So a short email and no photos this week. He commented on a few things going on here at home and then supplied this:
"Weekly Update:
This weeks highlights mainly include going on splits. From Tuesday to Wednesday I went to the 4 man Machida area (for the 4th time), this time with my district leader. We housed some brand new houses, and actually had a lot of success finding people for him and his companion to teach. Thursday to Saturday we went on splits, this time I got to stay in Tama while Elder O went to Machida with one of the Zone Leaders. We went to a richer area and tried housing (because it seemed to have worked in Machida earlier that week), but we didn't have any success. We talked with one person on the street that had some interest, but we had to hurry home and spend the rest of Friday evening in the apartment. :\ Sunday was a pretty good day, we had three of the six investigators we were hoping would come to church come, but we had both of our baptismal candidates come so we're very happy with that. We're excited for all of the new investigators we're finding lately, We think we'll have a couple more dates after this week. And that's pretty much it this week, remember that next week is temple week so I'll write on Tuesday!"
Hopefully next week we will get our usual email with more information. We're just glad we get something regularly. He even remembered to remind us about temple week with no prompting from us!
Monday, September 24, 2012
Wednesday, September 12, 2012
Awesome Sunday meetings!
Elder Mosdell and his companion have had a few bad weeks with some investigators but their patience, hard work and prayer paid off big this week!
"This week we had a couple lessons with (a female investigator) again, and she's doing really well. On Thursday we taught her about the plan of salvation, and she really liked that because it means she has a purpose to work for, and that God loves her enough to create a plan so that she can be happy. :) It was an awesome lesson! On Sunday was the other "lesson" which was technically Sunday School class, but Elder O helped teach about half. Anyways, The lesson was on the Word of Wisdom, and it went pretty well. Unfortunately we weren't able to focus just on her during the lesson, but more on that later. After church I talked with her for a minute about it, and she said that it would be a little hard giving up coffee and tea, but that she would pray about it. She wasn't able to find any information about the Book of Mormon when she searched, and we were able to answer her questions that she had during the lesson on Thursday.
Church was absolutely CRAZY this week. We had 5 investigators come, which is more than double what I've ever had before. We filled the classroom for the Gospel Principals class, to the point that we had to go on exchanges and I went to a different class so that we could get everyone in the classroom. We were a little spread out, but it all turned out really well. The family that we found a few weeks ago came, and they have a TON of interest in Church. The wife felt the spirit super strong in sacrament meeting, and the husband really liked what he heard, and wants his future kids to grow up learning the traits of the church. I'm super excited for them! We also had another 19 year old come. We met him a few weeks ago, and he was interested in coming and learning about the purpose of life. He was SUPER confused after sacrament meeting, and felt like he shouldn't be at a Christian church, because he knew nothing of what was really going on. I (with the help of a Single Adult from the ward) was able to explain a lot of what was going on, and that as he comes to the other classes everything will start to make more sense. He really enjoyed learning about the Word of Wisdom, and how it helps us to live healthy lives. After church we were able to meet with a man who met the missionaries over a year ago but they never followed up with him after that day. He's been wanted to come and learn about church ever since then. We toured the church with him, and we were able to teach him about prayer as well as set a baptismal date for the 28th of October! I'm amazed at how many miracles we've seen this last Sunday, and I can't wait to see them continue. We'll likely have 6 people at church this next week!"
"This week we had a couple lessons with (a female investigator) again, and she's doing really well. On Thursday we taught her about the plan of salvation, and she really liked that because it means she has a purpose to work for, and that God loves her enough to create a plan so that she can be happy. :) It was an awesome lesson! On Sunday was the other "lesson" which was technically Sunday School class, but Elder O helped teach about half. Anyways, The lesson was on the Word of Wisdom, and it went pretty well. Unfortunately we weren't able to focus just on her during the lesson, but more on that later. After church I talked with her for a minute about it, and she said that it would be a little hard giving up coffee and tea, but that she would pray about it. She wasn't able to find any information about the Book of Mormon when she searched, and we were able to answer her questions that she had during the lesson on Thursday.
Church was absolutely CRAZY this week. We had 5 investigators come, which is more than double what I've ever had before. We filled the classroom for the Gospel Principals class, to the point that we had to go on exchanges and I went to a different class so that we could get everyone in the classroom. We were a little spread out, but it all turned out really well. The family that we found a few weeks ago came, and they have a TON of interest in Church. The wife felt the spirit super strong in sacrament meeting, and the husband really liked what he heard, and wants his future kids to grow up learning the traits of the church. I'm super excited for them! We also had another 19 year old come. We met him a few weeks ago, and he was interested in coming and learning about the purpose of life. He was SUPER confused after sacrament meeting, and felt like he shouldn't be at a Christian church, because he knew nothing of what was really going on. I (with the help of a Single Adult from the ward) was able to explain a lot of what was going on, and that as he comes to the other classes everything will start to make more sense. He really enjoyed learning about the Word of Wisdom, and how it helps us to live healthy lives. After church we were able to meet with a man who met the missionaries over a year ago but they never followed up with him after that day. He's been wanted to come and learn about church ever since then. We toured the church with him, and we were able to teach him about prayer as well as set a baptismal date for the 28th of October! I'm amazed at how many miracles we've seen this last Sunday, and I can't wait to see them continue. We'll likely have 6 people at church this next week!"
Look what we found at the import shop next to the train station! |
Just to prove it wasn't from a care package. The soda had a label too. |
They biked 42km around the border of their area on P-Day. This is the view from one of the tallest hills. |
Tuesday, September 11, 2012
Splits and Donuts
An empty train, maybe Elder Mosdell needs to shower! LOL |
A nice sunset in Japan |
Wow! Beautiful sunset. What a difference a few minutes makes. |
Mmmm donuts! |
Monday, September 3, 2012
Arm Wrestling for Cookies...
"Weekly Update:
So this week was a little interesting. Elder Oand I
taught a lesson on Thursday, and about 10 minutes into our lesson
with (the investigator) he stood up, and very angrily stormed out of the church, shouting
"Hate you" at me on his way out. We were both in complete shock,
because it seemed to be out of no where, and we weren't sure what to do. After
trying to call him once we ran outside and jumped on our bikes to chase him
down and find out what was wrong. Fortunately for us, most missionaries can bike
FAR faster than people in Japan, so we were able to catch up to him as he was
going up a hill and flag him down. So yes, we did "chase him down up a
hill". :) But anyways, we managed to get everything sorted out, turned out
for some reason he had thought that I'd been saying I hate him behind his back,
and because I had a slight cold that day I wasn't talking much during the first
part of the lesson, which I guess made him feel like I didn't like him so much
that I wouldn't even speak to him. In any case though, we got it all worked out
and he's back on track for being baptised.
On Saturday last week we got our shipment of Book of Mormons
at a zone conference. We were almost out of them in our church, and at our apartment,
so we ordered 40 (30 Japanese + 10 English)... of course what we forgot to
think of when we ordered them was that it's a 30 minute walk from that church
to the train station... and 30 Books of Mormon plus my quad and PMG weigh A
LOT! >.< but that's OK, I made it back in one piece so. :)
Oh, and at
that conference there was an arm wrestling competition for the extra cookies
that Sister Budge brought. I won. :) It was kind of fun to have a little
rivalry between MMHS and SF (two local high schools) for my first match too (btw the score was 2-0) ;D.
Other than that my week was pretty normal. :) Hope you all
enjoy your week!"
Yep, limited news this week and no photos until next week. Kind of a bummer, but we did get a lot of neat photos last week so I guess we'll forgive the boy this time. He seems to have a knack for winning extra food, I don't think I'd want to go up against him in an arm wrestling match - I know how that would end!
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