Saturday, July 20, 2013

First Email

Kazoku! (family!) whats up with the no letters or email!? just kidding. The MTC is fantastic! Much better than what people portray it as, although the days seem like they last forever but once the day is over it feels fast. if that makes sense? Anyways Nihongo (japanese) is really hard, the first day we were flooded with japanese. But i'm really starting to get the hang of it I think. My Companion is Elder Rasmussen, he is super nice and a little shy but the kid is a ninja, literally a ninja. He does extreme martial arts and can do all sorts of crazy moves! There are 14 missionaries in my district, and lucky me I get to be their Leader! yep I'm the district leader, so I basically get their mail for them and make decisions when were not sure what to do and I get to interview them and make sure that they are enjoying their MTC experience. Everyone in my district is amazing and we all get along great, everyone loves the MTC in my district, so far, which makes it easy on my part! Anyways, yesterday we taught our first lesson in Nihongo, WOW! it was hard but me and my companion were able to get through it, we taught tomohiro san an investigator. We asked him if he believed in God, He said that he knows that other people do but he wasn't sure himself who God is. Because we knew little Japanese we simply bore our testimony to him in japanese and and asked him to pray to God to see if he is real and then we ended in a closing prayer. He seemed really confused and a little lost, but hey we did our best to communicate! Later that day we got to teach a investigator in english while we were in class, the spirit was so strong and was testifying to our investigator that what we were saying was true. After our lesson in English one of the Elders raised his hand and asked how does this help us learn japanese? I can't remember exactly what the teacher said but his answer was so good and the spirit was so strong when we were talking about this and he taught us about our purpose as a missionary and that we shouldn't learn japanese to know japanese. We should learn japanese to Help the japanese people come unto Christ. It's not for us it's for them so that they can know of the truth. I wish I could remember what he said cause the spirit was so strong and it made our entire district want to try that much harder! anyways, the food here is better than I thought. Most things are deep fried but you do have options to eat healthy. And Oh baby there is Chocolate Milk!! mmmm so good! Once I figure out how to send pictures I will but I'm not sure quite yet.
I love you all and I hope to hear from you soon, the church is true and  I can't wait to serve the people of japan!
Elder Nebeker

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