So this week we had transfers. All the missionaries that were transferring
had to go to Kamisugi for a big transfer party.
Even though I wasn't going to transfer, I still had to go to the meeting
because there was also a "New Missionary Training" that I obviously
missed because of my foot and being delayed.
So the plan was that we go Tuesday and leave later the next day. But as soon as we go to Kamisugi we find out
that the new missionaries plane got delayed from LAX to Tokyo and then again
when they were trying to go from Tokyo to Sendai. The meeting that I was to attend was pushed
back to later on Wednesday. That made it
so Macnab Chourou and I had to stay at the honbu (mission home) for an extra
day and wouldn't be able to return back to Izumi until late Friday night. So therefore my comp and I could do almost
zero work in our area. All in all, the
meeting and the orientation was really cool.
A lot of new things I learned about missionary work in Japan and Japan
in general.
Yesterday Macnab Chourou and I were heading to the church
early to catch a meeting and as soon as we get to the church the bishop greets
us saying what are you doing here?? We
say "we have here for the missionary meeting" he responds "oh
man I forgot to tell you that it was cancelled this week." Well shoot then, I guess we will just do our
studies here at the church. As soon as
we start our language study, the bishop comes in again and says there is
someone here to learn about church and God.
So we sit down with this guy and we figure out that he is from Vietnam,
speaks no English, little Japanese, and really only Vietnamese. So now we basically have two Vietnamese
investigators that know little Japanese and little English as well. It was very interesting to sit down with
this guy and try to communicate with him.
While my comp talked to him and tried to figure out his beliefs and
such, I had the iPad in my hand with the google translate app opened up,
translating from English to Vietnamese and then showing this person. After a while we figured out that his is
Christian and he google searched a church for the sole purpose of coming to
praying. Our church in Izumi was the
first place to pop up and he just randomly showed up yesterday morning. We "gave" him an Vietnamese Book of
Mormon, by gave I mean we downloaded the
gospel library app on his phone and changed to the language setting to
Vietnamese and he just started to read.
He stayed at church for the whole 3 hours and just read from his phone
because obviously all of meeting was in Japanese. So really he didn't understand really much of
anything. It was really quite
interesting to say the least, hopefully he becomes an investigator because he
really seemed to enjoy it.
Another story from yesterday. There is a family in the ward that is
American. They are from Sandy, Utah
actually. Again, they don't know
Japanese very much at all. So I had the
incredible task of translating for Brother Chapman! All I would say is this "I think he is
talking about this but I am not sure" or when I thought I had an idea
"Oops never mind, it's not at all this but it could be this instead"
Haha it was fun/interesting. As time went on, I got the hang of it. The language is coming along slowly. Anyway the Chapman's are a great family. Wee had Thanksgiving at their house on
Thursday. It was so good haha just like
home, I stuffed myself. Mashed potatoes,
gravy, turkey, stuffing all that good stuff haha.
So again I forgot my journal for all of my stories and
what happened. But have a good one, I
love you all!!!
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