This week has been a really crazy one. First off I'll tell you about what my comp
and I had to do yesterday. We had to
teach the primary class in church. Idk
how people handle that, but seriously those kids are nuts haha. Well as soon as I stood up in the front of
the room, all the kids in the class started to scream OKII or DEKAI おきい でかい which means GIANT and HUGE, at the top of their lungs. haha. One thing about teaching primary, it's a lot
of visual aids and stories and writing english on the board and then having all
the kids say it in Japanese and English.
Another funny thing was that when I wrote the kanji for "I"
and "God" on the board all the
kids said 漢字をかけるよ！！basically
they were incredibly surprised that I knew kanji and blurted it out. But the best part of it all was when we
started to teach about the Savior, all the kids were quiet. It was like we had calmed the storm and they
were listening without breathing.
The other day my comp and I had planned to visit a less
active member and recently we hadn't had much luck at all visiting him or any
less active for that matter. Also to add
to the misfortune it was a complete down pour and we can't ride our bikes when
it's raining. We had to walk 5 miles in
one direction in the rain. I got lost on
our way over there also so we decided to say a quick prayer for guidance. We finished and headed down this road and
wound up in front of his apartment building.
We go up and knock on his door and have to wait a little bit for him to
answer but he finally answers and he had just woken up from a nap and we had a
little door step lesson about family and I was able to explain the scripture in
Japanese without stumbling over any of the words. It really made the walk over worth it and I
realized all God wants you to do is just try, just try your hardest.
They also had the primary program yesterday and it was
the funniest thing and coolest thing. I
was really cool to see all the kids up there trying their hardest to testify
while being really embarrassed or laughing so hard. As usual there were the kids who went up to
the mic grabbed it and shouted. "I
KNOW JESUS LOVES ME" and
"JOSEPH SMITH IS MY FAVORITE PROPHET". It's a worldwide church, right!
I got to go Furukawa on splits this last week. A whole lot of nothing happened there, we
just fixed an elder's bike. Also
actually something was very cool that happened, we had a goal of handing out a
Book of Mormon while we were there. The
Elder I was on spilts with decided to go to this shopping mall type place and
it was totally deserted except for the arcade room where they were 3 kids playing
mario kart. I was nervous as can be and
started to talk about the Book of Mormon to the kids and asked one if he was
excited for Christmas and he said he was.
I explained that Jesus and Christmas were the same thing and I told him
if he read this book he would be able to learn more about Jesus and Christmas
as well. He asked if it would be all
right if he receive a book and his Japanese went right over my head but my comp
said "He wants one, you can give it to him" Oh, ok yea, here you go and I put it in his
hand and his friend said that if we were giving them out, he wanted to have one
to read.
I got to eat Indo Curry that was really good. Yea that is it! Sorry I forgot my journal so I can't really
remember everything right now but I love you all. Have a good week!!
Elder Halverson
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