皆さん頼もう！
It's the 25th of the month again, so you know what that means! Also, fall is starting up and the weather is cooling down! Thank goodness! Oh and general conference is soon! I'll be watching it a week after it airs in America because of the translation. I'm excited!
We had interviews on Wednesday. I love Warnick会長! His words and love are inspiring! I also asked him to correct a video I had translated from English to 日本語 and he said I was all good to go! Yay!
We met with 桝田(Masuda)兄弟 on Friday with 高村(Takamura)兄弟.They also went swimming together in the morning to get 桝田兄弟's body strength up; they said it was great! We went over the baptismal interview questions with 桝田兄弟 and talked about baptism a bit more. 桝田兄弟 has been investigating for about 20 years; his family are members but he hasn't been baptized because of his work. He believes everything and is practically ready to be baptized. We explained that he has permission to be baptized even though he can only come to church once a month. But he said he still wants to wait until he can come each week. Then on Sunday, he came to church! He talked with a member of the bishopric. He explained to him that perhaps God wants him to be baptized now, then he can receive the blessing of a new job/ being able to come to church every week. 桝田兄弟 said he will think and pray about it. We'll keep praying for him too! I love him and his family so much and I want them to seem them at the temple as a family some day!
On Saturday, we had an 秋祭り(aki matsuri-fall festival) at the church with the ward. It was a fantastic turnout! There was food (takoyaki, hotdogs, inari etc), games, and a fashion show by the young women in the ward. One of our investigators, Tan-san, came and he enjoyed it. He is Vietnamese and he's been in Japan for about a year. He talked to a lot of members too. My companion also got to do some modeling for the fashion show too haha. I love this ward!!!
Sunday night, we decided to stop by Qiu姉妹's house. Her husband, 清水さん, is not a member yet but he loves church, the members and the missionaries. He is super close to baptism as well, so we are really focusing on him. We read Ether together instead of what we originally planned because he hasn't been reading the Book of Mormon. When we finished, they promised they'd read together each night before they go to bed. Qiu姉妹 asked her husband about his thoughts on baptism and he said "別に" or "Nothing much". She then asked what's holding him back and he said "Nothing really". We promised him blessings and then told them about the baptism in the Kanagawa ward this week but they can't go because they are going to the temple and she's going to show him around. He really loves wife though, especially if he's willing to wait 2 hours for her at the temple haha. We'll be visiting again hopefully next week. I wanna help him so much!
It's been great focusing on helping others on the gospel path, especially when they are so close to baptism. Please pray for them! I hope you are all ready for general conference for those back in America! I challenge you to have one question or something you want to learn in mind as you watch and I promise you'll find an answer! また来週ね!
-Elder Chab
チャブ長老
愛しています(^-^)
So it's spider season now...We found a big web and put a poster on it :p (Don't worry, we took it off)