Wednesday: Temple p-day! Same as MTC temple days, except we had to go all of the way to Tokyo! Afterwards, we went to the distribution center for me to get a small Book of Mormon. On our way home, Farnsworth and Murphy Chōrō, the beanchans were left behind in a huge Eki! We decided to document this momentous occasion with a selfie. 😁
Thursday: Eikaiwa, we had 4 new students! That was fun! Also, earlier, we saved an investigator from dropping us! I did a lot of the talking somehow. The Gift of Tongues is real, never let anyone tell you differently. Also, some investigators brought me a late birthday gift. It is as big as my arm, but is really just a bunch of individually packed bags. Friday: Elder Yamashita of the area 70 came for the missionaries. The theme was finding and opening our mouth, he promised/challenged us to get a baptism before October 18th, which I will tell you about after that event happens. It is a secret. He and his wife are super genki, or really energetic and happy! They spoke English and we did origami for an object lesson on following with exactness and opening our mouths. Afterwards, we taught the Book of Mormon class before Sports Night. We used Nephi and the murder of the chief judge to teach about prophets guidance. That was a little difficult, but fun.
Saturday: Today was more meetings. We had Facebook training, so next week on p-day, I can tell you where to find me. We also had a "culture training" that really only went over the reasons that Japanese people are different and act the way they do. We got pulled over by the mission president afterwards. He took me to his office and told me that things were going to change. And then he took Battaglia Chōrō in and they were there forever! Well, now I am down a trainer because he is the new Assistant to the President (AP). I get to be in a trio until transfers. Hopefully I don't have to leave Fujisawa and maybe I will train, but probably not. We had a miracle afterwards. With five minutes to catch our train to Shonandai, we made it all of the way from the homebu to Kichijoji Eki in 4 minutes through the crowds. That was great. Others who missed that train didn't get back until 7ish, but we got back in an hour.
Sunday: Church! And Nanbei! And my first dinner at a members house! I think one of my favorite easy meals is porridge. It is really good. We brought Okada-san with us and the message I shared was on the power of the Atonement. I shared a Mormon message, "The Refiner's Fire", which I would recommend everyone check out online. It was hard to listen to Japanese today. I will get better though.
Monday: P-day. So today was weird. We woke up at 6, went to the church for exercise time (dodgeball) with the district, and we had pancakes for breakfast. I made some really good chocolate chip ones with blueberry jam. Those were good. Afterwards, Battaglia Chōrō and I went fishing with brother and sister Stewart. Brother Stewart is an RM who served and got married here. That was fun, we caught at least 15 fish. He cooked some for lunch and it was pretty good. The only downside to it was all of the rain. It was so wet everywhere, but the fish liked it. That went until about 3 and then we went to a park by enoshima to play rugby with a bunch of investigators. Rugby is so confusing! It made me appreciate football a little bit more though, but not much. It was still raining and the field was all muddy when we got there, but it being rugby, we played on. Afterwards, when we went back to Shonandai, we met up with a recent convert from the Philippines. We had tonkatsu for dinner. That was really good. Also, when we got to the station, guess who was there?!
This Pigeon!!
Yeah, that was random.
So after dinner, we had a lesson with Okada san, but there was a wrench in the works when we got there. Two other of our investigators were there to have a lesson because they couldn't go to the one the next day. That was kind of scary, but it worked perfectly! Okada wants to be baptized and we will be working on setting a baptismal date with him. He bore his testimony about the power of Christ's atonement, the Book of Mormon and lots of other things. It was just what our other investigators needed to hear, so good on him!
Tuesday: because of lots of side lessons yesterday, I didn't get to email you, so I am doing that now. Battaglia Chōrō left before lunch, so I am in a trio now. Tonight we are going to be reviewing what investigators we have and doing some finding. This is going to be challenging, but "I am ready now".
Hai, until next time everyone, matta nae!
マーフィー 長老
Elder Murphy
Shonandai, Fugisawa, Japan
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