super smart and way cool! Then he took us up to one of our
member's house and he wasn't home so we had some time and President Hirose took
us to McDonalds. Or as he said, McNald's. And then we went up to Anamizu. I
love that little podunk town! We had a lesson with Miyamori and we were
planning on helping him weed his garden before that. So we wore normal people
clothes. Super weird. While we were on our way, one of our other investigator
friends up there texted us an asked when were we going to Anamizu that day and
we told him and asked if he wanted to come pull weeds with us. So he showed up.
It was great.
We pulled weeds and pretty much finished, I was attacked by a praying
mantis and then we went in for a lesson. We were going to teach the whole
restoration of the gospel because for some reason he wasn't taught all of it
before. So it was great because it was also Hiro (the other guy that come) it
was his first real lesson as well. So a good place to start. When we got to the
end, Miyamori just wasn't understanding when we were inviting him to read the
Book of Mormon and to pray about Jospeh Smith and so Hiro looks at us and says,
"Can I help?" He then went on to explain to Miyamori that this was
his first time hearing this too, but from what we were saying that Miyamori
needs to read this book and then he can receive the happiness that we are
sharing. It was super awesome!
Then we left and talked with Hiro for a little while and he gave us a
ride back to Nanao and we were able to give him a Book of Mormon as well and it
was great. He then asked if he could share it with his friends as well and so
we gave him another copy. Super super cool guy. I love him so much!
Then on Saturday, we went with Yazaki to get him a more Missionary
looking haircut so that when he speaks in Stake Conference people will think
that he is serious about wanting to go. There is this whole thing where the
Kanazawa ward is thinking of paying for his mission so it is important that
they see him in that light. It wasnt exactly a missionary haircut, but it is a
lot cleaner than it was and it looks good. Then we helped him with his talk and
gave him tips on presentation. It was a good day.
Then on Sunday was Stake Conference. We had to go down to Kanazawa and
the branch president was going to give Yazaki a ride, but when we were on the
train there, we got a text that said that he wasn't going. So yep. We got to go
tell the stake president that he would be able to make it. Which is too bad
because it was a really big opportunity. The only other speakers were the stake
president, another recent convert from the Kanazawa ward, President Ishii,
Sister Ishii, and Elder Tokuzawa from the seventy. That would have been really
cool. Then we got to see a lot of people from the stake and that was really
fun.
Then that night, we got to meet with Yamamoto Kyoudai! He is so awesome!
He has been working hard to overcome some struggles with tobacco, but he is
doing it! We have a plan and it is working! I am so excited for him! His main
goal is to get his life back in order so that he can have an eternal family.
Super cool! Then we got to talk to Yazaki Kyoudai about self reliance and he is
making some progress. We are going to make the first really big step today by
going shopping to get her and buying a weeks worth of food as opposed to him
just going to a conbini every day. So he should be able to save a lot of money
and wont have any problems with that anymore. He has really been struggling with
that though and we are helping him to figure it out. It is so cool how many
different topics the church has resources on. I love it!
Anyway that was this week and although it was really short, i guess
quite a few things happened. It was good!
Dinner with Hiro
Learning Kanji
Uehira (left) and Yazaki (right) at eikaiwa
The Eikaiwa Japanese Song
Us and Sora-kun and Yazaki
Yazaki asked me to shave his eyebrows
Video of said atrocity
FHE at Teraguchi Kaicho's house
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