First things first, eating taco rice/tacos with chopsticks is HARD.
Hello everyone,
This week was pretty good. We also had transfer calls this morning
and the results are..........I am staying in Kisarazu! Elder Purba
had been here for four transfers already, that's six months, so it was
only a matter of time. He'd already spent a quarter of his mission in
this one area. So President Nagano decided, "Ah, whatever. Let's
just keep him there for another transfer and bump it up to 7 AND A
HALF MONTHS." So he's staying too. :) The other Elders in Chosei
are also staying. The sisters changed though. Sister Ortega went
home and Sister Domino went to Tokyo. We made transfer bets and I bet
that Elder Purba would stay and Sister Domino would go to Tokyo. I
won.
As for the rest of the week, we had a lot of miracles. I had
splits with Elder Watabe on Tuesday and it was amazing! So many
miracles crammed into one day! We went to visit Eiji, he's a less
active, and we saw a kid on the road in front of his house. We went
and talked to him and as we were talking his friend came up behind us
and we started talking to him too. They both had interest and became
new investigators! That's 2! That's more than most people usually
get in a week over here for those who don't know. Then we went down
the street a little farther and found 3 kids coming back from baseball
practice. They wanted to learn more about Heaven and became new
investigators. Now the count's up to 5. Before they had left 3 more
of their friends walked over and they had interest too! We found 8
new investigators in 1 hour! It was so awesome. Then we finally went
to visit Eiji but he wasn't home. His mom was though and she was
really nice. She likes that we're friends with her son and take care
of him. She also likes that we teach free English and wants her kids
to come. Then we went back to the station and found 3 kids that
wanted to learn English. They wanted to learn right then, so we took
them and taught them. They really liked it and so we got 3 new
students. We've been trying for over 5 weeks so it was a really good
feeling. As we started heading home we stopped 2 guys but they didn't
have interest. Luckily, this one girl did and literally jumped into
our conversation with her 2 friends. So they might come to our
tutoring too! It was just an amazing day.
We had a 79year-old man come to our English class and he was really cool.
We visited our friend, the Kisarazu Bad-Daddy himself, Brother
Sugimoto and had dinner together. His family is just awesome.
They're so nice. We talked about the differences between Japan and
America and how God blesses his people. We just talked to him and his
family for a while and it was great.
We had a Latin Night (fiesta) for Sister Ortega's going home. It
was a huge success. We went and picked up Eiji from his house and saw
his little sisters there. We invited them and they took a train to
get there. We beat them to the party ;). We had as many people (or
more) come to the party as are in our branch! That's only like 20
people, but that's a lot for a party in Japan. It was really cool.
Elder Purba and I made a lot of food (taco rice) and brought the fun.
The Sisters made 2 piñatas. I punched one across the room while
blindfolded and Eiji kicked one across the room (he does kickboxing).
There was music and dancing and it was fun. Eiji really seemed to
have a good time and opened up as the night went on. He's usually
pretty reserved and keeps to himself but we go to him ;).
We live in a neighborhood of young families so there are a lot of
kids around us. They're all under 7 and loved to mess with the Gaijin
(foreigners). We get ding-dong ditched all the time and they always
want to play during study time. This week we had a brilliant idea. I
was reading the New Testament and came across the Fishers of Men
scripture. Why not be fishers of men? Let's buy a fishing pole, put
a piece of candy on the end, and fish out of our 2nd story window?
Hello everyone,
This week was pretty good. We also had transfer calls this morning
and the results are..........I am staying in Kisarazu! Elder Purba
had been here for four transfers already, that's six months, so it was
only a matter of time. He'd already spent a quarter of his mission in
this one area. So President Nagano decided, "Ah, whatever. Let's
just keep him there for another transfer and bump it up to 7 AND A
HALF MONTHS." So he's staying too. :) The other Elders in Chosei
are also staying. The sisters changed though. Sister Ortega went
home and Sister Domino went to Tokyo. We made transfer bets and I bet
that Elder Purba would stay and Sister Domino would go to Tokyo. I
won.
As for the rest of the week, we had a lot of miracles. I had
splits with Elder Watabe on Tuesday and it was amazing! So many
miracles crammed into one day! We went to visit Eiji, he's a less
active, and we saw a kid on the road in front of his house. We went
and talked to him and as we were talking his friend came up behind us
and we started talking to him too. They both had interest and became
new investigators! That's 2! That's more than most people usually
get in a week over here for those who don't know. Then we went down
the street a little farther and found 3 kids coming back from baseball
practice. They wanted to learn more about Heaven and became new
investigators. Now the count's up to 5. Before they had left 3 more
of their friends walked over and they had interest too! We found 8
new investigators in 1 hour! It was so awesome. Then we finally went
to visit Eiji but he wasn't home. His mom was though and she was
really nice. She likes that we're friends with her son and take care
of him. She also likes that we teach free English and wants her kids
to come. Then we went back to the station and found 3 kids that
wanted to learn English. They wanted to learn right then, so we took
them and taught them. They really liked it and so we got 3 new
students. We've been trying for over 5 weeks so it was a really good
feeling. As we started heading home we stopped 2 guys but they didn't
have interest. Luckily, this one girl did and literally jumped into
our conversation with her 2 friends. So they might come to our
tutoring too! It was just an amazing day.
We had a 79year-old man come to our English class and he was really cool.
We visited our friend, the Kisarazu Bad-Daddy himself, Brother
Sugimoto and had dinner together. His family is just awesome.
They're so nice. We talked about the differences between Japan and
America and how God blesses his people. We just talked to him and his
family for a while and it was great.
We had a Latin Night (fiesta) for Sister Ortega's going home. It
was a huge success. We went and picked up Eiji from his house and saw
his little sisters there. We invited them and they took a train to
get there. We beat them to the party ;). We had as many people (or
more) come to the party as are in our branch! That's only like 20
people, but that's a lot for a party in Japan. It was really cool.
Elder Purba and I made a lot of food (taco rice) and brought the fun.
The Sisters made 2 piñatas. I punched one across the room while
blindfolded and Eiji kicked one across the room (he does kickboxing).
There was music and dancing and it was fun. Eiji really seemed to
have a good time and opened up as the night went on. He's usually
pretty reserved and keeps to himself but we go to him ;).
We live in a neighborhood of young families so there are a lot of
kids around us. They're all under 7 and loved to mess with the Gaijin
(foreigners). We get ding-dong ditched all the time and they always
want to play during study time. This week we had a brilliant idea. I
was reading the New Testament and came across the Fishers of Men
scripture. Why not be fishers of men? Let's buy a fishing pole, put
a piece of candy on the end, and fish out of our 2nd story window?
Since they were banging on our door this morning we decided to chase
them around the neighborhood and they freaked out! They thought we
were going to eat them or something. Then they chased Elder Purba
around with cicada shells trying to put them on him. It was really funny.
That was about it for the week. Thank you all for reading, take care, lots
of love, Bye Bye.
Elder Rogers
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