Elder Rogers Japan Tokyo Mission: Seminary is over 9,000!‏

Hey guys,

     So this week not much actually happened. Except that we got 2
new investigators for us and 2 for the other Elders! Yeah, that's
actually pretty awesome by the way. Most of our appointments fell
through because people don't like to do things when it's raining.
Even if we bike to their house and they don't have to go anywhere. So
we didn't meet with people very much. We did, however, start a PMG
class with 3 missionary-age young men in our ward and they really like
it! We took one of them with us to a lesson and he liked it and the
investigator liked it! So everything worked out. We are trying to
get more appointments so we can take the others out sometime too.
    Bishop has proposed that we have a BBQ and invited lots of people
and give them a good experience being around members. I totally
support the idea, and not just because he always gives us the best
food either. I think it will actually get a lot of people together in
a nonthreatening atmosphere.
     So that brings us to today. We had seminary this morning and it
was awesome! The youth were for the most part awake for all of it!
And that was just the beginning. There were 7 teachers and 7
students. The teachers had each prepared a short lesson, they would
teach it, and then they would swap off. It worked so smoothly and I
learned a lot despite it all being in Japanese. They also suit it
very well to the youth and keeping them interested and involved. They
had movie characters on cards in front of you, I have no idea why
though, but they were cool. They had Stitch, the Chechire Cat, Chip
and Dale, and I had Perry the Platypus. We read Moses 1:11 about how
Moses saw God but couldn't do that with normal eyes. So that led to
Raiders of the Lost Ark. You know, the part where the guy opens the
ark or something and his face melts off? They said that's what would
happen if he saw God without his eyes being transfigured, or in other
words spiritually boosted. Then they showed us a picture of
Super-Saiyan Goku and told us it was something like that. Yeah,
Japanese seminary uses anime in lessons. Despite all the funny pop
culture references it was still really spiritual and a very good
lesson. Too bad missionaries can only go once a week. I never
thought I'd be going back to seminary but here I am, going back next
week to give them a 2-3min devotional. I look forward to it.
     Well that's about all I've got for this week, hope you enjoyed
it. I love you guys.

Elder Rogers