Dear Friends and Family,
This week was pretty good. We've been trying to do more of a
variety of dendou tactics so we can get the good news out to more
people. We've been visiting members, investigators, less actives,
potential investigators, and everyone we can in AreaBook. We know
that by talking to everyone we can find new people to teach and see
cool miracles.
So this week Tobe Shimai (I can't say enough about her, she just
dendous this whole area 24/7) invited us to come to her college class
and teach the students English and share a quick message. So we went
up and there were 50+ people! They were all girls so we were scared
we wouldn't be able to stay. But then we noticed ONE man in the class
so we were allowed to stay and follow mission rules. It was
interesting though because the girls asked all of us if we had
girlfriends and which girl we liked. Japanese girls are silly and
like Americans. We had a good time teaching English and at the end we
all shared our own short Eiken-style messages. Some of the students
seemed to have interest so we gave out some flyers to them. It was a
great way to work with a member and talk to a lot of people at once.
We met with Tajima this week and he's ready to be be baptized.
He still needs to talk to his wife though. We're planning on just
visiting his house with a member and setting a good impression with
his wife and working from there.
We went out with Shigematsu Choro this week to visit as many
Women PIs as possible because we can't do it without a man. Anyway,
we went out and visited people all day and then decided to visit a
member, Kuroki Shimai, just because we were in the area. From that we
were able to get the address of one of her friends so we can go visit
them and teach them sometime!
We met with a less active Brazilian family, the Combas this week
and it was great. We introduced Elder O'Connor and offered to help
them. Their daughter has an English test coming up soon so we offered
to teach her English. She's going to start coming to Eiken but she's
shy, so she'll bring a friend! We think that by serving their family
they'll feel more welcome at church and start coming back.
Last week we met a punk rocker guitarist from Tokyo on the street
and gave him a flyer and a pamphlet. Well today while streeting we
saw him again and he has questions about the pamphlet! He said we can
meet again to talk about it and gave us his phone number and email.
He also seemed pretty interested in our church meetings. We invited
him to come and he said he would if he's in Ushiku then.
We also found 2 new investigators this week! One is a sweet spot
college student named Tega. I asked him if he had interest and when
he said yes I was actually pretty surprised and just kind of stared at
him for a second. Luckily I got my wits back soon enough to set up a
return appointment for next week so we can meet him at the church and
teach him about Jesus. Our other new investigator is not a sweet
spot, she's a 40ish year old woman named Kaoru who just came to our
Eiken class for the first time this week due to a newspaper ad
by....Tobe Shimai. So she came and Tobe Shimai and I started just
English conversation with her. She noticed my nametag and Tobe Shimai
just took it from there. We ended up telling her all about why there
are so many churches and the Restoration and the Book of Mormon and
how to pray. We just taught her a pretty in-depth first lesson. It
was really good because she had a lot of interest and we gave her a
Book of Mormon and she's going to read it and pray about it! Tobe
Shimai shared a personal experience about how she came to know the
Church was true and it definitely helped a lot. Kaoru emailed Tobe
Shimai and wants to meet next week to talk about it more!
I know there can be miracles if we do our best and work our
hardest...with the members! Love you all.
Elder Rogers
This week was pretty good. We've been trying to do more of a
variety of dendou tactics so we can get the good news out to more
people. We've been visiting members, investigators, less actives,
potential investigators, and everyone we can in AreaBook. We know
that by talking to everyone we can find new people to teach and see
cool miracles.
So this week Tobe Shimai (I can't say enough about her, she just
dendous this whole area 24/7) invited us to come to her college class
and teach the students English and share a quick message. So we went
up and there were 50+ people! They were all girls so we were scared
we wouldn't be able to stay. But then we noticed ONE man in the class
so we were allowed to stay and follow mission rules. It was
interesting though because the girls asked all of us if we had
girlfriends and which girl we liked. Japanese girls are silly and
like Americans. We had a good time teaching English and at the end we
all shared our own short Eiken-style messages. Some of the students
seemed to have interest so we gave out some flyers to them. It was a
great way to work with a member and talk to a lot of people at once.
We met with Tajima this week and he's ready to be be baptized.
He still needs to talk to his wife though. We're planning on just
visiting his house with a member and setting a good impression with
his wife and working from there.
We went out with Shigematsu Choro this week to visit as many
Women PIs as possible because we can't do it without a man. Anyway,
we went out and visited people all day and then decided to visit a
member, Kuroki Shimai, just because we were in the area. From that we
were able to get the address of one of her friends so we can go visit
them and teach them sometime!
We met with a less active Brazilian family, the Combas this week
and it was great. We introduced Elder O'Connor and offered to help
them. Their daughter has an English test coming up soon so we offered
to teach her English. She's going to start coming to Eiken but she's
shy, so she'll bring a friend! We think that by serving their family
they'll feel more welcome at church and start coming back.
Last week we met a punk rocker guitarist from Tokyo on the street
and gave him a flyer and a pamphlet. Well today while streeting we
saw him again and he has questions about the pamphlet! He said we can
meet again to talk about it and gave us his phone number and email.
He also seemed pretty interested in our church meetings. We invited
him to come and he said he would if he's in Ushiku then.
We also found 2 new investigators this week! One is a sweet spot
college student named Tega. I asked him if he had interest and when
he said yes I was actually pretty surprised and just kind of stared at
him for a second. Luckily I got my wits back soon enough to set up a
return appointment for next week so we can meet him at the church and
teach him about Jesus. Our other new investigator is not a sweet
spot, she's a 40ish year old woman named Kaoru who just came to our
Eiken class for the first time this week due to a newspaper ad
by....Tobe Shimai. So she came and Tobe Shimai and I started just
English conversation with her. She noticed my nametag and Tobe Shimai
just took it from there. We ended up telling her all about why there
are so many churches and the Restoration and the Book of Mormon and
how to pray. We just taught her a pretty in-depth first lesson. It
was really good because she had a lot of interest and we gave her a
Book of Mormon and she's going to read it and pray about it! Tobe
Shimai shared a personal experience about how she came to know the
Church was true and it definitely helped a lot. Kaoru emailed Tobe
Shimai and wants to meet next week to talk about it more!
I know there can be miracles if we do our best and work our
hardest...with the members! Love you all.
Elder Rogers
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