This week we had a cool experience with a couple from Yokohama. We had just eaten dinner and as we were leaving, I felt like I should grab a Proclamation to the World on the family. I threw it into my bag and we left, then we passed a couple as we were riding our bikes. They looked like they were not from Yokote (it's kind of hard to explain, but you can just tell). But, we stopped them and talked for a little bit, we found out that they were traveling and were just in Yokote for a day for his father's funeral. We had a perfect opportunity to share the Proclamation to the World and testify of the eternal nature of families. They took the pamphlet, and we expected to never see them again, but we totally ran into them again the next day! We saw them twice during the 24 hours they were in Yokote. God really puts us right where he needs us.
We met an older lady, K, who was so surprisingly receptive to our message, and was so exited to get a Book of Mormon, for free. When we went over a few days later to follow up, we met her mom, who was also so excited when we knocked on her door. She asked if we had been guided by God to get there, and we told her yes. She thought that was so awesome. We told her we loved Japan and that made her even happier. She welcomed us back anytime! We will try to start teaching them for real this week.
We had a great visit with the E family! They are a part-member family so we are usually careful about totsu-zen visits, but we felt like we really needed to visit them on Wednesday. We went and shared the Easter video for this year, and bonded with her kids as well. She asked if we would be willing to help her son with his math homework
sometime, and of course we happily agreed to. She has 3 kids at home and her husband works in Akita city (about an hour away), so she is a real trooper. We are so grateful to be able to serve their family!
We had GoEigo (English class) and only I! That was kind of disappointing but we watched the last part of Meet the Mormons with I, and she thought it was so cool. She talks all the time about how missionary moms are otsukaresama's, and how she wants to help the missionaries because she is a mom and knows how Moms feel about their sons...
We have been blessed this week with finding new spots to go tracting all the time--there are so many neighborhoods with tons of apartment buildings that have lots of families, and every time we start to get towards the end of one neighborhood, we find another bigger one. This week being golden week as well, we have really been focusing on families. We gave out so many Proclamation to the World pamphlets and have really been praying to find families to teach. We have found so many PIs the past few weeks, so hopefully most of them will progress to investigators soon!
It's been a great week and sounds like it was a great week back home too!! Thanks for all the pics, it was so fun too see them all :) Glad the wedding was a blast and I am honored that my cardboard counterpart was able to attend all the festivities. I even saw that I got to dance with a beautiful girl, what an honor. :)
Love you so much! You're the best!
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パスケット長老
Elder Paskett
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| The last sakura |
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| some ancient relic we found...I wonder what it's for... |
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| Zone conference. We found out that Kiribayashi Shimai is from Hiroshima and knows Sister Ogawa! Or at least recognized her name. |
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| Pink out with Miyakawa Kyoudai |
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