Missionary Moments

So Tuesday Elder Yoshida had to go to Kobe for district leader training, and I got to look after the other two district leaders in our Zones' companions here in Habikino. One is third transfer like me, the other one second. Not a whole lot of language ability between us, but it turned out to be a really good day! Lots of train riding. I managed to pull off a really good lesson on the Word of Wisdom with an investigator too, we had help with that I'm sure.

Had a neat experience too. We were riding together to Lunch just before the lesson, and went to cross a really busy road. It had a pedestrian crossing, and the man went green, so I rode out, crossed two lanes fine, about to cross the third when somehow or in someway I cannot recall, my brakes slammed on, almost flipping me over, and a car skidded past me a hairsbreadth away. I either have the reaction time of spider-man, or received a bit of divine help.

The two Elders behind me were flabbergasted. One said that he'd really prayed for our safety before we left, as he and the other Elder were riding foreign bikes, but it looks like I was the one who needed that blessing despite riding my own bike. I was a bit shaky afterwards, but the feast we had at the Chinese restaurant afterwards cured that. 

I can't remember if I've said it, but we've started attending a free Japanese class every Wednesday night, turns out we're allowed to do that. We've already got lots of interested people from it, mostly in our Free English class, but the lady that was meant to be teaching me Japanese grilled me the whole evening on our Church and missionary rules, I guess I got some good Japanese practice in from that...... Everyone else in the class is like Chinese and Indonesian or something, so having two English speaking white people is very exciting for them. I enjoy Wednesday evenings.... The Japanese saints are so strong, despite having a culture so different to Church teachings. I am grateful for them. 

It started raining after Church, and didn't let up until about 10 am this morning. Apparently there was a typhoon over night, all we saw were the results of it, lots of signs fallen over, and the streets were deserted when we went shopping this morning....

....Ping Pong is great. Played some Friday night, the old guy who we play with had invited some other old members along from another ward, he was like 'Elder Rowlings is unbeatable' and I was for some of the night, but these people are pretty good...

on top of a grass mound across from the Eki (train station).