Another busy week this week. The month of August was a difficult one. I'm really excited to start up a new month.

Interesting thing happened this week. Do you remember me writing home about a C san? He had a Baptismal date a while ago, but we had to drop him because he's a Baptist and doesn't "need" to go to the Mormon church. He was dropped back in March or April. This last week, he came back. He called me and asked if we could meet. He's kinda a awkward guy, so the conversation was very quick.

"Hello?"

"This is C. Can you meet at the Church?"

".....Oh. Hi.....right now?"

"Yes"

"....Yeah, I think so"

"Ok"

 

Then there was a click and it was over. Haha, he showed up and we were lucky to have a member there with short such notice. He came and sat down and started talking about how great the Baptist church is and that we should go see it. I asked him why he wanted to meet and he said that he had a question about the Bible. He opened it up and it was marked up like crazy. Then he told me that recently, he can't feel God when he reads the Bible. I asked him if he had been reading the Book of Mormon. He said that he hadn't because it's not the word of God. So, we gave him the challenge to read the Book of Mormon to see if it was the Word of God. Then we testified that it was and promised him that he would feel God if he read it.

 

Long story short, the Book of Mormon won. He's meeting us again. That was exciting.

 

Also, we took F san to church yesterday. However, he couldn't come to our ward so Elder Gordon and I did six hours of church Yesterday. It was LONG. I was way tired, but It was WAY good to have F at church. He's progressing again. 

 

We also had an activity teaching "District meeting" to all the young men in the ward. It was really great. We taught companionship unity. It was so fun. We did "Duffy san Mogi lessons" In other words, I took my little stuffed Duffy to the church and he was our investigator. It was fun and the young men got excited. I thought it was a blast.

 

Last night, we also had a dinner with a ward family. The Yoza family. Brother Yoza was the brother who fought in the war of Okinawa when he was 16 years old. Also, his daughter lives in Machida! He is the most interesting person. I could talk to him forever. He's REALLY intense too. He is SO Japanese. 

 

Dinner at the Yoza's

The Food

 

 

In all, it was a pretty good week.

 

Elder Miyanishi is ready for his steak.

At Han's Steakhouse

With Elder Kemp overlooking Naha

 

 

 

Love you all,

Elder Low

So, transfers were this week. Yeah....I'm still in Isahaya. I am actually really pleased to stay. I love this branch.....and this branch needs a lot of work so I'm excited to help out the branch as much as I can.

Also, I've really been diving into the Book of Mormon with Elder Chantry this week. Maddy sent me a triple combination for Christmas to go crazy on. It's actually a little bad. In our companionship study, we almost spend the entire time talking about the Book of Mormon. We barely had enough time to prepare the lessons for the day. Haha, that is one of our goals for the week. We really need to slow down the Book of Mormon study. I know that sounds impossible, but we are having crazy awesome discussions about doctrine that has nothing to do with our investigators.

On the other hand, the thing that our investigators need to be is a converted disciple of Christ.....and the Book Of Mormon does that. It has been so much fun. Also, I have never read the Book of Mormon with so much focus and I love it so much. Haha, our Dendo has also been really unbalanced. The ZL'S said that we are doing really well passing out the Book of Mormon....but we need to also make Baptismal Invites on the street. It's just easier to testify about the BOM when we are both studying it so intensely......So, now Elder Chantry and I have been assigned to make more Baptismal Invites. Haha, but I love Elder Chantry. He's a great missionary.

Elder Nara from Fukushima is the only change to the Isahaya apartment. He is now companions with Elder Tagawa and he's hilarious. I'm forced to speak A LOT of Japanese now because they are always speaking Japanese.....poor Elder Chantry gets lost a lot. I think his language is growing though. Haha, during  language study, Elder Tagawa and Elder Nara were studying English and Elder Nara was reading in 2 Nephi 28 "A Bible, a Bible. We have got a Bible and we need no more Bible". He showed me that scripture and replaced "Bible" with "Language". He's pretty funny.

Also, they split my district. Haha, now I only have the other Isahaya Elders and one of the Nagasaki Sister missionary companionships in my district. I like it though. I don't have to spend so much time doing reports. Now I can do things that I didn't have time for before. I can write letters and stuff home again.

As far as the work goes, we are still working with S. He says he doesn't have time to read the Book of Mormon, but we are just going to really stress it's importance and that he will not receive an answer to his questions unless he shows some faith. We'll see how that goes this week.

Also, we found a new Investigator. She has a lot of interest and Elder Chantry had the revelation to go visit her. I'm so glad we did though....because I thought she had no interest the first time we met her. I'm excited to work with her.

Other than that, the work continues. I'm doing my best and I'm sure we are going to see some miracles this transfer.

Love,
Elder Low