The Gospel is Wonderful

Dear Family and Friends,

This week was awesome I absolutely loved it!

So this week we had the opportunity to go to a member's house that was kind of far away and do some service for her friend.  Unfortunately we were a little late and were not able to do the service but we were invited in to the home and had some snacks.  When the member had some questions I started answering them for her and it turned into a huge gospel discussion with her while her friend was there. We talked for a while and we were getting into some pretty big stuff. Her friend stops and looked at the member and said, "You are like a child, how can you believe all of this stuff?" And the member said back to her politely, "I think it's wonderful".  Before I could bear testimony, the lady got up and walked out of the room to do something. The member we went to visit looked at me and told me, "I think the gospel is wonderful, but then sometimes I think I am crazy." With tears in her eyes, I looked and I told her that I know the Church is true. I haven't felt more power behind a simple saying before.  Its amazing how a pure simple testimony can help.

This week as we were riding our train back from Zone meeting I spotted a high school student that I had given a Book of Mormon to last time I was on the train. I waved at him and he came towards me and gave me a Bro hug, and we started talking and jumped into a conversation about his family. His dad left his mom and the kids when he was really young, and he explained to me that his mom's life hasn't been easy but that she has always been there for him.  Even though they  have arguments he really loves her and that when he gets older he wants to repay his mom for always being there for him. I talked to him about it for a little bit longer and had to get off the train but I was able to get his phone number and want to follow up with him again this week. He blew me away. He was so cool.

This week we went to play basketball with a potential investigator and there were some high school kids on the court that were watching us kind of like they were too cool.  We challenged them and utterly destroyed them. I had a good chat with them after and come to find out they are a bunch of baseball players, so I got really excited and asked one of the kids their positions.  He said pitcher, so I told him I was a catcher, so he pulled out two gloves from his bag and we played catch for awhile. It was a blast and the kids all told me to keep the baseball for the memory. And we traded numbers to talk more about what we do. So I am pretty excited I would love to turn a whole baseball team into investigators!

That was basically my week so far. Our investigators were either sick or too busy with work this week, so it was kind of hard to meet with them. But I got call from one of the Eikaiwa students saying they want to do Family English Program which is half Gospel and half English! That was really exciting.

There are a lot of miracles happening here in Kitakami, and I wish there were a lot of people here like the picture you saw. We are lucky to see 5 people on main street in one hour!

Love you all and good luck with everything!


Elder Nebeker