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August 5, 2013
Crazy week. I guess it always in on
a mission.
On Tuesday me and Nakatsuka Shimai
got to go to Kobe for the Mission Leader Counsel. SOO good! I think the best
part about being a leader is that you get all the sneak peeks and the
specialized training. Love it! Plus. You can`t complain when there is Costco
Pizza involved.
I`ll send pictures.
The only downer part about going to
Kobe was that I had to leave my precious companion. It was her birthday! And
her and Nakatsuka Shimai`s companion, DeKlerk Shimai, had to go out and work by
themselves. haha. They were so scared, but they worked hard and nothing too
terrible happened. So I am proud of them.
Wednesday we went to go visit this
little old man, K**** San, that has been an investigator for a while. But he
hasn’t been really solid. We`ve been wanting to help him but we always felt
like something was missing. Well as we started teaching him about prayer he
started going off about how there is no point in even teaching him because his
head was too thick and he wasn`t really going to learn. I asked him if God really
did exist, would his life change. He quickly said no and that he was completely
content to sit in his room all day just watching TV. He told us that he
actually didn`t like our message, but because he is lonely he likes us coming
back.
Well, he is lonely, and I do want to
help him. But he flat out told us he wasn’t interested. So...we dropped him.
Poor man.
Thursday was total craziness. We
didn`t get to eat lunch until 5pm. That`s how crazy it was. But it was worth
it. We got to teach I**** Family. (The 14 year old boy and his mom). We taught
them about prayer. We asked them if they could ask God any question, what would
they ask. Koki Kun, the boy, said that he wanted to know how old God is. Yeah.
I definitely don`t have that answer.... The mom wants to know why there are
wars and suffering in the world. She really is so tender hearted! She just
opened up her heart to us and started telling us all of her fears about the
world and her kids. It was very enlightening and hopefully we will be able to
help address some of her needs.
Right now she is listening only
because her son is listening. But I really feel like we need to focus on her as
well.
After the lesson both me and Sister
Chavez looked at each other and we said, `They`re so getting baptized!` They obviously
aren`t ready yet, but I think they really might be someone who is going to be
baptized. I just hope I get to be here when it happens. :)
We also then taught Y**** San. We
tried to go back and teach him very simply. Because he has been meeting with the missionaries for over a
year he thinks he knows everything, but he has a lot of misinformation. He
still is having a hard time with prayer. Which means he doesn`t understand
God.
The previous missionaries said that
whenever you try to teach God that he brushes it off and says that he already
knows.
So we tried a different approach
talking about God and Christ`s relationship. (because he loves Christ).
Well...long story short. He didn`t know that Heavenly Father and Christ were
two separate beings....yah. That`s a problem. So we are working on that.
I really wish I could just erase all
of the stuff he thinks he knows and start from scratch. It would be way easier,
but we`ll keep on working to help him understand...
We also then taught C**** Chan. Love
her. She is so nice. We asked her why she was meeting with us. She said that
she likes us and that her heart feels warm whenever she is with us. I asked her
why she thought we were meeting with her. She didn`t know.... We then started
explaining how our purpose is to help people receive Eternal Life. We intended
on teaching the path that gets you to Eternal Life, (faith, repentance,
baptism, etc.) but we didn`t get past Eternal Life.
She flat out told us that she
doesn`t want to go there. Her reasoning is that if she were to go to Eternal
Life, only good people would be there. If there was only good people then there
wouldn`t be bad or scary people. (Boy am I looking forward to that) But she
thinks that she learns the most when she has scary or bad interactions with
people. So she wants to keep learning and growing by living amongst bad people.
We told her that we can only continue learning and growing in Eternal Life, but
she was still pretty dubious about the whole thing.
Plus she is still pretty firm in her
belief about reincarnation. I sure don`t want to be reborn as a mosquito or
plant.
Well we are thinking maybe the plan
of salvation would be a good next step with her. But we are still
thinking....
Friday and Saturday I went on an
exchange which was fun. Left Chavez and DeKlerk Shimai alone again. But of
course they did awesome.
Sunday both C**** Chan and Y****
Kyodai came to church which was exciting, but both left right after sacrament
meeting...bummer.
BUT good news!! Every month on Fast Sunday
the mission sends out a list of names of people who have family members that
are opposed to them listening to the gospel or getting baptized. Then we all
kneel and pray for them.
On that list this week there were 2
of my investigators from Takamatsu!!! U**** Shimai!! Wahoo!!!! Obviously
it`s not good that her family is opposed to her listening to the gospel, but
she is an investigator again! I am seriously so happy!
And same with N**** San!
Seriously, so happy. Even if I don`t get to be there for their baptisms, at
least I know they are closer and have a chance again to listen.
Just a shout out for my AWESOME ward
mission leader. K**** K****. I seriously love that man. This week we decided
that he must be one of the 3 Nephites just quietly moving the work along here
in Japan. He makes me want to be better and better every day.
Well, that`s basically it from over
here.
I love you all so much!
Love,
Dobson Shimai
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