Dear Family,
This week was pretty good
we got out of the house on Monday night and by today Elder Bunker is pretty
much better. We both still have coughs but I have had mine for like 3 weeks and
it should go away soon I think, it's annoying but I don't think it's bad. It's
kind of like the MTC where I had a cough the whole time but eh I'm not too
worried about it. We did lots of finding and are getting our streeting skills
back up and what not. This week we have a lot to do for Nakajima's baptism but
it's going pretty well and apparently we are much more on top of it all than
the average missionary who does the baptism set up and papers and everything
usually a day or 2 before. Thank Camp Helaman for that one! I was stressing
about it pretty bad because yesterday was stake conference and we couldn't get
it announced in church but the ward passed on the information through a phone
tree and in a day and a half everyone knew! So we don't have to call every
member now which is a huge weight off our shoulders!
We are still focusing a
lot on getting better at streeting and getting our SOS (salvation of souls)
invitations (invitations to church or other spiritual things like FHE or
Questions of the Soul). And we are getting better. We walk everywhere to make
streeting and finding people more possible. We haven't found new investigators
this week, it's been really tough for the whole district to get anyone to want
to learn this month. So we are working as hard as we can and hopefully with the
baptism on Saturday we can get a lot of cool experiences for people and
investigators. Uki still hasn't been coming to Ekaiwa or to our lessons but I
think he just doesn't like the rain and is still semi sick and stuff but he is
still reading and still doing everything he needs to do except meet with us so
that's a good silver lining. Tamura is kinda crazy as usual but we are still
teaching him. And Brother Sanno (the less active we found a couple weeks ago)
is basically back to being active again! So that's way cool, we are just
basically being gospel doctrine teachers for him during the week. He and
Nakajima Kyoudai came to stake conference with us yesterday and seemed to
really like it and Sanno built up some relationships with ward members so I
think pretty soon we can just turn him over to the ward!
Visiting Brother Mongen
was way cool this week! So we went over on Friday and knocked on his door and
he had us come in and we started to talk with him and his wife for her work has
to go over to China a lot. (They are both from China so that kind of makes
sense) So Mongen Kyoudai is home alone a lot for long periods of time because
his wife when she goes to China is usually there for 2 or 3 months at a time.
Last time it was just her but this time she had the kids come to learn some
Chinese, so Mongen Kyoudai is all alone and kind of bummed about it but it
gives him lots of time to get a lot of work and things done. He has finally
been reading the Book of Mormon on his own a lot! It's slow because he is a
very deep thinker so he thinks about every word. We read with him for about
half a chapter (1 Nephi 3) and we explained things as we were reading. He had a
big problem with Nephi having to kill Laban and stuff but we showed him the
answer for why that the scriptures give and slowly it went from that to talking
about the spirit. We were telling him that a lot of times the spirit is like
the air, you don't notice it until you don't have it, and that the spirit
prompts us to do good and sometimes it is just us thinking it would be good to
do something. So he looked back and he started rattling off example after
example of times he may have felt that and he was thinking that hey, maybe I
have felt the spirit! So that was a huge step for him. We left on a spiritual
high and I can't wait to visit next week! It's going to be great I'm sure, I
hope he can keep progressing like that because I would love to be sitting in
sacrament and see him over there with his family receiving blessings so much
that there isn't room to receive them!
We met a lot of cool
people this last week and hopefully we can see some of them start lessons soon,
I'll keep you updated! But it sounds like life at home is exciting! Be careful
with those shredders mom! There's still lots of supplies, I have a bottle and a
half of contact stuff and everything else is still good. In that next package
though I may need a box of envelopes because the Japanese ones are way thin and
I don't think they can handle going to America so if you could toss those in
the next one that would be helpful! Thanks for taking care of the sports
authority stuff! And dad it's probably best to use a tray! Haha that will be a
way cool Efy for Morgan and Maddy! And I will for sure bring home probably 4 or
5 or 6 pairs of tabi boots. They cost 10-20 dollars each so not even bad! I
want to see some pictures of those cars dad! So if you have time, feel free to
send some or put some on Facebook! I am way excited to hear how badly the
Seahawks kill the patriots! Go Hawks!
I will keep working as
hard as I can and keep inviting everyone! I love you guys and thanks for all
the support and help! Mom and dad you should have a letter soon! Have a great
week!
Love,
Elder Gailey
P.S. Tell Brother Swanson
thanks and hello for me! Tell him I miss camp like crazy and want to attend
when I get back as an adult and help out in anyway possible! Maybe they could
use me on their frisbee team right? Haha thanks!
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