Dear Family,
Well hello there everybody! This week has
been... Very gooood! Me and Elder Okada had very fun time this week. We had a
lot of meetings and things that took up a fair bit of time, but other than that
pretty much everyday was dendo day! So that's what we did. This is Elder
Okada's 3rd to last Monday as a missionary, but he's not getting too trunky. So
that's good.
Anyways so this week we intended to meet with
Hiro San right? Well unfortunately he was drunk and fell inside the station
when he was on the way to our lesson and ended up in the hospital for a few
days, basically up until he left for Kyoto. So we weren't able to meet with
him, but luckily we got everything set up with the jouyou missionaries down
there and tonight they have a lesson scheduled with him, so we'll be skyping
into that. So more will come in the future about him, but after today he is
officially the Kyoto missionaries investigator. Other than that Kato San is
showing signs of actual interest in the gospel this time, so we might start
teaching him again sometime soon. We were talking about it and if we really, strengthened
his faith he could potentially be baptized next month probably at best. So
we'll see!
This last week I had the translation
assignment for zone conference with my good boy Elder Brummett. Hopefully you
all remember him! That went way well, the biggest struggle is when there was a
training on dress and grooming that we didn't know about and those words are
not normal words nor church words so basically we had a dictionary party. But
it went really well, I translated most of President Wada's stuff and it wasn't
as hard as I expected it to be honestly which was nice. We had a couple
canceling this week too, for example hero. So that made for some weird time
blocks where we couldn't really go anywhere but we couldn't just sit and wait
type thing. So we had a lot of strange things to do but we saw some cool
miracles as well. One miracle from the week was while we were doing a district
blitz we went along one train line stopping at all the stations for an hour and
housing around the station. At the last station there was nowhere to park our
bikes so we ended up riding straight up the side of a ratchet steep mountain
(hill) pretty much like Yamate, and found a shrine to park our bikes at. Then
we dendo'd around there and while ringing one doorbell we found out that the
person inside was a less active member, she wouldn't talk to us much but she
said she had been baptized and was a member. Crazy stuff right!?
Then Saturday, oh Saturday. It rained a good
consistent rain all day. So of course it was the day where we had nothing
planned and so we went walking, ended up in total walking over 18 kilometers.
Then we rode out bikes in the rain and got soaked, but it was a good day!
Really makes you feel like a missionary lol.
So you guys asked if I've learned anything new
this week, yes! Of course I have! One thing we learned at zone conference was
about reflection. Sometimes we will invite our investigators to do things and
they will decline and not tell us the real reasons. Well in order to help that
we have to listen really well, so one method of listening was reflection. So
basically when we ask people to do things like be baptized and they say no we
wait for them to give a small reason and kind of say the same thing back to
them in different way, not like repeating them but clarifying things and stuff.
So it's pretty cool, because they share more and more usually because they can
tell that we are listening. It is very helpful with Kato San. Also, sounds like
dad had a pretty crazy flight! Glad everyone is safe and sound. Keep me updated
mom! Thank you!
Well that's about it for the week! You asked
if Poff got into BYU, I found out yesterday that no he did not. But if he gets
into uvu he wants to still room together and he will commute to uvu (he has a
car) so that's in the possibilities. But I don't really know, haven't really
talked about it with him much. So he's going to be praying about it at the
temple tomorrow so I'll know more next week. Anyways, I miss you guys a lot!
This last Friday I think was my 6 month left mark, maybe 7 I forgot. But almost
there! I hope there's lot coming in the last 6 months! Anyways, love you all!
Have a great week!
Love,
Elder Gailey
Cool Path!
Look - I'm a bird!
Dragon overhead
Plum Trees in Spring
Dinner after Hakone
Rainy Day
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