It was hot this week! I could not believe how warm it got! The humidity has come back and it's come back with a vengeance! But it was another great week here in Shibuya! I feel like things are going as good as they can right now, and we are working really hard to see many baptisms this transfer! We were able to set another baptismal date with a young kid named M_______who really has tons of potential and really should be able to hit his date. He really thinks that God is important and really wants to receive an answer from him, so we taught him that God will answer us as we pray, come to church, and read the scriptures. He is doing all those things, and we will hopefully see him in church today! We also have T_____'s mom Sister I______who was the one last night who came to the chinese night, felt the spirit and allowed T_____to be baptized! The Sisters were working with her before, but because I was here last year and worked a lot with her and her son with Elder Egbert, she really receives the gospel well from the Elders, so we decided to give it a shot with teaching her. She has a date for the beginning of June, and she already believes that the church is true, it just seems like there is something with a past religion in China that is holding her back from just being baptized. We are teaching her with members and she will be at church today! Our 3rd baptismal date right now is T_____and he is the man working for the other church. We have been really straight forward, and clear about the restoration and how when he is baptized he will not be able to work for another church because it just doesn't work like that. I feel like we have explained it really well to him and with the spirit, and he told us that he isn't tied down to his job and that he can move whenever he needs to. We are really excited for him! His baptismal date was set for next week, however because he can't come to church this week we will be pushing it back to the 24th.
With all of these people progressing towards baptism, and lots of other people also progressing, you really have to be united with your companion and you both have to want the same thing! I really feel like that is what Elder Judd and I are doing right now. I felt like this when I was with Elder Wheatley for 3, but after 3 transfers together I just feel like you know each other well enough to be able to work so effectively together! It's way fun to be working with Elder Judd right now and just watching him grow into an amazing missionary. I feel like it's just been a huge blessing for me to be able to work with him, and to see him grow and develop. It's going to be an amazing transfer! With the things that we have going on, and the determination that we both have to see big things happen, I think that there are going to be some amazing thing that happen this transfer!
The last cool little miracle that we saw this week was a guy who walked into the church for Eikaiwa. When I saw him I really felt like I should go talk to him and so I did, and we talked during the beginning of Eikaiwa and he was a way cool guy who thought that the church was really interesting and wanted to learn more. I made sure to tell him to come meet me after Eikaiwa (because we have many different classes so I wouldn't necessarily be with him) and after we were able to meet up and set up a time to meet on Saturday! We play ping pong on Saturday and he loves ping pong so we invited him to come and he came! We got talking and he asked where we were from and we told him Utah and he pulled out an atlas that he had just bought and looked up Utah! On the Utah page, there was a big picture of the temple, and he right away asked what it was and thought it was a really special building. After that he turned the page and there was a highlighted box that said, "モルモン教はどなものでしょうか？”(What is Mormonism?) I glanced at it and it talked about Joseph Smith, how he translated the Book of Mormon, and essentially how our church was started! We were amazed, but we told him to read that section, and right as he asked what a Book of Mormon was, I pulled on out of my bag and handed it to him. The rest of the night consisted of him standing up and playing a game of ping pong, and then sitting back down and reading the Book of Mormon until he was up again to play ping pong. S______(the guys name) told us about how he had never studied these thing before, but that he wanted to know more and so we set good expectations with him to be meeting and teaching about it! We are really excited for him and know that he has been prepared by God!
Today was also great because we were able to skype with our families! It is always such an awesome experience to get to talk to those I love so much back home! It was so amazing to get to see everyone and I really felt like we were all just hanging out there for a little bit! It's such a fun thing to be part of such an amazing family! I feel too blessed. Thank you family! I love you so much! Thank you everyone for all your prayers and support! I hope things are going good and I will talk to you next week!
Love,
Logan
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