G'day mates.
I made it through the typhoon fine. I got wet, but it was
fun. Apparently it came up from Okinawa, but it wasn't terrible in Kasugai.
Anyway this week was good. We found a new investigator named Furuya-san. She
has the cutest two-year-old daughter named Itsuki-chan. She wasn't home when we
tried to visit her again, but we are gonna keep visiting this week. We met with
our two yakusoku-shas (people to be baptized) this week. We meet with
Hiromi-chan every week at least twice. We have her baptism scheduled for this
week, but we need to bump it back a week because we have to much to teach her
still. It goes a little slower with her because she is only nine years old. She
is super smart and way spiritual though.
We also met with Naomi-san this week. We need to schedule
her baptism. She reads the Book of Mormon and prays daily though. She has also
begun to recognize answers to her prayers. Good stuff. Every Friday, we have an
FHE at Matt Kyodai's house. He always makes amazing food and desserts and then
we share a message. Last week we had twelve people there. Awesome. Two were
investigators, Ito Megumi-san and Maejima-san. They have been investigators for
a while, but getting involved with other members and building those
relationships will help them make that step to baptism.
This week I learned that I like to cook. It fun because you
get to control how good your food tastes. It gets me really excited to eat the
meal too. I always help Matt cook at the FHE and tonight I'm cooking up some
burgers. Exciting! I like changing up things too. Like making a bowl of ramen
freakin' fantastic with an egg and some veggies in it. MMMMM!!! We made cookies
this week too. They were good. We gave some to a recent convert when we visited
him. His name is Tan, and he is from China. He ate the cookies with some
chopsticks. It was interesting.
So last week Mom told me about Brother Empey's talk at
Seth's farewell. He told a story about going to get ribs and meeting someone
who needed the missionaries. He related it to how the Lord knows us and puts
things in our way to make his purposes come to pass. That exact thing happened
to me on Saturday. I received revelation from my stomach, I guess. We went to a
place called Chateraise to get an eclair. While we were in the parking lot eating
eclairs an investigator and her daughter parked by us! She has been a little
distanced lately, but it was funny to see the Lord make our paths cross. She
said that she will come to Eikaiwa (English Class) next week. Cool stuff.
Yesterday (Sunday), we had Stake Conference. It was a
broadcast to all of Japan. Sister Wixom, the Primary General President, Elder
Yun Huan Che, Elder Dallin H. Oaks, and President Dieter F. Uchtdorf spoke.
They spoke about the church in Japan and encouraged the members to "relight
the fire of personal conversion." They spoke about strengthening the
church around them and helping reactivate members and fulfilling
responsibilities. It was cool to listen to from a missionary's perspective.
On Saturday, we dendo'd almost non-stop. It was awesome. I
fell asleep that night in about two seconds.
That's pretty much it for this week. Love you guys. Thanks
for the emails and support.
Love,
Elder Sanderson
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