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| Riding the shinkansen |
Hello to the most wonderful and ichiban subarashii mother of them all,
We have been so busy! The highlight of this week was with S Kyoudai--the last 2 weeks, he has working little by little to keep the word of wisdom. He has been cutting down his coffee intake, and he was having us check his box of cigarettes each time we came over. On Sunday, we came over, and he had smoked one after a hard conversation with his brother, who is opposed to the church. But, S decided right there that he was ready to start keeping the Word of Wisdom entirely. He gave us his coffee and tea and cigarettes, and we watched in wonder as he dumped all of his alcohol down the sink. He had probably 10 bottles of various drinks, some of them unopened, but he dumped all of them down the sink without a moment's hesitation. He was truly willing to give up his sins to know God. Alma 22:15. He just dumped them right down the sink. Do we sometimes hesitate to give up what God requires of us? Once S knew what he needed to do and was committed to do it, he was 100% on board. I admire his strength and faith!
We left together, he drove off to go buy himself some soda to replace his alcohol, and we biked off holding a pack of cigarettes, a bag of coffee, and 10 empty booze bottles. Hopefully no one thought too much about the white guy wearing Christ's name on his chest holding a 3 liter bottle of Jack Daniel's. We're not sure if we threw them away in the right place but we got rid of them as soon as we could.
We had a hard week with Sh Kyoudai, with some really good spiritual
moments, but ending with him pounding his fists on the table and telling us, in English, "I REJECT YOUR CHURCH." That was rough, and we are sad that he is missing out on so much happiness that the gospel could bring. But, we ended on a good note, and he at least knows that we are his friends.
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| New friend K |
We have an awesome new friend named K, Barton Choro and I found him tracting, then Haskins Choro and I went to follow up this week. He totally listened to our message and accepted a Book of Mormon, he thinks Christianity is very interesting, but doesn't really understand that it applies to him yet. He told us he thinks we are funny and wants to hang out with us, so we went to ramen Saturday night and had a good time. He is 29 years old, and basically his life is working, working out, playing video games, and partying. He may be the most chill Nihonjin I have ever met. He didn't come to church this week because he was up until 5 playing video games with his online friends, but he wants to come eventually.
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| Birthday cake from I-san |
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| Bday pancakes |
On my birthday on Wednesday Haskins Choro made me pancakes in the
morning and I-san brought a cake to Eikaiwa (I'll send some pics), it was wonderful! Feeling loved.
In other news, we ran into a very suteki young man from Osaka, he is a professional photographer and he was so friendly. I guess the Osaka rumors are true. We talked for a while and he took a Book of Mormon and gave him a mormon.org card, so we are praying that some Osaka missionaries will be getting a self-referral pretty soon :)On Sunday night we were in exactly the right places at exactly the right times, to run into S san (the guy who hit me with a car) and then later Kn, our investigator who has been too busy to meet recently. We caught them both as they were returning home to their apartments, so we got to talk for a little bit. S san asked if I was doing ok, and said that he is sorry he hasn't been able to come to church yet, but said that he will come if he has a Sunday where he doesn't have work! And we were able to follow up on Kn's Book of Mormon reading, and he told us he wants to take us out to eat again sometime.Things are going great here in Yokote, thanks for all the love and the prayers!Love you! Thanks for all you do!XOXOXoxoxoxoxOXOXoxoxoXOXOxXOXOXOxooxoxoXOXOXxoxoxoxoパスケット長老Elder Paskett
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| Zone Conference |
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| With I-san |
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| Random high schoolers on the street |
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| T & R at the batting cages |
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| New friend T |
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| R and us |
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| Sh and S at church |
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| M, new Eikaiwa student |
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| This is what happens when your comp's last area had a Costco! |
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| Haircuts |
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| Haircuts |
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| Lunch at I-san's |
We have been so busy! The highlight of this week was with S Kyoudai--the last 2 weeks, he has working little by little to keep the word of wisdom. He has been cutting down his coffee intake, and he was having us check his box of cigarettes each time we came over. On Sunday, we came over, and he had smoked one after a hard conversation with his brother, who is opposed to the church. But, S decided right there that he was ready to start keeping the Word of Wisdom entirely. He gave us his coffee and tea and cigarettes, and we watched in wonder as he dumped all of his alcohol down the sink. He had probably 10 bottles of various drinks, some of them unopened, but he dumped all of them down the sink without a moment's hesitation. He was truly willing to give up his sins to know God. Alma 22:15. He just dumped them right down the sink. Do we sometimes hesitate to give up what God requires of us? Once S knew what he needed to do and was committed to do it, he was 100% on board. I admire his strength and faith!
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