G'Day こにちわみなさん
I'm loving japan, it's so beautiful, the people are so nice, the food is so good, the work is going well I love it I love it I love it :D
Train dendo (proselyting) is the most effective dendo! That I have found. Cause people aren't busy they haven't got anything else to do except scroll Facebook. But they really don't like starting conversations and find it weird if you just start talking to them. They usually try and ignore you. Even when they know your talking to them, but if you catch their eye and ask them a question they some times reply. Japan people are very shy usually and will not talk to anyone, the trains are dead quiet and no one speaks a word.
We met this gaijin(foreigner/ white guy) on a train and started talking to him and had one of the weirdest conversations ever! He talked about the length of Jesus's hair, weather or not his hair was curly or straight, how big his beard was, if Joseph was alive when Jesus died, architecture,quality of air and it's importance in house selection for buying. It was just weird hahaha we kept steering the conversation into gospel topics but then he would always steer it away and to more abstract things. He was a little bit loopy haha but it made for a fun train ride and we taught him some of our beliefs.
We had a branch family home evening on Saturday and this family of half American half Japanese kids came! The missionaries have been inviting them to all sorts of things for months and months and randomly this week they all started to come and not just to one thing they came to Eikaiwa (English conversational class) twice this week and family home evening! So hopefully they might gain an interest :) so exciting!
Family home evening was so much fun, we played this game where you have 2 teams each team kneels on either side of the Ping pong table on the longer sides. And you put a Ping-Pong ball in the middle of the table the aim of the game is to blow the ball off the other teams side of the table. It's actually so much fun!
We teach Eikaiwa (English conversational class) 3 times a week, 2 in Kisarazu and one in Tateyama .We live in Kisarazu. Tateyama is about an hour train ride south. It's a really cool place lots of people down there who have never meet missionaries and have a lot of interest in the gospel. Eventually we want to start a branch down there cause when
one of the apostles came to japan several years ago he said that Tateyama will be one of the biggest church hubs in japan. When he said that there was only one member living there. So twice a week we go down there now and we have now got 8 or do members down there and Takashi who has a baptismal date and several investigators! That area is on fire right now! It's great being able to first hand see The Lord hastening his work and truly amazing to be a part of his hastening!
On Friday me and elder Henderson went tracting and had absolutely no success. None would talk to us and when they did they clearly had no interest. One lady told us no one in this area likes Jesus but you should try those apartments over their! They are young and not very smart hahahaha. After we finished tracting and decided to go home we saw Mount Fuji Normally it's too smoggy to see Mount Fuji from our area. It's so big and so massive. So we stopped and started taking
some photos. And this guy walks up to us while he was walking his dog and just starts talking to us. He invited us over for tea and we told him we don't drink tea, so he asked if we could drink coffee them asked if we could drink juice,water and all these other drinks. We explained why then he invited us over for juice and to talk. We get to the house and it's a really nice house. He brings us in and sits us around his small kneeling table. We then start to talk while his wife frantically starts bringing out drinks and food. We try and tell them we are okay we don't need anything to eat or drink but she insists. We
talked for a while and taught a few basic principles and beliefs. We gave them a Book of Mormon and they said they would read it. Then when it was almost time to leave they were like "stay for dinner" but we thought the other elders had made us dinner so we declined. When we were leaving they gave us a heap of food and insisted that we take it. It was really wired but so nice.
So we started heading home and there was no time to cook anything for dinner, we had like 8 minutes so I quickly diced up some bacon and cooked it then grabbed 2 eggs and chucked them in and mixed it all up until it cooked, threw it on some pre-made rice ate it and ran out the door.
On Saturday I went on splits with elder smith, he is really cool and a really good missionary. We went to these massive shopping outlets about a 40 minute bike ride away to meet up with one of his investigators. He brought us lunch at the restaurant he works at. It was so delicious! I love Japanese food! It's so delicious. Japanese rice is like a billion times better than the rice back home! It's totally different! We found a big Christmas tree and took a photo in front of it cause it will probably be the only Christmas tree I see for 2 years, elder smith has been out for 13 months and that was the first one he has seen not in a members house!!!
Takashi one of our investigators, has a baptismal date!!!! And we're pretty sure he will make it. The only thing we can see stopping it is his basketball on Sundays so we will see.he is doing really well and has a strong testimony of everything we are teaching him, some of his family lives in the Philippines and are Mormon, in fact right now one of his cousins is serving a mission in the Philippines!!! We're hoping after he gets baptized his mum will get baptized as well :) that would be a miracle :)
On Sunday I blessed the sacrament in Japanese! If anyone says it's scary blessing the sacrament on Sunday just remind them that their are missionaries out there who have no idea how to speak their mission language that have to bless the sacrament in that language! Haha it was scary cause I really didn't want to stuff up! Luckily I didn't! I struggled through reading and pronouncing a couple of words but I was okay! I got it all right!
We had quiet a few people at church this week! There was like 30! That's a pretty awesome turn out for our branch :) lots of work to do :)
I still keep talking to every person I see and then when they say something back 95% of the time I have no idea what they are saying.... So I just nod my head say soudesune (is that so?) then just start talking about the gospel cause I don't know enough vocab to talk about what ever they said haha
Sitting in church again no idea what they are saying, I know what they are talking about but no idea what they are saying about it....
Takanashi kyodai (brother) is so amazing! He was baptized the week before I got here and in our lesson he asked if he could vote in the elections cause it was held on a Sunday. He has such a desire to be obedient! It's awesome!
On Sunday we got to give Takahashi kyodai the Aaronic priesthood! That was awesome :) there will probably be a video on Facebook soon of a little interview we do we with him... Well my companion did with him I didn't say a word haha cause I didn't even know what we were doing other than recording and asking questions.....It's all in nihongo (Japanese) so you probably won't understand it but yeah :) we asked him about his testimony and why he meet with the missionaries and how
he came to know the church was true so that was pretty awesome!!!
I can't believe it's five and a half weeks until Christmas! It's coming so fast! I can't believe this is already 2 weeks in japan it's going so fast! I'm having so much fun!!!!! Miss all of you! Hope you are all doing well and enjoying life :)
愛してるよ
あなたはすごくすばらしひとですよ
I'm loving japan, it's so beautiful, the people are so nice, the food is so good, the work is going well I love it I love it I love it :D
Train dendo (proselyting) is the most effective dendo! That I have found. Cause people aren't busy they haven't got anything else to do except scroll Facebook. But they really don't like starting conversations and find it weird if you just start talking to them. They usually try and ignore you. Even when they know your talking to them, but if you catch their eye and ask them a question they some times reply. Japan people are very shy usually and will not talk to anyone, the trains are dead quiet and no one speaks a word.
We met this gaijin(foreigner/ white guy) on a train and started talking to him and had one of the weirdest conversations ever! He talked about the length of Jesus's hair, weather or not his hair was curly or straight, how big his beard was, if Joseph was alive when Jesus died, architecture,quality of air and it's importance in house selection for buying. It was just weird hahaha we kept steering the conversation into gospel topics but then he would always steer it away and to more abstract things. He was a little bit loopy haha but it made for a fun train ride and we taught him some of our beliefs.
We had a branch family home evening on Saturday and this family of half American half Japanese kids came! The missionaries have been inviting them to all sorts of things for months and months and randomly this week they all started to come and not just to one thing they came to Eikaiwa (English conversational class) twice this week and family home evening! So hopefully they might gain an interest :) so exciting!
Family home evening was so much fun, we played this game where you have 2 teams each team kneels on either side of the Ping pong table on the longer sides. And you put a Ping-Pong ball in the middle of the table the aim of the game is to blow the ball off the other teams side of the table. It's actually so much fun!
We teach Eikaiwa (English conversational class) 3 times a week, 2 in Kisarazu and one in Tateyama .We live in Kisarazu. Tateyama is about an hour train ride south. It's a really cool place lots of people down there who have never meet missionaries and have a lot of interest in the gospel. Eventually we want to start a branch down there cause when
one of the apostles came to japan several years ago he said that Tateyama will be one of the biggest church hubs in japan. When he said that there was only one member living there. So twice a week we go down there now and we have now got 8 or do members down there and Takashi who has a baptismal date and several investigators! That area is on fire right now! It's great being able to first hand see The Lord hastening his work and truly amazing to be a part of his hastening!
On Friday me and elder Henderson went tracting and had absolutely no success. None would talk to us and when they did they clearly had no interest. One lady told us no one in this area likes Jesus but you should try those apartments over their! They are young and not very smart hahahaha. After we finished tracting and decided to go home we saw Mount Fuji Normally it's too smoggy to see Mount Fuji from our area. It's so big and so massive. So we stopped and started taking
some photos. And this guy walks up to us while he was walking his dog and just starts talking to us. He invited us over for tea and we told him we don't drink tea, so he asked if we could drink coffee them asked if we could drink juice,water and all these other drinks. We explained why then he invited us over for juice and to talk. We get to the house and it's a really nice house. He brings us in and sits us around his small kneeling table. We then start to talk while his wife frantically starts bringing out drinks and food. We try and tell them we are okay we don't need anything to eat or drink but she insists. We
talked for a while and taught a few basic principles and beliefs. We gave them a Book of Mormon and they said they would read it. Then when it was almost time to leave they were like "stay for dinner" but we thought the other elders had made us dinner so we declined. When we were leaving they gave us a heap of food and insisted that we take it. It was really wired but so nice.
So we started heading home and there was no time to cook anything for dinner, we had like 8 minutes so I quickly diced up some bacon and cooked it then grabbed 2 eggs and chucked them in and mixed it all up until it cooked, threw it on some pre-made rice ate it and ran out the door.
On Saturday I went on splits with elder smith, he is really cool and a really good missionary. We went to these massive shopping outlets about a 40 minute bike ride away to meet up with one of his investigators. He brought us lunch at the restaurant he works at. It was so delicious! I love Japanese food! It's so delicious. Japanese rice is like a billion times better than the rice back home! It's totally different! We found a big Christmas tree and took a photo in front of it cause it will probably be the only Christmas tree I see for 2 years, elder smith has been out for 13 months and that was the first one he has seen not in a members house!!!
Takashi one of our investigators, has a baptismal date!!!! And we're pretty sure he will make it. The only thing we can see stopping it is his basketball on Sundays so we will see.he is doing really well and has a strong testimony of everything we are teaching him, some of his family lives in the Philippines and are Mormon, in fact right now one of his cousins is serving a mission in the Philippines!!! We're hoping after he gets baptized his mum will get baptized as well :) that would be a miracle :)
On Sunday I blessed the sacrament in Japanese! If anyone says it's scary blessing the sacrament on Sunday just remind them that their are missionaries out there who have no idea how to speak their mission language that have to bless the sacrament in that language! Haha it was scary cause I really didn't want to stuff up! Luckily I didn't! I struggled through reading and pronouncing a couple of words but I was okay! I got it all right!
We had quiet a few people at church this week! There was like 30! That's a pretty awesome turn out for our branch :) lots of work to do :)
I still keep talking to every person I see and then when they say something back 95% of the time I have no idea what they are saying.... So I just nod my head say soudesune (is that so?) then just start talking about the gospel cause I don't know enough vocab to talk about what ever they said haha
Sitting in church again no idea what they are saying, I know what they are talking about but no idea what they are saying about it....
Takanashi kyodai (brother) is so amazing! He was baptized the week before I got here and in our lesson he asked if he could vote in the elections cause it was held on a Sunday. He has such a desire to be obedient! It's awesome!
On Sunday we got to give Takahashi kyodai the Aaronic priesthood! That was awesome :) there will probably be a video on Facebook soon of a little interview we do we with him... Well my companion did with him I didn't say a word haha cause I didn't even know what we were doing other than recording and asking questions.....It's all in nihongo (Japanese) so you probably won't understand it but yeah :) we asked him about his testimony and why he meet with the missionaries and how
he came to know the church was true so that was pretty awesome!!!
I can't believe it's five and a half weeks until Christmas! It's coming so fast! I can't believe this is already 2 weeks in japan it's going so fast! I'm having so much fun!!!!! Miss all of you! Hope you are all doing well and enjoying life :)
愛してるよ
あなたはすごくすばらしひとですよ