..... My week has been good, we got out of the rut we were in and
got some good results from the various efforts. We also had a meeting with
President Ringwood (Asia north president). That was a good meeting and plenty
of advice and things to put into practise. I had one experience already, which
I have copied and will paste from my mission Presidents letter.
"I thought I would share an experience this week about
advice put into practise:
At the taikai President Ringwood challenged us to always follow the spirit, no matter what. I wasn't expecting much to change, as it is something we are always trying to do. However our District Leader Elder Olivera (he is Brazilian), rang us up Friday morning and said he felt that we should do an exchange as soon as we could, starting at the end of that day if possible. We were looking to have a fairly busy Saturday, but agreed. We straight away tried to visit a Brazilian investigator together and he was quite happy to see us, and we were able to have a quick lesson and set up for another one the next day. Elder Jackson and had already taught him earlier that week, but he didn't seem like he was going anywhere.
The next day we got to do Lunch with a member, a Potential Investigator (PI) from Eikaiwa and the sisters, which resulted in a new investigator from the PI. Previously he had just been a good friend of ours, but he is willing to listen and see if he can gain from our message.
Next we rode out to the hospital where our Shigansha has checked himself in for a month for 'respite and rehab'. His desire for Baptism is still high, but his desire to stop smoking was low that day. With him was one of our old investigators, who is currently the sisters investigator, who has the same sort of problem. Wants Baptism, but giving up smoking is 'impossible'. We had planned to teach tithing to Hideo (our shigansha) which we did, but also helped resolve lots of concerns. At the end Elder Olivera offered to give them both priesthood blessings, which we did and after they said they felt more strengthened and that it was possible to give it up, a good result!
Next we went to teach the Brazilian again, and Elder Olivera was able to be a lot more bold with him in Portuguese than we can usually achieve with Japanese, and the lesson resulted in him becoming a tentative but having a good chance shigansha for next month."
At the taikai President Ringwood challenged us to always follow the spirit, no matter what. I wasn't expecting much to change, as it is something we are always trying to do. However our District Leader Elder Olivera (he is Brazilian), rang us up Friday morning and said he felt that we should do an exchange as soon as we could, starting at the end of that day if possible. We were looking to have a fairly busy Saturday, but agreed. We straight away tried to visit a Brazilian investigator together and he was quite happy to see us, and we were able to have a quick lesson and set up for another one the next day. Elder Jackson and had already taught him earlier that week, but he didn't seem like he was going anywhere.
The next day we got to do Lunch with a member, a Potential Investigator (PI) from Eikaiwa and the sisters, which resulted in a new investigator from the PI. Previously he had just been a good friend of ours, but he is willing to listen and see if he can gain from our message.
Next we rode out to the hospital where our Shigansha has checked himself in for a month for 'respite and rehab'. His desire for Baptism is still high, but his desire to stop smoking was low that day. With him was one of our old investigators, who is currently the sisters investigator, who has the same sort of problem. Wants Baptism, but giving up smoking is 'impossible'. We had planned to teach tithing to Hideo (our shigansha) which we did, but also helped resolve lots of concerns. At the end Elder Olivera offered to give them both priesthood blessings, which we did and after they said they felt more strengthened and that it was possible to give it up, a good result!
Next we went to teach the Brazilian again, and Elder Olivera was able to be a lot more bold with him in Portuguese than we can usually achieve with Japanese, and the lesson resulted in him becoming a tentative but having a good chance shigansha for next month."
So that was a cool experience. I cannot remember too much of
what happened before that. But Sunday was cool. Church was good as always and
afterwards we had a Baptism-kai (the prayers and stuff were in Chinese) for an
8 y.o in the ward. It was good, and us and the sisters sang 'a childs prayer'
during it. I am not sure if her parents made her memorize it or not, but the
little girl gave a good testimony on Christs atonement at the end of the
baptism meeting. It was definitely more advanced than anything my 8 y.o mind
could have come up with.
We do not have too much more P-day today, we are having an
activity in a few minutes with some people and missionaries (ping pong) which I
plan to dominate at......
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