Email Home: 31 August 2014

Highlights From This Week

Monday - got stuck on train tracks- but I made it

Tuesday -  Felt like I should go to a certain place. Did so. Found two new people who want to know more about the Gospel

Wednesday - Because no one was home in the apartment building we were knocking on doors, floor after floor, I asked in a silent prayer, “is this the right place?”. Warm feeling in my heart. Third to last door on the last floor, we found someone who wants to learn more. We were supposed to talk to him. 

Thursday - biked from one end to the other end of town

Friday - Secretly dropped of a thank you note for a member and talked to a less active member’s wife through the phone box thing. I felt the spirit as a member couple bore their testimony about eternal families in our lesson with them with our investigator later that evening. It was awesome. 

Saturday - Teaching a lesson with a young man, who invited a young man over to hear the lesson with him. We had planned an activity at the church that evening and I felt impressed to invite him to it. He came. We are scheduled to meet on Wednesday. He does not believe in God but asked us to teach him. We will probably refer him to the elders. He is 21. 

Sunday - Prayed about where to go for this coming week. 

Useful Quote

Letter Home: Dated 18 August 2014

I was about to hop on my bike when I saw a girl walking. The thought came to me that we talk to everyone.  I wasn’t feeling too hot about my Japanese, but I remembered something I heard another missionary say, ‘It doesn’t matter what you say to those who are prepared, they will receive the message.’  I walked over to her and talked.  We gave her a Book of Mormon.  She committed to read it and we scheduled to meet her the next day at a park.  She came to the appointment. She had read about three chapters. We talked about our purpose as missionaries and taught her how to pray. She committed to read more scriptures and pray about them.  We scheduled to meet this coming Thursday.

The History of Mormonism

Sister Breksa says,

“Missionaries are guides to help others find truth.”

Question and Answer

Preparation Day!

Q. 

What did you eat today?

A.

This morning I had two boiled eggs, yogurt, some really yummy bread I got on Friday, some frozen banana, milk, and a multi vitamin. 

Right now I just ate a sandwich that a ward member made- two pieces of white bread, lettuce, tomato, some meat, and some type of spread- and gave us on Sunday [yesterday]. This member makes sandwiches- either potato salad or meat, every Sunday besides fast Sunday. I like it. The member checks to make sure we take them too!  I am also eating a carrot I just bought at the store.

Maybe tonight I will warm up the left over yakisoba.

Email Home: 24 August 2014

This Week's Highlights

My companion was sick this week but is getting better. So we were in Monday, Tuesday, and Saturday. 

Tuesday:

Extended an invitation to a gentleman we are teaching to be baptized and set an appointment to meet the next day.

Wednesday:

It was Sister P.’s B-day and people liked the rice cooker cake that I made. She had no idea that I made it.) 

Thursday:

I ate ice cream, and the wind blew the quickly melting chocolate bar all over in me in spots. We waited for two investigators who did not come. 

Friday:

I washed dishes at a Bakery and got some of the day`s left over bread!  I ate ice cream. 

Saturday:

Inside again. I studied the Gospel.

Sunday:

We put the bread we got to good use. 

We were planning to leave some of the bread at an investigators door. We had just recently started to meet him twice a week. However, in scheduling our next appointment he said he was a little tried from all this studying. So we decided to have him contact us about meeting. We did not meet this week. What better way to remind him of us then through leaving bread and a nice note at his door?

While going to his house we were talking to people on the way and met this one lady. When asked if she believed in God she said, "No." We said there was a god and invited her to church. We gave her the bread we were carrying and our number that was written on the “I`m a Mormon pamphlet." While talking she seemed relived to have someone to talk to.  

Afterwards we went back home and got more bread to give to our investigator and returned to his home and left it for him.

He sent us an email that night thanking us and proposing a time to meet again to study.