Hey everybody! I hope your week went well! Mine went
great! Kinda crazy, but way fun! So as a Honbu elder we don't have a ton of
time to dendo usually, but when we do, we see miracles that aren't even
imaginable! ;)
So first I'll explain a little bit of what I do...
So we live in the upper floor of the Honbu with the Assistants
to the President. We see Nakatsuka Kaicho and Shimai on almost a daily basis,
except for when they travel around the mission for various reasons. There is a
Senior couple in the Honbu doing the Financial stuff and the Secretary
position. They are the Getz fufu, but they are way nice, and they are super
fun. Kaicho has told me that he wants me here for at least two transfers but
doesn't know after that... As Honbu elders we actually have a car we share with
the AP's but they don't have a license and Y 長老 does so we get to use it and I may
get to take the test to drive in December! As for my Japanese, I no longer have
Language study each day, so that's a little bit of a bummer, but I guess that's
just what happens...
But my work is basically doing all of the letters to
gaijin's and their parents, as well as getting all of the stuff ready for the
new missionaries, the returning missionaries, the baptisms, a mission
newsletter, updating a computer database with everyone's information, cutting
flyers, getting mission supplies for everyone, and any random things people
need me to do. So it is a very interesting job! :) It's pretty fun though cause
I see how many missionaries I'm actually helping out without them even
realizing what I'm doing really.
But in this week's dendo, we were able to make about 6
appointments in about 3 hours total dendo time, as well as make 4 new
investigators yesterday. But the craziest part about that 4 investigators
thing, was that one of them was a referral from one of the appointments. So
here's how it went. We made the appointment on Monday night to come back to
this guy's apartment that smelled super bad of smoke and we didn't think he had
a ton of potential. But last night, we headed over there and he opens the door
and says "Hey come on in. You guys are still out tonight for a
little while right? Ya ok well any time you can just come over here." So
we're like ok... what's going on here. So he invites us in and we see this
other guy just sitting down inside his house as well, and we say hello, and
then the first guy says "I want you to teach him about God. And I want to
learn some stuff from you guys too but I believe that God exists and helps out
when we have hard times." So now we're just flabbergasted really wondering
what's going on, and he and his friend basically asked a ton of super good questions
that lead so well into good lessons, and it just went perfectly. But on top
of that, this all happened right after we made two other investigators with one
of them being this really cool 19-year-old college student who is studying
Psychology and accepted the Book of Mormon and he seemed like he really wanted
to read it! All in less than 3 hours in one day!
Since coming to the Honbu, I've seen God help me out so
much in so many different ways! He's helped me figure out what I need to do for
the different new responsibilities I have as well as in the amazing success
we're seeing in our proselyting efforts in our limited time. It's amazing what
God's power can do, and I'm so glad to be a part of this church with this
opportunity to serve the Lord here in Sapporo!
Love you all!
Have a great week!
Love,
Stephen
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