Sunday
We had an awesome
district conference in Koriyama today.
We went to the
conference with the Murals.
It was a fun
ride up there, Murata Shimai is really spunky and just told jokes with us all
the way to koriyama. We got to the the conference and 105
people gather (which is an incredible turn out). The membership is really
strong in the district there and there just needs to be a little more priesthood
holders active and holding callings.
But that is our
purpose to get them all there. Great meeting and great day.
Dendo was kinda
slow today. However we did find some success giving
a Book of Mormon to a woman, and a few lessons.
Monday
Sister Kujiraoka took
the whole district and some members out to kappa sushi all you can eat sushi
place. Elder Price and I were going to Sendai
later that night so we planned to eat a big lunch.
Well I ate about 25
plates of sushi! Well worth it.
We went to a thrift
shop right after that to buy ties and we are going to wear them on Wednesday.
It was probably the
best 2nd hand shop I've ever been to, had really soft comfortable couches.
Almost feel asleep!
Well after a 3 hour
bus ride to Sendai we were streeting around the eki.
City people are a
little bit meaner, everyone was giving up hard kekkos and the cold shoulder.
Except for the last
person, ichihara san, we stopped him on the bridge and talked for a long time.
He is a young
worker living in sendai. When the conversation turned to
everlasting happiness, he said that he was interested and asked if he could
come to church. Of course we said yes but since we were
coming from Iwaki, we gave him the contact info of the Kamisugi elders and he
called them right then and there!
Left a message on
their phone! I was way surprised when that happened.
He was way
aggressive and happy to meet the other elders.
We then parted ways
and we headed to the honbu. Called the Kamisugi elders that night
and found out they were playing phone tag with him all night... what can you
do?
Life is good.
Tuesday
Well today, I had my
first AP split. It was with the legendary Elder
Okamoto. I learned a lot from him by what type of person he is.
Very humble and
easy going he really made me feel comfortable around him.
He was very
talkative and friendly, great leader.
It was raining hard
today, plus we didn't have the van so we were bus missionaries.
Spent a lot of
money on bus fare and tickets. We headed to the church and we had a
little meet and discussion with a member in nagamachi.
They have a program
there that the members will sign up for a time where they can work or meet with
the missionaries. This was one of those times.
We talked about how
we can all be better missionaries and members!
Even though we
weren't teaching an investigator, I believe it was a good time spent for the
member there! He has lots of dendo fire and I'd image
that most members in nagamachi have that fire as well.
Great discussion on
service and then we went to the mall for lunch.
An hour of our time
was taken away by a matter that the aps are dealing with!
Apparently they
have an RC living in the Tokyo temple annex with no money, apartment, job, or
anything. All he does is do baptisms for the
dead. We had to get him money to get back to Sendai.
It took about an 1
1/2 hours to handle it. It was not too much fun.
Lot of sitting
around waiting for people. Well the rest of the split was awesome.
I learned quit a
lot about planning from elder okamoto.
Always have
something to do every hour. He also asked what my goals are and the
only thing I could say was 2 baptisms before I go home.
I couldn't say
anything else, well couldn't think of anything else.
I probably need to
make more goals and work for them.
On top of that we
talked about how to accomplish it and we both agreed that working with the
members was the best way, just going nuts with the members was the best thing.
Also this stuff
only comes in the timing of God, so for the time being, what you can and keep
working as hard as you can! That is what I plan to do.
Life is good π till tomorrow.
Elder Halverson
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