Working hard at video games I guess is an honorable pastime too. γγγ°γ£γ¦γ！
Just a couple highlights from this week...
First, we had a great lesson with A san! It was her first lesson and it was so solid. She read all of the pamphlet we gave her. Like, really read it! And it made such a difference. She even read the list of terms in the back and right off the bat she asked us about γγγγΉγ and asked if that was still a thing in this time period!! We told her definitely yes. Mateaki Choro showed her pictures of his baptism and she liked it a lot.
She understood everything really well, I think it was the most in depth Restoration lesson I have taught yet. Usually it takes an entire lesson to make sure they understand God is Our Loving Heavenly Father, but she just soaks it all up so quick. During the Joseph Smith part, we were even able to talk specifically about what the priesthood is and how it was restored. Miracles happen when people keep their commitments to read stuff you give them! We taught her about prayer, and she has never really prayed before in her life, but she was down to try! First we each said a prayer and talked about it a little bit, then she tried praying and it was so simple and wonderful :) She said what really stood out to her about our prayers was how we sincerely thanked God for simple blessings like the good weather. So we are having her pray daily this week, and she is getting a little busy prepping for the start of the school year but I think she will continue to progress crazy fast! She is so prepared.
There was a blizzard on Thursday (my birthday present from the heavens)! That was such a surprise since we have been biking recently. But we pulled our scarves and coats and gloves and boots back out and did some δΉ γγΆγ snow dendo. We weren’t having much success but the last door we knocked on was a super nice middle-aged man who was kinda quiet but talked with us a bit. Then as we were talking, his mom and little brother pulled in, and the mom talked with us for a while. She works at the post office and lives with her 2 sons, and loves her family so much. She is so nice and welcomed us back to share a message another time!
We made a personalized Book of Mormon for our investigator H san, she is a lady probably in her 50s. We are having a hard time getting her to come to church, but she likes when we visit and she loved her Book of Mormon! We wrote our testimonies in it and marked up a bunch of our favorite scriptures. We also made a similar one for another investigator, an ojiisan named M san. We are having a hard time getting him to pray or come to church, so we figured a personal Book of Mormon would be good because he would not only be more likely to actually read it, but it would help him to see that we want him to accept the gospel because we love him and know it will bless his life, not because it is our “job” to get people to join the church.
Other than that we have been dropping a lot of new investigators lately, there were quite a few who took a pamphlet and expressed some interest, but when we were able to get in contact again basically told us they weren’t really that interested. Some people just take pamphlets because they are too nice to say no, haha Japanese people are the best. They really don't want to offend us and they want us to feel successful, so it is super hard for them to tell us straight up if they aren’t really interested. It’s kind of nice because they are so nice even when they reject you. These people are the best! But yeah we are hoping that some seeds were planted with the ones we had to drop, and we have faith that they are more who are ready now!! From here on it is supposed to get way warm and hopefully no more snowstorms! Short-sleeve season will be coming soon :)
Love you so much Mama!!!!
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Elder Paskett
1 - Elder Mateaki made me a wonderful birthday breakfast!
2 - The leftovers from the last snowstorm
3-5 - DTM! Ft. My birthday potato (both the Sisters are from Idaho so they gave me potato with a little bow on it haha) Also ft. the Omer couple from Herriman, Utah! They have never been to Japan before but just got called here to be Military Relations/Service missionaries at the military base in Misawa!
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