こんにちは！
Pretty interesting week! My companion, Schow長老, got a mild case of the fever starting on Thursday and didn't get better until Sundayish. Other than for 英会話, we stayed in so he could rest. But we did have 3 lessons this week and set up some more appointments!
We met with 田中(Tanaka)-san on Tuesday night. We originally planned on meeting at 8 but he got out of class early and wanted to meet at 6! So we rushed to the church after dinner. We first talked about his church experience on Sunday; he loved it. Then we watched "Prince of Peace" and talked about Jesus Christ. He was worried because he didn't know enough about the gospel. So we focused on knowing truth through the モルモン書 and reassured him that everything will come in time as long as he is reading and praying daily. He also said he wanted to read from the Bible.
On Wednesday night, we get a sudden call from him and he said he wants to meet. It's way awesome that he wants to meet so often. We gave him a Bible and then read Ezekiel 37:15-17 together. We explained the stick of Judah(the Bible) and the stick of Joseph(Book of Mormon). We also talked about how the 聖書(Bible) and モルモン書 work together and that by having 2 witnesses and a living prophet, we once again have God's true church on the Earth. He really liked that! We told him he could read from the 聖書 if he wanted to, but to mainly focus on the モルモン書、including Moroni's promise in Moroni 10:3-5. He said he is excited to learn more!
Before 田中さん's lesson on Wednesday, we had a lesson with 大誠(Taisei), an 英会話 student. He loves fashion and has been to America a couple times. He came up to me last week after 英会話 and said he wants to do the Free Family English Program (FFEP). He's even interested in the gospel! After doing the English portion, he mentioned he had been to church before in America and prayed before when he was a kid! We then showed him the video "Earthly Father, Heavenly Father" from the "Who's God?" Pamphlet. We talked about God and then briefly explained the Restoration, which we will teach in a future lesson. We committed him to read the Restoration pamphlet before our next meeting. We taught him how to pray and he gave the closing prayer! He's awesome!
We called Taisei last night to invite him to Polynesian night and he said he had a miracle! He usually wakes up at 1pm on Sunday but he woke up at 10am that day. He smelt smoke and saw smoke coming out of his neighbor's apartment. He ran over and helped her put the kitchen fire out. He said from that, he knows God exists! How great is that! We are meeting with him tomorrow too!
I've never taught so many lessons in one week during my whole mission so far! It was a great experience! We also had zone meeting earlier in the week. I've also been practicing piano a bit for zone conference! So much this past week and a lot coming up this week as well. I love being busy! For those who have never read the Book of Mormon, I challenge you to read it! It's amazing to see our investigators change as they read from the Book of Mormon. I testify that there is power in reading the word of God! I know that it can help you in more ways that you can imagine! Until next week! またね
-Elder Chab
チャブ長老 or 茶武長老
愛しています^_^
Zone meeting!
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