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Dearest Family and Friends,
Wow, this has
been an eventful week! There is this building near the church that says エレベーターreally
big (Elevator), so we decided that we wanted to go up it. We rode our bikes out
there, and when we entered the parking lot this security guard ran out to us and
said, "You cannot be enter!" I guess no one is allowed to go up the elevator.
We've started
working harder at finding recently, since all of our progressing investigators disappeared
over the holiday. While I still don't like finding much, I find that it's becoming
more bearable. Maybe someday I'll actually look forward to doing it. I think the
hardest part about finding is just starting the conversation. But once you've done
that, it's easy to keep going. It helps though when your companion is way natural
at speaking to people. I have felt that I've improved a lot, though, and I feel
more confident that I can find people. Even us old missionaries struggle with things
as simple as finding (yes, I finally feel like an old missionary. At transfer 8,
I am the second to oldest missionary in my district, my companion the only one older
than me.).
We visited with
a member this last week, or at least we tried to. We followed the address to her
home... but her house was gone! Just a bunch of rubble. We called her, and she informed
us that she had moved a few blocks over. We visited with her, and she told us about
how she had given a Book of Mormon to one of her son's friends. She then proceeded
to give us a referral for another of her friends! This sister is on fire! We've
tried a few times to visit this referral, but she is never available. We did visit
with her husband, though, and he gave us some flowers from his garden. Really sweet
guy.
We visited with
Kanno Shimai (I think I mentioned her last week. She is a member from Kasukabe and
is in the hospital here in Koshigaya area) a few times this last week. We visited
her on Tuesday, and it was her birthday! Luckily we didn't try to take her balloons,
because I think the hospital wouldn't have allowed them. We did give her a little
charm for her phone, and she was way happy that we knew it was her birthday (thank
you to her husband and the Kasukabe Sisters!). Later she called us and asked us
to bring her three or four Books of Mormon. When we went, she was asleep, so we
just left them and a sweet note. She called later and apologized, and asked us to
bring two or three more copies. This lady is also on fire. She said that she will
probably be changing hospitals soon, so she wants to write messages to all of the
staff members that have helped her in the Books of Mormon and give them to them
as farewell gifts. She also wants to introduce us to several people that work there,
so hopefully we can work that out. She is such a sweet woman, and she knows how
important our message is. She is an amazing missionary and a wonderful example to
me. And her fake eyelashes are pretty great.
There was a wedding
reception for our dendou shunin (ward mission leader?) on Saturday! Congrats to
him! We really wanted to go, but we both felt strongly that we shouldn't. Instead
we did some finding near Souka Eki, and it was great. I am so grateful that I didn't
go. We've been thinking a lot about using time more effectively, doing activities
that will help us see real growth among our investigators, and we both felt that
the wedding reception would not be ideal for missionary work (even though there
would be less actives and referrals there). It sounded like it went really well,
though.
The last thing
we did was run to Shibuya real fast so that we could get pictures with the Hachi
statue, the dog that would wait for his master at the eki every day. It is such
a sweet story. After that we came straight home. Well, we did talk to one girl who
said, "I've been wanting to learn more about Christ!" Well, let us tell
you more! Way cool! I know that miracles
happen! I know that this church is true! I know that God is our loving Heavenly
Father, and that He listens to and answers our prayers!
Love, Crandall
Shimai
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