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Hey everybody!
I'll just get right into it. This week we had a presidential election. It was just about the only thing I heard about from my English students. They were all like, "Do you know who won? Who do you support?" yada yada yada. I did NOT know who the president was but I was soon informed by 6 different people that Donald Trump is he new President. Ask me how I feel about that and I can't tell you. Not just because I'm not allowed to, I haven't watched tv in a year and know absolutely nothing about the debates etc. Moving on.
We were sitting in the mall one day when this Japanese guy walks over to us and says, "Hey, are you the Mormons?" In perfect English. Woah! When I see a Japanese person in Japan I automatically think they're Japanese. I mean it's pretty safe to assume. But this guy was actually an American. We went from really excited that an American recognized us as missionaries, to really confused very fast. This man spent a lot of time on YouTube watching conspiracy theories. And boy did he have a lot to say. He went from Isis to the Ark of the Covenant and all over the place. It was way weird. He had a little bit of interest in Joseph Smith so Elder Wilcox almost gave him out number but I gave him a hard NO! and that man got no contact information. I later explained that no matter how interested a crazy person is, they are still a crazy person. And we don't talk to crazy people. So now he knows and won't try it again.
We had 2 new students come to our English class in Tateyama that same night. It was a mom and her almost 3 year old son. He was so cute. I would talk to him and he would always respond, "yeah." I thought that was great. He brought a big thing of chocolates for everyone to share. Hmmmmm.
"Are those chocolates good?"
"Yeah."
"Did you bring those to share?"
"Yeah."
"Can I have one?"
"Yeah."
"Can I have all of them?"
"Yeah."
"Thank you!"
-"No!" (His mom)
I was so close to getting a ton of chocolate. The mom had actually read the whole Bible and was looking for a church to come to. Ours is a little far so she doesn't know if she can make it but she wants to come if she can.
"Your mom likes the Bible, right?"
"Yeah."
"Do you think she'd like this book?"
[holds up Book of Mormon] "Yeah."
"Will you give it to her for me?"
"Yeah."
I'm telling you, this kid is the key. Lol.
We hadn't seen the Nakazatos in a while so we decided to go pay them a surprise visit. Miyuki came out (the mom) and when she saw me she was like, "I'll go get Moe." Because we pretty much just go there for her most of the time. Moe's the boss when it comes to deciding when we'll do stuff together with their family. Anyway, Moe was doing nice and looked great, ......and had some weird bandage wrapped around her fingers? She passed out on her way to school again and fell and broke her fingers. It was a compound fracture. Yikes. For those of you who don't know, a compound fracture is the kind where your bones come OUT. Yeah. It was bad. She seemed ok about it though and actually tried to give me a fist bump with said hand but I refrained. She spends all of her time not in school at the hospital or sleeping. They run tests on her head all day every day. I told her one day she just needs to escape the hospital and we can pick her up and take her to the church instead. She quite liked the idea and I'm a little worried that even though I told her it was just a joke she might be seriously considering it. She is a high school Freshman and at that age no one wants to be stuck in a hospital. We'll see if we can bust her out sometime.
We had splits with the Zone Leaders this week and it was pretty fun. I went with Elder Law and we walked around in the rain for many many miles. We don't know how many miles but we traveled across the land searching far and wide. Elder Law did jiu jitsu or something for 3 years and I my dad's a Marine so the elders wanted to see us wrestle. Unfortunately, Dad's bootcamp wasn't genetically passed on to me. I rolled him up in a ball and pinned him in 3 seconds but we were going for tap out. I am ashamed to say that I was put into an inescapable position and tapped out. My little brothers would be ashamed. BUT, he said that was the hardest match so far so I'm not a total chump. I'll take him on again next splits.
I invited one of our English students to come to church and on Sunday she came! It was way cool. She came by herself this week but next week she will try to bring her kids and husband too. Yi also came to church this week and everybody has started calling her Sister Yi. They say it in Japanese but that's what it means. She's getting interviewed for baptism on Sunday and the next week I'm going to baptize her! I'm so excited!!!
I'm so thankful that I could be here at this time in Kisarazu where so many miracles are happening. I know this is exactly where I need to be.
Funny story about that:
I was doing some Missionary paperwork before bed one night, minding my own business, when I get a call from the Zone Leaders. They only call me if it's an emergency or really important. So I answer it, "Hello, how can I help you tonight?"
"Hey Elder Rogers. Sorry, but you're getting emergency transferred to Tech Staff in Tokyo." "....................." "Elder Rogers?"
"No I'm not!" [the laughter of an entire apartment full of heartless missionaries who took one prank too far]
"Come on Elder Law, you can't do that to me!"
I panicked so hard. My voice was calm but there was a storm inside. He broke my heart in 3 seconds and then laughed it off like it was nothing. I frankly forgave them but it freaked me out. I'm looking forward to NOT transferring and spending a good long time in Kisarazu where I can see a ton of cool miracles!
Elder Rogers
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