Our District had the opportunity to hike a really really big mountain called Iwaki san. It was soo beautiful!
To answer some of your questions - the Japan Sendai
mission still does not have Ipads or facebook. Sometime this year or
next year they are supposed to introduce them to our mission. We are
still old fashioned missionaries. I am excited to get the ipads and also
dreading it because we have to put all of our records that we have into
them before we can start using them. My friends in
Tokyo said it takes forever, like a month.
To tell you my thoughts on the frog analogy, I think
that the frog could represent someone who is sinning and has "temporary
happiness". Sometimes it might seem easy to not keep the commandments,
to live "the life". He might get his food easy and it might be easy for
the moment, but when the spiders get to him he is going to wish that he took the correct, but harder route to get his
food. Although it may seem fun and the easy life, in the end it is much
worse.
That was my thoughts on it.
So
sounds like it was a good funeral I am glad that Grandma is at rest now. I was reminded of a good Chapter in the Book of Mormon this
week it is Alma Chapter 40. It talks about the resurrection. I think
that it might be comforting to read.
To update you this week on what has happened. After
we had finished emailing last week, we were on our way home when there
was a couple on their bikes in front of us speaking some bizarre
language. I felt like we needed to talk to them but I wasn't sure how. All of a sudden my companion sneezes really loud and they look
back at us and said "Hello" in English. We started talking to them and
came to find out that they were from the Philippines and were going to
college in Japan right now. I explained that we were missionaries and
they quickly replied and said they knew and told us that our church is
very famous in the Philippines and kindly accepted us to come and visit
them. They have a family of 5 and we have planned right now to visit
with them this Saturday.
I really hope that the appointment goes through. It is a very rare
opportunity in Japan to be able to teach people as a family.
This week we were also introduced to some
investigators that the sisters had been teaching, but they want me and
Elder Thayne to teach now. So We have 2 investigators now. One of
them is Narita san. He is way cool, he loves English a lot. He is mostly interested in English but he is willing to hear
the Gospel, as long as it is in English. Also we have Akimoto San who is
a way cool guy he is about 67 years old and is a really good Golfer. He
took us out to eat at a Best Western Hotel. It was like 20 dollars a
person. He is really nice, probably one of the most Jolliest old men I
have met in Japan.
This week as we were out and about handing flyers to
people for our Eikaiwa, we met an older gentleman who stopped me and
said, "Your main purpose here in Japan isn't to teach English is
it?" And so we sat down on a bench and talked about religion for about
an hour. He took a Book of Mormon, and was really excited to read it.
Unfortunately he doesn't live here in the Japan Sendai mission he lives
in the Tokyo mission boundaries.
Well, I want to hear more about the Family. Lately I haven't heard too much from everybody. So let me know what's going on!
Also tell Reegan Congrats on his baptism for me! That is awesome. :)
Love,
Elder Nebeker
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