So yesterday we had Christmas dinner with Murase Kaicho and his family, it was so nice! They fed us so well. After that we did a little bit of tracting, nothing too eventful. It was a good Christmas though!
This morning, S stopped by our apartment (we have no idea how he knows where we live) and we gave him a video about the Church, made by some Japanese broadcasting agency. He loves movies so we thought that was a good Christmas present! I think things will start to pick up with him this week, he loves the missionaries so much and I think he is starting to realize that there is something more to the Gospel than he has realized before.
I told you most of the exciting stuff from this week, but here are some other fun things that happened...
On Friday, we got to down to Misawa for Zone Conference. Nathan Choro got us hooked up with some peanut butter and Oreos since the American base is there. And the English ward relief society made us the best lunch of all time! We had cheesy potato casserole stuff with ham and salad and all kinds of American food. Then they sent us home with more ham and cereal and mac n cheese and root beer and just so much food! Seriously so nice!
At the Zone Conference, we learned so much! It was great. I got to sing and Nathan Choro played the piano, and we also learned Elder Holland is coming in February! We also got some little stocking presents assembled by YW in Utah and Idaho, to give out to investigators and LAs for Christmas.
On Saturday, we were out streeting and we ran into a bunch of Christians handing out bibles for Christmas Eve! We were both so pumped to see other Christians! We had cookies that we were using to invite people to Christmas sacrament meeting, so we gave them all the cookies we had left. And we each got a Japanese New Testament that we didn't really know what to do with.
Later that day, Kimura Kyoudai asked us to go home teaching with him to Niiyama Kyoudai. He is an older guy who is in a care center right now. He isn't able to come to church but he was so excited to see us, he has all the missionaries he meets sign his Book of Mormon and mark their favorite scripture. We gave him one of those little stocking presents, and then gave him a second one with the New Testament we received, and invited him to give those to a friend for Christmas! So we asked him to re-gift a gift, as a gift to someone else, that Smith Kaicho re-gifted to us and asked us to re-gift to someone else. In addition to a gift that we had received earlier that day. There was a lot of re-gifting this Christmas.
I'm so glad everyone is doing well and it was so fun to talk to you guys for a little bit! Already excited for Mother's Day! :)
Love you! Merry Christmas!
パスケット長老
Elder Paskett
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