Just another week in good old Shonan. While we were contacting the other week, Elder Wilcox set up a lesson with a past investigator named Ouri San who we met with this week. He was a cool guy and actually super interested in what we were saying. We gave him a Book of Mormon and he couldn't keep his eyes of it, he was reading it while we were talking to him so hopefully he's read a lot by our next visit. He really only met the missionaries once before this but the reason he didn't ever meet again was because when he went to our church one Sunday he stood outside and no one invited him in which he didn't like. It's hard to know what to say in those cases but we just told him no one is perfect, not ever the ward members. Sounds like he is giving it all a second chance though which is great.
We picked up another new investigator named Watanabe San. We housed into him the other week. He's read the bible a ton so we gave him a Book of Mormon. We stopped by again this week, he invited us in and we talked for a while. It was pretty crazy though he told us to leave our shoes on when we went into his house! Here's a little Japanese lesson: Essentially all Japanese homes have a Genkan (little space right as you walk in the door) where you take off your shoes and put on slippers or just wear socks. In there culture it is it's very rude to wear shoes in the house because the bottom of your shoes represent the outside dirty world. No one sits cross legged like men usually do because that way you will be facing the bottom of your shoe at someone which is really rude. So that's why it was strange to get invited in while wearing shoes. Anyway this guy was going off about how the moon used to be spinning like the Earth but it stopped and everything died so the same thing will happen to the Earth one day. Really weird and he used lots of big words so I was struggling haha. But we shared some stuff about the Restoration and Book of Mormon that he liked alot! We will stop by this week and talk some more.
The other night while we were streeting around the eki we saw some kids skateboarding so we went over and talked to them and I skated for a while! I was pretty rusty not gonna lie but it was a good time. I was literally sore the next day because I'm so out of shape!
We are trying to get some more activies and things going in Shonan so we decided to start up a "game night" every Saturday. This past Saturday was our first time and we had one person come! Who wouldn't want to hang out with four Gaijin (foreign) Missionaries all alone on a Saturday night?? He was an english student and pretty confused when no one else was there but he was going hard in ping pong so it turned out good. We figured it will definitely take some time to get the whole thing going and for more people to come.
If you are still reading here's a wayyy good conference talk that my comp showed me! It's called "Safety for the Soul" by Elder Holland, Oct. 2009. If you haven't watched it I recommend!
Hope everyone is doing well!
Elder Dean
Elder Dean
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