Dear Family,
It has been a long week. I
should probably start off with the bigger news, bad news first as usual. When
prepping for the baptism our ward mission leader called brother Nakajima to
make sure he would come early for pictures and stuff. In the call Nakajima said
that his mom was sick so he couldn't come and do his baptism. We're not even
really sure his mom is sick but regardless he did not get baptized. At first I
was really bothered by the whole thing. This week I set up the whole thing, I
made all the calls and did all those things, so it was a huge bummer that I
just had to watch all of the plans and stuff fall apart. And I was way excited
to see a guy who I had been working with since my first week in Takao finally
be ready and take that next step towards his father in heaven. So yes, needless
to say I was quite bummed out for a bit, but I slowly accepted that it is his
choice to get baptized or not and I would much rather he want to when he does
get baptized. Also as a result of having the baptism canceled, a couple people
came and we gave them some of the things we made for the baptism (cookies and
cake). While we were doing that I got to meet one of our neighboring area's
investigators. His name is Ishikawa and he is way strong and is crazy excited
for his baptismal date for next week. He is already loving the gospel so much
he shares it and he's not even baptized yet, so it was way cool to talk to him
about his conversion and all t
So that was all Saturday,
but I spent the week doing as Dad always tells me to do, looking for new
investigators and what not! We haven't found any but we got quite a few new
good potential investigators so cross your fingers! I was making calls
basically all day every day all week. We did start a new activity to invite our
investigators to this week. Family Home Evening! We for sure had our less
active member Sanno coming and it turned out that he was the only one that
actually came so he got a great lesson on prayer taught by Elder Busteed and
Elder Simons. We had the game, so we decided to play headbands, thank you for
buying that Disney version mom because I wouldn't have had that idea without
that game! And it was way fun and Sanno had a blast I think. We also had a
Skype lesson this week with Mark the guy from the Philippines. It was way weird
because it was Skype and he never turned on a camera so we stared at his
profile picture thing which was a fat American hamburger... Quite the
experience. So we taught him more about prayer and asked him to read the Book
of Mormon again which he agreed to do. Uki we met this week too, and he had
stopped praying and reading so now we have to catch everything back up to where
we were before New Years, a little tedious but still good. We also had
Nakajima's baptismal interview this week which he passed but as I said above it
didn't end up happening, so I will send a couple Nakajima pictures in the
picture emails today so you will know more of who I'm teaching.
Another cool thing from
the week is that I got to go to Kofu for splits! I didn't take many pictures of
Kofu but it is interesting to now be able to say I've been there and dendo'd
there. After Zone meeting we went out to Kofu and I spent the night there and
woke up bright and early to come back to Takao for the baptism that didn't
happen so unfortunately I didn't get a ton of time over there but it was still
good I think. It snowed pretty good Thursday night and into Friday so Takao and
Kofu were pretty well covered in snow, it was way cool because it's been quite
a while since I have seen that much snow everywhere, but it definitely made
walking hard in a few places. In weekly planning I talked a lot about how we as
a companionship can get more SOS invitations and good solid pi's and new
investigators because I'm tired of trying to just do all those things myself
when my companion doesn't talk to people. He doesn't like it so usually the
whole conversation is just me and if I don't know something it's a bit
frustrating because there isn't any backup or anything. It's a bit awkward for
the person I'm talking to also because he just stares at them un-interested
looking so it makes talking to people hard. But I talked to him about it quite
a bit and these last few days have been better, I'm still doing a large portion
but it is better and we have gotten a couple pretty good potential
investigators. So I'm way excited about that!
We finally don't have a
pday where we have to go to a past area of Elder Bunker's for whatever reason
so it should be a good one, plenty of time for things today I think. I'm glad
you got the letter! It's hard to find time to actually write letters but I
think I'm getting better at working the hour before bedtime on things like that
so it's getting easier and better I think. Sounds like everything with Trevor
went pretty well! I'm glad that it is all good, the power or prayer and fasting
at its best I think. Hopefully we can figure out what is going on with Morgan,
but until then, Morgan, がんばてください！I
have translated that before but there are really no 100% accurate translations
for that phrase so just know it means something to the effect of keep going! I
am crazy excited to see how the Super Bowl turns out, if they win you guys have
to get me a shirt and some other random stuff! I hope this week goes really
well for everyone and that you all can have some cool experiences this week! I
can't really think of anything else right now... I'm not sick anymore my cough
is only caused by really cold air but that probably happens to anyone and I
will send pictures of the snow. I love you guys!
Love,
Elder Gailey
P.s. GO HAWKS!
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