Dear Family and Friends,
This week was a pretty
good week! We saw quite a few miracles and did a lot of good work despite the
fact I got another cold! This one was bad enough for a day or two that I stayed
in bed all Thursday because I was that bad and I slept all day. So that was no
fun but Elder Bunker was able to call all the potential investigators in our
area book while I was asleep which was pretty good and we may have some good
things from it. On Friday we had a Family History Blitz. We got 2 zones
together and we went to one place (Shinyurigaoka) and did housing and streeting
and kubari (handing out flyers as people pass) with a focus on family history.
It was a lot of fun and I think there were tons of good things that came out if
it!
The first big miracle we
saw this week was the night before I started getting pretty sick. We were
walking in the neighborhoods that are on the way to Mt Takao. First we went
down a street with a shrine that gave us the "bad feelings” that our
family knows so well so we turned around and left the road without knocking on
any doors there or anything, but we turned town the next street because I
realized I had never been down it. So we passed the good old insane asylum and
kept walking until we saw a building where the top floor was "John's English
Class" and the bottom floor was what we though was John’s house. So we
knocked on it because we thought why not knock on it especially if he speaks
English. And instead of John it was a lady and we talked to her for a second
and come to find out she spoke perfect English and has been to the temple in
salt lake and talked with missionaries there! So we are referring her to the
sisters because we're not allowed to teach women. But it was way cool and way
random!
Last night right by that
house we had another miracle. We were housing over there trying to locate the
mysterious "John" fellow. And we think we found him, a Nepalese man
answered his door when we rand and started yelling at us in English about it
being mean to knock door to door in a neighborhood. So we invited him to church
and everything and he was still mad and wouldn't come so we moved on. We
decided since it was late and we needed to get back that we would knock on 2
more doors. First door, nothing. Second door, a man opens the door very timidly
and we talk to him and invite him to church and the lessons and it turns out he
is a less active member. So we are going back on Tuesday probably to see him
again. We decided that maybe we're having troubles with our investigators right
now because our companionship is supposed to bring those sheep who were lost on
the way home back to the Shepard. Maybe we need to get the ward taking care of
those we have before we can get more. It's exciting work for sure!
At that blitz we saw crazy
miracles and I was able to use my 5 generation fan chart 2 times and I really
saw the spirit of Elijah working like crazy for one of the first times. The 2
times I pulled up my fan chart the whole conversation changed. One man was
originally completely without interest and at the end of the conversation he
was willing to read all about it and call us if he was interested. And another
one we called out to a guy across the street and he rode his bike across the
street to us and we got a picture and he is coming to Ekaiwa and wants to come
to church! And another couple wants to have the missionaries over for dinner
after we talked to them about the Book of Mormon and family history and
everything. It was crazy! At blitz's we go on 3 splits for an hour and so each
one of those stories was with a different companion (in order of stories and
time: Elder Nebeker, Elder Bennion, and Elder Crandall) it was a crazy
experience and really got me fired up to use family history in my Dendo!
So it's been a good week
we are working with our less actives and Mark and Uki San on getting a
testimony of the Book of Mormon, because if you have that you have it all. It's
way fun and we're working as hard as we can! My Japanese is still improving and
I have been complimented on it quite a few times this week but I am trying to
just study even harder because of that. Nakajima Kyoudai is still coming to
church but we haven't been able to meet with him. The bishop told us to drop
him unless he comes to us asking to be baptized because that was his 6th
dropped baptismal service ish. We don't want to drop him but we are going to
focus on other things and work with him when we can. God never gives up on us
so we won't give up on him. I am loving being out here and as hard as some days
are others are the best ever.
I'm glad to hear how things are going at home. Morgan, get feeling better! It sounds like life is pretty busy for mom and dad and that Meagan is working a lot and Emilee is getting more settled in. Thank you for always keeping me updated on life back home! Hopefully I'm keeping you updated well enough on stuff here. I can't think of anything huge that I need so thank you for always asking, mom! I love all you guys and hope you can find some opportunities to talk about church with some friends this week! Keep it up!
Oh and HAPPY BIRTHDAY MEAGAN! Not every day that a birthday is on my pday! Love you!
Love,
Elder Gailey
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