Missionary Moments

My week was pretty good. Elder Hansen and I have been getting on well, and with that the work has been flowing fairly smoothly. We have enough activities to keep us busy every day, which is also nice. People are being somewhat more receptive to us too. We decided to house a danchi (big poor looking apartment) which ended up having like a hundred stay at home Mums with two kids (why everyone had two kids, I have no idea). It proved to be quite fruitful finding, and we have return visits with a few of them, which is usually rare. And good conversations with almost all. 

On Friday, we had an appointment with a Chinese guy, who could barely speak Japanese, but when we showed up at his place, he didn't come to the door/ was out. We had brought hot Cocoa to share (it is cold still), and so decided to give it to somebody else. The first door we knocked on was a guy who could speak a bit of Japanese and English, and we gave him the drink and asked him what he was doing, he said 'game' and I jokingly said, 'It wouldn't be League of Legends would it?' because both Elder Hansen and I had been talking about it a bit before (he played it a lot back home). The Chinese guy was like 'yes', and I asked if we could come in and watch it, so we got into his house, watched him lose terribly at a game, then talked to him about the gospel and made friends. We called him Sean, and he liked it. (I like naming Chinese people). So, through my past experience with video gaming we started to help someone on the path to Eternal life. We got another new investigator too, he is a 3rd year medical student, who the last guy that was in this area set up an appointment with. We met, and he was really nice, we ate lunch together and through conversation found out he is a big League of Legends fan, and because we all had that in common, we become naka ga ii (good friends??) real fast. We also used that mutual bond to start teaching about the God. So in short, even some of the not so good things we do in life (like Video Games) can prepare us for our missions and to meet certain people there. 

..... We went and ate out at sushi with K. on Saturday night. He talks so much, and it was kind of difficult to teach lessons, but we are getting there with him. He has a fairly good set of values for someone living in Japan. Most people are at a moral neutral it seems......

There are about as many Brazilian missionaries as there are Australians, so maybe somewhere between 5 and 10 in the mission.....