Dear Family and Friends,
This week has been crazy. Wednesday we got to meet the new mission president that was pretty cool. He is
really nice and he is working really hard to re study Japanese with his
wife. He is a very inspiring man. He gave a training on obedience and
said that obedience is faith. I really enjoyed his talk. He said he had a
dream of an awful tsunami and it was full of debris and tearing down
everything in its path. He said the Tsunami was the sins of the
world and that we are the rescuers. It was pretty cool.
I had an interview with him and he is very nice. I am way excited to work with him.
Also
this week our Eikaiwa had a huge jump in numbers. When I first arrived,
their was about 3 students who came on a regular basis. Now we have 12
students coming on a regular basis. We were also able to find some more
investigators through the jump in numbers.
This week we had some awesome awesome lessons. We met with
Hamato san on Tuesday. He has been reading the Book of Mormon faithfully
and when he walked in the first question he asked was, "How do I become a
Christian?", It was way cool. We told him that it's through Coming unto
to Christ, receiving Baptism, and keeping the commandments. He then
realized he will have to quit smoking so he can be baptized.
So he is trying really hard to break his habit of smoking. I have
been offering a lot of prayers for him. I really like him, he is a very
humble man who needs help from the Gospel.
Next we taught Kudou and her son. We watched a video about a
car accident that took the lives of a Church member's family. It showed how he
was able to forgive the person who took his family's life away. We then
talked about the power of Christ. She was in tears, and told us that her
first son was also killed in a car accident. He was three years old and
she has been searching forever to know what happened to him. She was so
happy and so grateful for the lessons. She sent a big text that night
after we got home about how much the lesson meant to her.
I love the feeling of knowing that peace of bringing someone closer to Christ.
This
week we also were able to attend a Sports activity, held in a
big city called Morioka. It is not in our area but we got permission
to go because some of our investigators wanted to go. It turned out
way good. We had 12 people come all the way from Kitakami to Morioka to
play. We had more people there than from any area that attended. It was
way cool, and only one person that came from Kitkami was a member. So we had
a lot of good Mission opportunities.
This last transfer ended early because the last transfer
was 7 weeks and so this transfer was 5 weeks. It ended so quick and
because my companion only has one transfer left we figured that he would
just stay in Kitakami and finish off there. P.s. I dont know if I told
you but my companion is my grandfather in the mission - He trained my
trainer. But anyways we got Transfer Calls last night, and I am staying
in Kitakami but my beloved companion is being transferred!! I was pretty
sad last night and so was he. But I will be getting a new companion
named Elder Thompson. He left on his mission the same time as me. He is
from Washington state. That's about all I know about him. I have been
asked to serve as District Leader here in Kitakami. Which is pretty
terrifying I just barely came to the area. But I will do my best!
Well anyways I love you all!
Love,
Elder Nebeker
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