Heyoo 皆！
We had another amazing week here in Shibuya! It has been fun to watch this area build over the last 4 transfers, and I hope that I can continue to help build it here for these last couple of weeks in this transfer. It doesn't seem real just how fast this transfer has gone. As I have been on my mission it really has been incredible to see just how short 2 years as a missionary really becomes when you are working as hard as you can every day for others to be happy and to become better people. I'm really excited to keep pushing super hard with Elder Judd over these next couple of weeks to see miracle after miracle, and hopefully to see a couple of these amazing people we are working with to be baptized!
So this past week we had the BYU Symphony come, and we were able to go to the event with 6 people! It was great because Nakano isn't very far for us so we were all able to get there in less than 30 minutes and it was really easy. We had T_____and his family come and they seemed to love it! He is married, with a daughter who is maybe 2 or 3 years old, and it was great to be able to spend the evening with them. T_____and I had the chance to talk about the spirit a little bit and he really believes that he can feel that influence and that it is a real thing. He is doing great and he really really wants to be baptized, he just needs to understand a few more basic principles until he is ready. He really does have all of the desire to be baptized and that's amazing, but we just want to make sure that he understands what that will mean to him when he is baptized, and that once he is, there are things in his life that will have to change, one of those being his job! It is going to be a big week with him, because we are going to explain that and commit him to looking for a new job! I will definitely be letting you know how that goes next week!
Yesterday at church we had a huge miracle, but it all starts a couple weeks ago while Elder Judd and I were doing some streeting in one of the downtown parts of Shibuya. We stopped and talked to these 3 young guys who were smoking outside of a convenience store. As we kind of started talking to them one of them turned to us and said to us a little rough,"何をやっているの？！”(What are you doing?!) I just kind of turned to him and took off my badge and asked him if he knew what this was. Instantly his countenance changed and we started talking to them about what we do as church members. They were really impressed that a couple of 外人(Foreignors) could speak japanese, and the conversation turned 100% around and we were talking just like we were bro's from forever. The one who first started talking to us is named F_____, and he actually lived in America for 3 years and used to go to Catholic church, but has a bible that his host family gave him and he has carried it everywhere since because he thinks that it is really important, but he doesn't really know why. We just explained what we do, how we help people come to church and learn more about God and about a special message that we share and they were really impressed. We ended up getting this F_____'s guys number, and we messaged him this last week and invited him to come check out the church and he said that he really wanted to. So, yesterday he came and he is amazing. He had tons of huge questions like why are church is different than other christian churches and why there are so many different churches and how can we get answers from God and all these things. He told us that he really is searching for his path in life, and for a direction for him, and he really wants to know if this church is true and that the things we teach are true. We had a killer member present lesson with Brother H______ and gave him a book of mormon and set really good expectations with him to meet him a lot and to teach him more about the church and help him to be able to find that answer himself. We are meeting him this week, and he wants to bring his friends to be able to help them know too if this church is true because they have interest as well! It was a huge miracle and really just taught me that no matter who they are or what they look like, they are children of God and they might be that prepared person that the Lord put in our path. We just gotta talk to them!
The work is going great, and I think it is because I get to work with such an awesome companion! It has been great to get to work together for so long, and I feel like when you have that opportunity you have the chance to really get to know each other, and you really are able to work together really well. It has been great to watch him grow, and I'm just trying to get everything that I know about being a missionary out and over to him so that he can become the best missionary that he can. I really do feel like he is on the right track and is just working his hardest to do his part and help this area. He is a hard worker and it is going to help him a lot as a missionary, I am excited to see what he will do in the mission. It is still hard for me to believe that my time is quickly coming to an end. I am so tired you guys...haha mom and dad when you get here you are probably going to think I look like a zombie cause I just feel so tired and we are just out working so hard. Elder Judd is a champ for putting up with the crazy schedule that we always have of just being out and about all the time. It's amazing to me though that even though I am insanely tired, I can be insanely happy. It's something that I noticed when I was a really young missionary, and something that I have noticed all through out my mission. When we think only about others, and little to nothing about ourselves, we feel REAL joy. I'm excited for the next couple of weeks to be a whole lot of REAL joy.
Love you all!
Logan
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