Week 83!

Hello Everyone!

It is good to be writing another email this week, even though I really
feel like I was just barely writing!  That is always how the temple
P-Day's go because you take P-day a day late and then you feel like
you should be a day back but your already a day ahead to it feels
super fast! I know I wrote about the temple in my email last week, but
can I just say one more time how amazing it is! Huge blessing to be in
a mission in Japan with a temple, because right now there are only 2
in Japan right now!  But they are working on the one up in Sapporo,
and it looks like they will be finishing that one up here this year!
Exciting things happening for the church here in Japan, and it's fun
to be a little part of it as a missionary serving here!

So this week was really good.  Fast, like I already said, but good
because we were meeting lots of investigators and teaching which is
always great.  I feel like right now we have a decent amount of people
that we can teach...maybe between 10-15 somewhere, and we are meeting
with them pretty frequently and it's been great to see some of them
start to progress!  This week we had 3 people at church H____, Y____,
and S____, and all three of them really like the church and like the
meetings on Sunday.  H____ is the 19 year old kid who is completely
ready to be baptized, but because he doesn't live in our boundaries it
has gotten a little tricky to figure out where to baptized him and how
to do it.  He actually lives in a different Stake, so things get even
more tricky, but he was able to come to church this week and we kind
of figured out what he needs to do.  We found out which church/ward he
should be going to and we have  a member set up to go with him next
week to that ward so he has a friend and that member will kind of
introduce him to the missionaries down there and get him on track to
get baptized in the proper ward.  The member is Brother Numakura, and
he has only been home from his mission for maybe 1 1/2 years and we
are really good friends.  We were really tight before I left Shibuya,
and then once I came back it was awesome and he is just a really good
kid.  So we are planning on him going down there with H____ to get
things worked out!  It is a little sad that he won't be able to be
baptized in Shibuya, but awesome that we were able to help him
progress to baptism here and that we will still get to be a part of
his conversion!

This week we also had a ping pong night, but we only had two people
show up to play!  One was S____S____, who is an investigator that we
found right when I got back into Shibuya and it was really good with
him!  We got to play and he is a really funny guy, and it was good to
be able to just kind of hang out for a little bit and get to be better
friends with him.  We also had one of my best friends in Shibuya, M____
who is a recent convert of just over a year and he is super solid.
M____is from China, but has been living in Tokyo for years now and is
fluent and works here.  M____is like one of my brothers here in Tokyo
and he was able to get out of work and make it to ping pong which was
way fun with him.  We were able to teach S_____with a member present
and just talked about how church is a great place for us to be and it
is kind of a chance for us every Sunday to "recharge" our spirits and
kind of get ready for the next week.  S_____really liked it and
really wanted to come to church, but ended up not coming yesterday
which was too bad!  But, he called us during sacrament meeting and
when I took the call he started talking to me about 洗礼(senrei) which
is a form of baptism that they have in Japan that everyone knows
baptism by, and said that he was really scared of it but that he
wanted to learn more about it to see whether he wanted it or not.  We
actually hadn't even talked to him about baptism yet because we hadn't
really been able to have a great lesson about it, so we set up a time
to go and meet him at his apartment and teach him about baptism and
why it is not a scary thing.  That lesson will be today at 6:00 so I'm
really excited to see how things go!  I think that it will be a great
opportunity to set a baptismal date and get him progressing in the
right direction.

Other than that the only other big thing that we had this last week
was Church and it was great!  I am working really hard this time
around to learn as many of the members names as I can so I can make
really good relations with them so they trust us, and give us food;)
haha but it's going really good and the members are starting to see
some of the great things the missionaries are doing!  It was a really
great week here in Shibuya and I am shocked with how fast this
transfer has gone!  This will be our last week in this transfer, and
then we will be starting the next, and getting into February!  I can't
believe how fast it has gone, but it's fun when you are so busy that
time just goes this fast.  I am excited for this next week because we
will have a conference with a member of the Area Presidency Elder
Aoyagi.  He is from Japan, and I think that the conference is going to
be fantastic!  Also we just got news the Elder Nielson from the Quorum
of the twelve is going to be meeting with us in March in a big 2
mission conference!  Exciting things happening here in the Tokyo
mission!  Thank you for all that you do!  I love you and pray for you
every night!  You are amazing support to me and I'm grateful to have
such amazing family and friends.  Talk soon!

Love,
Logan

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