Hello Everyone,
We had a nice busy week here in Atsugi! Transfer emails came and I am staying in Atsugi with Elder Riggs! I'll probably serve here for at least two more transfers because he goes home at the end of next transfer.
I'll start out explaining why I titled this email "everyone's a Chinese Spy." So we have one investigator who is Chinese that I have talked about a bit in previous emails. Anyway he has expressed his concerns with us that Chinese spies are following him because he has said negative things about the chinese government in the past. We always would try to be understanding and testify to him about how the gospel can help. Every lesson he would bring up the topic of Chinese spies and even told us he believed there were spies in our english class. He was actually starting to progress pretty well and said he wanted to be baptized so we assumed he was just a bit paranoid.
Well on Saturday, right after english class finished a cop walked in the door and asked if we knew the man he was with who was our investigator. Then our investigator looked in the room and started accusing a bunch of students and members as being Chinese spies!! One of our members went outside with the cop and the investigator and talked for a bit. Eventually he came back in just super fired up and angry which was weird because he's the most quiet member I know haha. The investigator called us and said he wanted to talk to us with the cop so we went outside and the member came with us. The member was so angry because the investigator had been accusing him of being a spy as well and was demanding that he show his ID and stuff. (Kinda hilarious because this member is literally 70 years old and would be the worlds worst spy lol). He was filming him with his phone and just kept saying the weirdest stuff. We eventually told him that he has to leave and not come back if he is going to accuse our members for being Chinese Spies! hahaha. So he finally left but before that screamed something about the Chinese goverment at the top of his lungs. It was a really weird situation!
Some other things that happened this week:
- Yesterday we went to a birthday party for a Brazilian investigator's son! There was one guy there who spoke english but the rest only spoke Portuguese so that was interesting. I got to try some way good Brazilian food though!
- Elder Solari Garcia totally ate crap on his bike and went to the hospital! No worries though, he is all good.
- I went on splits with Elder Solari who is still transfer one so I got to experience being a senior comp for the day which was a good time!
- One of our english students gave me a candy bar. I said thanks then he said "but you might want to be careful" and pointed to my stomach. I said "why, because of my white shirt?" And he said "No, you are getting fat." Hahaha I've got a pretty nice belly comin in...
- We did a zone blitz in Odawara, our neighboring area which was lots of fun. I held a giant poster that said "家族と何をするのが好きですか" or "What do you like doing with your family?" People would come and write down their answer on a piece of paper and stick it on the poster. It was a great way to introduce our beliefs regarding families and was lots of fun!
- The other week we had dinner with an older couple who didn't have chairs so we had to sit on the ground and eat. That's literally my worst nightmare because I'm terribly unflexible and sitting cross legged hurts sooo bad. So that was the longest hour and a half of my life!! I thought my legs were gonna fall off the whole time.
Love you all
皆さん愛しているよ
Elder Dean
ディーン長老
I'll start out explaining why I titled this email "everyone's a Chinese Spy." So we have one investigator who is Chinese that I have talked about a bit in previous emails. Anyway he has expressed his concerns with us that Chinese spies are following him because he has said negative things about the chinese government in the past. We always would try to be understanding and testify to him about how the gospel can help. Every lesson he would bring up the topic of Chinese spies and even told us he believed there were spies in our english class. He was actually starting to progress pretty well and said he wanted to be baptized so we assumed he was just a bit paranoid.
Well on Saturday, right after english class finished a cop walked in the door and asked if we knew the man he was with who was our investigator. Then our investigator looked in the room and started accusing a bunch of students and members as being Chinese spies!! One of our members went outside with the cop and the investigator and talked for a bit. Eventually he came back in just super fired up and angry which was weird because he's the most quiet member I know haha. The investigator called us and said he wanted to talk to us with the cop so we went outside and the member came with us. The member was so angry because the investigator had been accusing him of being a spy as well and was demanding that he show his ID and stuff. (Kinda hilarious because this member is literally 70 years old and would be the worlds worst spy lol). He was filming him with his phone and just kept saying the weirdest stuff. We eventually told him that he has to leave and not come back if he is going to accuse our members for being Chinese Spies! hahaha. So he finally left but before that screamed something about the Chinese goverment at the top of his lungs. It was a really weird situation!
Some other things that happened this week:
- Yesterday we went to a birthday party for a Brazilian investigator's son! There was one guy there who spoke english but the rest only spoke Portuguese so that was interesting. I got to try some way good Brazilian food though!
- Elder Solari Garcia totally ate crap on his bike and went to the hospital! No worries though, he is all good.
- I went on splits with Elder Solari who is still transfer one so I got to experience being a senior comp for the day which was a good time!
- One of our english students gave me a candy bar. I said thanks then he said "but you might want to be careful" and pointed to my stomach. I said "why, because of my white shirt?" And he said "No, you are getting fat." Hahaha I've got a pretty nice belly comin in...
- We did a zone blitz in Odawara, our neighboring area which was lots of fun. I held a giant poster that said "家族と何をするのが好きですか" or "What do you like doing with your family?" People would come and write down their answer on a piece of paper and stick it on the poster. It was a great way to introduce our beliefs regarding families and was lots of fun!
- The other week we had dinner with an older couple who didn't have chairs so we had to sit on the ground and eat. That's literally my worst nightmare because I'm terribly unflexible and sitting cross legged hurts sooo bad. So that was the longest hour and a half of my life!! I thought my legs were gonna fall off the whole time.
Love you all
皆さん愛しているよ
Elder Dean
ディーン長老
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