I'm just going to start off by saying that I am very satisfied with
how this week went. It had its ups and downs but I'd say the good
outweighed the bad.
Last week we found some Potential Investigators during splits and
this week we went to visit them again. One of them sadly chose to
quit Christianity, however, the other is a young mom and her mother
was Protestant so she's open to learning about Christianity. She's
fine with us teaching her. Yay! We had English Class and our artist
friend came. He draws comics and then gives us the rough drafts. We
also had a new student named Haruka come and she was interested in the
church too. Our artist friend started to teach her about Joseph Smith
and the gold plates. We didn't even know he knew that! One of our
members who was there decided to join in and they started teaching
Haruka right there! It was super cool and because of it Haruka wants
to meet and learn more. After English Class we went to visit a Less
Active member named Jun. He owns a karaoke food bar by the station so
we went there to see if he was working. He was there and he sat us
down, fed us, and told us that he wanted to come back to church. He
also is going to bring some friends with him! Ever since he met us a
few weeks ago he's been telling his friends about us and inviting them
to church. He's super cool.
We pull weeds for service sometimes and this week we pulled weeds
for Sanae-san. She used to be an investigator years ago so we had
hope she could start learning again. We shared a message with her
about God lightening our burdens when we pray and she decided she
wanted to start praying every day. She also likes the Book of Mormon
and wants to read it every day. I call her every night to see what
she learned from her reading and she told me she really wants to be a
Christian. We've got a lot of hope for her.
Elder Purba found a golden investigator on splits last week but
hadn't been able to meet him since then. We stopped by his house but
he wasn't home and he wouldn't answer his phone. We feared the worst
and decided to try to visit him one last time. On the way to his
house we saw him biking down the sidewalk and were able to talk to
him. His parents are super opposed to the church because they're
extremely narrow minded but he likes us and wants to meet anyway. He
will be meeting us every week from now on to learn English and gospel!
It was fast Sunday this week and we had an investigator show up
to church. His name is Jonivar and he was an investigator like 6 or 7
months ago but finally got work off and made it to church. He's a
jacked Filipino guy and he's super nice. He stayed for all three
hours and spent some time with us after church. We broke the fast
together and then taught him. We started from the Creation and went
up until the Restoration. We went really in depth but he got all of
it. Takashi, our only youth, helped us teach a little bit too. We
asked Jonivar if he wanted to follow Jesus by being baptized and he
said when he's learned about Joseph Smith more, yes. Super happy
moment. :):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):)
Well that's about it. Lots of awesome things happened. Now we're
going to Beach Olympics for Zone P-Day!.........Ok, so we went to Zone
P-Day and we did a beach olympics. There was volleyball, a football
throw, a sandcastle building contest, and a dizzy relay race. In the
end, our District came out victorious! We got a traffic cone spray
painted gold for it.
Elder Rogers
how this week went. It had its ups and downs but I'd say the good
outweighed the bad.
Last week we found some Potential Investigators during splits and
this week we went to visit them again. One of them sadly chose to
quit Christianity, however, the other is a young mom and her mother
was Protestant so she's open to learning about Christianity. She's
fine with us teaching her. Yay! We had English Class and our artist
friend came. He draws comics and then gives us the rough drafts. We
also had a new student named Haruka come and she was interested in the
church too. Our artist friend started to teach her about Joseph Smith
and the gold plates. We didn't even know he knew that! One of our
members who was there decided to join in and they started teaching
Haruka right there! It was super cool and because of it Haruka wants
to meet and learn more. After English Class we went to visit a Less
Active member named Jun. He owns a karaoke food bar by the station so
we went there to see if he was working. He was there and he sat us
down, fed us, and told us that he wanted to come back to church. He
also is going to bring some friends with him! Ever since he met us a
few weeks ago he's been telling his friends about us and inviting them
to church. He's super cool.
We pull weeds for service sometimes and this week we pulled weeds
for Sanae-san. She used to be an investigator years ago so we had
hope she could start learning again. We shared a message with her
about God lightening our burdens when we pray and she decided she
wanted to start praying every day. She also likes the Book of Mormon
and wants to read it every day. I call her every night to see what
she learned from her reading and she told me she really wants to be a
Christian. We've got a lot of hope for her.
Elder Purba found a golden investigator on splits last week but
hadn't been able to meet him since then. We stopped by his house but
he wasn't home and he wouldn't answer his phone. We feared the worst
and decided to try to visit him one last time. On the way to his
house we saw him biking down the sidewalk and were able to talk to
him. His parents are super opposed to the church because they're
extremely narrow minded but he likes us and wants to meet anyway. He
will be meeting us every week from now on to learn English and gospel!
It was fast Sunday this week and we had an investigator show up
to church. His name is Jonivar and he was an investigator like 6 or 7
months ago but finally got work off and made it to church. He's a
jacked Filipino guy and he's super nice. He stayed for all three
hours and spent some time with us after church. We broke the fast
together and then taught him. We started from the Creation and went
up until the Restoration. We went really in depth but he got all of
it. Takashi, our only youth, helped us teach a little bit too. We
asked Jonivar if he wanted to follow Jesus by being baptized and he
said when he's learned about Joseph Smith more, yes. Super happy
moment. :):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):)
Well that's about it. Lots of awesome things happened. Now we're
going to Beach Olympics for Zone P-Day!.........Ok, so we went to Zone
P-Day and we did a beach olympics. There was volleyball, a football
throw, a sandcastle building contest, and a dizzy relay race. In the
end, our District came out victorious! We got a traffic cone spray
painted gold for it.
Elder Rogers
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