We had some short exchanges with the APs, and I learned a lot! I realized that I have become a little bit mechanic when I talk to people at their door, but I want to really talk with them and see them as a unique individual, a child of God.
We taught S san another lesson, and we gave him a calendar to track his smoking and Book of Mormon reading!! Before we showed it to him, we told him we brought a present, but the present comes with a challenge, and he could only have the present if he accepted the challenge. He accepted both, so now he is keeping track of how many cigarettes he smokes each day and which days he reads the Book of Mormon. He said he usually smokes about 15 a day, but if he is really disciplined he can keep it down to just 1 each day. Doctrinal comprehension has been a little difficult since he has no background in Christianity at all, but we made some major breakthroughs and he is starting to understand a lot more! It is so cool to see when what we teach starts to really click in his head.
Sakuras are blooming! So there are tons of people walking the streets to see the flowers. We decided to volunteer and passed out pamphlets about Towada to all the tourists. We met a group of college students who came to volunteer as well and that was way fun!
Yesterday we felt prompted to stop by an apartment in an area I had never been to before, but almost no one was home. One door we knocked on looked like someone was inside, but after waiting a couple minutes, no one answered. We finished that floor, then started walking away from the building, when, to our surprise, he opened the door and came out! He called out to us from the 2nd floor. We responded and explained who we were, honestly expecting to just get kekkoed. But he invited us to come in! We climbed back up the stairs and went inside his apartment, which we found out was also the office for his international engineering business. He loves English and foreigners, so we got to be good friends really quick. After receiving a tour of his office, being shown his various plants, USA golf clubs, books, and receiving jars of black garlic as gifts, we were able to sit down with him and explain the Book of Mormon to him. At first he hesitated to accept a copy, saying it looked expensive and was too nice of a gift for him. But we insisted that it was our pleasure, and he took it and committed to try reading it!
He told us to come back anytime, and even offered to drive us anywhere we wanted to go if we ever wanted to see places around Japan. Haha not quite sure what to do with this kind of hospitality!
But yeah things are going well, it’s still cold but we are working hard and loving it. Don’t have too much time because we went to Hirosaki to see the Sakura today! I’ll send some pictures.
Love you!!
Sakura, volunteering, and Easter party; also Elder Warnock's final DTM:
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