So Emergency Transfers are never fun so we'll put that off to the
side and talk about the positives first. We got to spend some quality
time with our Recent Converts this week reteaching them some of the
lessons and talking to them. They're so amazing and pure. We got to
spend a day teaching Takashi to prepare him for the temple so we can
go with him at the end of September. We got to go down to Kamogawa,
the most beautiful spot in the whole mission, twice this week. While
there we saw our long lost less active doctor Branch President. He's
been living at the hospital for like 2 months unable to come to church
but we saw him just as we were walking down the street. Then on
Sunday he came back to church! I was able to meet his new baby
daughter for the first time and she is so cute! And I saw Yoshi-kun
and he has gotten bigger. He runs and even talks a little bit now!
What added to that was when the Higashis came to church they brought a
ton of food for us! But they weren't he only ones this week,
everybody wanted to feed us. On Wednesday Wenting fed us lunch AND
bought us dinner! Two meals in one day! Then Thursday the Sugimotos
fed us dinner at their house. Friday Jojo walked in to District
Meeting holding McDonald's he had brought for lunch. Then he made us
dinner too! My Recent Converts are angels. They both fed me lunch
and dinner in the same day and neither of them knew the other had.
They both just spontaneously did it of their own will. We met Tai
during one of our trips to Kamogawa and she bought us snacks and
really good grape juice. We just got some much love food put into us
this week! This did not happen last time! I'm just surrounded by
angles here that are almost too nice. Actually, buying me a watch and
feeding me twice in a day might qualify as too nice.
Our investigators are doing really well. Mikami is almost done
with his rice harvest and then he decided to work on his own so he can
pick his schedule and come to church! Yay! If he starts coming to
church he can be baptized! We also ran into Liu in Kamogawa and she
showed us that she was carrying around the triple combination we gave
her and she was reading it all the time, even at work! So cool!
Now for the Emergency Transfer. Sunday night the Assistants call
us and that's never good. They probably don't like it but
missionaries hate calls from the Assistants because they're so busy
they'll only ever call you for something bad. Sorry, the truth
probably hurts from their side too, nobody wants to talk to them.
Anyway, they call right before bed on Sunday night just like they
always do for emergency transfers and I know that's the only thing it
could be. So I answer the phone kind of confused and scared. But
they ask for my companion so I relax a little but am still disturbed
because I know something is about to go down. Elder Smith is going to
Urayasu, that's in Tokyo, tomorrow. My new companion is Elder Otani,
my very first Japanese companion. Also, he will be my last companion
and get the honors of killing me.
Elder Rogers
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