Missionary Moments

The Taikai (with Elder Christofferson) was in Ibaraki, which is north of Osaka, but still in Osaka sort of area. So nearer to where I was when I was in Habikino, than right now. It was two hours almost because we have to go by train, and Himeji is on the other side of the bay thing. We have to go through Kobe to get to Osaka. The Ibaraki stake centre is the biggest in the mission too, so it could actually fit everyone.

The Barbecue was pretty fun!..... It was a good opportunity to make friends, practice Japanese and eat food. I think I ate star fish and some other weird things, but it was delicious......

Investigators are going alright. We fasted with the guy who is (hopefully) getting baptised in two weeks, and it was a very good experience for him! Almost nothing in his way now. We Will be able to pull a baptism this transfer. We didn't find anyone new, again, this week, but set up a few lessons for this coming week. Apart from that we had a few appointments fall through and there were some other disappointments, but a good week still.

So that is almost all my week summed up there. ..... we have also been working with a really old less active lady who has made us her pet missionaries. Every night she calls me up and complains/ talks about a bunch of stuff. She is really lonely, so we want to help, and the ward can't seem to do anything. But aside for some good Japanese practice (old person Japanese...:0) not much is coming from that. It gives us a chance for service though (listening to old people, which is actually a legitimate service activity in Japan, because there are sooooo many...).

We got 3 people to church as a companionship and 8 all up in Himeji, it was hard, we have been working harder than I have previously done, my whole mission, consistently, and not number results yet, but we certainly feel good from our efforts. The mission reached almost 400 but it was still far short of 500 that we had the goal for. .....but hopefully we can get this '100' baptisms one. The mission should be able to do at least 50, 100 with the Lords help!

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