Hello everyone!! How are you?? I hope you all had a good week!
We found Sasaki san last week and set an appointment for
6pm the next Tuesday. Well somehow we
messed up the time and we ended up showing up at his door at 7. It was all good because he wheels in his
drive way, gets out and says "Wait, you were coming at this time weren't
you?" We said of course haha.
Anyway we find out that he had tried reading the Book of Mormon and it was hard
for him. So tomorrow we are going to give
him the Book of Mormon storybook that I got from my mom when I first got to
Japan.
This week we had a lot of fun with Halloween parties and
helping a member teach her eikaiwa class.
It was way fun and I got to eat some of the snacks. So of course I was
way happy.
We taught our amazing convert this past week. But that isn't why he is amazing, this is
why! Thirty years ago, when he was
living in Furukawa his wife suddenly passed away. For reasons unknown. For a long while he was struggling, looking
for something, and needed help. One day
in his post box he finds a small piece of paper that he reads and is taken
back. He realized that "I need to
push on, I need to keep going! There is
light at the end of the tunnel."
He takes that little flyer and puts it in his pocket and holds on to it
for 30 years. He looked at it in times of
need and when he wanted a little support.
Eventually he marries a member of the Furukawa branch and was baptized
about three months ago. He is awesome.
This week he looks at this flyer again and realizes it
was put into his post 30 years ago by a Mormon Missionary serving in the
Furukawa area. Yesterday at testimony
meeting he gets up and bears the best testimony. Hearing his story hit me hard. At this point of my mission I have helped
people and posted a lot of flyers.
Sometimes thinking that no one will ever read it or this is another
waste of a flyer but it is not that way.
There is a purpose to everything under the heavens. Brother Suzukis story has been 30 plus years
in the making and I am glad to be a part of it.
I love brother Suzuki and the Japanese people.
Elder Halverson
ハルバソン長老~日本仙台伝道部
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