Follow and Show Your Faith

Well,

 

Today the sun is shining! I haven't seen that since coming to Aizu!  It's amazing!

 

Thank you for the unexpected package! That was awesome! I've actually had a weird thing for drinking pancake mix.... I'm so weird.

 

I found out that you can order stuff through Amazon Japan from my companion and it will save you shipping costs (free shipping), , also I've heard things about costco Japan too that you can order things - not entirely sure. But thank you, I feel the love in every package.

 

This week we were able to teach our cute little family.  The mom, Izumi, is awesome.  She read 1 nephi 19 and had a hard time understanding it so we went through it with her and it tied into our lesson just perfectly. We were talking about the plan of salvation with her and really teaching for her understanding. I think that she was able to understand it really well and she wanted to share the chapters that we shared with her to her friend who joined one of our discussions about the plan of salvation. She just is struggling to find the faith in Christ right now. She just needs to make the decision herself to follow and show her faith. We can be her guides and invite her to do it but it is ultimately her choice.

 

This week we did a lot of Gaijin hunting (foreigner) hunting and found a ton of Gaijin.  Probably like 5 in one day which was crazy because that never happens. We talked a lot and we were able to get in to some of the activities that international association holds for Gaijin. So we're hoping it will be a good effective way to find people to teach and talk with.

 

This week also our awesome Japanese friend Tom, who is a painter and lived in Paris, came to church and he told us that when he comes to church he feels the love and feels pure and cleaner and likes to discuss the Gospel. We will begin teaching him in probably a week or so. I'm really excited to work with him.  He is so funny and he is an amazing painter.  The members love him too, because he is hilarious. Definitely prepared by God.

 

That's too bad Jamie will have to move, she had a pretty sweet set up. But man the things that a stupid dog can do. Me and my companion walked into a bike store the other day and attached to it was a pet store and the puppies in Japan are so cute! They are all miniature wolf dogs! They are so stinking cute!

 

Ahh, I almost forgot, me and my companion had an epic bike fall on Monday.  As we were going to a members' house we were running a little late.  So we were going basically as fast as the bikes would let us when all of a sudden I hit some black ice on the road and it took me down. I slid for, no joke, a good 12 seconds. I probably slid like 30 yards. It was so COOL!  The only thing that broke was the back button on pants. It was just a solid span of black ice that we hit and I thought my companion had stopped but then I look behind me and he had slipped in the exact same spot as me and was sliding towards me. It was pretty funny. We were lucky that it was later at night and that not too many cars were out. Definitely blessed on that one.

 

Yesterday we decided to go and contact some less actives and when we had picked one and gone to his house we were so surprised.  It was the same house where the drunk who let us in lived! But before knocking on the door a 90 year women looked at us and said, Ehh! Ehh! so we stopped to talk to her and come to find out she lived 1 house away and she said that the drunk man was her son. But that he wasn't the less active we were looking for but said that the less active we were looking for used to be his roomate. SO she said that we could talk to him about the less active we were looking for because he knew him well. So we knocked on the door with his mom and had a good talk.  He fed us dinner again. He was super nice and we tried calling the less active together but he didn't answer and the kind drunk man asked if we can come back sometime. So he gave us his phone number and said let's make an appointment for the next time.

 

That was basically my week.

 

Love you all! talk to you next week :)

 

Elder Nebeker