Yeah I guess the cold really isn’t so bad! I think the coldest it has gotten is like -14, but usually during the day it get s up to 3 or 4. Nothing like Norway haha! Thats so cool about Rylee too! Tell her congrats for me :)
I had splits with my DL Terry Choro this week! We had a good time, we were able to go to a Shuwa circle and learn some sign language, and we taught English to a high schooler named U. He is so awesome! He goes to the American ward in Misawa every Sunday, mostly to practice English. He usually stays for the Japanese branch right after as well, which is where I met him first a few weeks ago. Apparently one of the sister missionaries in Hachinohe (where he lives) showed him a video of me singing a happy birthday song (the Michael Bolton one) a while ago, so he recognized me away and was like, “パスケット長老ですか?? ずっと会いたかったよ！” (You're Elder Paskett? I've been wanting to meet you!!) So we are tight now and had a good time learning English! He told us all about his future dreams, he wants to hug millions of people and help homeless people find jobs, haha he is great :)
We have a newish Investigator named H san who is Christian, but isn’t going to church right now. She doesn’t like crowds and is really shy, she lives alone with her dog. We wanted to make her feel comfortable enough to come to church, and our morning sacrament meeting right now is between 3-7 people so that actually helps. We do it at a member’s house, Tozaki shimai, so we decided to go bring cookies to Hatayama san with Tozaki Shimai, and invite her to church. She wasn't able to come this week, but she is friends with Tozaki Shimai now and is open to coming sometime in the future! When we went to the store to buy ingredients for cookies, we just happened to run into our Filipino friend J! He told us he was sorry he didn't add us on facebook yet, but he would as soon as he got to wifi. He is such a solid guy, we are excited to see where things go with him.
We brought cookies to our other investigator D who had the flu, and he told us he would for sure get better by Sunday so he could make it to church! We were waiting for him at our evening sacrament meeting at the community center, but he didn't show up. We went to visit him after to see if he was doing alright, and he apologized profusely that he had to stay late at work. As an apology, he took us on a tour of his bread shop and esthetician business, and gave us some sample bread and cookies and skin cleansing drink, and sprayed our faces with detox mineral water. Haha it was an adventure! He is such a funny, goofy guy. He felt pretty bad about not being able to come though, he promised he would come next week. We haven’t been able to teach any actual lessons to him yet, but I think he has a lot of potential.
We had a missionary conference at Bandai in Aizuwakamatsu, it was great! I got to meet a lot of new missionaries, we had some spiritual experiences and fun activities, I don’t have too much time to explain it all now but I’ll fill you in on the deets next week.:)
One cool miracle was on Saturday night, we had a goal to contact 100 people that day, and we were at around 93 but it was getting late so we started walking towards home. On the way, this good-looking apartment caught my eye for some reason. I turned towards Mateaki Choro and saw that he was looking at the same building. There were about 8 rooms so we decided to use a little bit of our dinner time to tract it up and try to reach our goal.
We got a few kekkoes, then person #98 was a super nice lady who had a lot of interest in the Book of Mormon! She was super interested in why a couple of young Americans were walking around in the snow too. We explained what we do as missionaries, and she happily accepted a Book of Moromon and said we are welcome to come back anytime! That was a cool little testimony to me that God blesses and guides us as we do our best to carry out inspired goals. Our goals and plans don’t change God’s plans, but through making goals and plans, it enables God to guide us to accomplish His will.
I love being a missionary and I love Japan!!
Love you momma!!!
パスケット長老
Elder Paskett
Just 1 today! This was our sacrament meeting on Sunday ft. the Sasaki
family, Hansen Shimai and Tozaki Shimai:
family, Hansen Shimai and Tozaki Shimai:
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