My new mission president comes in 5 weeks. His name is
President Jeffery R. Smith and he is from provo Utah. He is some kind of
surgeon. So basically, after this transfer he will come.
Speaking of transfers I have been transferred! I am going to
Kitakami. It is a really small town that is working on trying to get another
branch built because everything is so spread out. So that
will be really fun and a good focus for me. My new companion is Japanese, Elder Kobayashi. He is almost finished with his mission so I
will get to serve with him until he goes home. He is really funny.
Now as sad as it is to transfer, I had a really good reminder from
our recent convert Tatsuya. I told him that I was transferring and he
looked at me and said, "There is a reason for transfers, you have
accomplished the things that the Lord wanted you to do in Aizu and now
he wants you to grow and help somewhere else, and whoever comes here has
something that the Lord wants them to accomplish...."
I love Tatsuya Kyoudai! He is so cool!
This week we were able to meet with the Hoshi family. During the lesson we talked about their thoughts about religion and
Hoshi Tatsuya said that when he had first heard that his wife was going
to the church, he was kind of mad and thought that she was
really stupid and wanted nothing to do with religion. Then on a winter day
the missionaries came (Me and Elder Kuiken) and we helped him shovel
his drive way and he thought there is no way he could ever
become friends with a foreigner because they don't speak Japanese and
don't understand us. He said he would have never pictured
himself where he is now and that he would have a friend with that is a
foreigner, and be listening and applying religion in his life. He thanked
me for helping him.
During that lesson we talked a lot about baptism, and they said
that they want to be baptized but they want to prepare, so we made goals
to help them prepare. Tatsuya wants to quit drinking Sake (alcohol) and
talk to his parents about it, so we had them make goals to do that and they
are repenting and striving to change their lives right now, and will
eventually be baptized.
I have made so many new friends here in Aizu over these last 6
months. I will definitely miss Aizu but I am excited to see what the Lord
wants me to accomplish in Kitakami.
I forgot to tell you, on Tuesday I had a split. Me and the zone
leader drew the plan of salvation in a park with chalk, which apparentley
is bad here in Japan, so we had to avoid the park keepers. However, they
kept it there and a ton of people have been looking at it and visiting
Mormon.org.
So yay for adrenaline Rushes!
teehee...
Love you all and hope that all is going well,
Elder Nebeker
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