This week has been a little crazy. I got
a new companion for one thing. He is way cool though and we are really getting
along. His name is Elder Crain and he is from California. I think I talked
about bit in my last email, but we are really getting along well. His Japanese
is really good. And we have a lot of common interests. We have a lot of goals
and are working hard to push each other to reach those goals. One thing is that
I carry the phone now. That means I also have to take all the calls. This is
probably the scariest part of my day. We depend a lot on our phone and I really
want to make sure that I don`t mess up any of our appointments.
The cool story of the week though was
meeting Ryan. Ryan is a volunteer for the Peace Corps and is living doing
service in Africa. He came to Japan for vacation to meet up with some of his
friends. We ended up meeting him on his first day. He felt really lost in
Japan. He had pretty bad luck with the trains and couldn`t find any English
speakers. We saw him coming out of the station and called out to him. He was
super surprised, and we talked with him for a while. And helped him find where
he was staying. He came 2 day earlier before his friends and our next day was P
Day so we offered to take him around. The next day we woke up and got a call
saying that he wanted to hang out and we had an awesome time. We went out for
yakiniku for lunch and then went to landmark tower and a big temple. Then in
the evening we headed back to our church and ate his first nato (fermented
beans) with him. I wanted to share a bit of the gospel with him but I didn`t
want to bring it up and make the whole day weird by making him uncomfortable.
But as we sat down to eat lunch the first thing he asked us is ``Why is your
church different`` We ended talking all 2 hours of lunch about church. By the
end of the day he told us his entire idea of Mormons has changed. And said that
he wanted to read the bible and other scripture. I ended placing my first Book
of Mormon with him.
So these next few weeks our focus is
meeting a lot of people. I hope next week I have stories about all my new
friends.
Elder Davies
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