Japan 6 months-35 weeks

We went to the Ainu Village. It is the first people who lived in Hokkaido 

Baby face----This time they gave us a big spoon. 

We fed bears last monday for P-day

Too Good

This is what happened while we tried to walk to church in the morning. 

This week was full of a lot of miracles. We started the week with a lot of less active members that we wanted to visit. I have tried to visit them before when I was here with Tokuzawa Choro, but they were never home. Well this was the week we met all of them! My favorite was Iwai Shimai. She is a blind old lady with crazy hair. She really looks like a witch. When we visited her she was sooo excited that we came. She hasn't had a visit from the missionaries in over 5 years. She had this funny attitude about it though. She just kept asking why we haven't came over earlier. It was really funny. When we were about to leave we read the Book of Mormon to her because she can't see. It was amazing to see it calm her down as we read it. The whole time we were talking to her she was moving around and scratching her eyes, but when we read the Book of Mormon with her she calmed down, sat still, and listened. She then said thank you and said we have to come back soon. I am excited to visit her again.  

So the craziest stuff happened this weekend. On Saturday we had 2 member lessons. One with Masuko san and one with Chiba san. Before all of our lessons that day we had a goal to make baptismal dates with all of them. Well we did our best and invited them all, but they dropped the muri bomb on us. (they said it was muri which means impossible) But the amazing part was in Masuko sans lesson she said that her husband is working on Sunday so she can come to Church! Next was Chiba san. At Chiba sans lesson we planned to teach The Plan of Salvation. It started with The Atonement, moved to eternal families, then the spirit and then prayer. It was one of the craziest ways I have ever made an investigator pray. We didn't want to pressure her, but we really wanted her to pray. The member team ups said what if one of us prays first and then you try? That is a tool that we use often, but this time one of the other members said, YEAH! All of us will pray one at a time and then you pray last. There were 5 of us in the room. It started with my companion Elder Galeria, then me, then Chiba San's daughter, then Kotani Shimai, then Chiba san. After all of us said our prayers and it got to Chiba san it was quiet. We probably sat is silence for 2 minutes doing nothing. Then out of nowhere Kotani Shimai says 'Chiba san, go' Then she prayed. It was a one sentence prayer and I didn't even understand what she said, but she prayed! It was a huge miracle. 

Next we went to go visit a referral who ended up not being home. We decided that because we were close we should go visit Mizumasa san. When haven't met with her in a long time because she has been so busy lately so we had the intentions to just say hi and schedule an appointment with her. Well it turned into a long lesson about baptism and she said that she wants to get baptized but it is just really hard to quit alcohol and coffee. But she said that she is going to be coming to church on Sunday. 

Sunday was the craziest Sunday so far. It started with Typhoon number 3. We decided to walk to church because our bikes would blow away. We thought that nobody was going to show up to church because of how bad the weather was. When we got to church we saw Chiba san there. We then saw Ikeda Shimai who told us that Masuko san was on her way to church when she got in a car wreck. hahahaha of course. We felt so bad. She was totally fine, and when we texted her (cause we are not allowed to call her or her husband will murder us) she said that she is just embarrassed and will try to come to church the next time she can. Halfway through church Mizumasa san showed up! She was able to make it to sacrament meeting. It was so awesome to have all of them there. After church we had one of the scariest lessons ever. It was forced by a member, Tanaka Kyodai. He basically dragged Mizumasa san and us into the primary room and sat us all down and the first thing he said was, How is alcohol? Are you drinking? It was so awkward. We tried to hard to stop him from interrogating her, but he would just keep going. He stopped after 15 minutes and looked at us and said did you have anything you wanted to say? We said sorry for this crazy lesson. Mizumasa san was so nice about it and said that she knows how it was all out of good intentions. She said that she is going to come to church as much as she can this month. 

It was a crazy week full of a lot of miracles. My companion is working me so hard. I am getting so tired, but it is helping me out so much! I love you all! Be excellent to each other! 

-Mecham Choro