This week was pretty cool; it started off with an interview
from President Wada. Every Transfer (6 weeks) we have either a mission
conference or interviews. The interview is short and is just a check up to see
how we are doing, but after we get to talk to Sister Wada. Sister Wada gave me
a kanji lesson that was really useful.
We've had a couple of lessons this week. They were both
really good. We are teaching an older Gentleman named Sakurai, he is really
interested in the bible but is not a Christian. We alternate weeks of teaching
him English or a lesson from the Bible. The lesson that he chooses was Matthew
6. Part of it talks about to first seek the Kingdom of Heaven. He asked us what
he needs to do. Because he doesn't have faith in even Christianity I asked him
how he could seek after something he doesn't believe in, and then suggested
maybe his first step in seeking the Kingdom of Heaven is to gain some faith. He
hasn't ever done a lesson from the Book of Mormon but he agreed that for his
next Bible lesson he would study Alma 32 (A chapter in the Book of Mormon about
faith). Our other lesson was with Norihiro. He's an interesting guy, but we
teach him every week with half Book of Mormon reading half English class lessons.
He’s really good at English and has travelled around a lot of the world to
study politics.
We also had a presentation from President Wada this week in
our area. He does presentations every once and awhile for anyone to come to
that are just little life lessons. We watched 40mins of "Life is
Wonderful" and then had a discussion about it. It was really cool because
as a missionary we don't really get to watch movies, so 40mins of an actual
movie was a nice little pick me up. We also had 2 investigators come to that
with us. One is a High School student named Takafumi. His parents really like
us and want him to become friends with us. These Grandparents did a homestay
with a Mormon family in America a long time ago that left a really good
impression. They think that the Mormons would be a positive influence on him,
and also because we are American we can help his English. The other guy is
named Ryo. He just turned 20 and is a college student. He's got a bit of an
interesting background. The college he goes to is kinda like a BYU for another
religion. That religion though was a made by a Japanese convert who joined the
Church years ago but then after finding out he couldn't just advance to being a
prophet left the Church and made his own. They have some interesting beliefs.
Like tithing is a must there's no agency or freedom to choose to pay it or not.
Also they aren't allowed to talk or learn about other religions once they join.
We aren't sure Ryo is a member, maybe his parents are and that’s how he got in
the college, because he is a way cool guy and he's talking with us....so I
guess we'll find out.
We also went to a Christmas Concert this week. It was called
Little Witnesses and was done by the Church. It was way good. I guess it's a
big deal. They had a camera crew for a live stream on Facebook. Also Sakurai
and a friend of his went with us. I think it was a great experience, plus it
was good to get the Christmas Spirit going :D
I hope all of you are felling good as we get closer to
Christmas!
Elder Davies
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