This week as we were tracting we went to go visit an old
investigator who was a foreigner. My companion and I thought awesome, someone we can speak to and we will understand everything they are saying! So
we went, and to our disappointment, he moved. It would have been the first
person from America that I would have met in Japan. I have met a lot of
gaijin but they are usually from Europe and don't like religion. As
we were leaving this apartment complex I noticed on one of the mailboxes
it had a gaijins name on it. So we walked back up the flight of the
stairs but sadly no one was home. So we went again the next day and I go
up there all confident because I was thinking sweet I get to speak
English. Then the first thing I hear is some weird langauge I thought I
had never heard before. I was a little bit worried but than a lady
swings open the door and it was a women from Jamaica. She was speakin
``ya man`s`` to me. I was shocked. But she listened to our message and
told us that we can come back anytime. So we are going to visit her
again today. How cool would it be to baptize a Jamaican in Japan!? But I
think that if she becomes an investigator we will pass her to the
sister missionaries because one of the sisters is an islander too and
probably would have a better connection.
We are teaching our investigators and I think that they are slowly
feeling like they want to know more about the Gospel. I've been praying
so hard to know what they need right now and they are such a great
family and you want them so bad to have the Gospel in their lives. This
week we taught them about prayer and what it really means to have real
intent when we pray. There is a difference of sincerity and real intent
and that real intent is acting upon the answer you recieve and that if
you pray with no intentions on not acting upon what you will receive,
then it's not real intent. One of my favorite stories of this is in Alma
when Aaron is talking to the king and he finds out the kings needs and he
teaches the king how to pray, having faith in Christ a desire and
sincerity. The king then does exactly that, he kneels before God and says
Heavenly Father if this is true then I will give up all my sins to know
you. I think the key was that he told Heavenly father in his prayer what
he was going to do if God answered his prayer. I know that it is the
same with us.
I almost forgot to mention that me and my companion go to a daycare
center and we talk with a bunch of elderly people. There are people
in their that are 102 years old and they can walk really good and are
pretty healthy. Its insane! There is a lady in there who always makes me
happy she always is hootin and hollerin when I come and she screams
America America! and takes my hand and kisses it and she calls me her
grandchild. She is a hoot. Whenever you are feeling down she is a great
picker upper. She will definitely go to heaven.
Please tell everyone Hello for me and that I love them. I'm sorry I'm not too good at writting letters and things
but there should be something coming your way. Sorry I can't send
pictures. I use a computer at the library which means I can't send
anything. So you probably won't get pictures unless someone sends them
to me in an email.
Love,
Elder Nebeker
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